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Hundreds turned out
to St Patrick's Cathedral yesterday afternoon to celebrate the
life of former MP and
community leader
Frank Sheehan.
The service was
attended by family,
friends and loved
ones, along with
current and former
MPs and council
representatives.
Mourners spoke
glowingly of his
generosity, kindness
and community spirit.
■ Full coverage on page 7

REMEMBERED: Hundreds turned out to pay their respects to the life of Frank Sheehan. Picture: Lachlan Bence

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lethal drugs in their system.
With ice now considered a
factor in one in five fatalities
on our roads, authorities
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punish anyone taking their
lives and those of other road
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Charity ride supports
Ballarat mentoring
WENDOUREE TRAINS
TO MELBOURNE

BY JACKSON RUSSELL

THE first Dirty Pig and Whistle gravel ride event takes
over Creswick this weekend
in support of Big Brothers
Big Sisters' Ballarat mentoring program.
The weekend kicks off on
Saturday with a cyclo-cross
event at Hammon Park before the main event gravel
rides on Sunday.
Both the 82km full course
and 42km short course start
from Hammon Park and
traverse the area's gravel
roads, tracks and laneways
with the full course's making
its way through Clunes at its
halfway point.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
mentoring coordinator for
Ballarat Jodie Downey said
it was the third attempt at organising the event which has
been previously prevented
by COVID-19 restrictions.
"It's a big deal because
we know we're at the start
of something really exciting
and we've got 500 riders in
a semi-pandemic environment so people are just really
keen," she said. "The money
from this fundraiser will go
to the Ballarat mentoring...
Big Brothers Big Sisters is a
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funded by this charity event
so we're just so thrilled."
Alfredton mentor Mary
Parsons has been volunteering with Big Brothers
Big Sisters for almost a year
and said she's seen a lot
of personal growth in her
match, Nakisha.
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doing and her YouTube program and how many people
are following her so we've
built quite a great friendship, it's a very comfortable
friendship," she said. "She
loves her hot chocolate so
I've made that part of what
we do each week. We go and
get a nice hot chocolate and
whether I make it at home,
because she comes to my
home sometimes, or we
go out around the lake and

wander out around there.
We've got a few secret spots
around that we hang out at."
Matt Burch has also been
be volunteering for around
a year, mentoring his match
Ari, and said being able
to mentor and influence a
young person's life gave him
a sense of achievement.
"Growing up, I was fortunate enough to have positive
mentors and role models
in my life, to be able to pass
that on is a great thing to do,"

he said. "You almost feel like
growing up as an adult, it's
your responsibility to pass on
your learnings and this has
been able to provide that. It's
so tough growing up these
days, they have so many
more challenges, I think now
is even more important for
young kids to have a positive role model or mentor in
their life."
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RAIL TROUBLES NEWS

V/Line board disarray
THE V/Line board is in disarray, with two recent resignations adding to the beleaguered rail operator's woes.
By the end of this month
there will be just three directors - the minimum allowed
for a transport corporation
- down from six at this time
last year.
The news comes at a time
of unprecedented scrutiny
for the transport operator,
which is responsible for
thousands of daily commutes between Ballarat and
Melbourne.
A V/Line spokesperson
said director Liz Roadley
had resigned in March, then
after repeated inquiries
confirmed another director
- whose identity they did not
confirm - had also stepped
down and was due to finish
on May 31. Both finished
well before their terms were
due to end.
The former deputy chair
Craig Cook died last September and has not been
replaced.
The board moves mark
yet more tumult for V/Line
in 12 months dominated by
the dismissal of former CEO
James Pinder last October.

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That following hearings
held by Independent Broadbased Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) looking into
serious misconduct.
The ongoing inquiry,
known as Operation Esperance, heard how Mr Pinder
allegedly collected cash
payments of up to $10,000
from executives at transport
cleaning company Transclean - something the former
CEO claimed was done while
he was in a secret gambling
syndicate. Mr Pinder's former Metro Trains colleague
Peter Bollas later admitted he
had received up to $150,000
in corrupt payments.
An interim CEO, Gary
Liddle, is now in place at V/

Line but the latest upheaval
will only increase scrutiny
on the process for overseeing an organisation that has
been the focus of two major
corruption probes in the past
five years.
V/Line was also sharply
criticised by the Victorian auditor for its role in
the botched Murray Basin
Freight Rail project last year.
Locally it has faced fierce
criticism for delays in its response and communications
about the Lydiard Street rail
crossing closure following a
crash last May. This month,
rail replacement coaches
were put in place for 11 days
on the Ballarat Line only
three months after a new

timetable was introduced as
a result of $601.2 million upgrade works.
Mr Pinder, a former rolling
stock manager with Metro
Trains with limited executive
experience, was appointed CEO in late 2016. At the
same time another IBAC
corruption probe, Operation
Lansdowne, was underway.
On its release in 2017, it said
there was "unfettered cronyism" among senior V/Line
executives.
The board which recruited
Mr Pinder were appointed
on the recommendation of
then minister of public transport Jacinta Allan in 2015.
The director for the Centre
for Public Integrity Geoffrey
Watson told The Courier the
current situation highlighted
serious issues with the way
public boards often work.
Mr Watson, a staunch advocate of instilling a nationwide anti-corruption body,
said: "The board would have
been responsible for the appointment of the CEO and
this is such a debacle that
you would expect that some
board members, especially
any who had a particularly
close relationship with the

CEO, would resign."
"If there was a strong
connection between the
government and the board,
then the relevant minister
should go as well - because
the minister should be taking
responsibility for maladministration that occurs in his or
her department."
"That was the traditional role, but that no longer
seems to apply in Australia.
Ministerial responsibility is
greatly diminished."
He also said board appointees with links to political parties proved problematic "time and time and
time again", but said he did
not have enough detail on V/
Line directors to comment
on them.
Ms Roadley was appointed
in December 2019, well after
Mr Pinder was recruited. The
only member of the currently
listed board involved in Mr
Pinder's appointment is the
chair Gabrielle Bell.
In a statement Ms Allan,
now the minister for public
transport infrastructure, said
the board in 2015 had been
put in place "in line with
established
appointment
guidelines".

V/Line
dodges
media
queries
AS PRESSURE on V/Line to
improve transparency and
processes mounts, it took repeated queries to get the full
picture.
Four separate emails were
sent before a spokesperson
gave full details of recent
resignations. An initial query
revealed the recent departure of Liz Roadley, as well as
pointing to the death of Mr
Cook last year. Two further
follow-up emails made no
mention of any further resignations, simply reiterating
the current board.
A fourth email finally
conceded another current
director had stepped down
and would finish this month.
The Centre for Public
Integrity's Geoffrey Watson
was unimpressed, saying: "I
have seen the course of correspondence and it is almost
impossible to gain information. That should be public
knowledge, and it should be
readily accessible because
it's taxpayer money."
– JOLYON ATTWOOLL

Process underway to find new V/Line directors and CEO
ANALYSIS
AS A state-owned enterprise,
V/Line legally must have a
board.
According to the Transport Integration Act, the role
of the board of directors is to
oversee the "management of
the affairs" of the organisation. In theory, and mostly
in practice, very little of that
will be hands-on, with most
of the day-to-day operation
of the company being led
and directed by the chief executive of the day and their
leadership team.
In the hearings held last
October, the counsel for
IBAC probed carefully the

role of the board and Mr
Pinder's dealings with them
- putting a spotlight on how
decisions taken by directors
can be steered by the information presented to them by
the executive team.
The V/Line board was
overhauled a short time after
state elections in 2014, with
several new appointments
taking place. There were six
new directors for the start of
the 2015/16 financial year, a
complete change from the
previous year.
According to the then annual report, directors were
"appointed by the Governor-in-Council on recom-

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mendation of the Minister
for Public Transport, made
after consultation with the
Treasurer."
They are each appointed
for a three-year term, and
can be re-elected.
The cast of directors has
changed since then - with the
exception of the current chair
Gabrielle Bell. Among the
appointees was Jeroen Weimar - now with a high-profile
role in the Department of
Health - who acted as chair
until he was recruited to the
newly formed Department of
Transport.
Just as the recent resignations happened before the

directors ended their allotted term, so previous other
non-executive
directors
- such as Mr Weimar - have
left early.
While the personnel have
moved on, the remuneration
has not. A state government
spokesperson confirmed on
Friday the current chair is
paid $60,000 and directors
are paid $30,000 per year, and
the level of remuneration has
not changed since 2015.
This point, however, marks
a low ebb for the board - numerically at the least. With
the IBAC inquiry ongoing and spread well beyond V/
Line - it is also highly likely

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further upheaval lies ahead.
The current minister for
public transport, Ben Carroll - who was appointed
last year - submitted the following reply to a request for
comment about the state of
the board:"With huge growth
in the number of people relying on regional public transport, the Victorian Government is committed to work
with V/Line to ensure they
have the right structure in
place to continually improve
their services."
The statement continued:
"Careful consideration is given to best fit governance arrangements for state owned

enterprises. The governance
arrangements can vary over
time. There have been three
recent casual vacancies from
the board due to one director
passing away, and two recent
resignations due to family
commitments. A process is
currently underway to deal
with these vacancies."
The board is also responsible for appointing the CEO,
a present concern as the current incumbent Gary Liddle
is there on an interim basis
- his second time in that position role after Mr Pinder's
predecessor also left under
a cloud.
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Danger on our roads
D

RUG driving has
become a major
issue presented at
Ballarat's courts.
In one week multiple
unrelated cases around
the offence have been
processed, highlighting the
issues caused by drugs on
the road in the region. Here
are a few of them;

DRUG AFFECTED
DRIVER RAN INTO
TRUCK
A woman was not wearing
her seatbelt when she hit
the back of a truck after
driving while drug-affected
in December 2019, a court
has heard.
Rachael Fyfe, 40, pleaded
guilty to the charges and
her case was heard in her
absence at the Ballarat Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Police prosecutor Senior
Constable Ben Jones said
Fyfe was driving in Lismore
at 9.30am on December
19, 2019 when she veered
left and hit the rear of a
semi-trailer carrying fuel.
The impact rotated her car
and she remained with her
foot planted on the accelerator while up against the
truck, causing the wheels of
her car to spin.
The court heard Fyfe was
unable to exit the car due to
the damage and emergency
services attended the scene.
Police determined she
was not wearing a seatbelt at
the time of the collision as it
was in the retracted position.
Fyfe was taken to Warrnambool hospital and
analysis found methylamphetamine in her system.
The court heard she had
prior convictions for drug
driving, careless driving and
speeding.
Magistrate Michelle
Hodgson read a letter Fyfe
sent to the court that said
she had been couch surfing
at the time of the incident

and she was diagnosed
with post traumatic stress
disorder.
Fyfe said in the letter she
was sorry it happened and it
was a 'huge wake up call'.
"I am a good person who
has let myself and my family
down," the letter said.
Ms Hodgson said it was
serious offending and it was
'very fortunate' no one was
seriously injured or killed.
"It may have occurred
days after she used methamphetamine, but that is a
notorious danger period,"
she said. "She has priors. She
wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
She is clearly remorseful and
has reasonable prospects of
rehabilitation."
Ms Hodgson said the
sentence imposed needed
to deter Fyfe and others
from drug driving. Fyfe was
convicted and fined $500.
She was disqualified from
driving for the minimum
mandatory period of 12
months.

'THERE ARE A LOT OF

RED FLAGS'
A magistrate told a
34-year-old man he was well
above the age she expected
to see at court for someone
charged with deliberately
causing his car to skid.
Shane Greengrass faced
the Ballarat Magistrates'
Court on Monday and
pleaded guilty to drug driving, failing to have proper
control of his car and driving
an unregistered vehicle.
Police prosecutor Senior
Constable Ben Jones said
Greengrass was caught
driving an unregistered car
with methylamphetamine in
his system in Newington in
August 2019.
The court heard police
saw him revving his car
loudly before causing it to
skid for 50 metres on Gilles
Street North.
His car was impounded
and he was disqualified from
driving for the mandatory
period of 12 months.
Magistrate Michelle
Hodgson said causing a
car to skid was usually

something she saw an 18 or
19-year-old, not a 34-yearold come to court for.
"It is an offence because it
is dangerous," she said.
Ms Hodgson said drug
driving was a serious offence
because it was dangerous to
drive while your capacity to
control a car in impaired.
Greengrass told the court
he was a part-time labourer
and had two children.
Despite being charged
with multiple drug driving
offences, he said he did not
have a drug problem and it
was a 'one off'.
Ms Hodgson said he had
been caught drug driving
three times.
"You might be in a bit of
denial if you think this is a
one off," she said.
Greengrass will be
assessed for a community
corrections order and will
return to court next week.
"There are a lot of red flags
here for me," Ms Hodgson said.
"You also haven't appeared at court a few times.

It seems like things are a bit
out of control."

MAGISTRATE
DISAPPOINTED BY
REPEAT HISTORY
A Ballarat magistrate is
"disappointed" a 19-yearold woman has made "so
many mistakes" in her short
driving history.
Gabriella Victoria Butcher
faced the Ballarat Magistrates' Court on Thursday
on her second drug-driving offence.
Police prosecutor Senior
Constable Ben Jones said
police saw Butcher driving
a Ford sedan south on Main
Road, Ballarat, at 8.18pm on
April 7, last year.
He said police checks
showed the car's registration
had been cancelled.
Police intercepted Butcher
on Hocking Avenue and she
told police she did not have
a driver's licence.
It had been cancelled
and Butcher was disqualified from driving at the
Ballarat Magistrates' Court

on February 2, 2020, for
three months.
Senior Constable Jones
said Butcher underwent an
oral fluid test about 9pm
which indicated there was a
drug present in her system.
He said an analysis of
Butcher's oral fluid showed
she had used methamphetamine.
Butcher's vehicle, which
she said belonged to a
friend, was impounded for
30 days at a cost of $1400.
Defence lawyer Melanie
Rudolphus said Butcher's
driving offences occurred
while she was relocating to
South Australia.
She said Butcher had
arrived in Ballarat from
South Australia to collect her
property and the borders
closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ms Rudolphus said being
trapped in Victoria was a
good outcome for Butcher,
who started a new job, began a new relationship and
stopped using illicit drugs.
She said urged the court
not to disqualify Butcher
from driving more than
the mandatory period for
drug-driving.
Magistrate Letizia Torres
said she noted Butcher had
turned her life around but
was disappointed in her
driving history.
"I was disappointed that
someone has made so
many mistakes in such a
short driving history," Ms
Torres said.
Butcher was convicted,
fined $400 and disqualified
from driving for 12 months.
She pleaded guilty to
three charges, including
drug-driving, driving an
unregistered vehicle and
driving while disqualified.
Butcher appeared in court
with her mother.
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ICE ON OUR ROADS NEWS

Drug tests save lives
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force had "significantly
boosted" the number of
police trained as a Drug Impairment Assessor's (DIA) to
ensure drivers are detected
and prosecuted.
"This offence carries a
gaol sentence of up to 3
months for a first offence
and up to 18 months for
subsequent offending."

RUG impairment
continues to be a
serious road safety
problem on Victorian roads but increased
drug and alcohol testing is
saving lives, according to
new research.
Alcohol and drug testing
has been a feature of road
safety enforcement for
decades. Roadside Breath
Testing (RBT) was introduced more than 40 years
ago and is today delivered
through both car and bus
operations while Roadside
Drug Testing (RDT) was
introduced in 2004 through
a similar model to address
the increased rate of drug
driving.

