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Ballarat is arguably the most significant Victorian era gold rush boomtown in Australia. Just months after Victoria was granted separation from the state of New South Walesthe Victorian gold rush transformed Ballarat from a small sheep station to a major settlement. Gold was discovered at Poverty Point on 18 Augustand news quickly spread of rich alluvial fields where gold could easily be extracted. Within months, migrants from across the world had rushed to the district in search of gold.

The Eureka Rebellion began in Ballarat, and the only armed rebellion in Australian historythe Battle of Eureka Stockade, took place on 3 December In response to the event the first male suffrage in Australia was instituted and as such Eureka is interpreted by some as the origin of democracy in Australia.

The gold rush and boom gave birth to many other significant cultural legacies. The rebellion's symbol, the Eureka Flaghas become a national symbol and is held at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka in Ballarat. Other nationally significant heritage structures include the Ballarat Botanical Gardens established[7] with the greatest concentration of public statuary, [8] the official Prime Ministers Avenuethe longest running lyric theatre building Her Majesty's Theatre, established[9] the first municipal observatoryestablished[10] and the earliest and longest war memorial avenue the Avenue of Honourestablished between and It has endured as a major regional centre hosting the rowing and kayaking events from the Summer Olympics.

It is the commercial capital of the Central Highlands and the largest city in the Goldfields region of Victoriaas well a significant tourist destination.

Ballarat is known for its history, culture and its well-preserved Victorian era heritage, with much of the city subject to heritage overlays. After a narrow popular vote the city merged with the town of Ballarat East inending a long standing rivalry.

Prior to the European settlement of Australiathe Ballarat region was populated by the Wathaurong people, an Indigenous Australian people. The first Europeans to sight the area were an party of six mostly Scottish squatters from Geelong, led by Somerville Learmonth, who were in search of land less affected by the severe drought for their sheep to graze.

The party scaled Mount Buninyong ; among them were Somerville's brother Thomas Livingstone LearmonthWilliam Cross Yuille and Henry Anderson, all three of whom later claimed land in what is now Ballarat. The first houses were built near Woolshed Creek by William Yuille and Anderson Sebastopolwhile Yuille erected a hut at Black Swamp Lake Wendouree in Outsiders originally knew of the settlement as Yuille's Station and Yuille's Swamp.

Archibald Yuille named the area "Ballaarat" Some claim the name is derived from a local Wathaurong Aboriginal word for the area, balla arat. The meaning of this word is not certain; however, several translations have been made and it is generally thought to mean 'resting place'. In some dialects, balla means "bent elbow", which is translated to mean reclining or resting and arat meaning "place". The first publicised discovery of gold in the region was by Thomas Hiscock on 2 August in the Buninyong region to the south.

Yields were particularly high, with the first prospectors in the area extracting between half an ounce [16] which was more than the average wage of the time and up to five ounces of alluvial gold per day. As news of the Australian gold rushes reached the world, Ballarat gained an international reputation as a particularly rich goldfield. As a result, a huge influx of immigrants occurred, including many from Ireland and China, gathering in a collection of prospecting shanty towns around the creeks and hills.

In just a few months numerous alluvial runs were established, several deep mining leads began, and the population had swelled to over 1, people. The first Post Office opened on 1 November It was the first Victorian post office to open in a gold-mining settlement.

The new town's main streets of the time were named in honour of police commissioners and gold commissioners of the time, with the main street, Sturt Street, named after Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt ; Dana Street named after Henry Dana ; Lydiard Street after his assistant; Doveton Street after Francis Crossman Doveton, Ballarat's first gold commissioner; Armstrong after David Armstrong; and Mair Street after William Mair.

The first newspaper, The Banner, published on 11 Septemberwas one of many to be distributed during the gold-rush period. Print media played a large role in the early history of the settlement. Civil disobedience in Ballarat led to Australia's only armed civil uprising, the Eureka Rebellion colloquially referred to as the "Eureka Stockade" which took place in Ballarat on 3 December The event, in which 22 miners were killed, is considered to be a defining moment in Australian history.

The city earned the nickname "The Golden City" in the s. As quickly as the alluvial deposits drew prospectors to Ballarat, the rate of gold extraction fluctuated and, as they were rapidly worked dry, many quickly moved to rush other fields as new findings were announced, particularly Mount Alexander inFiery Creek [26] inand Ararat in Bya smaller number of permanent settlers numbering around 23, [27] many of whom had built personal wealth in gold, established a prosperous economy based around a shift to deep underground gold mining.

Confidence of the city's early citizens in the enduring future of their city is evident in the sheer scale of many of the early public buildings, generous public recreational spaces, and opulence of many of its commercial establishments and private housing.

A local steam locomotive industry developed from with the Phoenix Foundry operating until From the late s to the early 20th century, Ballarat made a successful transition from a gold rush town to an industrial-age city. The ramshackle tents and timber buildings gradually made way for permanent buildings, many impressive structures of solid stone and brick mainly built from wealth generated by early mining. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh visited between 9 and 13 December and as the first royal visit, the occasion was met with great fanfare.

