Such a beautiful East… Support MADE, they have films on this weekend… Ballarat East is the home of the Eureka Rebellion…. Ballarat East Community Shed… Go and support the great things they do… this weekend! Ducks love a bit of water… and some home made golf apparently… Kangas in the top paddock Fussell Street… The […]
Get behind this fabulous museum in our own backyard… ‘M.A.D.E for Movies’ this Sunday 13th April. M.A.D.E for Movies Battle of the Sexes – 2013, UK documentary (PG) Date: Sun 13/04/14 Hours: 2:00pm – 3:30pm Venue: M.A.D.E (Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka) Ticket Price: Adult $10, Conc. $7 One line ticket sales: https://register.eventarc.com/22656/battle-of-the-sexes Click […]
We’ve been asked by the City of Ballarat to provide some places of note in the East for a tour. The intention is that Ballarat East will be mentioned in the programme for the Ballarat Heritage Weekend. And why not, the whole thing started here yes? So we collected and collated your suggestions and the […]
You will remember the saga of 23 Rodier Street. If not click here for all the background. Here is an update from Rodier team leader Ron. UPDATE FROM RODIER STREET: The Council voted unanimously at Wednesday night’s Meeting (26/03/14) to reject the 14 Unit Proposal at 23 Rodier St. – yet again! They adopted the […]
Great news Easties. Have you been seeing these yellow things appearing around the neighbourhood? It’s the NBN, couldn’t be happier! The guys in the know have said its coming all the way to your house! We must have made it in before the current government changed their minds…
We’ve been talking about the rezoning for a while now… Crunch time has arrived. Great news for the buffer for Canadian State Forest we have wanted, an area of Neighbourhood Residential Zone has been proposed for Ballarat East, and runs along beside Canadian State Forest from the highway to south of Bennett Street, not quite […]
This is our official 300th post. Wow what an achievement… here are a few stats: 300 Posts (articles) 1,133 Comments Kicked off December 1st 2011 (click here to read our very first post) 173 Subscribers (people who signed up to get the weekly enews) 188 Facebook fans (UPDATE we just hit 201 fans, thanks for […]
Thanks to those residents are leaving water and food out for wildlife that need some respite. For the wild ducks this place in Wilson Street was a playground… Meanwhile across the road the mist was hanging.
We have some fabulous wildlife here in Ballarat East. We have Canadian State Forest very close, we have lots of natives trees protected by overlays, we have residents who leave food and water out for animals, we have koala friendly fencing (mostly) and large blocks of land. It all points to a great result for […]
Help protect Canadian State Forest, its on our doorstep in the East, it defines the very nature of the East, turn up at this meeting please. FORUM: 7 pm on Thursday March 13th Earth Centre, Olympic Avenue, Mt Clear. Here’s what one person had to say in comments this week: From Linda Zibell Let’s […]