Roadside testing

Drug impact
The Monash University
Accident Research Centre
(MUARC) recently released
research about the role
drugs are playing in the
state's road trauma, predominantly based on data for the
decade from 2006 until 2016.
It found that while THC
(cannabis) was the most
common drug detected in
drivers involved in fatality
and serious injury crashes
in the earlier years, since
2013 methamphetamine
(more commonly known as
'meth' or 'ice') has become
more prevalent.
According to the most
recent data, 18 per cent
of drivers had ice in their
system when they were
killed - equivalent to one in
five drivers. The drug was
also present in about 4.3
per cent of crashes where a
driver was seriously injured.
By comparison, 16 per
cent of drivers had cannabis
in their systems when they
were killed, while 2.5 per
cent had the drug in their
systems when they were
seriously injured.
In all, illicit drugs were
detected in around 25 per

cent of drivers killed on the
state's roads.
Additionally, alcohol also
continues to contribute to
trauma - it was a factor in
around 17 per cent of fatal
crashes, with more than two
thirds returning high range
readings.
It was also detected in
around 5 percent of drivers
who were seriously injured,
with around half returning a
high range reading.
In the past five years the
trend has continued - 18 per
cent of drivers had illegal
blood alcohol levels while
41 per cent had drugs, both
legal and illegal, in their
system.

Local impact
As part of the project, the
researchers analysed different testing rates in police
regions across the state.
Professor Max Cameron
(researcher) said while contrary to the law, only about a
third of drivers admitted to
hospital were tested for drug

or alcohol.
This means much of the
data in the study is believed
to be lower than the reality
- he estimated the serious
injury rates could in fact be
up to three times higher.
In the Ballarat region,
however, drivers transported to hospital are much
more likely to have a blood
sample taken.
As a result of this high rate
of drug and alcohol testing
he said the presence of ice
recorded was much higher
in this region than other
areas across the state.
Of those tested in the
western region in 2016
almost 15 per cent tested
positive for ice while 8.5
per cent tested positive for
cannabis, Professor Cameron said.

Police perspective
Victoria Police use both
general and specific deterrence approaches to reduce
impaired driving and road
trauma.

Ballarat Highway Patrol
Senior Sergeant, Stuart Gale,
said impairment factoring
into trauma in the region
had not increased dramatically during the past few
years. However, drugs had
overtaken alcohol as factors
in the region's trauma.
COVID has tipped the
scales a little, with police
recently noticing an increase
in drink driving.
With intercepts generally
made as a result of driver behaviour, he said impairment
was easy to detect and even
easier at night when there
were less cars on the roads.
Senior Sergeant Gale said
driving while impaired whether alcohol or drugs
- were significant factors in
the region's road trauma,
along with fatigue and
inattention.
"You are driving a vehicle
and you shouldn't be impaired in any way, shape or
form. It's a big enough task
driving a vehicle and having
due care and attention.

"People need to wake
up. I think people think it's
their right to have a licence
and they get behind the
wheel and forget about their
obligations to themselves,
their passengers and other
road users."
As of May 6, police had
conducted more than
105,000 roadside drug tests
in the 2020-2021 financial
year. The force is on track to
deliver 150,000 by the end of
the year.
A spokesperson said
expanding roadside drug
testing to one member
stations in some rural areas,
including north of Ballarat,
was "very successful" and
was now being undertaken
in an ongoing capacity.
"Further trials are
currently under way at larger
rural police stations as an
opportunity to refine the
roadside drug testing model
and provide greater roadside drug testing capacity
and coverage."
A spokesperson said the

The first of its kind,
the research included an
in-depth analysis of the
effectiveness of the increase
in roadside drug tests from
42,000 in 2015 to 100,000 per
year from 2017 onwards.
The increase had prevented more than 33 fatalities
and nearly 80 serious
injuries on Victorian roads
each year from 2016-2018.
Further, it reveals the
increase in roadside drug
tests to 150,000 during 201819 should have prevented
a further 23 fatal crashes
and nearly 56 serious injury
crashes.
The researchers advocate
for further increases in roadside drug and alcohol tests
given their effectiveness and
the foreseen prevention of
fatality and serious injury
crashes.
Professor Cameron
described roadside drug
testing as a "very important"
part of the road safety
response.
"Roadside drug testing is
more expensive than alcohol
testing but the report shows
it's still well and truly worth
the investment.
"The amount of testing
could be tripled without
any problem."

Decreasing lives lost
To address drug driving, a
high number of tests should
be conducted but predominantly from cars.
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Ice: 24/7 road safety issue
BY HAYLEY ELG
■ From page 5

Random testing can be
implemented to target cannabis use but police should
preference testing in areas
where crashes have been
linked to cannabis. This
should predominantly be
during the night.
To address drink driving,
the researchers recommend
delivering "a large number of
tests from both car and bus
operations" during "high alcohol times" - mostly at night
- and in areas where the issue
is prevalent.
While cannabis is a more
social drug, he said ice was
"very impairing and addictive".
This is made clear through
recent research from the

Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine that found the
relative risk associated with
cannabis was 1.9 - about the
same as a person who has
been drinking and who has a
BAC of .05.
But the story is completely
different with ice.
"The relative risk of that
is about 19 - about 10 times
the relative risk associated
with THC," Professor Cameron said.
For ice, enforcement
should also involve a high
number of tests, though not
randomly as ice impaired
drivers were found to get
behind the wheel around
the clock, thus to be effective
testing needed to take place
as much as possible and
throughout the day.
Professor Cameron said

A road accident caused by drugs several years ago.

this particular finding about
ice was new.
"We've known for many
years about high alcohol
hours and THC is very similar but methamphetamine is
a 24/7 problem on the road,"
he said.
With no tools like an al-

cohol interlock that can be
installed, Professor Cameron
said a different approach
needed to be taken.
"Ice users are so addicted
so it's difficult to keep them
off the road. You've not only
got to detect them on the
road but you need programs

that address the addiction,"
he said, adding this was
needed from a health perspective.
"It makes it very difficult
for police to target specific
times of the week in targeted operations because they
need to do it as often as
they can on as many days as
they can."
The Transport Accident
Commission said the report
reinforced the critical role
enforcement played in keeping Victorians safe on the
roads and why investment in
testing was vital to reach the
Victorian Road Safety Strategy's ambitious target to halve
road deaths and reduce serious injuries by 2030.
Enforcement is one of the
strategy's six focus areas,
and will cement a further

increase in drug testing
every year - deterring people
who choose to take drugs
and drive - as well as the introduction of new laws and
penalties to remove dangerous risk-takers from the
roads swiftly.
TAC acting chief executive,
Liz Cairns, said the organisation had long recognised the
"critical role" enforcement
played in road safety and
would continue to support
police to remove drug drivers from the roads.
Acting Minister for Police,
Danny Pearson, agreed.
"We make no apologies for
being tough on drug-drivers - and Victoria Police will
continue to work with our
road safety agency partners
to take dangerous drug-affected drivers off our roads."

Police aim to detect drink drivers across the weekend
POLICE will be out breath
testing drivers this weekend amid a recent rise in
drink driving.
Recently police have intercepted a number of drivers
making the risky decision to
drink and drive, including

some with blood alcohol
levels much higher than the
legal driving limit.
Ballarat Highway Patrol's
Senior Sergeant Stuart Gale
said this trend was prevalent
at weekends, with drivers going out and enjoying them-

selves at licensed premises
and restaurants but then
"flouting the law and choosing to drive home".
This Friday, Saturday and
Sunday nights the highway
patrol will be assisted by
uniform police and the road

policing drug and alcohol
section to conduct a roadside
testing blitz across Ballarat.
Focused around licensed
premises, the aim of the divisional operation will be to
catch drink and drug drivers
before they harm themselves

or others on the roads.
He encouraged people to
use public transport or call a
taxi instead of driving home.
With a little planning before heading out, a responsible designated driver - who
will not drink on the night

- could also be organised so
everyone gets home safely.
He said increased roadside drug and alcohol testing
would continue while the
behaviour continues across
the region.

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Frank Sheehan mourned
HUNDREDS
of people
turned out to St Patrick's
Cathedral on Friday afternoon to celebrate the life of
former MP and Ballarat icon
Frank Sheehan.
With the cathedral at capacity, almost 100 more people watched the service from
St Patrick's Cathedral Hall via
livestream where there was
barely a spare seat.
Mr Sheehan represented
the community for a decade
between 1982 and 1992 as
Member for Ballarat South
and was involved extensively
in the community throughout his life.
Mr Sheehan's life had an
impact on many people and
a moving tribute was delivered by his son, Michael.
"Despite an often public
life, he always made time for
us and encouraged us with
his wise words and a gentle
smile," he said
"Dad's happiness didn't
just come from his family and
friends, he took pleasure in
interests such as gardening
and always tinkering away in
the shed or backyard.
"Really importantly, I also
believe he got much of his
happiness in the satisfaction

Federal Member for Ballarat Catherine King and former
Member for Ballarat John Mildren.

CELEBRATED: Mourners gather outside St Patrick's
Cathedral. Pictures: Lachlan Bence

of helping others.
"Just because he was fundamentally happy, he wasn't
content with many aspects of
what he saw and experienced
as he went through life and
he was very serious about

Member for Wendouree Juliana Addison.

helping to change those
things, he just usually did it
with a smile on his face."
Celebrants spoke of Mr
Sheehan's acute sense and
passion for justice, immense
compassion and his advoca-

cy in standing alongside survivors of clergy sexual abuse
to ensure their voices were
heard though the Moving Towards Justice support group.
Mr Sheehan was described
as a community leader who

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lived his convictions, faith
and principles out in public.
The service was attended
by current and former MPs
including the incumbent
member for what the seat
of Ballarat South became,

Member for Buninyong
Michaela Settle, along with
Member for Wendouree
Juliana Addison, federal
Member for Ballarat Catherine King and City of Ballarat
Mayor Daniel Moloney.
Alongside current MPs,
former MPs who worked
alongside Mr Sheehan were
also in attendance.
Former minister and
treasurer Tom Roper said Mr
Sheehan was a great representative of Ballarat.
"He was a great member
for the Ballarat area and I
had dealings with him on
health, on transport and on
planning. Just every area,
he showed a great interest
in what occurred here and
I was lucky enough to be in
parliament with him for for a
long time," he said.
Dunnstown local Ray
Murphy said Mr Sheehan
was an important figure
within the community. "I've
always admired the fact that
no matter what political allegiance you had, if you had a
problem, he'd try and help,"
he said. "He was a fine man,
very strong character. Most
of what's been said is pretty
damn right about him."

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Berry, Anderson
sale ends an era
BY CALEB CLUFF

WHEN Andrew and Henry
Burton formed a partnership with John Anderson in
1889 to create a new printing
business for Ballarat, they
brought more than a knowledge of inks and composition to their offering.
Keen sports supporters,
within a year the brothers
had started up their own
newspaper, The Sporting
World. Bringing information
about local and international
sport and racing together in
a local tabloid proved a success, and the paper survived
for 46 years.
The business lasted somewhat longer. Four generations of the Berrys worked
in the purpose-built Dana
Street printing factory, and
the Berry, Anderson and Co.
business stayed in family
hands until 2017.
Now the landmark building will be offered for sale
for the first time since its
construction in 1902. Henry

Berry, the great-grandson of
Andrew Burgess Berry, admits putting the magnificent
building on the market was a
painful decision.
"I was pondering this for
some time," Mr Berry says.
"I toyed with the idea of
keeping it, but in the end I
thought it would be better if
someone else did it. It was
very hard to come to the decision to sell."
Henry's reluctance is understandable. His extended
family, in their generations,
have spilled sweat, tears, ink
and literally blood into the
thick floorboards. One of the
family, James Berry, had a
hand 'severely crushed' in a
machine in 1909.
It's been a Ballarat institution and a Berry family
business since Andrew Burgess Berry bought out his
brother and John Anderson
in 1905. Anderson moved to
Melbourne to begin another
successful printing business,
while Andrew began to expand locally.

The Dana Street building
was lifted a storey and reinforced with massive steel
joists in 1912, while Andrew
was overseas sourcing paper bag-making machines.
Those machines are still in
the building, a rare existing
example of early 20th Century paper technology.
In fact, Henry Berry says,
a relatively recent inspection
from WorkSafe culminated
in the officer being taken
upstairs. Staring wide-eyed
at the Heath Robinson-like
collection of gears, knives
and exposed moving parts,
he refused to believe the machine was not still in use.
"He
could
not
be
convinced," Mr Berry says,
despite the decades of dust
and grease coating the metal frames.
The factory relied on beltdrive throughout, and even
with majority of machinery
removed, pulleys and engines remain. Dana Street
was originally dedicated to
bag making, while printing

was conducted in a long-demolished building next-door
to Craig's Royal Hotel in Lydiard Street.
Henry Berry has a remarkable recall of the history
of the company. He began
working for the firm in 1973,
and took over in the 1990s,
continuing a long and unbroken line of Berry owners
- Andrew, Henry, Andrew,
and Henry. In its day, Berry, Anderson had premises
along Sturt Street, having
acquired the Summerscales
stationery and bookselling
business next to the Post
Office in 1920, and another
across the road.
Under his stewardship,
Henry Berry saw printing
and bagmaking expand to
the supply of other paper
products such as cup and
wrapping, and a shift from
letterpress to lithographic
offset and latterly digital printing.
Now the presses have fallen silent, a new life awaits
this astonishing building.

A BALLARAT INSTITUTION: Henry Berry
stands among antique
bag making machines in
the Dana Street building
which was built for the
printer in 1902. Picture:
Adam Trafford.

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HISTORY: This 1855 press
will find a new home in
Bendigo.

FIRST TIME FOR SALE: The building at 207 Dana Street was purpose
built in 1902, extended in 1912, and has never been offered for sale.
Picture: Adam Trafford.

NOT MAKING THE CUT: An English-made guillotine sits idle in the
building, in front of an Argus enamel sign. Berry Anderson also had their
own newsagencies. Picture: Adam Trafford.

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this untouched piece of
Ballarat's history? Colliers
International's Charles Kennedy, who is handling the
sale, says there has been
remarkable, substantial
interest in the factory.
Despite being in a heritage precinct, which triggers
controls over changes to
exterior, the unchanged
interior has no heritage
safeguards, meaning a new
owner could feasibly gut
the 120-year-old fabric.
That would be unlikely,
says Mr Kennedy.
"Every inspection has
been talking about the
character of the building,"
he says.
"I would be very surprised if someone developing this didn't highlight the
historic features."
Mr Kennedy has put an
estimated sale value on
the property of $1.1 to $1.5
million at auction.

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Doubt on intention to kill
BY ERIN WILLIAMS

A MAN charged with the attempted murder of a woman
at Scarsdale is applying for
bail in the Supreme Court.
Paul Dale Bradley, 32, was
charged with 10 offences
over the incident, which occurred on November 15.
It is alleged an argument
occurred between Bradley
and the woman and he assaulted her. She has stated
she cannot remember anything after the argument.
Two people, who were
present, allegedly heard the
argument however they did
not see the incident but saw
the woman with a bloodied nose.
One of the people present
told police he heard Bradley
allegedly tell the woman she

had made allegations that he
had bashed her and "I might
as well do it".
After the alleged assault,
the woman was transported
to her house and her mother called an ambulance
because her daughter was
"delirious" and "not making
much sense".
A nurse detailed the woman's injuries, stating there
was a possibility of marks
around her neck that were
consistent with strangulation.
Police informant Detective Senior Constable Christopher Brown said he spoke
to the woman the following day.
"The statements do say
there is blood coming from
her nose however they were
the most severe injuries I

have ever seen on a victim,"
Detective Senior Constable
Brown said.
He said police opposed
Bradley's application for bail
because he was an unacceptable risk of interfering
with witnesses.
Detective Senior Constable Brown said Bradley had
made a number of phone
calls from custody, asking
people to pass on messages
to the complainant.
He said he was concerned
Bradley was continually trying to contact the complainant through family members,
who told the complainant
she needed to change her
statement because Bradley
did not agree with her original statement.
Detective Senior Constable Brown said the

complainant's response to
Bradley's application for bail
was she was fearful but she
was more worried about the
threats from his family.
"In her words, she has stated, she believes the accused
has done enough jail time
however of course that is out
of her hands," he said.
Defence barrister Rishi
Nathwani said the prosecution case was evidentiary
weak, particularly in relation to the attempted murder charge.
"The informant has fairly
accepted the material placed
before you is the case at its
highest against the applicant
in relation to all the charges,"
Mr Nathwani said.
"On the material, it is my
submission there is very little
or no evidence that goes to

‘‘

On the material, it is my
submission there is very little or no
evidence that goes to an intention
to kill.
Defence barrister Rishi Nathwani

an intention to kill and as a
consequence that charge is
likely to be discharged at a
committal proceeding."
Mr Nathwani said Bradley had accommodation in
Melbourne, casual employment and his mother could
provide a surety of up to
$200,000. He said Bradley's
grandfather died this week
and his funeral would be
held next Friday.
Mr Nathwani said most

of Bradley's criminal history
related to driving offences,
but Justice Paul Coghlan
said he was concerned about
Bradley not complying with
court orders.
The bail application hearing was adjourned until
next week to allow time for
Justice Coghlan to read the
phone transcripts and for the
defence to provide evidence
on Bradley's surety. He was
remanded in custody.