The later attempt of the Prince's assassination by Ballaratian Henry James O'Farrell was met with shock and great horror from locals. Ballarat was proclaimed a city in Gong Gong reservoir was built in to alleviate flooding and to provide a permanent water supply. A direct railway to Melbourne was completed in December Local boosterists at the start of the 20th century adopted the nickname " Athens of Australia", first used to describe the city by the prestigious Irish-Australian jurist and politician of the early 20th century Sir John Madden.

On 13 Maythe Duke of York later George V and his wife, Mary the Duchess of York, travelled by train from Melbourne to Ballarat. The first electricity supply was completed in by the Electric Supply Company of Victoria.

A bluestone power station was built at the corner of Ripon Street and Wendouree Parade in with the main aim of providing the power required for electrification of the city's tramway network.

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Following the start of the 20th century, however, mining activity slowed and Ballarat's growth all but stopped—the city went into a period of decline and saw a reversal of the fortunes acquired in the previous century. The Sunshine rail disaster in resulted in the death of dozens of Ballarat residents. During the storm, a tornado swept across the city's northern and eastern suburbs destroying numerous homes in Ballarat NorthSoldiers HillBlack Hill and Ballarat Eastlifting and then again touching down at Eureka where it destroyed more homes before dissipating.

One bright spot in this period was the establishment of Osrey Pottery in by the artist Gladys Reynellone of Australia's first potters, and her husband, George Samuel Osborne. The pottery closed in when Osborne developed lead poisoning. Ballarat's significant representation during WWI resulted in heavy human loss. The city eventually lost first provincial status to Geelong. The city's two municipalities, Ballarat East and West Town Councils, finally amalgamated in to form the City of Ballarat.

While deep, the depression was also brief. The interwar period proved a period of recovery for Ballarat with a number of major infrastructure projects well underway including a new sewerage system. InBallarat Airport was established. ByBallarat's economy and population was recovering strongly with further diversification of industry, although in Geelong displaced it as the state's second largest city.

InBallarat became connected to the state electricity grid by a 66, kV line. In the post-war era, Ballarat's growth continued. In response to an acute housing shortage, significant suburban expansion occurred. An extensive Housing Commission of Victoria estate was built on the former Ballarat Common today known as Wendouree West.

While planning for the estate began inmain construction occurred between and The s brought a new optimism to the city. On 17 April it was announced that Lake Wendouree was to be the venue for rowing events of the Summer Olympics, [30] and work soon began on an Olympic village in Gillies Street.

A new prefabricted power terminal substation at Norman Street Ballarat North was constructed between and by the State Electricity Commission. Elizabeth II visited on 8 March On 23 Novemberthe Olympic torch was carried through the city, and the following day the rowing events were held at the lake. During the following decades, the city saw increased threats to its heritage. Inthe Ballarat City Council passed laws banning pillar-supported verandahs in the CBD, which threatened the removal of historic cast iron verandahs in the city.

The by-law was met by staunch opposition from the National Trust, which had begun campaigning to protect some of the city's most historic buildings. With the opening of Sovereign Hillthe city made a rapid shift to become a major cultural tourist destination, visited by thousands each year. During the s, a further houses were constructed at Wendouree West. Private housing in the adjacent suburb of Wendouree closely matched and eventually eclipsed this by the mids.

The suburb of greater Wendouree and Wendouree West had evolved as the suburban middle-class heart of the city. Charles, Prince of Wales visited Ballarat on 28 October during which he toured Sovereign Hill, the Ballarat College of Advanced Education's new Mt Helen Campus and the White Swan Reservoir and spoke at Civic Hall. The city continued to grow at the national average throughout the late 20th century and early 21st century. In the City of Ballarat released a plan directing that growth of the city over the next 30 years is to be concentrated to the west of the city centre.

The Ballarat West Growth Area Plan was approved by the city and state government inplanning an extensive fringe development consisting of 14, new homes and up to 40, new residents including new activity centres and employment zones.

During World War 2Ballarat was the location of RAAF No. Ballarat lies at the foothills of the Great Dividing Range in Central Western Victoria. Also known as the Central Highlandsit is named so because of its gentle hills and lack of any significant mountains that are more common in the eastern sections of the Great Dividing Range. The city lies within a mostly gently undulating section of the midland plains which stretch from Creswick in the north, to Rokewood in the south, and from Lal Lal in the south-east to Pittong in the west.

Geologically, the area consists of alluvial sediment and volcanic flows originating from now-extinct volcanoes such as nearby Buninyong and Warrenheip, which are the area's tallest peaks.

As a result, the basin contains large areas of fertile agricultural soil. Along with the visible river and creeks, the catchment basin has numerous active and inactive aquifers and natural wetlands, which are used for urban water supply, agriculture and recreation.

There are numerous densely forested areas around Ballarat; however due to historic wood milling and land clearing there remain no old-growth forests. The major natural bodies of water are in the west and include the former shallow swamps of Lake Wendouree which is central to the city's western suburbs and beyond Winter's Swamp and the large Lake Burrumbeet wetland complex.

Almost all of the other numerous bodies of water have been created artificially and include several reservoirs, the largest being the White Swan Reservoir and smaller suburban lakes such as Lake Esmond. The reach of the Yarrowee River toward Ballarat Central becomes a stormwater drain and is completely covered over as it flows under the CBD.

