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Schooners flowing on hot Grand Final day
Mental Health week in Ballarat
BRIEF A series of events to raise awareness and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health will kick off in Ballarat ...
PHOTOS | Footy legends on all the tough questions
PHOTO GALLERY | Saturday's AFL grand final celebrations got off to an early start in Ballarat with more ...
Good Food Ballarat tickets selling fast
Local foodies are being advised to dust off their stretchiest pants ahead of The Courier’s Good Food Ballarat.
Lending a helping hand to Cyclone Pam victims
TWO Ballarat teenagers are determined to share their love of sport with young victims of Cyclone Pam.
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The best of #ballaratinspring | Photos
BALLARAT Instagrammers have captured the best of the spring season.
Snapped in the Rat: September 2015
GALLERY: The people and the faces snapped in Ballarat in September.
The best of #ballaratfood
GALLERY: Looking for food inspiration in Ballarat? Check out the best, shared from the city's foodies.
Brownlow Medal 2015 | Red Carpet Photos
WATCH and VOTE: Who is best dressed on the red carpet?
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What is the way ahead for the Roosters?
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See how the best orienteer their way
Premier bowls future gets the green light
Battle to pick a winner in clash
Strikers excited to play some of the best
EXCITEMENT levels at the Ballarat Eureka Strikers are reaching fever pitch as they prepare to welcome Melbourne City ...
Hind back for Kangas
Club faith
Flapper retires for Australia
BALLARAT Lawn Bowls export Matt Flapper has rolled his last bowl for Australia.
North Ballarat partners with White Ribbon
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AFL Grand Final 2015: Hawthorn v West Coast | photos
Goals and sunshine rain down on the MCG for the 2015 AFL Grand Final.
AFL Grand Final 2015 | Rolling coverage
Rolling coverage and photos from the 2015 AFL Grand Final at the MCG.
Police boss says teen shooting linked to terrorism
NSW: Police are still at a loss why a 15-year-old boy shot a man in the back of ...
Deni Ute Muster 2015 | your photos
Ute Little Ripper. Distinctly Australian, just like the Deni Ute Muster - 2015 style.
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Public support key for 'ugly' heritage
Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder, but heritage protection is in the hands in the ...
Save the Children staff accused and deported from Nauru demand an explanation
Humanitarian workers deported from Nauru last year following unsubstantiated claims they encouraged asylum seekers to self-harm and fabricate ...
Liberals to release China FTA attack ads branding unions 'racist'
The Liberal Party is set to raise the temperature in the fight over the China Free Trade Agreement, ...
Eastern suburbs to get redeveloped public primary school
Bellevue Hill to get new public primary school.
Fresh investigations into CrownBet advertisements offering bonus bets
Bonus bets are under scrutiny again by the gambling watchdog.
The AFL grand final: How a $125 million footy match consumes a city
The millions of dollars are in the detail at the AFL grand final.
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Ballarat Weddings 2015
Submit your 2015 wedding here to feature in The Courier.
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Kate Forsyth's The Beast's Garden reimagines a French fairytale in Nazi Germany
Kate Forsyth reimagines the fairytale Beauty and the Beast in Nazi Germany in her new period novel.
After Oddball and Paper Planes, hunt is on for next family film hit
Oddball is a hit. Paper Planes was a hit. But where is the next Australian film that the ...
Many rugby films wind up in dead ball area but The Ground We Won is an exception
If rugby is the game they play in heaven, rugby movies generally come from a lesser place.
Books that changed me: Lucy Estela
Lucy Estela studied languages at university and has worked as a developer of websites and computer games in London and ...
Life & Style
Eastern suburbs to get redeveloped public primary school
Bellevue Hill to get new public primary school.
Riddledom: Author David Astle reveals his passion for words and puzzling moments
Wordsmith David Astle looks at the long and fascinating history of linguistic befuddlement around the world in his ...
No advantage to being multi-lingual, Australian study finds
Being multi-lingual has no academic advantage, an Australian study of 5000 children has found.
Sex for surgical training claims should be investigated, lawyer says
Historical reports of sexual harassment and corruption in training overseen by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons should ...
The health and fitness lessons I've learned
What I once assumed about health and fitness is wrong.
Don't punish us by taking codeine painkillers off the shelves, say consumers
The push to make codeine painkillers such as Nurofen Plus and Panadeine Extra prescription-only unfairly punishes people who want flexibility ...
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Russia has its reasons for joining Syrian war
On Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin was at the United Nations in New York saying that the United ...
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Extra holiday a welcome indulgence but can we afford it?
EDITORIAL: It is probably an indicator that Australia is no longer the land of the long weekend that ...
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Don't let the reputation of this Italian city rob you of a fabulous experience.
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There's a wealth of perfectly tailored holiday advice waiting just at the desk.