Man remains in custody for alleged violent family incident
A CONVICTED murderer
accused of a violent episode
against his partner and her
children remains in custody.
Paul Aaron Haseloff, 48,
appeared via a video link
at the Ballarat Magistrates'
Court on Friday.

His lawyer said the Ballarat
man wanted to contest a lot
of the police briefs, which
include family violence, driving and drug charges.
Haseloff has previously
denied the allegations of
a serious violent episode

against his partner and her
adult daughter and son at
their home in on December 10.
Haseloff allegedly held a
pillow over his partner's face
and punched her to the head.
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Haseloff allegedly punched
her in the mouth, breaking
her tooth and causing cuts.
The woman's son then
armed himself with a
fire stick.
Haseloff allegedly dragged

his partner back into the bedroom, got on top of her on
the bed and allegedly bit her
eyebrow. Police allege the
woman was dragged around
the bedroom by her hair.
Haseloff is accused of
fleeing a collision on Eyre

Street, Ballarat, the day before the alleged family violence incident.
In 1997, Haseloff was
convicted of murdering
his partner.
He was remanded in custody until June 25.

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Rental rates questioned
BY JACKSON RUSSELL

CALLS for the owners of
properties being used for
short-term accommodation
to be charged commercial
rates has strengthened following plans by one regional council.
With Warrnambool City
Council instigating a plan
to charge commercial rates
on properties being used for
services such as Airbnb and
Stayz, the owner of Ballarat's
Sovereign Park Motor Inn,
Tim Canny, said the same

could be done in Ballarat.
Mr Canny estimated the
commercial rates he pays on
his business could reach up
to $45,000 per annum.
"It shows that Warrnambool, perhaps the local government, is recognising that
these properties are being
used for commercial use
and as businesses and such,
so it's only fair that they get
charged commercial rates
just like the short-term accommodation businesses,"
he said.
"It's only fair, it's all about

a little even playing field and
making sure that accommodation providers and the accommodation industry are
competing against other accommodation providers that
are having to meet the same
regulations and expenses
and that includes commercial rates... It's frustrating for
accommodation operators
to see so many properties
popping up and competing
directly with them and not
meeting having to meet the
same financial obligations
that we have to meet."

However, Airbnb believes
charging commercial rates
on these properties could
penalise everyday people.
Airbnb head of public policy for Australia Derek Nolan
said it was important to have
a balanced set of rules.
"One-size-fits-all
approaches tend to lack nuance
and can unfairly penalise
everyday people sharing
their own homes to make
ends meet and combat costs
of living," he said.
"It's neither fair nor sensible to treat full-scale com-

mercial operations in the
same way as people sharing
their homes to earn a bit of
extra income to help pay
down the mortgage and cover their bills.
"Local Hosts on Airbnb
also make a big economic
contribution to their region
and help bring valuable
tourism dollars to nearby
businesses, including many
that have typically missed
out in the past."
The City of Ballarat said
since 2018, there was a
system in place to identify

short-term accommodation
properties.
"Since 2018, council's
commercial differential rating definition has provided
for short-term accommodation properties, identified
by the municipal valuers as
being serviced apartments/
holiday units or bed and
breakfast, to be rated as commercial," the statement said.
"Council has no plan to
amend this definition nor
target other residential properties that may be listed on
Airbnb or Stayz."

Nurses take to the streets
"This facility has treated
them with absolute contempt," Ms Fitzpatrick told a
rally of 50 union supporters.
"The Ballarat Day Procedure Centre refused to
bargain with us. Their idea of
enterprise bargaining was to
send us an email... That's inappropriate and it's not very
respectable."
Nurses last month voted
down a proposed agreement
because it failed to offer a fair
wage rise or backpay, and
removed a clause providing

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procedural fairness in disciplinary matters, she said.
Cura Group said the company had negotiated with
the ANMF, Health Workers
Union and employees since
January 2021, meeting with
the employees to reach a fair
and reasonable agreement.
"Despite this the two unions have encouraged their
members to vote against the
proposal that could bring
major improvements into
effect without further delay."
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action on Friday in an ongoing dispute with their employer Cura Group, a subsidiary of German-owned Fresenius Medical Care Australia.
The Australian Nursing
and Midwifery Federation's
(Victorian Branch) secretary
Lisa Fitzpatrick, speaking
outside the centre, said the
ANMF members were determined to win and should not
be underestimated.

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Hopes for next-gen project
BY ALEX FORD

MELBOURNE needs 100
new trams, and the two companies selected to tender to
build them both have a significant presence in Ballarat.
The Next Generation
Trams project, which went
out to tender at the end of
April, will involve a company designing, building, and
maintaining a fleet of more
accessible trams.
Alstom, its recently absorbed subsidiary Bombardier, and UGL-CAF, were

selected to submit bids
for the project following a
12-month "interactive development process", according
to a Department of Transport webinar. This involved
consultants working with the
department to thrash out capabilities, components, and
priorities, before the companies began their bids.
It was noted that strict
measures will separate the
Alstom and Bombardier
bids, as Bombardier's design
work began before its acquisition. Alstom has a large fac-

tory at the historic Ballarat
Rail Workshop on Creswick
Road, which was used to
build X'Trapolis metropolitan trains until recently when that project finished,
workers were reassigned to
other jobs nearby, including
at the Bombardier V/Locity
maintenance facility in Ballarat East.
It's understood Alstom has
completed design work on
the next-generation X'Trapolis 2.0 trains.
UGL also has a large facility in Ballarat, on Gregory

Street West.
The Department of Transport confirmed the $1.48
billion project is under way,
with a contract to be awarded
by late-2021, and trams set to
hit the network by 2025.
As well as increasing accessibility - the intention is to
replace high-floor A, Z, and
eventually B class trams with
low-floor trams - the new
designs may use on-board
battery systems.
In the webinar, NGT engineers noted using batteries
or other on-board energy

systems would reduce the
need to update substations
and other electrical infrastructure.
The local content requirements for the project will be
increased to 65 per cent, and
it was noted there could be a
technology export opportunity if a new solution is found
to increase accessibility.
"We're building 100 brandnew next generation trams
right here in Victoria, which
will be more accessible,
comfortable and energy efficient," a spokesperson said

in a statement. "Shortlisted
suppliers have been invited
to submit bids to design,
build and maintain Melbourne's newest trams - to
progressively retire some of
our oldest, high floor trams
and create a more accessible
network for all passengers."
"This project will support almost 2000 local jobs
throughout the supply chain
and set the standard for
modern public transport."
UGL and Alstom both
declined to comment, citing
the ongoing tender process.

Traffic lights for Nolan Street
TRAFFIC lights will soon be
installed on Nolan Street at
the northern entrance to the
Ballarat station precinct, with
tenders opening this week.
The City of Ballarat is
handling the project, which
is calling for a pedestrian
crossing on the western side
as well as traffic signalling at
the T-intersection.
Work "must be completed" by August 31, with a sixweek construction period
expected, according to the
tender documents.

"The contractor shall
make provision to allow
the free movement of traffic through the works at all
times practicable ... and
shall not block access to any
property or business," the
documents state.
Traffic levels at the intersection are expected to rise
sharply when the new local
bus interchange opens, just
east of the new multi-level
commuter car park. The
car park opened in early
2019, while the Quest Hotel

opened last year. The traffic
lights were first announced
when detailed plans for the
Ballarat station precinct were
released some years ago.
Eventually vehicle access
from Nolan Street to Lydiard Street will be restored,
according to Regional Development Victoria's project website.
The bluestone Goods Shed
retail and conference space
and the public plaza are expected to be completed by
the end of the year.

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Hennessy speaks about fearless leaders
WOMEN across Australia
have expressed feelings of
anger, frustration, sadness
and powerlessness about the
issues of consent and misogyny highlighted in federal
parliament this year.
Major revelations of sexual assault allegations thrust
concerns about the treatment of women in politics,
how sexual assault complaints are dealt with and the
workplace culture of Parliament House into the spotlight. Former political staffer
Brittany Higgins in February
publicly revealed allegations
she was raped by a colleague
in Parliament House in 2019.
More allegations of sexual
assault have since surfaced
against politicians and political staffers.
Wendouree MP Juliana
Addison provided a setting for Ballarat women to
express their frustrations,
vent their anger and discuss
changes needed moving forward on Wednesday night.
More than 130 women
came together at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute to
hear Ms Addison speak with
Altona MP and former Attorney-General Jill Hennessy
about the theme fearless.
Ms
Hennessy
was

38-years-old when she was
elected to parliament in
February 2010 as Altona MP.
She has served as health and
ambulance services minister
and was appointed Attorney-General and minister
for workplace safety in 2018.
Ms Hennessy resigned from
her ministerial roles in December 2020 to be more involved in family life while her
daughters completed their
last years of school. She has
since written a book due for
release in July titled Respect.
Ms Hennessy said the
horrific family violence murders of women this year and
high profile allegations of
sexual assault forced women to confront the paradox
of thoughts on progress on
equality versus the reality.
"The cover up and the
failure to have any accountability was not just a crime
against Britany Higgins, but
a crime against all of us," she
said, when asked about the
widespread rage following
the allegations.
"There was an enormous
number of women who felt
outraged... we saw public activism where we were united
in our outrage and our push
for change. We have to hold
institutions and individuals

LEADERS: Wendouree MP Juliana Addison hosted former Attorney-General Jill
Hennessy and 130 women at the Mechanics Institute. Picture: Rochelle Kirkham

accountable for driving that
change."
When asked about her
thoughts on gender equality,
Ms Hennessy said women
continued to work hard in
their workplaces and domestic lives and felt if they 'put in
extra' they would be rewarded. But she said women kept
finding themselves 'coming
up short' in the areas of equal
pay and equal numbers of
women in leadership.
"We're being set up to fail
because the rules have been
created for men," she said.
"Gender equality has got
to be about changing the
rules rather than saying to
women you have to work

really hard to keep up with
men then wonder why we
are not being rewarded.
"We need for institutions
and workplaces and the rules
of engagement to fundamentally change so it is not women trying to replicate males.
"We have a long way to go
on those fronts."
Ms Addison asked Ms
Hennessy about being a
'fearless' leader and what
drove her to bring about
tough change, like voluntary
assisted dying legislation.
She said she was driven by
a strong sense that time was
finite and the need to take
responsibility for the power
people in the community

had given her as a leader.
Ms Hennessy said showing compassion, empathy
and vulnerability as a leader
was a strong act of fearlessness and would be the most
effective traits among future
leaders.
"It connects people," she
said. "People can spot a fake
a mile away. The days of
three word political slogans
are gone. We have to be able
to find a way through all of
that noise and being human
I think is a really strong way
of doing that. Anyone who
doesn't reflect that I think is
going to become politically
irrelevant."
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ministerial positions in December 2020 was an example
of the 'collision' of work and
home life and the need to be
honest about what is most
important with colleagues.
"I didn't want to send a
message that you can't be a
parent and a cabinet minister, because you can," she
said. "We need to make a
case to try to make workplaces better reflect how we live
our lives... We need to not
look at careers as going up in
a lift but a bit of a zig zag.
"We need to value care,
see it as a productive contribution and recognise it. We
need to get real about the
realities of people's lives."
Ms Hennessy said she
would love to see workplace
situations like having CEOs
job share. She said there was
a need for change to support
people's career paths while
managing work and life
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New model
for safety of
community
BY HAYLEY ELG

BALLARAT
investigators
have moved into the same
office - improving efficiencies and benefiting community safety.
Several months ago investigators who work in the
Divisional Response Unit
(DRU) moved from their
former office at Ballarat West
Police Complex into a newly
renovated space at the Ballarat Police Station on Dana
Street.
This means the DRU investigators are now physically
working alongside members
from the Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU), with the
two officers in charge - the
CIU's Acting Inspector Tim
Argall and the DRU's Detective Senior Sergeant Shaun
Bingham - working from the
same office.

It means the station is now
a hub for all of the region's
police investigation and
response resources, from
crime scene services to detectives from various units.
The only units not based at
the hub are the crime investigation and family violence
investigators based in Bacchus Marsh.
While under the one roof
since the start of March,
a new operating model
was adopted about a fortnight ago.
The more than 30 DRU
and CIU investigators have
long worked closely together.

Shifting focus
Until the merge, the DRU
investigated 'volume crime'
- such as theft from motor
car, theft of motor car and
burglaries.
Reported serious crime

is now the response and
investigation responsibility
of the CIU, with all of the
above plus assaults, fraud,
firearm-related crime and
aggravated burglary now
falling onto their desks.
The DRU, meanwhile, has
more of a proactive focus
based on intelligence received including about drug
crime.
The members keep abreast
of criminal activity and target
known criminals and areas.
Detective Senior Sergeant
Bingham said the proactive
offender engagement team
had been established in an
effort to prevent crime before
it occurred.
"The theory behind it is
trying to prevent spates of
crime. If we know someone
is committing a crime, we try
to cut it off proactively before
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Detective Senior Sergeant
Bingham said much of the
DRU's work was initiated by
intelligence - whether about
drugs or active offenders in

the community.
The unit is flexible, with
members often jumping
from one investigation to another depending on which is
having the biggest impact on

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DRU investigators support
all other investigation and
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Improved
efficiency

active branch of the DRU
is able to step in with their
specialist skills to "take over
the manhunt".
They are then able to build
intelligence around potential
offenders, identify the perpetrator, track them down and
arrest them before further
harm is created.
By splitting resources, it
means the investigation can

be undertaken "around the
clock" until the offender is
apprehended.
With their focus taken off
the hunt, it also means the
original investigators are
able to shift their focus back
to building their case for
court, by gathering evidence
in support of the prosecution.
As part of the proactive

approach, the DRU also
works with those released
from prison - ensuring they
comply with bail conditions
and supervision orders.
In the cases when these
are violated, the members
work with the fugitive taskforce to bring these people
back into custody.
Detective Senior Sergeant
Bingham explained the goal

to reduce the incidence
and impact of crime meant
community safety would be
improved.

Improved efficiency
The benefits are already
being reaped.
With much of the two
units' work overlapping, the
shared office has also improved efficiency.