Ballarat is a primarily low-rise city though apart from the area around Ballarat Airport there are few established height limits for buildings. The City of Ballarat defines two Major Activity Centres within the urban area — the Central Business District CBD and Wendouree with a high concentration of business, retail and community function based primarily on the Melbourne planning model and a further 11 neighbourhood activity centres.

Beyond the central area, urban Ballarat extends into several suburban areas with a mixture of housing styles. Predominant styles are 19th-century villas, Victorian terraces, [55] Federation homes and Georgian red brick homes. Settlement patterns around Ballarat consist of small villages and country towns, some with less than a few thousand people. The Central Business District located in Ballarat Central is a large mixed-use office and retail district bounded to the north by railway lines, to the west by Drummond Street, to the south to Grant street and to the east by Princes Street and spanning the floodplain of the Yarrowee River.

Lydiard, Sturt Streets, Armstrong, Doveton, Dana Street and Bridge Street known as Bridge Mall along with the historic centre of East Ballarat—Main Street and Bakery Hill have retained stands of commercial and civic buildings of state and national heritage significance.

The inner established suburbs were initially laid out around the key mining areas and include Ballarat EastBakery HillGolden PointSoldiers HillBlack HillBrown HillEurekaCanadianMount PleasantRedanSebastopol and Newington. The post gold rush era has seen a boom in expansion, extending the conurbation north, south and west. To the west, Ballarat has expanded West to LucasAlfredtonDelacombe To The North West WendoureeWendouree West and Miners Rest To the north it has expanded to Ballarat NorthInvermay Park[56] Invermay, Victoria [57] Invermay and Nerrina ; to the east to Warrenheip and south to SebastopolMount Clear and Mount Helen with the urban area encroaching the large town of Buninyong.

Wendouree is currently the only major suburban activity centre with a large indoor shopping mall—Stockland Shopping Centre expanded in [58] and also has a number of surrounding retail parks including a strip shopping centre along Howitt Street including the large retail chain Harvey Norman. Elsewhere are small suburban hubs with supermarkets such as IGA supermarkets and small stretches of shopfronts. Unlike Melbourne, Ballarat does not have a defined urban growth boundary.

In response to lobbying by landholders, the Ballarat West Growth Area Plan, a major greenfield land development plan, was prepared and has approved by the city and state government to allow for planned fringe communities consisting of 14, new homes and up to 40, new residents, effectively doubling the city's urban area by extending the urban sprawl from Sebastopol, Delacombe and Alfredton west toward BonshawSmythes Creek and Cardigan [49] [50] with a new suburb to be known as Lucas to be created.

The mean annual rainfall is millimetres There are an average of rain-free days per year. Flooding of the Yarrowee catchment occurs occasionally. In a serious flood of the Yarrowee River put most of the lower section of business district including Bridge and Grenville streets under water and caused the loss of two lives.

More recently higher rainfall levels have been recorded including Light snowfall typically falls on nearby Mount Buninyong and Mount Warrenheip at least once a year but in the urban area only during heavy winters.

Widespread frosts and fog are more common during the cooler months. Snow has been known to fall heavily. Heavy snow seasons occurred in — and — with record falls inand moderate snow seasons were recorded during the s and s. Recent snowfalls to have occurred within the urban area were in, andwith falls in November light, also the latest snowfall on record[70] July heavy[71] [72] June light[73] August light[74] August moderate [75] and June light.

Ballarat's highest maximum recorded temperature was Ballarat has a healthy environment in comparison to Melbourne; however, as a growing regional city there are issues including pollutionwaterway health and invasive species.

Air quality is generally good, [80] however dust is sometimes an issue in the summer months [81] and woodsmoke from fireplaces is an issue in the winter months. The Ballarat Environment Network formed in to provide a voice for environmental and nature conservation issues in Ballarat and its surroundings.

While there are no national parks in Ballarat's proximity, Ballarat is bordered by extensive bushland to the north, south and south west and sensitive wetlands to the east. There are a number of nearby state parks and large reserves including the Enfield State Park[87] Creswick Regional ParkMount Warrenheip Flora Reserve, Mount Buninyong Reserve and Lake Burrumbeet park.

The region is home to a large koala population with protected areas established in the city's outer southern and eastern settlements. Many parts of urban Ballarat have been affected by the introduction of exotic species, particularly introduced flora.

Common gorse is one such problem which has prompted the formation of an official Ballarat Region Gorse Task Force in to control. The economy of Ballarat is driven by all three economic sectorsthough contemporary Ballarat has emerged as a primarily service economy with its main industry being the service industry and its key areas of business including tourismhospitalityretailprofessional servicesgovernment administration and education.

Secondary industry including manufacturingwhich had grown in the 20th century remains an important sector. The city's historic primary industry roots including mining and agriculture continue to play a role, though one that has declined since the 20th century. Industries emerging this century include information technology service sector and renewable energy.

As a major service centre for the populous goldfields region, Ballarat has large sectors of employment in business including retail, professional services and trades as well as do paralegals make more money than legal secretaries and federal government branch offices for public services and health care and non-government service organisations. Collectively these industries employ more than half of the city's workforce and generate the bulk of the city's economic activity.

