Ballarat in a sentence

The Ballarat Livestock Selling Centre is the largest cattle exchange in regional Victoria. citation The Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society formed in 1856 citation and has run the Ballarat Show annually since 1859.

The suburbs feature some privately run wildlife parks including Ballarat Wildlife Park in Ballarat East and Ballarat Bird World in Buninyong.

Ballarat has four State Government-operated secondary schools of which Ballarat High School (established in 1907) is the oldest.

Dance parties are popular within the Ballarat area; BTR is an organisation founded in 2006 that has begun hosting dance events in Ballarat.

Infrastructure Health Ballarat Base Hospital's Henry Bolte wing (completed in 1994) Drummond St Nth Ballarat has two major hospitals.

Menzies's formal education began at Humffray Street State School in Bakery Hill, Ballarat, citation then later at private school in Ballarat.

Netball is similarly popular, with many netball clubs affiliated with local Australian rules clubs including Wendouree, East Point, Eureka, North Ballarat, Redan, Brown Hill and the Ballarat Netball Association.

Seymour, Bruce, Lola Montez: a life, Yale University Press, 1996, p.347 She earned further notoriety in Ballarat when, after reading a bad review in The Ballarat Times, she allegedly attacked the editor, Henry Seekamp with a whip.

The public health services are managed by Ballarat Health Services including the Ballarat Base which services the entire region and the Queen Elizabeth Centre for aged care on Ascot Street Sth.

The site of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat is currently being redeveloped with the support of grants from the City of Ballarat and the Victorian and Federal Governments.

Around 7,000 athletes and officials are due to be housed in the Athletes' Villages in Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and Morwell during the Commonwealth Games.

Ballarat and Hamilton will kick off Country Week on Sunday 12 February, with a Celebration Match to mark 100 years of Melbourne Country Week competition.

By the middle of the year, quite a few new clubs had sprung up in the district: Cowie’s Creek (centred on the Ocean Child Hotel, North Geelong); Duck Ponds (now Lara); Shank Hill (near Pollocksford); Buninyong; and Ballarat.

Chargefox revealed plans to raise prices for 20 of its fast-charging stations in a blog post, with 11 per cent added to the cost of recharging cars in locations including Ballina and Sydney in NSW, and Ballarat and Torquay in Victoria.

Having a young dancer perform alongside the company has been memorable for Georgia, who began her own training in ballet at the age of eight in Ballarat.

It is expected to move to the eastern suburbs and the south-west of Victoria between Colac, Ballarat and Hamilton by 9.30am.

The energy supplier said winds and lightning had felled trees and damaged trees across the network, with a further 5000 homes in Shepparton and Ballarat also impacted.

The rock was discovered in Victoria's "Golden Triangle", an area from Ballarat across to Bendigo and up to St Arnaud.

The Smashing Pumpkins also played at Kryal Castle in Ballarat on Sunday.

A national fundraising event held on the third Sunday in March, the local version will begin in Ballarat at about 10am and wind its way through the Brisbane Ranges and Meredith before arriving at Wyndham Harbour at 12.30pm.