WORKING in separate offices sometimes meant the
same inquiries were being
made by different investigators and "the same crooks"
being chased, but this has
since now been remedied.
"Instead of doubling up,
with everyone on the same
floor we know who is working on what at any given
time so we can iron out those
inefficiencies and by not
duplicating work we get a
more streamlined response,"
Detective Senior Sergeant
Bingham said. "It's a more effective use of our resources."
Acting Inspector Argall
added the exchange of information flowed much better
between investigators now,
which was easier than phone
calls and emails.
Inspector Bob Heaney
said the move also served to
improve service delivery for
the community, such as improving surge capacity.
"The beauty of having the
DRU and CIU co-housing
the same office is that it gives
us a lot more agility with our
resources."
He said this meant detec-

‘‘

The beauty
of having the
DRU and CIU
co-housing the
same office is
that it gives
us a lot more
agility with our
resources
Inspector Bob Heaney
tives could respond to an
unfolding incident quicker,
benefiting community safety.
"It's a better response
model for our strategy
around crime reduction," he
said, adding that it was also
beneficial for upskilling staff.
Many younger uniform
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the DRU as a stepping stone
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Preserving Ballarat's past
BY JACKSON RUSSELL

ROLLING: H Squared Studios director Rex Hardware with the 16mm film and equipment
he is digitising and preserving. Picture: Lachlan Bence

ABOUT 10 hours of 49-yearold television footage from
BTV6 is being restored as
part of a project to preserve
a forgotten period of Ballarat history.
Rex Hardware, director of
H Squared Studios, is digitising and preserving the
16mm film featuring children's show character Benji
Bunny having adventures
through Ballarat in 1972 and
wants to share it with the
public before it is given to
WIN Television's BTV6 collection and the National Film
and Sound Archive.
Mr Hardware said the
footage originally belonged
to former BTV6 presenter
Peter Gamble before he
passed away in 2003 and was
given to him by Mr Gamble's
sister Susie.
"I ran a BTV6 TV retrospective in 2018 for Heritage
Weekend and it was very
successful and so I've got
a real interest in looking at
the archival material of old
TV stuff here in Ballarat,"
he said.
"I've gone through a
project of acquiring 16mm

projection equipment, reminding myself how to use
it and doing digital transfers
and also generating some
interest in the project.
"My eyes are falling out of
my head every time I open a
new reel. It's Sovereign Hill
in its first year of operation...
it's a tour through the Sunshine Biscuit Factory actually
baking biscuits, the George
Farmer Bacon and Ham Factory actually making bacon
and ham.
"It's an incredible time
capsule of Ballarat 49 years
ago, and we nearly lost it."
Mr Hardware, who estimated the project would take
60 to 80 hours to complete,
is crowdfunding the digitisation and preservation of the
films and has raised almost
$600 of his $2800 goal.
"They're all in pretty good
condition, but I've had to do
a lot of splicing. I've actually
mangled a couple of films in
the test transfers as well, just
beginnings and ends, that
kind of thing," he said.
"It's time and equipment,
so I've had to acquire the
equipment and I've had to
make up for not working and
I do freelance stuff so we're

crowdfunding for the labour
for this to be done so it can
be shared with the community and also the purchase of
the equipment as well."
Included in the footage is
a rare interview with Sir Reg
Ansett, the founder of airline
Ansett Australia.
I can't believe it, it was the
first thing that I saw when I
looked at the first reel," Mr
Hardware said.
"I've trawled YouTube
and I can't find anywhere
an interview with Sir Reg
Ansett and there's a six or
seven-minute sit down with
Sir Reg Ansett talking about
the history of the company
and why Australia is the land
for the aeroplane."
There are plans to show
the footage during the Ballarat Heritage Festival at
Trades Hall on Saturday,
May 29 with the $20 entrance
fee to go towards funding
the project and another two
showings to follow at a later date.
Sneak previews of the
footage are available online
at www.facebook.com/lostin16mm and contributions
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Helping the CFA
BY JACKSON RUSSELL

THE Smythesdale Fire Brigade will be able to better
serve their community after
receiving a generous donation of almost $5000 from the
Ballarat Hindu Temple and
Cultural Centre.
The donation was almost
two years in the making
when $4800 was raised after
Ballarat experienced vicious
bushfires across the area
in 2019.
With the COVID-19 pandemic taking hold soon
after, the donation was not
able to be made until Friday afternoon.
Ballarat Hindu Temple
and Cultural Centre advisor
Sundram Sivamalai said one
of the purposes of the centre
is to maintain peace and
harmony and to promote
goodwill and understanding.
"When a disaster happened here with the bushfire
situation, the Ballarat Hindu
Temple and Cultural Centre
committee decided perhaps
we should do something
for our fellow community
members. As such, within
three weeks, we called in all
the actions and hosted the

HELPING OUT: Seven-year-old Ruby McLure will donate
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GIFTED: Ballarat Hindu Temple and Cultural Centre advisor Dr Sundram Sivamalai and
Smythesdale CFA Captain Jeff Carey. Picture: Lachlan Bence

event and raised the money,"
he said.
"I think it's often the small
communities that are often
overlooked. I think that's
where the support is needed.
I think being in Ballarat, we
want to see that people are in
harmony and living in peace.
I know this money is not
big but certainly it makes a

difference for small communities."
Smythesdale CFA secretary Wayne Bourke said he
was overwhelmed by the donation which will go towards
its rehabilitation unit and a
new storage shed.
"We're pretty tight for
room so we've made some
decisions about moving ap-

pliances which will give us
a better response and we'll
make those decisions when
the fire danger period comes
up," he said.
"It's just overwhelming
actually and it's one of the
largest individual donations
we've had and we're very
privileged and we're very,
very grateful."

WHEN Ruby McLure was
four, she tried to do what her
mum does every day, and cut
her hair.
Her mum, Ballarat East
hairdresser Jess Humphrey,
was not impressed at the
time, but after three years of
growing her hair back, young
Ruby wants to cut it all off
again - and help other kids
out at the same time.
She'll donate her hair to
Wigs 4 Kids, part of the Kids
With Cancer Foundation,
which helps children who
have undergone chemotherapy to get wigs - getting some
self-esteem back is a big part

of the recovery process, Ms
Humphrey said.
Along the way, Ruby's
raised more than $1000 for
the foundation, including
at a big trivia night on Friday night.
"She comes in here and
gets it washed and straightened, she looks after it," Ms
Humphrey said.
"One of the girls we work
with here, her partner lost
his young niece a few years
ago - we made it a bit bigger
to raise awareness too."
To donate, visit the Wigs 4
Kids website.
– ALEX FORD

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NEWS HISTORY

Our horrible histories
I

F THERE was a prize
for the most macabre
exhibit in a Victorian
park then Smythesdale
has got the drop on the
competition.
In 1867 two goldfields
murderers George Searle
and Thomas Ballan stood
together trying to shake
hands before they were
interrupted by the device
which gruesomely ended
their lives.
The fatal structure now
at the back of a park was
used to hang another 11
other men over 5 decades
at Ballarat.
Not that you would know
any of that at first glance.
Just a 20 minute drive
from Ballarat, the structure
sits under its own tin roof
, where from a distance
,it looks like a type of
lopsided picnic bench or a
giant wooden desk slightly
tipped,under shelter.
Nearby there are some
normal park benches and a
standard outdoor wooden
table featuring attached
seats on a metal frame, just
like those that dot parks
everywhere.
Ignore them and take
another look at the angled
long , broad and thick piece
of timber, with a middle
section that dips down.
The solid rectangular
platform is neatly enclosed
by a small picket fence.
Step right up to see the
last thing that 13 people
stood on before the heavy
piece of wood gave way
underneath them to send
them into eternity.
The gallows from the old
Ballarat jail have their final
resting place at the back of
a pretty park on the Glenelg
Highway which is also the
main road through the town.
If you look up from the
restored trapdoor , the fatal
beam which once anchored
the hangman's noose , is

Joseph Ballan and George Searle hanged together for murdering a bank manager on the goldfields. Image State
Library of Victoria

bolted to the roof.
A walk around the back of
the gallows and there's the
metal mechanism which
held the wood in position
until the executioner pulled
on a lever to make it and
those standing on it... fall.
In it's reincarnation as
heritage with a reminder of
horror , the public display
has been disabled but still
you get the idea of its former
fatal power.
A helpful sign Includes
an image of town locals
Joseph Ballan and George
Searle drawn when they
appeared in the dock at the
Smythesdale Court House,
which is now only 60 metres
from the mechanism which
claimed their lives when it
was up and running at the
Ballarat jail.
They ended up ending
together on the gallows
when they were hanged for
the murder of a local bank
manager Thomas Burke
in 1867.

‘‘

The investment paid off, there's a
wow factor to it. It has that macabre
element which people love .
Woady Yaloak Historical Society Jim Brown

The pair bailed up the
married father whose wife
was pregnant with their
fourth child , as he returned
home after buying gold from
local miners at the diggings
in the area.
Judge Redmond Barry ,
who would later order the
hanging of Ned Kelly, sent
Ballan and Searle to these
gallows.
Murder convictions
got nine people onto this
structure, the rest were
two rapists , one for carnal
knowledge and another for
shooting with intent.
In 1891 , James Johnson
was hanged for the murder

of his wife and four children
in Ballarat . Reportedly, he
had to be dragged to the
gallows on a chair after he
claimed he was unable to
walk. In the finish , Johnson
stood long enough to fall
through the trapdoor.
In November 1894 ,a
jockey 20 year old Elijah
Cockcroft who killed his
brother's fiancé , surprised
jail officials when he asked
them who had won the
Melbourne Cup before he
went to meet his fate.
The first time the gallows
were used was in 1864 ,the
last was 113 years ago.
After the Ballarat Jail

closed in 1965 , the gallows
debuted as a tourist attraction at the Old Curiosity
shop in Ballarat East.
Later they ended up in a
local backyard before being
rescued for posthumous
posterity by the Woady
Yaloak Historical Society.
The society grabbed the
gallows about 15 years ago
and set about a restoration,
replacing damaged wood
while maintaining the
integrity of the display.
"About 20 percent of
the gallows' wood had to
be replaced but the rest is
the original."said society
president Jim Brown
He said it was a bold move
which left initially left some
locals unimpressed.
" They thought it could
bring down the tone of the
town , to have a gallows in
the main drag."
Mr Brown was the driving
force behind the idea " The
investment paid off, there's a
wow factor to it."

" It has that macabre
element which people love."
Mr Brown said the $20,000
project which was installed
in 2013, is a surprise discovery for people when they
come across it at the back of
the park.
He said Smythesdale
monthly market goers who
visit the park can get a
bonus history lesson when
they visit.
"It's interesting to watch
parents trying to explain
what it ( the gallows) is to
their young kids."
The site sits in a type of
Colonial Law and Order
Theme Park , it's tucked
away behind old police
stables and near a bluestone
lock up in the historic precinct.
In keeping with the crime
and punishment spirit , at
the front of the park there's
a wooden carving which
depicts the arrest of a Chinese miner by a policeman,
leaving behind a weeping
wife clutching a baby.
Mr Brown said the terminal trapdoor is a drawcard
which enhances the town's
pioneer story in the park.
For the really keen ,
tours which offer a special
demonstration of the
falling door can be arranged
through the Woady Yaloak
Historical society.
" When people visit and
watch the trapdoor fall a
short way the sound is loud
and clunky which sends a
chill up some people leaving
them a bit disconcerted."said Mr Brown.
Despite the gruesome
past , history comes alive
here at the gallows final
resting place.
So if you are looking for
Victoria's strangest tourist
attraction in a park, the
gallows at Smythesdale win
by a long neck.
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Next steps at BWEZ plants
BY ALEX FORD

MORE
businesses
are
completing projects at the
Ballarat West Employment
Zone, with one large factory beginning to call for
new employees.
The Luv-a-Duck value-add
facility, one of the larger
manufacturing setups at the
Mitchell Park site, will hire 30
people in a range of roles.
The $20 million factory
will process duck products
for local and export markets,
as well as for food services -

construction was put on hold
during the pandemic while
the company rode out lockdown, but resumed earlier
this year.
In a statement, chief executive James Thompson
said the new facility will also
mean planning will begin
for its existing Nhill factory, where there are "major
growth plans".
"We have commenced
Master Planning for our Nhill
Plant, which will see some
major streamlining of internal operations after commis-

sioning of the Ballarat Plant,
followed by either a major
redevelopment of existing
facilities or a new build at
Nhill," he said in a statement.
Elsewhere in BWEZ, construction is under way at
several larger sites in the first
stage, including the Pipecon
and Cervus facilities.
The project is run by the
state government, through
Development Victoria, and
the City of Ballarat.
"A range of businesses
have committed to BWEZ
including CHS Broadbent,

Luv-a-Duck, Agrimac, Kane
Transport, Findlay Engineering, Sovereign Civil,
Cervus and Pipecon, which
will result in hundreds of
jobs," a Development Victoria spokesperson said in
a statement.
"BWEZ is also home to
the Acacia residential development (to the site's west),
with civil works currently
underway for stages two and
three. The final land release
is expected in June, following
strong sales since its launch
last year."

Council referred enquiries
back to the state government
regarding new infrastructure, but has consistently
said BWEZ has "exceeded
expecations".
When the land was first
gazetted in 2013, BWEZ was
expected to create 9000 jobs.
An expressions of interest
process for stage two, which
includes land on the eastern
side of the Ballarat airport
and was expected to attract
aviation industries, ended at
the beginning of 2021.
Council has also had plans

for an intermodal freight hub
at BWEZ, which attracted $9
million of federal funding,
and has previously promoted plans for a potential
waste-to-energy plant and
innovation centre - none of
these projects have begun
construction yet.
Australian brewer Broo
has planned a giant organic
brewery, entertainment centre, and zipline on a massive
parcel of land on the eastern
side of BWEZ close to the
Ballarat Link Road.

Autism talk at the cathedral
A TALK exploring autism will
take place as part of the Conversations at the Cathedral
series this Sunday.
One of the speakers will be
Lyndell Allen, a music teacher at Newington Primary
School as well as the director
of music at the Anglican Cathedral.
Ms Allen has a secondary school age son who has
been diagnosed on the autism spectrum.
She told The Courier: "One
of my hopes is that people

can go away appreciating a
little more and understand
that the biggest problem is
that no-one is the same.
"It's not like having an
illness where the treatment
is the same for everybody
- I think that's the important thing I want people to
take away."
"Unlike breaking a leg
where everyone can see you
need a hand, people might
not even know there's something there."
"It's not always straightfor-

ward and there can be lots of
challenges for families."
The other speaker will be
Professor Sandra Jones of the
Autism Inclusion Program at
Australian Catholic University.
■ The talk, AutismYou & Me,
is free to attend.Those
interesting in hearing the
talk should go to Synod
Hall, 49 Lydiard Street
South at 5pm this Sunday
May 16.The talk is due to
last an hour.
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HERITAGE FESTIVAL
Spread over three weeks the heritage festival
continues to delight and few events capture its
spirit more than the annual tweed ride.