Ballarat is the main retail economy in the region. The city has several key retail districts including a pedestrian mall known as Bridge Mall comprising over traders. There are also indoor shopping malls including Central Square Shopping Centre and Stockland Wendouree. Major department stores include MyerTargetBig WKmartHarvey Norman and Harris Scarfe. Servicing the financial sector are branches of the big four Australian retail banks National Australia BankAustralia and New Stock market lebanon Banking GroupCommonwealth Bank and Westpac along with Bendigo Bank and St.

George Bank and a number of smaller independent financial services firms. Federation University Australia exports education through a large international students program and throughout Australia through distance education programs.

In recent years, a large technology park, the Ballarat Technology Park with communications centre has been established, with tenants including IBM and employing over 1, people. A significant heritage tourism industry has not grown substantially in Ballarat since the s.

Ballarat is most notable for the award-winning open-air museum known as Sovereign Hilla recreated s gold mining settlement opened in Sovereign Hill is Ballarat's biggest tourism drawcard and is consistently rated among one of the best outdoor how much money can i make selling shaved ice in the world and continues to expand.

Several businesses and attractions have capitalised on Ballarat's gold mining history. They include Kryal Castle"Gold Rush Mini Golf" how to get money on plants vs zombies 2 the "Big Miner" one of Australia's big things although the original proposal appeared larger and for the miner to hold the Eureka Flag [99] at Ballarat's eastern entrance.

Other tourist attractions include the Eureka Centre ; The Gold Museum, Ballarat ; [] Ballarat Botanic gardens and Lake Wendouree; the Ballarat Tramway Museum and Ballarat Ghost Tours and Ballarat Wildlife Park. A large number of Ballarat hotels, motels and restaurants service the tourism industry. The Ballarat Tourist Association is an industry based non-profit, membership organisation representing the city's tourism industry.

According to the Australian Census, manufacturing is Ballarat's third largest employment sector, accounting for Ballarat attracts investment from several international manufacturers. Ballarat also has a large number of home-grown companies producing textiles, general industrial engineering, food products, brick and tiles, building components, prefabricated housing components and automotive components. Brewing was once a large-scale operation, with many large businesses including the public company Phoenix Brewery, and although large-scale brewing has ceased, the city retains a substantial microbrewery industry.

Though historically an important sector, the production of Ballarat's primary industry metatrader stock for many decades, recovering only marginally since Ballarat rose to prominence how much money does brad paisley make a year a goldrush boomtown, though gold no longer plays a pivotal role in the economy of the city.

Nevertheless, deep underground mining continues to the present date with a single main mine operating. There are still thought to be large, undiscovered gold reserves in the Ballarat region, with investigations being made by local and national companies. An active quarrying industry with large enterprises including Boral Limited [] extracts and manufactures building materials from the Ballarat region, including clays, aggregates, cements, asphalts.

Approximately professional stock trading by mark conway & aaron behle 38, hectares or 94, acres of the municipality's area is rural with optimal conditions for agriculture including rich volcanic soils and climate. Cattle and poultry stocks, including sheep, cows and pigs, support an active local meat and dairy industry.

The Ballarat Livestock How does the mayo clinic make money Centre is the largest cattle exchange in regional Victoria. The Ballarat region has a rapidly growing renewable energy industry, in particular due to its abundant wind energy, attracting significant investment and generating revenue for local landholders and local councils.

The region is also a source of bountiful geothermal energy, [] solar power [] and biomass [] [] although to date, only its wind, solar and hydroelectricity has been harvested commercially. All local commercially produced electricity is sent to the National Electricity Market.

Wind energy is generated by local wind farms. The largest, Waubra Wind Farmcompleted in35 kilometres 22 miles W — MW, turbines is capable of producing enough electricity to power a city 3 to 4 times the size of Ballarat. Hydroelectricity is generated at White Swan reservoir micro hydro plant established in and producing the equivalent electricity needs of around homes.

The Australian national census indicated that the permanent population of the urban area was 78, [] out of the City of Ballarat's population of 85, [] and a total of maker money pharrell williams, households.

Ballarat usd cdn exchange rate live witnessed a significant growth surge since and the population of the City jquery get input type radio checked Ballarat is becoming increasingly urban such that statistically, the LGA is now used as the ABS statistical division.

Recent rapid growth has been attributed by demographers to increased commuter activity arising from surging house and land prices in Melbourne coupled with transport upgrades between Ballarat and Melbourne. Since Ballarat has averaged an annual population growth of and in June the estimated resident population of the City of Ballarat was 91, While most of the city's population can trace their ethnic roots to Anglo-Celtic descent, 8.

The average income of Ballarat, while lower than Melbourne, is higher than average for regional Victoria. Council Chamber in Ballarat Town Hall, Sturt Street, is the seat of local government for the City of Ballarat.

The council was created in as an amalgamation of a number of other municipalities in the region. The City is made up of 3 wardseach represented by three councillors elected once every four years by postal voting.

The Town Hall and annexe contains some council offices, however the council's administrative headquarters are located at the council owned Phoenix Building and the leased Gordon Buildings on the opposite side of Bath Lane. In state politicsBallarat is located in the Legislative Assembly districts of Buninyong and Wendoureewith both of these seats currently held by the Australian Labor Party.

The Division of Ballarat has been a safe Australian Labor Party seat since[] and was the seat of the second Prime Minister of AustraliaAlfred Deakin. Law enforcement is overseen from regional police headquarters at the law complex in Dana Street with a single local police station operating in Buninyong.

Due to an increase in crime rates and population, two additional local police stations were proposed in one each for the suburbs of North Ballarat and Sebastopol.

Offenders can be detained in 25 available cells at the police complex though are commonly transferred to nearby Corrections Victoria stockland townsville public holiday opening hours such as the Hopkins Correctional Centre in Ararat. Public safety and emergency services are provided by several state funded organisations including local volunteer based organisations.

Storms and flooding are handled by the State Emergency Service SES Mid West Region Headquarters at Wendouree.

Bushfires are handled by the Country Fire Authority District 15 Headquarters and Grampians Region Headquarters at Wendouree [] and urban structure fires are handled by multiple urban fire brigades operating at fire stations including the Ballarat Fire Brigade at Barkly Street Ballarat East, Ballarat City Fire Brigade at Sturt Street Ballarat Central and suburban stations including Wendouree and Sebastopol.

Medical emergency and paramedic services are provided through Ambulance Victoria and include the Rural Ambulance VictoriaSt. John Ambulance vrtx stock options Ballarat Base Hospital ambulance services.

Ballarat has two local newspapers, both owned by Fairfax. The Courier is a daily and The Miner is a free weekly. The latter is distributed across most of the city on Wednesdays and contains news of community events, advertisements for local foodland anzac day trading hours, real estate and a classifieds sections.

Local radio stations include 3BA, Power FM and several community radio stations. There is also a Ballarat branch of ABC Local Radio 's national network. Television station BTV Channel 6 Ballarat commenced transmission of test patterns on 17 March In his book And Now Here's Four Decades of Behind the Scenes Fun in Australian TelevisionMike McColl Jones fondly remembers local live television variety:.

The show, hosted by Fred Fargher, ran for 13 years, and managed to attract many stock chart trading software the top name entertainers in the world, simply by offering them a limo ride to this beautiful country centre, a no-pressure spot on the show, and then a great dinner afterwards at one of the city's excellent restaurants.

The sheer bravado of the offer enticed some of show business' biggest names". Today Ballarat is serviced by numerous "free to air" High Definition and Standard Definition Digital television services.

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These two stations broadcast relayed services throughout regional Victoria. The city also receives Southern Cross TenOne HD and Eleven sub-licensee's of Network Ten which is based in Bendigo but operates a local office. Ballarat television maintains a similar schedule to the national television network but maintains local commercials and regional news programming WIN produces a minute local news bulletin each weeknight from its studios in the city, where bulletins for AlburyBendigoGippslandShepparton and Mildura also originate.

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Southern Cross Ten provides short local news updates from its Canberra studios throughout the day. In addition to commercial television services, Ballarat receives Government ABC ABC1, ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24 and SBS SBS One and Two television services. On 5 Mayanalog television transmissions ceased in most areas of regional Victoria and some border regions including Ballarat and surrounding areas.

All local free-to-air television services are now broadcasting in digital forever 21 stock market chart only.

This was done as part of the federal government's plan for digital terrestrial television in Australiawhere all analogue transmission systems are gradually turned off and replaced with club penguin hq money maker free DVB-T transmission systems.

Subscription television services are provided by Neighbourhood CableFoxtel and SelecTV. Ballarat has two universities, Federation University and a campus of the Australian Catholic University.

Formerly the University of BallaratFederation University Australia was opened in It originated as the Ballarat School of Mines, founded inand was once affiliated with the University of Melbourne. The main campus is located in Mount Helen, approximately 6 kilometres 3. The university also has campuses in the Ballarat CBD, HorshamChurchillArarat and Stawell. The Australian Catholic University's Ballarat campus is located on Mair Tranzactii forex piata valutara. It was formerly the Aquinas Training Buy bright coloured stockings india, run by the Ballarat East Sisters of Mercy in It is ACU's only campus located outside of a capital city.

Ballarat has four State Government-operated secondary schools of which Ballarat High School established in is the oldest. Ballarat High School and Mount Clear College are the only state school members of the Ballarat How to increase cityville cash for free Schools. The two remaining schools are Phoenix College and Ballarat Secondary College.

Ballarat Secondary College was formed in by the amalgamation of Ballarat East Secondary College, Wendouree Secondary College and Midlands Secondary College. Phoenix College was formed ny stock exchange hours new years eve as an amalgamation of Sebastopol Nigerian stock market price list and Redan Primary School.

The city is well serviced by Catholic schools, with eight primary schools and three secondary colleges which include the all-boys St Patrick's College[] the all-girls Loreto College and the co-educational Damascus Collegewhich was formed by the amalgamation of St Martin's in the Pines, St Paul's College and Sacred Heart College in Ballarat has three other non-government secondary schools: Ballarat Christian College, Ballarat Clarendon College and Ballarat Grammar School. The later two schools are day and boarding schools who provide education from Preschool to Year Both of these co-educational schools are classified as academically excellent as the only Ballarat schools to be euro stoxx 50 index ticker on the tables of the top Earnest money laws in washington state schools based on median VCE scores and percentage of scores of 40 and above.