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Cliff Gowers (Creswick) and Kevin Scott (Linton)

Wayne Armistead (Geelong), Noel Swayn (Colac)
and Mark Sell (Colac)

VETERANS RIDE
Raising awareness for PTSD brought these
motorcycle lovers together last weekend.
Pictures: Kate Healy

Martin Schulze (Werribee), Matt Lund (Ballarat)
and Leigh Wright (Torquay)

Edward Farquhar (Ballarat), Steve Plowright
(Ballarat) and John Sayers (Torquay)

Sallee Sell (Colac) and Jodie Plowright (Ballarat)

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NEWS

Students share ideas
Y

OUNG people
in Ballarat are
thinking creatively
to solve community problems and bring their
ideas to life.
Students from Mount
Rowan Secondary College
and Ballarat Grammar
pitched their big ideas to
community leaders as part
of the Crazy Ideas College
Social Innovators program
this week.
The Social Innovators
program is designed to build
young people's capacity
to lead change and bring
real-world learning into the
school day.
Crazy Ideas College
founder Kieran Murrihy said
he saw sophistication in the
young people's ideas.
"They have done fantastic
work in terms of really understanding where they can
make a difference around
the issues they care about,"
he said.
Twenty-six Year 8 students
from Mount Rowan and 25
Year 9 students from Ballarat
Grammar came together
at the Ballarat Tech School
last fortnight for two days of
intensive learning.
Students split into groups,
identified issues they cared
about, were encouraged
to think of 'crazy big' ideas
to address the issues and
then 'shrink' their ideas
to something they could
achieve this year.
The students worked
together to refine their
idea pitches and prepare
them for presentation to
their peers and a panel of
community leaders during
separate school events on
Thursday and Friday.
Ballarat Grammar
students Amy Gosby and
Holly Douglas pitched their
idea for Passion Program,
a mentoring program
connecting people in the
community to encourage

CREATIVE: A group of Mount Rowan students work together to refine their idea at the Ballarat Tech during the Crazy
Ideas College Social Innovators program two day intensive course. Pictures: Aaron Sawall

TEAM: Lilla Delbridge, Nate Sadhai, community partner
Ange Elson, Penny Young, Ivy Clark and Emma Perrett.

them to follow their dreams
and make friends.
"It was amazing we were
offered a real chance to put
our idea into the real world
rather than having it left
alone to not make a change,"
Amy said.
"I learnt a lot about the
design process and how to
make something come to
life, from turning an idea
into a real project.
"In the future hopefully
we can create more ideas
like this or expand on this

idea. I will continue to use
these skills probably for the
rest of my life and in the
workforce."
Holly said the program
was an opportunity to come
up with a new idea she had
never considered before.
"I am most looking
forward to advancing my
idea by putting it out into
the community, running the
program, getting feedback
and learning how to make it
into something even bigger
and better," she said.

ENGAGED: Ballarat Grammar students Zoe Wesley, Will
Beechey and Nat Huf work on their idea together.

Mount Rowan Secondary College student Ella
Evans was a part of a group
that pitched an idea for a
program called Teaching
Tech, offering workshops in
retirement homes to share
technology skills.
Ella said she was nervous
to pitch her idea initially, but
her confidence increased
throughout the program.
"I felt pretty good after
getting it done. It was nice
to know I built that confidence," she said.

"I am excited about making our idea come to life."
Mount Rowan Secondary
College student Henry Brennan pitched an idea to create
a machine that collected
plastic from the ocean.
"I learnt leadership when
it comes to picking an idea
and teamwork when it
comes to creating an idea.
We had three different ideas
and had to pick the one we
liked," he said.
Ballarat Grammar student
Nate Sadhai said he was

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excited to see his team's idea
for a Moon Cafe come to life.
The cafe would be a safe
space for people in the
LGBTIQ+ community which
hosted an eating space, a
stage, all-access bathrooms,
a cinema and free therapy
and counselling.
"This is something I
really wanted and a lot of
my friends really wanted,"
he said.
Ivy Clark, also on the
Moon Cafe team, said she
felt grateful to have community partners listen to
her idea and help make it a
reality. "The highlight has
been talking to like minded
people and people who are
willing to listen to my ideas,
make them a reality and
encourage me to explore my
interests," she said.
Mr Murrihy said community partners from
organisations including
Ballarat Health Services,
City of Ballarat and Ballarat
Community Health helped
connect students with
people who could help bring
their ideas to life.
"Each of the schools is
providing the opportunity
for their students to continue to work on their ideas,"
he said.
Other groups' ideas
included a program that
teaches school students
life skills, replacing plastic
fruit and vegetables bags
with paper bags embedded
with seeds for planting and
an app to help teenagers
make new friends who have
similar interests.
People in Ballarat can
read about all of the young
people's ideas, provide
comments and vote for them
on the CIC Beyond website
at cicbeyond.com/home/
ballaratyounginnovatorsforum-2. More young people
will participate in Crazy
Ideas College in term three.
- By Rochelle Kirkham

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Hometown hero Michelle Payne returned
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premiere of her highly-anticipated biopic
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movie-lovers, including beloved brother
Stevie, converged on Regent Cinemas
Ballarat for the film about Payne’s
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A BALLARAT private school
has again come under fire
for its staunch beliefs with
a former teacher launching
legal action, claiming she
was forced to resign after
she refused to accept the
school's policy about samesex marriage.
Ballarat
teacher
and

devoted Christian Rachel
Colvin was employed at the
non-denominational
Ballarat Christian College for
11 years before she resigned
in February.
She has filed a discrimination case with the Victorian
Civil Administrative Appeals
Tribunal (VCAT) under Victoria's Equal Opportunity
Act 2010.

The wife and mother of
three alleges she was counselled by the school and then
forced to resign after she
refused to agree to sign an
amended statement of faith
stating that marriage can
only be between a male and
a female. This, she said, was
contrary to her own political
and religious beliefs.
Ms Colvin, who grew up

in an evangelical household
in Arizona and once lived as
a missionary, alleges from
around the time of August
2018, after the national plebiscite, she was denied certain
teaching and professional
development opportunities
at the school despite her offering to remain quiet about
her beliefs with her students.
"I am devastated by what

happened to me," she said.
"I loved my job. I am an
extremely hard-worker and
loyal to a fault, and to have
it end the way it did was, at
first, professionally humiliating."
But as time has passed she
has come to see the situation
differently - as a "God-given
opportunity to stand up for
what is right, to represent

what God is really about: loving others".
"I am bringing the case
to let my LGBTQI+ students
know that they aren't deformed or disordered. They
were created as they are, in
the image of God, and that
they are fully loved by God
and share equal dignity with
all human beings," she said.
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Gates riling readers
LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR
BALLARAT FEELS
RAILROADED ON ITS
HERITAGE GATES
Last Monday, Public
Transport Minister, Ben
Carroll and Department
of Transport's Nick Foa
confirmed what we have
been saying for the past six
months. They have been
deceiving the people of
Ballarat about the Lydiard
St gates and the crossing
closure.
They previously told us
they had to wait until later
this year for an Australian
Transport Safety Bureau
report on the accident. Safety was paramount. Works
could not be done in the
interim. This process needed
to go the proper course.
By announcing the boom
gate solution now, they
confirm that the final ATSB
report is not relevant to the
future of the crossing. It
never was. The ATSB had
previously said so.
The inflated $10.5m price
is apparently to cover the
costs of upgrading signalling
at the same time, though it
is understood that much of
this bears no relationship to
the gates.
Could the reason for this
bundling of works be to justify its consideration under
a recent statewide planning
change made in March
(Amendment VC194)? State
infrastructure projects can
now be exempted from
normal planning processes.
No need to consult with the
public, Heritage Victoria or
anyone else. This is justified
on the grounds of providing COVID-19 economic
stimulus.
A V/Line maintenance
job of about $1m to fix the
gates doesn't cut it. But a
DoT budget bid of $10.5m
probably does!
In the event that further
amounts are announced
in the Victorian budget for
the upgrade of the Ballarat
Station to 21st century
standards, the same rationale can be applied to the
rest of the precinct. If that is
the case, the gates may only
be the latest episode in the
on-going destruction of what
remains of our dwindling
local rail heritage.
John Barnes, Secretary,
Save Our Station
Twelve months on from
the train accident that
smashed heritage rail gates
at the Ballarat Railway
Station on Lydiard Street, the
Andrews Government still
can't say when they will be
replaced. Worse than that the community's desire for

the heritage gates to stay has
been ignored.
The Minister for Public
Transport, Ben Carroll,
finally swanned into Ballarat
this week, announcing $10.5
million for a half-boom
barrier crossing.It is exactly
what the Ballarat public has
fought against.
The public is now supposed to feel good about
this decision because the
Minister says the design of
the gates 'will pay homage'
to the city's heritage.
And yet, they are so
reluctant to be honest about
the mess they have made
about this issue - that they
won't reveal the design of
the boom gates until they are
ready for installation.
The Government has
indicated that a 'final design
for the upgraded crossing is
being developed' and 'once
the final design of the crossing has been complete and
approved, it will be shared
with the community...'
However, the Government
can't even get this message
straight because the Member for Wendouree, Juliana
Addison, is quoted as saying
`With detailed plans now in
place...'
Either these plans are
ready - or they're not. This
State Government can't fix
the gates, don't listen to
the community and can't
get their own story straight
about plans that either do, or
don't, exist.
The community should
also be questioning the
huge bill for the gates. At a

projected cost of $10.5 million - are they gold plated?
One can only assume they
will arrive bright and shiny
one day - but even a level
crossing removal doesn't
take more than a year.
For example, after a two
week 'construction blitz'
the railway level crossing at
Station Street, Carrum, was
removed last year. How can
it take two weeks to remove
an entire level crossing,
and more than a year to do
nothing about gates? The
Government says the new
gates will be in place by the
'second half of 2021'.That
could be December 31st for
all we know.
But with this Government's track history of
projects running overbudget and over-time, the
chances of this obscenely
mis-managed issue running
to plan are not good.
I asked the Minister in
the Parliament on the 16th
March 'when will the Lydiard Street railway crossing
be reopened?' Quite clearly,
even after this announcement, he still doesn't know.
Ballarat residents might
also be wise to observe
the politics behind the
politics - with the Andrews
Government using its
endorsed Labor Mayor to
call for the Minister to get to
Ballarat as soon as possible
to announce a solution in
the budget.
The story ran in this paper
on Monday. The Minister
was here Monday morning.
Ms Addison just happened

to make the same noises in
the Parliament last week.
You're being played
Ballarat. Watch this space.
Beverley McArthur
MP - Member for Western
Victoria Region
Minister Ben Carroll's
explanation of the interim
and final solutions leave the
historic gate mechanism
irreparably damaged and
the timber gates sitting
nearby as at Humffray
Street. As static structure the
gates lose all context. Fancy
selecting Lovell Chen to
consult on the project. We
know what they did at the
goods shed and yards. There
is also the curious remark
of Nick Foa, Department of
Transport- head of transport
Services, who is reported to
have said that 60 percent of
the delay an disruption to
trains was attributed to the
older gates installation. So
all those punctuality figures
from the the previous years
could not be attributed to a
single line , single platform
crossing points, long spacing
between certain crossing
loops , irregular train running oaths and mixed speed
services; that became catalyst for millions of dollars on
investment culminating on
the $518 million most recent
upgrade when all it need
was $10 million to replace
Ballarat's gates.
Leah-anne Howie, Secretary, Western Improved
Passenger Service
Ballarat City Council and
the Labor member Mayor
have failed the Ballarat

community in pandering
to the State Government
departments and the local
Labor MP's. There is no valid
reason why our Heritage
Railway Gates are not
returned in working order
especially as they were
smashed and damaged by a
V/Line Train which did not
stop at the station and just
ploughed through. What a
disgrace! They have all got
what they wanted all along
- to remove the Heritage
Railway Gates and destroy
our Ballarat railway precinct.
Dianne Haddon, Ballarat
Heritage Listing takes
years to achieve, it requires
months of research and
when it comes to the crunch
it does not mean very much.
So far, we have the big brown
eyesore, pay back for being a
community standing up for
itself and retaining the Civic
Hall, insertion of a totally
unsympathetic building in
the Station heritage precinct
plus the loss of parking at
the station, where are those
1,000 new parking spaces we
were promised? And now
the arrogance, replacing the
heritage listed railway gates
with boom gate fakes. Heritage Victoria has not even
had an application regarding
the heritage listed gates. Ballarat was once known as one
of the three most well- preserved Victorian/Edwardian
cities in the world. The aims
seems is to clutter it up with
rubbish.
Dinah McCance East
Ballarat
This is an utter disgrace

all-'round. So much for the
Labor Government support
of the people. Why are the
City of Ballarat Council
going to let this happen? Too
bad about the heritage listing or the heritage value of
the gates.Wasteful Victorian
Railways - these people need
to be held to account, firstly
for the accident that caused
the problem originally and
secondly for their deliberate
prolonged procrastination
and thirdly for their totally
inept solution to the problem. They can't even provide
readily accessible pedestrian
crossings across Ballarat's
various rail crossings.The
only sets that permit easy
access to mobility scooters
are those at Lydiard St. The
rest are extremely restrictive
to larger mobility scooters
at their best and dangerous
at their worst. Victorian
railways need to seriously
consider rectifying these
anomalies too.
David Chapman, Ballarat
North
I believe that the train
"accident" wasn't really an
accident - maybe it was a
way of getting rid of the heritage gates once and for all
to make way for the modern
boom gates. Were there not
already a set of heritage
gates sitting ready to replace
the old ones before the
accident? Maybe Vline could
clarify their stance on the
whole laughable matter?
Elizabeth French, Redan

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OPINION

EDITORIAL

DITCHY'S VIEW

Our super
scheme's
quandary

R

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
GREAT TALENT UNDERVALUED
My wife and I were fortunate to attend the
Opening Night of a brilliant BLOC Music
Theatre's Mamma Mia at Ballarat's magnificent Her Majesty's Theatre. It is a stunning
production enjoying an almost capacity
Opening with nearly 7000 seats sold so far
for the season ending on Sunday week.
Sadly the City Council Heritage boffins
flatly refuse to accept probably the biggest
people attendance Ballarat event of the
'Heritage Festival' period and acknowledge
Mamma Mia in their expensive publication.
Perhaps they don't realise that Her Majesty's
Theatre in Lydiard Street is the 'Oldest
Continuously Operating Heritage Theatre
in Australia' and BLOC Music Theatre has
operated continuously since 1959.
Mama Mia's Director and Set designer
are both Internationally acclaimed and also
born in Ballarat and started their Theatre
lives in BLOC Productions.
Peter Morey, Alfredton

MORE ENERGY ASSISTANCE
NEEDED
In the article "Restoration versus replacement" (Ballarat Courier, 2/5) I was expecting

some comment about insulation and energy
savings. While the Victorian government's
Energy Saver website encouragingly reports
that "By insulating your home, you could
save up to 45 per cent on your energy bills"
sadly, it also reports that insulation does not
qualify for a rebate through the Victorian
Energy Upgrades program. Furthermore, the
link to the more information page is broken.
A survey by the Australian Bureau of
Statistics found that rental properties in
low-socioeconomic and regional areas are
least likely to have home insulation. While
the Ballarat City Council has improved
the insulation of Council buildings, one
way it could reduce community emissions
and improve the comfort for residents is
to initiate a residential insulation program
and pressure the Victorian government for
funding. Even a bulk-buy and loan program
where residents can repay through rates
would be helpful.
Ray Peck, Hawthorn, Vic

BEING HIT BY THE RUBBISH RATES
The City of Ballarat's draft Budget has revealed the true impact of the Andrews Labor
Government's 60% increase to their bin tax,

which will come into effect on July 1.
The Andrews Government has dramatically increased the Municipal and Industrial
Landfill Levy, which is a tax on household
waste, and the result is that Ballarat locals
will be charged more for their bins to be
emptied.
Sadly, an increased tax is nothing new
for Victorians. Since being elected, the
Andrews Labor Government has increased
or introduced 30 new taxes. The Victorian
Liberal Nationals have committed to the
largest environmental overhaul in Victoria
in decades. A Liberal Government will end
household waste being sent to Victorian
landfill by 2035.
This involves introducing ground-breaking waste technology used around the world
to reform Victorian recycling practices. We
will also support the roll out of Waste to
Energy technology across Victoria; turning
polluting household landfill into low-emission, baseload energy.
For more information on how we plan to
deliver zero to landfill by 2035 you can go to
zerotolandfill.com.au
Louise Staley. Member for Ripon

EVELATIONS that the government
plans to expand its controversial
super saver scheme to help first
home buyers get into the market is
a sign of the times, if ever there was one.
The scheme is designed to help home
buyers scrape together a deposit faster by
saving money inside their super funds.
It's well-known that the government has
form for encouraging Australians to dip into
their superannuation for reasons other than
the very specific, uncomplicated purpose for
which the 90s-era arrangement came about.
But it's also clear that in these extraordinary times for all aspects of our economy,
the more that can be done to help first-home
buyers get a foot in the door of an increasingly unwieldy market, the better.
It's no longer enough to have a good job
and a propensity to save money. The main
barrier to people - mainly young people
- being able to own a home is the ever-growing size of the deposit that's needed.
There are persistent cries for the government to step in and do something to ease
the pressure. It's a conundrum for a government that places such a hefty value on the
Great Australian Dream.
Owning a home is both the ultimate
signifier of adulthood and, when it comes to
retirement, a prerequisite for a comfortable
post-retirement life. Owning a home is more
or less the be-all and end-all of living and
working in Australia, but many people have
given up on that dream, for good reason.
Allowing first home buyers to use their
super to edge their way in is one way to go
about it, although there's an equally strong
argument for leaving our entrenched and
purposeful super structure well alone.
The dilemma is that other incentives, such
as the first home buyers scheme (introduced
to offset the effect of GST on home ownership) has often had the predictable effect of
driving up house prices.
But as we ride what is hopefully the
tail-end of the pandemic, it's time to stop
encouraging people - home-buyers specifically - to live in the moment, and to look
beyond the current situation.
The future is still worth planning for, even
if it still feels like we're living from day to
day.