InClarendon was placed at 9th best VCE results in the State, above Melbourne GrammarGeelong CollegeScotch CollegeTrinity Grammar School VictoriaXavier Collegeand Haileybury College. Ballarat Grammar was placed at 82nd, above Wesley CollegeGeelong Grammar forex commodity trading tips Tintern.

The City of Ballarat has three public libraries, the largest and most extensive of which is the City of Ballarat Library, run by the Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation and located on Doveton Street North. The newspaper reading room of the Ballarat Mechanics' Institute in American and Australian soldiers in the futures broker job malaysia room of the Ballarat Mechanics' Institute in Ballarat is forex scalping making money for its cultural heritage and decorative arts, especially applied to the built environment, combined with the gold rush, this has created a picturesque urban landscape.

In Ballarat stock for remington 700 bdl 30-06 the first of two Australian cities to be registered as a member of the International League of Historical Cities and in hosted the 10th World League of Historical Cities Congress. Restoration mini-14 ultimate professional stock & aluminum upgrade package historic buildings is encouraged including a low interest council Heritage Loans Scheme.

Ballarat Citizens for Thoughtful Development formed in and was incorporated as Ballarat Heritage Watch in to ensure that the city's architectural heritage is given due consideration in the planning process. The Ballarat Botanical Gardens established in are recognised as the finest example of a regional botanical gardens in Australia and are home to many heritage listed exotic tree species and feature a modern glasshouse and horticultural centre and the Prime Ministers Avenue which features bronze busts of every past Australian Prime Minister.

Ballarat is notable for its very wide boulevards. The main street is Sturt Street and is considered among one of the finest main avenues in Australia with over foreign exchange in chennai airport kilometres 1.

Ballarat is home to the largest of a collection of several Avenues of Honour in Victoria. Each tree has a bronze plaque dedicated to a soldier from the Ballarat region who enlisted during World War I. The Avenue of Honour and the Arch of Victory are on the Victorian Heritage Register and are seen by approximately 20, visitors each year.

The city also has the greatest concentration of public statuary in any Australian city with many parks and streets featuring sculptures and statues dating from the s to the present. Ballarat has an extensive array of significant war memorials, the most recent of which is the Australian Ex Prisoner of War Memorial. The most prominent memorial in the city is the Ballarat Victory Arch that spans the old Western Highway on the Western approaches of the city. The archway serves as the focal point for the Avenue of Honour.

Forex daily forum significant individual monuments located along Sturt Street include those dedicated to the Boer War —the World War II — cenotaph, and Vietnam — located adjacent to the Arch of Victory. The legacy of the stockland townsville public holiday opening hours generated during Ballarat's gold boom is still visible in a large number of fine stone buildings in and around the city, especially in the Lydiard Street area.

This precinct contains some of Victoria's finest examples of Victorian era buildings, many of which are on the Victorian Heritage Register or classified by the National Trust of Australia. Notable civic buildings include the Town Hall —72the former Post Officethe Ballarat Fine Art Gallerythe Mechanics' Institute, the Queen Victoria Wards of the Ballarat Base Hospital s and the Ballarat railway station, Other historic buildings include the Provincial Foreign exchange reserves current accountReid's Coffee PalaceCraig's Royal Hotel — and Her Majesty's Theatrethe oldest intact and operating lyric theatre in Australia [9] and Ballarat Fire Stationone of Victoria's oldest fire fighting structures [] and the Jewish synagogue the oldest surviving synagogue on the Australian mainland.

The Ballarat Fine Art Gallery houses one of Australia's oldest and most extensive collections of early Australian works. It is considered to have the best Australian collection outside any capital city in Australia. Federation University Australia operates the Post Office Gallery in the Wardell designed former Post Office on the corner of Sturt and Lydiard Streets.

Ballarat is home to many annual festivals and events that attract thousands of visitors. The oldest large annual event is the Ballarat Agricultural Show sincecurrently held at the Ballarat Showgrounds and has attracted attendances of up to 30, and is an official public holiday for residents of the city. Lake Wendouree is featured in many including the biggest and most prominent is the Begonia Festival held annually since The controversial Ballarat Swap Meet formerly the Super Southern Swap Meet and held annually since lock position forex trading signals 30, visitors a year.

Other minor cultural festivals include the Ballarat Writers Festival, Ballarat International Foto Biennialle and the Goldfields Music Festival. Ballarat has a lively and well established theatrical community with several forex falling wedge pattern ensembles as well as a number of large performing arts venues.

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The Ballarat Civic Hall is a large public building constructed in as a general purpose venue. Its stripped classical design was heavily criticised during its planning, however it has gained some cultural significance to the city with its cavernous spaces holding many significant events over the years. Civic Hall was closed in and there have been moves to redevelop it for many years [] with some calls to retain the building stock market lebanon a venue.

Ballarat has its own symphony orchestra, the Ballarat Symphony Orchestra which was formed in Some notable theatre organisations in Ballarat include BLOC Ballarat Light Opera Company founded in The Royal South Street Eisteddfod is an all-encompassing performing arts festival and low risk high reward option strategies event that is conducted over twelve weeks annually.

In the s the Ballarat urban area contained no less than 60 hotels. The introduction of gaming machines in the early s has brought about significant change in the city entertainment precincts. Gaming machines have brought significant revenue to the remaining hotels, sports and social clubs which has enabled many to expand behavioural finance in stock market efficiency modernise.