LETTERS
LEFT HANGING BY A DODGY
INDUSTRY
Last year I contacted consumer affairs
over problems with kitchen installation.
After my builder telling consumer affairs,
saying he was finishing that day, nothing
was subsequently done.Then I had to go
to Domestic Building Dispute Resolution
Victoria. After 5 months of going back
and forth, I have now been there is told
nothing they can do as they couldn't prove
an exact like for like kitchen. I then had
to get someone else to build the kitchen,
so in effect I have now paid twice and the
first builder got away with leaving me
with nothing
Mark McCulloch, Wendouree

NOT WORTH IT
Four of us from Melbourne went to a tour

of the old Ballarat Gaol expecting at least
photos of those parts which have gone
because of the School of Mines takeover.
All we got was a tour of the School of
Mines buildings and no photos of what
was there before.The tour - an absolute
waste of our time.
Leonard Meeny, Eden Park

START WITH THE BASICS
On a recent shopping trip to the Bridge
Mall, I had occasions to need a toilet.
I went to the Norwich Plaza and to my
disgust, I found the toilets in an absolutely
appalling condition.The Councillors are engaged in ongoing discussions to open the
Bridge Mall to traffic, ensuring the toilets
are clean would be a good place to start.
Trevor Kent, Alfredton
Last Saturday's Courier article about

the Veterans Assistance Centre had the
statement that they are the only ex-service
organisation who do not require you to be
a member to receive assistance.This is not
true, there are 15 RSL sub branches in the
region and you don't need to be a member
to receive help. As welfare advocate at Ballarat RSL the majority of veterans assisted
are not members. Ballarat RSL has provided in the last 12 months over $20,000 in
financial assistance and processed 100's
of pension claims. Just wanted to set the
record straight for future Veterans looking
for support.
Lynne Redman, Linton

ELECTRIC VEHICLES
One of the nicest aspects of owning and
driving an electric car in Ballarat is the
many conversations that it creates. One of

the commonest is when people approach
you at the charging station in town with
questions about the experience.
The key characteristic of these conversations is one of excitement; instead of the
doom and gloom lens through which a lot
of people look at the future these days,
electric cars offer the future that we all
thought we would have in this millennium:
clean, green, efficient and healthy.
The nonsense that somehow the manufacture and supply of electric cars is
more polluting than the last 100 years of
drilling oil and shipping trillions of litres
of it around the world to be burnt (plus all
the geopolitical chaos that has caused) is
simply anti-environment propaganda.
Patrick Hockey, Clunes.

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NATIONAL

Rivers may not bounce back from drought
AN
AUSTRALIAN-FIRST
study has overturned the
widely-held view that river
systems will eventually recover from drought.
The Monash University
study looked at 161 Victorian water catchments and
found that about one-third
of them had not recovered
eight years after the millennium drought.
The drought was one of the
worst in modern Australian
history, placing extreme
pressure on ecosystems,
agriculture, and city water
supplies in the country's
south-east.
"Globally, all the models
have the implicit assumption
of recovery," Dr Tim Peterson from Monash University said.
"We show from observed
data that the rivers actually
appear to be stuck."
It's the first study that
has used large amounts of
long-term data to disprove
the assumption that water
catchments can recover
from droughts.
And the results were
what Dr Peterson had always suspected.
"In 15 years of this work I

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In 15 years of
this work I have
always had
this hunch that
catchments
don't recover.
Research scientist

Despite rainfall returning to pre-drought levels at the head of river catchments there is still less water flowing downstream, according to a new study. Picture: AAP

have always had this hunch
that catchments don't recover," he said.
Researchers
looked
at Wonnangatta River in
Gippsland, Yea River in central Victoria, and Cann River

in the far east.
They created mathematical models of rainfall and
stream flows, examining 30
years of data that covered a
land area about the size of
the United Kingdom.

They found that by
mid-2017, more than a third
of the catchments were
still stuck in a low runoff
state, and were not behaving the way they did before
the drought.

They found that 100mm
of rain created about 30
per cent less stream flow
in those systems, than the
same amount of rain before
the drought.
This meant that despite

Positive tests see 70 barred from repat flight
DOZENS of Australians
won't be returning home on
the first post-pause flight out
of India after they tested positive to COVID-19.
It is understood more
than 40 people tested positive before boarding the
repatriation flight, which is
due into Darwin on Saturday morning.
Adding close contacts
of the passengers, this will
mean more than 70 will be
barred from boarding an
aircraft with COVID-safe capacity of 150 seats.
There could be more
passengers barred as rapid antigen test results are
returned later on Friday
evening (AEST).
Both the PCR and rapid
antigen tests are a prerequisite for being able to board.
The 26 per cent positive
rate is far higher than the
3.5 per cent rate registered
in passengers on the March
repatriation flights.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is
working to put other passengers on the flight but it
may prove difficult given the
testing requirements.
Melbourne man Sunny
had booked on the flight with
his elderly mother, but tested
positive for the virus.
He has been trying to
contact the Department

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If I die the
Australian
government
will be
responsible.
Melburnian

of Foreign Affairs, without
any luck.
"We just want to know
what is going on," Sunny told
the ABC on Friday.
Sunny and his mother
have been in India since last
May after facing multiple
flight cancellations.
"If I die the Australian
government will be responsible."
Australia's High Commissioner to India Barry O'Farrell is disappointed those
who tested positive won't be
able to get on the flight.
"Regrettably those people
will have to return home
and deal with the COVID
that they have, or continue
to isolate to prove that they
don't have COVID," he told
the ABC.
"Until such time that they
test negative they won't be
able to fly on one of these
facilitated flights."
The suspension of flights
from India ends at midnight

A plane load of Australians from India is expected to touch down in Darwin on Saturday
morning. In pre-flight COVID-19 tests, 26 per cent of passengers tested positive and were
unable to travel along with their direct contacts. Picture: AAP

on Friday. Prime Minister
Scott Morrison said the
controversial
weeks-long
"pause" had worked.
Active cases of COVID-19
in hotel quarantine have
dropped by more than 40 per
cent over the past few weeks.
In the Northern Territory,
where the first repatriation
flights from India will land,
the number of active cases
has fallen from 53 to four.
"The pause gave our quarantine system much-needed
breathing space to minimise
the risk of COVID-19 getting
out of quarantine into the
community and having a
third wave here," the Prime

Minister said.
"It's all about keeping
Australians safe and ensuring we can keep living the
way we are in Australia."
Defence Minister Peter
Dutton insists the quarantine
system will be able to cope
when the travel ban lifts and
flights from India resume.
The first plane load of
Australians from India will
touch down in Darwin on
Saturday morning before
the passengers are bussed to
Howard Springs.
It comes as the government continues to give mixed
messages about the timetable for the vaccine rollout.

Mr Dutton insists everyone willing to be vaccinated
will receive two shots by the
end of this year.
This end-of-year deadline
puts him directly at odds
with the Prime Minister, who
has spent the week walking
back an end date for the rollout's completion.
The Treasurer and Health
Minister have also clashed
on the timeline.
The government has ordered 25 million doses of
Moderna vaccines, giving its
rollout a shot in the arm.
So far 2.98 million doses
have been administered, including 85,874 overnight.

rainfall returning to predrought levels at the catchment head, there was still
less flow downstream.
Dr Peterson says water
catchment recovery has
major implications for their
long-term
management,
especially when climate
change is taken into account.
"If droughts get worse under climate change, it may
be more likely catchments go
into this low runoff state ...
and climate change impacts
on rivers are further amplified," he said.
The study was funded by
the Victorian government
and the Australian Research
Council and has been published in the prestigious international journal Science.

Conflict fear
stalls Porter
court case
FEDERAL minister Christian Porter's defamation
case against the ABC has
effectively been frozen until
a judge decides if one of his
senior lawyers has a conflict
of interest.
One of Sue Chrysanthou
SC's former clients made
an urgent application
to the Federal Court on
Wednesday to have the
senior counsel restrained
from acting for the former
attorney-general.
The former client, Jo Dyer,
has cited concern confidential information she shared
when retaining Ms Chrysanthou will or could be used in
the primary case.
Justice Tom Thawley
scheduled the Dyer-Chrysanthou matter for a threeday hearing from May 24.
Justice Jayne Jagot on
Friday adjourned a case
management hearing in the
Porter-ABC case until May
26 to ensure the substantive
proceedings were "protected".
Mr Porter is suing the
ABC and journalist Louise
Milligan for defamation
over a February 26 article
concerning a historical
rape allegation against an
unnamed cabinet minister.

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WORLD

'$5m ransom
paid' as US
fuel supplies
are restored
Washington
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden
has reassured motorists
that fuel supplies should
start returning to normal
this weekend, nearly a week
after a cyberattack shut the
nation's largest fuel pipeline.
It follows claims that Colonial Pipeline paid nearly
$US5 million ($6.5 million)
to eastern European hackers
after the crippling attack.
The company paid the
ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency just hours after
the cyberattack, according to
a Bloomberg News report.
The hackers provided the
pipeline operator with a
decrypting tool to restore its
disabled computer network
after they received the
payment but the company
used its own backups to
help restore the system
since the tool was slow, the
report said.
After a six-day outage,
the pipeline, which carries
379 million litres per day of
petrol, diesel and jet fuel,
started moving petrol on
Thursday. The shutdown
caused petrol shortages and
emergency declarations
from Virginia to Florida,
led two refineries to curb
production and had airlines
reshuffling refuelling.
The FBI has accused
a criminal gang called
DarkSide for the attack.
The group, believed to be
based in Russia or eastern
Europe, has not directly
taken credit but on Wednesday it claimed to have
breached systems at three
other companies.
The White House has
declined to weigh in on
whether companies that are
hacked should pay ransoms
but a national security official said it may offer some
advice in the future.

The rubble of the destroyed Al-Shorouq tower after an Israeli strike on Gaza City. Picture: EPA

Death toll rises as fighting escalates
Gaza
ISRAELI artillery pounded
northern Gaza early Friday in
an attempt to destroy a vast
network of militant tunnels
inside the territory, the military said, bringing the front
lines closer to dense civilian
areas and paving the way for
a potential ground invasion.
Israel has massed troops
along the border and called
up 9000 reservists following
days of fighting with the
Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza.
Palestinian militants have
fired some 1800 rockets and
the military has launched
more than 600 airstrikes,
toppling at least three apartment blocks.
The stepped-up fighting
came as communal violence in Israel erupted for a

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It was a massacre. My feelings are
indescribable.
Sadallah Tanani

fourth night, with Jewish and
Arab mobs clashing in the
flashpoint town of Lod. The
fighting took place despite a
bolstered police presence ordered by the nation's leaders.
Masses of red flames illuminated the skies as the
deafening blasts from the
outskirts of Gaza City jolted
people awake.
In the northern Gaza Strip,
Rafat Tanani, his pregnant
wife and four children were
killed after an Israeli warplane reduced the building
to rubble, residents said.

Sadallah Tanani, a relative,
said the family was "wiped
out from the population
register" without warning. "It
was a massacre. My feelings
are indescribable," he said.
A military spokesman said
that tanks stationed near the
border fired 50 rounds. It was
part of a large operation that
also involved airstrikes and
was aimed at destroying tunnels beneath Gaza City used
by militants to evade surveillance, which the military
refers to as "the Metro".
The strikes came after

Egyptian mediators rushed
to Israel for cease-fire talks
that showed no progress.
The fighting broke out late
Monday when Hamas fired a
long-range rocket at Jerusalem in support of Palestinian
protests there against the policing of a flashpoint holy site
and efforts by Jewish settlers
to evict dozens of Palestinian
families from their homes.
Since then, Israel has attacked hundreds of targets in
Gaza, causing earth-shaking
explosions across the densely populated territory. Gaza
militants have fired 1800
rockets into Israel, including
more than 400 that fell short
or misfired, according to
the military.
The rockets have brought
life in parts of southern Israel
to a standstill, and several

barrages have targeted the
seaside metropolis of Tel
Aviv, some 70 kilometres
from Gaza.
The Gaza Health Ministry
says the death toll has risen
to 119 killed, including 31
children and 19 women, with
830 wounded. The Hamas
and Islamic Jihad militant
groups have confirmed 20
deaths in their ranks. Seven
people have been killed in Israel, including a six-year-old
boy and a soldier.
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu vowed to continue the operation, saying in a
video statement that Israel
would "extract a very heavy
price from Hamas".
The UN Security Council
was due to discuss the worsening violence on Sunday,
diplomats said.

Sorrow turns to anger with Modi slammed over virus crisis
New Delhi
TWELVE major Indian opposition parties have urged
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi to take immediate
measures against a ferocious
second wave of COVID-19
ripping through the country,
leaving hundreds of thousands dead.
Rahul Gandhi, leader of
the main opposition Indian
National Congress attacked
Mr Modi, alleging "he was
missing" amid the acute
shortages of vaccines, medical oxygen and medicines
faced by the country.

Terming it an "apocalyptic
human tragedy", opposition
leaders in a letter to Mr Modi
late this week listed nine
demands, including a free
vaccination campaign, free
grain for the poor, unemployment doles and the repeal of
controversial farm laws.
They also asked Mr Modi
to force a pause in a multibillion-dollar makeover project
for New Delhi and divert the
funds to buy oxygen and vaccines for the sick.
Thomas Isaac, a minister from communist-ruled
Kerala state, demanded Mr

Modi respond to the letter.
"It is a national emergency.
PM cannot continue with ostrich-like policy. Open a dialogue on what is to be done,"
he said on Twitter.
Anger about the mishandling of the pandemic, which
has seen the country's health
care systems and inoculation campaign crumble, has
put Mr Modi's government
under growing pressure in
recent days. The leader has
been blamed for an ineffective response that left the
responsibility for fighting
the pandemic to poorly

equipped state governments.
The number of recorded
COVID-19 infections in India has climbed above 24
million, while the number
of people confirmed to have
died stands at 262,317. But
a lack of testing means a lot
of deaths and infections are
not counted.
The opposition said it
had "repeatedly" drawn Mr
Modi's attention to measures
"absolutely imperative" to
implement. "Unfortunately,
your government has either
ignored or refused all these
suggestions."

India added 362,727 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking its total caseload to 23.7 million. Picture: EPA

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Save on your business bills with

CBA shares record as ASX ascends
COMMONWEALTH Bank
shares fetched a record price
and a fund manager predicted Australia's market would
move higher despite inflation concerns.
Shares in the nation's biggest bank reached $97.38 on
Friday then settled higher by
0.63 per cent to $96.58.
The biggest stock on the
market has gained more
than 17 per cent this year as
the economy and housing
market improved despite
COVID-19.
The ASX had a broadbased rally after three days of
losses. The losses were partly
due to the biggest jump in US
prices in 12 years.