The city has several dance clubs as well as a highly active live music and jazz scene. Hotels are popular meeting places for young people. The city has many fine restaurants, wine bars and eateries as well as themed restaurants. Dance parties are popular within the Ballarat area; BTR is an organisation founded in that has begun hosting dance events in Ballarat.

Ballarat has a significant music scene and a number of established music venues. Ballarat has produced several note worthy bands and musicians. Notable 777 binary options minimum trade from Ballarat include composer and violinist Warren Ellisand alternative bands The Mavis'sEpicure and The Dead Salesmen.

Ballarat has a number of large parks, sport fields, organised sporting clubs and associations. Australian rules football and cricket are the most popular spectator and participation sports in Ballarat, while soccer, basketball, netball, horse racing and rowing have large followings. There are stadiums, both indoor and outdoor as well as training facilities for most sports. Australian rules football is played at semi-professional and amateur levels with a large number of players at numerous venues, both dedicated such as Eureka Stadium and shared with cricket.

The North Ballarat Roosters based out of Eureka Stadium compete in the Victorian Football League. The Western Bulldogs AFL Club will commence playing periodic home games at the redevloped Eureka Stadium from The Ballarat Football League founded is a strong regional league of which there are 6 local teams Ballarat, EastPoint, Redan, Sebastopol, Lake Wendouree and North Ballarat City.

The Ballarat Football Club founded remains one of the oldest football clubs in the world. Other city teams from Buninyong and North Ballarat compete in the regional Central Highlands Football League.

Cricket is also played extensively with three international standard cricket ovals. Ballarat's Eastern Oval hosted a game in the Cricket World Cup. Horse racing and greyhound racing are popular, with dedicated facilities. The Harness Racing centre is considered to be among the best in Australia.

The Ballarat Turf Club schedules around 28 race meetings a year including the Ballarat Cup meeting in mid-November. Basketball is played at various levels with the Ballarat Miners and Ballarat Rush competing in the South East Australian Basketball League and playing out of the MARS Minerdome. 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.

Rowing and kayaking is centred on Lake Wendouree and the sport is particularly popular with the high schools. The lake hosts the Victorian Schools Rowing Championships as well as the annual "Head of the Lake" rowing regatta—contested by Ballarat High School, Ballarat and Clarendon College, Ballarat Grammar School, St Patrick's College and Loreto College.

The city hosted rowing events for the Olympic Games. Association Football known locally as soccer is mostly played at an amateur level. Their home ground is Morshead Park Stadium, located in central Ballarat, which was recently significantly redeveloped. Athletics facilities include an international standard athletics track at Llanberris Reserve on York Street Golden Point which is an Athletics Victoria venue and home to local athletics and little athletics clubs.

Swimming and water sport is facilitated at two Olympic-sized pools as well as an indoor metre foot competition short course pool.

The main facility is the Ballarat Aquatic Centre located at Gillies Street Lake Gardens in the city's west. Baseball was first organised in Australia at Ballarat in Golf is played at four main venues which include the Ballarat Golf Course on Sturt Street in the Easter suburb of Alfredtonhome to the Ballarat Golf Club; [] the Midlands Golf Course on Heinz Lane in the northern suburb of Invermay Park [56] which is home to the Midlands Golf Club; [] the Eureka Golf Course at Elford Street in the eastern suburb of Ballarat East and in the southern suburb of Buninyong at the Buninyong Golf Course.

The Ballarat Roller Derby League was formed inand held their first match in They have two teams who compete in local events, and a combined travelling team, the Rat Pack, who compete in interleague roller derby competitions.

Victoria Park is an expansive reserve with tree-lined avenues and sporting fields in suburban Newington. The suburbs feature some privately run wildlife parks including Ballarat Wildlife Park in Ballarat East and Ballarat Bird World in Buninyong.

Ballarat has inspired many visual artists. Eugene von Guerard documented the city's establishment as a gold digging settlement, while Albert Henry Fullwood and Knut Bull depicted the city's boom era streetscapes.

Ballarat is also a popular filming location. The city makes cameos in Dogs in SpaceMy Brother JackNed Kelly and The Writer Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Ballarat after the city, HMAS Ballarat J and HMAS Ballarat FFH A great many notable people's origins are in the Ballarat region, with the most prominent being high-ranking politicians and sportspeople.

Several former prime ministers of Australia were either born in or lived in Ballarat, and this was recognised by the city's Prime Minister's Avenue. Alfred Deakinthe second prime minister, was the first federal parliament MP for Ballarat. John Curtin was born in nearby Creswick and his wife Elsie was born in Ballarat.

Several premiers of the Australian states were born in Ballarat, including Ballarat born Sir Henry Bolte[] Steve Bracks[] Thomas Hollway[] and Henry Daglish. An additional political activist included Francis William [] Hyet is trade unionist and born in Ballarat. He was heavily inclined towards socialism which became a calling for his way of life.

He became involved with the Social Democratic Party in and following the Victorian Socialist Party in Hyett was a very prominent in the anti-conscription campaign. He was able to harness the union's newspaper which became a medium for the anti-conscriptionists.

Outside politics other prominent public figures include Peter Lalora notable historical figure in Australia as the leader of the Eureka Rebellion and a parliamentarian; [] the inventor George Alfred Juliuswho spent part of his childhood there when his father was a local Anglican cleric; [] the inventor Henry Sutton was born and worked in Ballarat; [] and Cardinal George Pellthe former Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney was born in Ballarat and worked in the area for some time.

Ballarat has also produced many notable athletes including the Olympic long distance runner Steve Moneghetti and four time Olympic basketball player Ray Borner. A large number of notable Australian rules football identities have come from Ballarat, including Australian Football Hall of Fame members Tony Lockett and Bob Davis.

In addition, Henry Sutton was an inventor from Ballarat. Sutton designed an electric continuous current dynamo with a practical ring armature. This design could be used as an electric motor and the rapid incline of the electrical industry followed.

Sutton was involved in devising and constructing different telephone designs. Sutton interacted closely with Bell the inventor of the telephoneBell came to visit Sutton in order to see a complete telephone system that was set up in Sutton's family warehouse. Ballarat has two major hospitals.

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 St John of God Health Care centre also on Drummond Street Nth, established in is currently the largest private hospital in regional Victoria. The Ballarat Regional Integrated Cancer Centre BRICC on the corner of Drummond and Sturt Street includes a number of facilities focused on cancer treatment.

The Heart Foundation did a study in that Ballarat had the highest level of physical inactivity Ballarat's residents are serviced by a wide range of public utilities including water, gas and electricity, telephony and data communications supplied, overseen and regulated by state based authorities and private enterprise and local council.

Water supply as well as sewage collection and disposal are provided by Central Highlands Water. The Lal Lal Reservoir built in [] with a capacity of 59, megalitres 1. Residential electricity is supplied by Victorian electricity distributor Powercorwhile residential natural gas is supplied by AGL Energy.

Telephony services are provided via the Doveton Street BRAT telephone exchange [] which was originally built by the Australian Telecommunications Commission now known as Telstra who remains its owner, though Optus now also operates services from this facility. The city's cellular network currently uses Universal Mobile Telecommunications System UMTS. Telstra has provided mobile telecommunications to Ballarat since initially as CDMA.

Optus provided competition with its entrance to the market in along with significant service upgrades in [] followed by Vodafone in mid Data communications are provided by several companies. Telstra was the first company to provide dial-up Internet access via the Ballarat exchange, however the first network for broadband Internet access available in the city was a hybrid optical fiber cable and coaxial cable built by Neighbourhood Cable in These companies also provide mobile data access Evolved HSPA and since late 3GPP Long Term Evolution 4G.

Ballarat's rollout of the National Broadband Network NBN is seen as vital for the city's growing IT industry. Road transport and the motor vehicle is the main form of transport. Five freeway interchanges service the urban area, East Ballarat half diamond interchange at Victoria Street C ; Brown Hill interchange full diamond at Daylesford-Ballarat Road CCreswick Road interchange full diamond at Wendouree A ; the Mount Rowan interchange half diamond at Gillies Road, Wendouree C and the Mitchell Park interchange full diamond at Howe Street C The Glenelg Highway connects directly to Mount Gambier and the Sunraysia Highway west of Ballarat which connects directly to Mildura.

Sturt Street and Victoria Street, both dual carriageways carry the bulk of the east-west CBD traffic, while Mair Street is planned to become a four lane dual carriageway to relieve pressure on these main streets.

Ballarat is also served by an extensive public bus service operated by CDC Ballarat. Gold Bus provides additional suburban services as well as the Ballarat School Bus Network.

Gold Bus operates direct regional services to links to both Avoca and Maryborough, while Sandlants operates a direct service to Stawell. There is also a direct bus service to Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport. The local taxi fleet consists of over 57 vehicles services in all suburbs and is currently operated by Ballarat Taxis Co-op Ltd. Ballarat has historically been a major rail transport hub in Victoria, situated at the junction of the Ballarat lineArarat line and Mildura lines it currently has several connections for both passenger rail services and freight rail.

The city has two passenger railway stations, the hub of Ballarat railway station and suburban Wendouree railway station. Since the controversial removal of "flagship" express services insuccessive timetable changes have slowed peak hour services to Southern Cross Stationwith the current journey taking a minimum of 73 minutes. Ballarat is connected to Geelong by rail via the Geelong-Ballarat railway linewhich currently operates only for freight passenger services were withdrawn in although ina planning study began for returning of passenger services along the line to investigate connecting both cities to Bendigo via Maryborough and Castlemaine.

A former branch line built in to Redan was sold off by VicTrack and finally dismantled in The once extensive Ballarat tramway network operated between and with a small section of remaining track being utilised as a tourist and museum tramway. A Master Plan for the Aerodrome was completed in followed by an Airport Master Plan in It was forecast that by — regular domestic passenger services using 40—50 seat commuter aircraft could feasibly commence.

Ballarat has a long history of cycling as a form of transport and recreation. The current cycling network continues to grow and consists of several marked on-road routes and 50 kilometres 31 miles of segregated bicycle facilities including several main routes: Ballarat—Skipton Rail TrailYarrowee River Trail with connections to the Gong Gong Reservoir.

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