Shares lost 0.94 per cent
this week.
Yet the deputy head of
investments at asset manager Van Eck Australia, Jamie
Hannah, was upbeat about
next week.
"There is not a lot stopping growth at the moment,"
he said.
"Everyone hates buying
in at the top of the market,
but I can't see any factors to
stop it.
"People talk about inflation but it's not a number that is going to stop
this momentum."
Mr Hannah noted improved performances from
property trusts on Friday.

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Everyone hates buying in at the top
of the market, but I can't see any
factors to stop it.
Jamie Hannah

Vicinity Centres gained
2.34 per cent to $1.53. Dexus
improved by two per cent to
$10.21. Westfield operator
Scentre Group rose 1.9 per
cent to $2.68.
Investors
abandoned
these companies from the
outset of the pandemic
last year.
Their share prices remain
below pre-COVID ones, but

are improving.
"Inflation
expectations
help these companies," Mr
Hannah said.
"You have to ask yourself
were they hit too hard recently and are the prices coming
back to where they were."
The benchmark S&P/
ASX200 index closed higher
by 31.5 points, or 0.45 per
cent, to 7014.2.

The All Ordinaries closed
up 30.4 points, or 0.42 per
cent, to 7239.4 points.
The indices had been
about one per cent higher
early but a late drop in commodity prices weighed on
materials shares.
They were the only sector to close lower at 1.18
per cent.
BHP shed 1.55 per cent to
$49.57. Fortescue dropped
2.77 per cent to $22.79. Rio
Tinto lost 2.01 per cent to
$125.43.
Whitehaven Coal rose 9.16
per cent to $1.37. CommSec
analyst James Tao said this
was probably due to a broker upgrade.

THE DOLLAR
BUYING SELLING

USD

0.797

0.749

GBP

0.57

0.533

EUR

0.661

0.618

JPY

87.55

82.03

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Musk sidelines bitcoin use until 'insane' energy cost eases
TESLA boss Elon Musk has
denounced the "insane"
amount of energy used to
produce bitcoin, doubling
down on his sudden rejection of the cryptocurrency
as a means of payment over
environmental concerns.
Musk, one of bitcoin's
most ardent backers, tweeted a graph of bitcoin's power
consumption and said: "Energy usage trend over past
few months is insane."
That followed his tweet
from Wednesday saying Tesla would no longer accept the
cryptocurrency as payment
for its electric cars because
it came at a great cost to the
environment, an about-face
from his stance in March.
Bitcoin, which sank 17 per
cent to its lowest since March
1 on Wednesday after Musk's
comments, climbed back
to $US50,360 ($A65,148)
on Thursday.
Other
cryptocurrencies
including ether also fell before regaining some ground.
Coinbase, the biggest US
cryptocurrency exchange,
was down two per cent.
Tesla shares ended down

MARKET
panel
WATCH

KEY STOCKS
LAST

MOVE

AMP

1.09

+.02

ANZ

27.42

+.27

BHP Group

49.57

-.78

CBA

96.58

+.60

NAB

26.22

+.26

News Corp

31.80

+.45

Rio Tinto

125.43

-2.57

Telstra

3.45

+.01

Westpac

25.41

+.22

Woolworths

40.58

+.29

Woodside Pet

22.58

+.24

WORLD MARKETS
Elon Musk's announcement that he was involved in work to improve dogecoin's transaction efficiency sent the price of
the cryptocurrency jumping as much as 20 per cent. Picture: AP

3.08 per cent to $US571.69,
the lowest level since
March 8.
Tesla revealed in February
it had bought $US1.5 billion
of bitcoin, turbo-charging
the crypto market. In April,

the firm said it trimmed its
position by 10 per cent in the
first quarter, booking a net
profit of about $100 million.
Musk said he planned to
use bitcoin as soon as mining transitions to more sus-

tainable energy sources.
Tesla's decision not to
accept bitcoin payments "allows him to appease critics
while still keeping bitcoin on
his balance sheet", said Meltem Demirors, chief strategy

LAST

officer at digital asset manager CoinShares Group.
Musk said on Thursday he
was involved in work to improve dogecoin's transaction
efficiency, lifting the price as
much as 20 per cent.

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Saturday May 15, 2021 THE COURIER

WEATHER

BALLARAT

BENDIGO

9ºC

TODAY

TODAY

Showers easing.

WARRNAMBOOL

13ºC

TODAY

Possible shower.

14ºC

Showers easing. Wind easing.

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REGIONAL OUTLOOK
WARNINGS were current at 5pm yesterday.
www.bom.gov.au/vic/warnings 1300 659 210
VICTORIA
Scattered showers near and south of the ranges,
contracting to the coast in the west during the
afternoon and becoming isolated later in the day.
Showers falling as snow above 700 metres during
the morning, with possible flurries to 600 metres.
Snow level lifting to above 1100 metres by the
evening. Possible small hail across southern and
eastern areas during the day, easing from the west
later in the afternoon.The chance of a storm in the
south, mainly near the coast, contracting to the far
east during the afternoon and clearing at night. A
cool to cold and mostly cloudy day with moderate
to fresh southwesterly winds, locally strong in the
south, with possible damaging gusts about the
coast during the morning.
BALLARAT AND CENTRAL
Cloudy. Very high (95%) chance of showers in the
east, high (70%) chance elsewhere. Snow falling
above 700 metres.The chance of a storm in the
southeast in the early morning. Possible hail.
Winds west to northwesterly 25 to 40 km/h turning
southwesterly before dawn then tending westerly
15 to 20 km/h in the evening.
WARRNAMBOOL AND SOUTH WEST
Cloudy. High (70%) chance of showers in the east,
medium (40%) chance elsewhere. Possible hail in
the southeast in the morning. Winds westerly 25
to 40 km/h tending southwesterly 25 to 35 km/h
before dawn then becoming light in the evening.
BENDIGO AND NORTHERN COUNTRY
Partly cloudy. Medium (50%) chance of showers in
the southeast, slight (20%) chance elsewhere. Possible hail in the southeast in the morning. Winds
westerly 15 to 25 km/h turning southwesterly 20 to
30 km/h early in the morning then becoming west
to southwesterly and light in the evening.
WEST VICTORIA COASTAL WATERS
Winds: Southwesterly 25 to 30 knots, reaching 30
to 35 knots early in the morning. Winds decreasing to 15 to 25 knots in the morning then tending
westerly 15 to 20 knots in the evening. Seas: 2.5 to
4 metres, decreasing to 1.5 to 2 metres around
midday. Swell: Southwesterly 4 to 5 metres.

Sunny

Mostly
Sunny

Partly
Cloudy

Cloudy

Chance
shower

Shower
or two

NOON YESTERDAY

YESTERDAY

MILDURA

Location

Max** Min Rain*
**MaxTemp to 3pm *Rainfall 24 hours to 9am

Today
º

16 C
Tomorrow

4 / 17ºC

HORSHAM

ECHUCA

BENDIGO

Today

Today

13 C

Tomorrow

º

13 C

Tomorrow

3 / 16ºC

Tomorrow

4 / 16ºC

ALBURYWODONGA

14ºC

Today

º

Today

14ºC

º

3 / 15 C

Tomorrow

10
14
15
13
15
16
17
13
-1
14
15
13

3
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4
0
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20
2
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4

THE TIDES

1 / 14ºC

BALLARAT

Ballarat
Bendigo
Geelong
Hamilton
Horsham
Melbourne
Mildura
Mortlake
Mt Buller
Port Fairy
Shepparton
Warrnambool

PORT FAIRY
High 12:16am 0.8m
Low 6:29am 0.2m
TOMORROW
High12:30am 0.8m
Low 6:49am 0.2m

Today

9ºC

MELBOURNE

Tomorrow

3 / 12ºC

MOUNT BULLER

Today

Today

13ºC

HAMILTON

Tomorrow

7 / 16ºC

Today

1:51pm 1.2m
8:15pm 0.6m
2:15pm 1.2m
8:33pm 0.6m

-1ºC

PORT PHILLIP HEADS

Tomorrow

High 1:52am 1.5m
Low 7:58am 0.4m
TOMORROW
High 2:28am 1.5m
Low 8:31am 0.4m

-5 / 2ºC

12ºC
Tomorrow

5 / 14ºC

2:50pm 1.7m
8:30pm 0.8m
3:22pm 1.7m
9:05pm 0.8m

SALE
Today

13ºC
Tomorrow

GEELONG

5 / 16ºC

BALLARAT
Sun protection generally not
recommended

Today

WARRNAMBOOL

14ºC

Today

Tomorrow

º

14 C

BENDIGO
Sun protection generally not
recommended

6 / 16ºC

Tomorrow

8 / 16ºC

WARRNAMBOOL
Sun protection generally not
recommended

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storm

10AM TODAY

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Fog

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smoke

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Saturday May 15, 2021

thecourier.com.au

TV GUIDE

6$785'$< 0D\ 
$%& &+ 
6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.
10.00 Rage.
12.00 ABC News At Noon.
12.30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces.
1.20 Love On The Spectrum.
2.30 Soccer. A-League. Round 21.
Western United v Sydney FC.
5.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame.
5.30 Ask The Doctor.
6.00 To Be Advised.
6.30 Landline.
7.00 ABC News.
7.30 The Durrells.
8.20 Sanditon. New.
9.10 Wakefield.
10.00 The Split.
11.00 Miniseries: Dark Money.
12.00 Rage.
$%& 79 3/86

&+ 

6.00 Kids’ Programs. 2.40 Dinosaur
Train. 3.00 Molly Of Denali. 3.30 Play
School. 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. 5.00
PJ Masks. 5.35 Rusty Rivets. 5.55 Ben And
Holly’s Little Kingdom. 6.35 Kazoops!
7.00 Grace’s Amazing Machines. 7.15 Sir
Mouse. 7.30 Spicks And Specks. 8.00 The
Set. 8.30 Unprotected Sets. 9.30 Black
Mirror. 10.35 Live From The BBC. 11.20
Insert Name Here. 11.50 Staged. Final.
12.15 Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Final. 12.55
Chris Ramsey All Growed Up. 1.40 Would
I Lie To You? 2.10 Escape From The City.
3.15 Close. 5.05 Timmy Time. 5.25 The
Furchester Hotel. 5.45 Kids’ Programs.

$%& 0(

6%6 &+ 
6.00 WorldWatch. 7.00 Cycling. UCI
World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 7.
Highlights. 8.00 WorldWatch. 2.00
Sportswoman. 2.30 Lost World: Deeper
Into The Black Sea. 4.30 True Evil:
The Making Of A Nazi. 5.30 Cycling.
UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 7.
Highlights.
6.30 SBS World News.
7.35 The World’s Most Scenic Railway
Journeys: Wales.
8.30 Eurovision Top 40 Controversies.
10.30 Eurovision 2020: Big Night In!
1.35 MOVIE: The Death Of Stalin. (2017)
3.30 Alex Polizzi: Chef For Hire.
5.00 France 24 Feature. 5.15 NHK World
English News. 5.30 Deutsche Welle
English News.
6%6 9Ζ&(/$1'

7:2

&+ 

6.00 WorldWatch. 11.00 Basketball.
WNBA. Minnesota Lynx v Phoenix
Mercury. 1.00 Australiana: Rage In The
Cage. 1.40 New Girl. 4.00 WorldWatch.
5.30 Basketball. NBL. Round 18. Brisbane
Bullets v Perth Wildcats.
7.30 Impossible Engineering.
8.30 The X-Files.
9.20 Cycling. UCI World Tour. Giro
d’Italia. Stage 8. Foggia to Guardia
Sanframondi. 170km medium mountain
stage.
1.35 VICE Guide To Film.
2.30 France 24 News In English From
Paris. 3.00 WorldWatch.

6%6 :25/' 029Ζ(6

&+ 

6.00 Kids’ Programs. 2.20 Cloudy
With A Chance Of Meatballs. 2.45
Radiant. 3.10 Sailor Moon Crystal. 3.35
Voltron: Legendary Defender. 4.00
The Dengineers. 4.35 100 Things To
Do Before High School. 5.00 Mikki Vs
The World. 5.25 Miraculous: Tales Of
Ladybug And Cat Noir. 6.00 The Deep.
6.30 Top Jobs For Dogs. 7.00 Horrible
Histories. 7.35 The Adventures Of Puss
In Boots. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go.
8.20 Sadie Sparks. 8.55 Moka’s Fabulous
Adventures! 9.10 Dragons: Defenders Of
Berk. 9.30 Cleopatra In Space. 9.55 Close.
5.30 Voltron: Legendary Defender.

35Ζ0( &+ 
6.00 Home Shopping.
7.00 Weekend Sunrise.
10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend.
12.00 Horse Racing. Rosehill Gardens
Raceday and Andrew Ramsden Race
Day.
5.00 Seven News At 5.
5.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front
Line.
6.00 Seven News.
7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show.
7.30 Football. AFL. Round 9. Port
Adelaide v Western Bulldogs. From
Adelaide Oval.
11.00 AFL Post-Game Show.
11.30 Crime Investigation Australia:
Most Infamous: The Kimberley Killer.
1.00 Home Shopping.

&+ 

6.00 Romeo And Juliet. Cont. (2013) 7.10
Grace Of Monaco. (2014) 9.05 Ernest
& Celestine. (2012) 10.35 The Ash Lad.
(2017, Norwegian) 12.35 Cutthroat Island.
(1995) 2.50 What We Did On Our Holiday.
(2014) 4.40 Lassie. (2005) John Lynch.
6.35 Hunt For The Wilderpeople. (2016)
Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te
Wiata. 8.30 Churchill. (2017) Brian Cox,
Miranda Richardson. 10.30 Outrage
Coda. (2017, Japanese) Takeshi Kitano,
Toshiyuki Nishida. 12.25 The Constant
Gardener. (2005) 2.45 Go Away Mr
Tumour. (2015, Mandarin) 5.00 Lassie.
(2005)

&+ 

6.00 Home Shopping. 8.30 Travel Oz.
9.00 Weekender. 9.30 Creek To Coast.
10.00 Insider Trading. 11.00 Sydney
Weekender. 11.30 Inside Willinga Park.
12.00 Equestrian. World Championship
Gold Buckle. 1.30 House Of Wellness.
2.30 The Great Australian Doorstep.
3.00 Property Ladder UK. 5.30 Charlie
Luxton’s Homes By The Sea. 6.30 Dr
Harry’s Animal Encounters. New. 7.30
The Yorkshire Vet. 8.30 Escape To The
Country. 11.30 Charlie Luxton’s Homes By
The Sea. 12.30 The Fine Art Auction. 3.30
Weekender. 4.00 Creek To Coast. 4.30
Sydney Weekender. 5.00 Late Programs.

0$7(

&+ 

6.00 Morning Programs. 8.00 Home
Shopping. 8.30 Surfing. WSL. Rip Curl
Newcastle Cup. Highlights. 9.30 Home
Shopping. 10.00 Step Outside With Paul
Burt. 10.30 Counting Cars. 11.00 Living
The Ride. 11.30 Life Off Road. 12.00
Bull Riding. PBR Australia. Replay. 12.30
Timbersports. 1.00 Blokesworld. 1.30
The Food Dude. 2.00 Canadian Pickers.
3.00 Heavy Rescue: 401. 4.00 American
Restoration. 4.30 Picked Off. 5.30 Pawn
Stars Australia. 6.00 Pawn Stars. 7.00
Border Patrol. 7.30 MOVIE: Thor. (2011)
9.50 MOVIE: Die Hard 4.0. (2007) 12.30
Late Programs.

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6.00 Easy Eats. 7.00 Weekend Today.
10.00 Today Extra: Saturday. 12.00
Surfing Australia TV. 12.30 Our State
On A Plate. 1.00 Reel Destinations. New.
1.30 Desert Vet. 2.30 The Garden Gurus.
3.00 Netball. Super Netball. Round
3. Collingwood Magpies v Adelaide
Thunderbirds. 5.00 News: First At Five.
5.30 Getaway. 6.00 Nine News Saturday.
7.00 A Current Affair.
7.30 Space Invaders.
8.30 MOVIE: Spider-Man:
Homecoming. (2017)
11.10 MOVIE: Paul. (2011)
1.10 New Amsterdam.
2.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. 4.30
Global Shop. 5.00 TV Shop: Home
Shopping. 5.30 Wesley Impact.
*(0

&+ 

6.00 Newstyle Direct. 6.30 TV Shop:
Home Shopping. 10.00 My Favorite
Martian. 10.30 Adventures In Rainbow
Country. 11.00 MOVIE: Piccadilly
Incident. (1946)
1.10 MOVIE: The Out Of Towners. (1970)
3.10 MOVIE: Exodus. (1960)
7.30 Rugby Union. Super Rugby.
Trans-Tasman. Round 1. Melbourne
Rebels v Auckland Blues.
9.45 Super Rugby Trans Tasman – Post
Match.
10.00 MOVIE: Live And Let Die. (1973)
12.30 My Favorite Martian.
1.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping.

*2

&+ 

6.00 Kids’ Programs. 1.30 Social Fabric.
2.00 The Road Trick. 2.30 Peaking. 3.20
MOVIE: Pokémon: Lucario And The
Mystery Of Mew. (2005) 5.20 MOVIE:
Cats & Dogs 2: The Revenge Of Kitty
Galore. (2010) 7.00 Rugby League. NRL.
Round 10. Sydney Roosters v North
Queensland Cowboys. 9.35 MOVIE:
Van Helsing. (2004) 12.05 Love Island:
Unseen Bits. 1.05 Bad Teen To Ballroom
Queen. 2.00 Social Fabric. 2.30 The Road
Trick. 3.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge.
3.30 Thunderbirds. 4.30 Transformers:
Rescue Bots Academy. 4.50 Monkie Kid.
5.10 Nexo Knights. 5.30 Kids’ Programs.

:Ζ1 &+  
6.00 WhichCar. 6.30 Entertainment
Tonight. 7.00 Escape Fishing With ET.
7.30 The Offroad Adventure Show.
8.30 All 4 Adventure. 9.30 Studio 10:
Saturday. 12.00 Good Chef Bad Chef.
12.30 Everyday Gourmet With Justine
Schofield. 1.00 My Market Kitchen. 1.30
The Dog House. 2.30 Taste Of Australia
With Hayden Quinn. 3.00 What’s Up
Down Under. 3.30 The Living Room. 4.30
Farm To Fork. 5.00 10 News First. 6.00
Advancing Australia. 6.30 Bondi Rescue.
7.00 The Dog House.
8.00 The Savoy.
9.00 Ambulance.
10.10 999: What’s Your Emergency?
11.10 NCIS. 12.00 Home Shopping. 5.00
Hour Of Power.
:Ζ1 %2/'

&+ 

6.00 Home Shopping. 9.00 Star Trek:
Voyager. 10.00 Diagnosis Murder.
12.00 JAG.
2.00 The Doctors.
3.00 Diagnosis Murder.
4.00 Bondi Rescue.
4.30 iFish.
5.00 Escape Fishing With ET.
5.30 Scorpion.
7.30 NCIS.
8.30 NCIS: New Orleans.
10.20 FBI: Most Wanted.
11.20 Hawaii Five-0. 1.10 48 Hours. 2.10
Elementary. 3.10 Blue Bloods. 4.05 The
Doctors. 5.00 Home Shopping.

:Ζ1 3($&+

&+ 

6.00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. 7.00
Posh Frock Shop. 8.00 Everybody Loves
Raymond. 9.00 Becker.
10.00 The Dog House.
11.00 MasterChef Australia.
3.30 Friends.
6.00 Columbo.
7.30 Kojak.
8.25 Spyforce.
9.20 The Big Bang Theory.
9.45 Friends.
10.35 MOVIE: Rock Of Ages. (2012)
1.00 Home Shopping. 1.30 Charmed.
2.30 Supernatural. 3.30 100% Hotter.
4.30 Home Shopping.

681'$< 0D\ 
$%& &+ 
6.00 Rage. 7.00 Weekend Breakfast.
9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Offsiders. 10.30
The World This Week. 11.00 Compass.
11.30 Songs Of Praise. 12.00 ABC
News At Noon. 12.30 Landline. 1.30
Gardening Australia. 2.30 Doc Martin.
3.30 Restoration Australia. 4.30 Back
Roads. 5.00 Anh’s Brush With Fame. 5.30
Antiques Roadshow. 6.30 Compass.
7.00 ABC News Sunday.
7.40 Spicks And Specks.
8.30 Wakefield.
9.25 Smother.
10.20 Top Of The Lake: China Girl. Final.
11.15 Glitch. 12.15 Miniseries: Dark Money.
1.15 Rage. 3.00 Miriam’s Big American
Adventure. 4.00 Top Of The Lake: China
Girl. 5.00 Insiders.
$%& 79 3/86

&+ 

6.00 Kids’ Programs. 3.30 Play School.
4.10 Emma! 4.35 Noddy Toyland
Detective. 5.00 PJ Masks. 5.35 Rusty
Rivets. 5.55 Ben And Holly’s Little
Kingdom. 6.25 Peter Rabbit. 6.45 Andy’s
Wild Adventures. 7.00 Grace’s Amazing
Machines. 7.15 Sir Mouse. 7.30 Spicks
And Specks. 8.00 Compass. 8.30 The
Leadership. New. 10.10 Louis Theroux:
America’s Medicated Kids. 11.10 Catalyst.
12.10 Tate Britain’s Great British Walks.
12.55 You Can’t Ask That. 1.25 Black
Mirror. 2.25 Restoration Australia. 3.30
Close. 5.05 Timmy Time. 5.25 The
Furchester Hotel. 5.40 Kids’ Programs.

$%& 0(

&+ 

6.00 Kids’ Programs. 1.15 The
Dengineers. Final. 2.05 Danger Mouse.
2.20 Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs.
2.40 Prank You Very Much. 3.10 Top Chef
Jr. 4.00 The Dengineers. 4.35 100 Things
To Do Before High School. 5.00 Mikki
Vs The World. 5.25 Miraculous: Tales Of
Ladybug And Cat Noir. 6.00 The Deep.
6.30 Top Jobs For Dogs. 7.00 Horrible
Histories. 7.35 The Adventures Of Puss In
Boots. 8.00 Thunderbirds Are Go. 8.20
Sadie Sparks. 9.05 Dragons: Defenders
Of Berk. 9.25 Cleopatra In Space. 9.50
Rage. 10.50 Close. 5.30 Dragons: Race
To The Edge.

6%6 &+ 
6.00 WorldWatch. 7.00 Cycling. UCI
World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 8.
Highlights. 8.00 WorldWatch. 1.00
Speedweek. 3.00 Motorcycle Racing. FIM
Superbike World Championship. Round 1.
Highlights. 4.00 Sportswoman. 4.30 True
Evil: The Making Of A Nazi. 5.30 Cycling.
UCI World Tour. Giro d’Italia. Stage 8.
Highlights. 6.30 SBS World News.
7.30 Kenny Rogers: Biography.
9.00 Destination Flavour Eurovision.
10.00 We Say No More.
11.20 MOVIE: Professor Marston And
The Wonder Women. (2017)
1.20 Child Of Our Time: Turning 20. 2.35
VICE Guide To Film. 4.30 Soccer. UEFA
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ourism minister Dan Tehan has formed
an expert panel to devise a plan for the
economic recovery of the tourism industry. It’s
not a moment too soon.
Few industries have been so ravaged by fires,
floods and the global pandemic. Now, with our
borders likely to remain closed until the middle of 2022, relief is
looking a long way off.
This week’s budget did little to help. Yes, there was a $1.2 billion
package for the aviation and tourism sectors. But the real needs
of a sector which once contributed billions to Canberra’s coffers
were ignored. The industry predicts big job losses and closures.
Explore spent the weekend at an Australian five-star resort.
Make no mistake, we had a ball. But the variable skills of those on
duty – many of whom were new to the industry – and the need to
increase staff made it plain that we need to lift our game.
Mr Tehan’s five-member panel will provide advice on both
domestic and international tourism. It is led by Martin Ferguson,
who has wide experience in the travel industry. “We have an
opportunity to imagine a new future for the sector which is more
resilient, sustainable and competitive,” said Mr Ferguson.
Let’s hope the panel provides a boost for an industry that, so
far, seems to have been largely abandoned. Or once normality
returns, we will have missed a huge opportunity.
Let us know what you think at exploretravel.com.au.
PETER LYNCH, Editor

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The Senior Newspaper and
Travelrite International
invite you to join them on the 2021

19 to 31 October 2021
Visiting Bathurst, Cowra, Parkes, Orange, Dubbo,
Tamworth, Armidale and Coffs Harbour

Highlights:

Inclusions:

• Enjoy a picturesque train journey via the spectacular
Blue Mountains passing through Katoomba,
Mount Victoria and Lithgow
• Visit the gorgeous Mayfield Garden, featuring a
spectacular water garden
• Wander through the King’s Castle Elvis Exhibit at Parkes
• See the iconic CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, star of
the movie ‘The Dish’.
• Relax at boutique wineries in the Orange region
• See hundreds of rare and endangered animals at the
Taronga Western Plains Zoo
• Visit Tamworth’s Australian Country Music Hall of Fame
• See grand cathedrals and colonial buildings in green,
tree-lined streets with a panoramic tour of Armidale
• Venture to the spectacular beaches and marine
conservation areas that Coffs Harbour is famous for

• Accommodation in carefully
selected 3 and 4-star rated
centrally located hotels/
motels with private facilities.
Hotel taxes and service
charges.
• Breakfast daily and welcome
and farewell dinners
• First-class train travel and
travel in a first-class coach
• Sightseeing and general
entrance fees as detailed in
the itinerary
• The services of a Travelrite
International Tour Manager,
including hosting dinners

This will be a wonderful experience travelling through NSW from Sydney
across the Blue Mountains to the Central Ranges, Central NSW, New
England and the North Coast. The tour is fully escorted and includes rail
and coach travel, sightseeing tours in each region and special events for
tour members. We hope that you can join us for two fun weeks.

TOUR PRICE
*Includes GST • The price for flights will be additional

The price per person,
twin-share .................................................................................$3,990
Single supplement ..................................................................$1,000
Concession Card Holders Discount Available

Book with confidence:
Deposit refundable up to 90 days before departure

Travelrite International P/L
423 Whitehorse Road
Balwyn, Victoria 3135

Toll Free: 1800 630 343
Phone: (03) 8803 6868

Email: balwyn@travelrite.com.au
www.travelrite.com.au

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Central NSW is one of the best regions in
the state for stargazing. There is less light
pollution than in major cities or coastal
towns, so you can witness the Milky Way
lighting up at Bathurst Observatory, on a
stargazing dinner at Yarrabandai Creek
Homestead in Forbes or during A Taste of
Orange’s ‘Nurture and Nourish’ weekends
(held in March, May and September).
However, on a clear night around Oberon,
Parkes, Cowra and Bathurst you’ll see a
sky full of stars. To learn more about the
constellations, download an app such as
NASA, SkyView or SkySafari. Seeing the stars
is a touching experience, and it’s also a great
excuse to visit Central NSW. Stay awhile
and enjoy all the region has to offer.
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Every year we are treated to the whale
migration through Australia’s waters. You’re
most likely to spot a humpback, particularly
on the east coast, but you could also see
southern right or sperm whales, orcas or
even the elusive blue whale.
In New South Wales, whale-watching
season is from May to November, however,
the best time is when the whales migrate
south between September and November.
Head to South Coast destinations, such
as Jervis Bay or Montague Island, to see
whales come right into the shallow bays, or
swim with whales on Dive Jervis Bay tour.
There are also spectacular whalewatching spots north of Sydney, such as
Bouddi National Park on the Central Coast
and Lennox Head on the North Coast.
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seats to its Adelaide flights, increasing
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and Melbourne, and introducing a new
route to the Gold Coast. South Australian
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Qantas’s operations at Adelaide Airport,
with the airline tipping its services will be
more convenient for passengers travelling
in and out of Adelaide.
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Adelaide market,” said Qantas Group CEO
Alan Joyce. “Instead of one or two flights a
day with a larger aircraft, we can offer three
or four flights a day on the E190, which
gives customers a lot more choice about
when they travel.”
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Every kid who leaves a theme park,
particularly one as huge and exciting as
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of being able to stay there forever and go
on rides every day. While forever might be
a stretch, staying at Dreamworld for a few
days seems set to become a reality. Ardent
Leisure, the owner of the theme park,
has announced plans for a $75 million
Dreamworld Resort, which will include a
hotel, bungalows and a tourist park.
While final approval needs to be secured,
if successful, you could soon stay at this
resort and have access to Dreamworld
and WhiteWater World throughout the
entirety of your stay. A timeline is yet to
be confirmed, but it’s fun to dream about
spending the day on rollercoasters, resting
up in luxury, then doing it all again.
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With Maureen and Paul Lucas 18 to 30 September 2021
Visiting Canberra, Katoomba, Hunter Valley & Sydney
Maureen is the Garden Writer for The Senior Newspaper in Australia whilst Paul (who has won many awards for his photos)
writes articles on photography. They have travelled to every continent on earth and more than 85 countries.

• Sightseeing tours and garden visits as per the brochure
• 4 nights’ accommodation in Canberra, 3 nts in the Blue Mountains and the Hunter
Valley and 2 nights in Sydney including breakfast in three and four star hotels.
• Welcome and Farewell dinners and lunch at a winery in the Hunter Valley
• Travel in a first class coach
• Professional tour management by Travelrite International
• Visiting stunning Mayfield garden

1800 630 343

Email: balwyn@travelrite.com.au

www.travelrite.com.au

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ofAustralia

Onboard MS Oosterdam

Highlights:

TOUR 1:

A choice of
2 itineraries:

20 NOVEMBER 13 DECEMBER 2021

Tour 1:

Tour 2:

Sydney to Perth
20 Nov – 13 Dec 2021

Perth to Sydney
8 - 22 Dec 2021

8 DECEMBER 22 DECEMBER 2021

Highlights:

TOUR 2:

• Tour Airlie Beach
• Climb to the summit of the impressive
Castle Hill in Townsville, follow The
Strand along the seaside, viewing the
Jupiters Townsville Hotel & Casino, the
Townsville Entertainment Centre, the
marina and other attractions, followed
by a tour of Magnetic Island.
• A spectacular trip on the Skyway
Rainforest Cableway above the canopy
of the rainforest to the picturesque
town of Kuranda near Cairns where
you will have time to explore.
• Call into Darwin, viewing the Chinese Temple and lush Botanical Gardens.
We tour the historic sites of the city including the East Point Military Precinct.
• Visit Dili, the “City of Peace” and capital of Timor-Leste. We will enjoy a tour of
the city and see many historical buildings, monuments & religious places.
• See Komodo Island, the largest island in Komodo National Park, a UNESCO
World Heritage Site and Man and Biosphere Reserve.
• Spend the day in Broome, sightseeing in the town and Cable Beach. We see the
Japanese Pearlers Cemetery, Monsoon Gallery, the dramatic rock formations,
Anastasia’s pool, the dinosaur footprints and much more.
• Tour Perth with a local guide. We will travel to Kings Park, an area of natural
bushland, where we have spectacular views over the city.
• Learn about the pioneering history of Western Australia during a sightseeing tour
of Fremantle.

• Learn about the pioneering history of
Western Australia during a sightseeing
tour of Fremantle.

Inclusions:

Inclusions:

Included in the Circumnavigation from Sydney to Perth
• 21 night cruise in the selected cabin category on MS Oosterdam
• All meals, entertainment, and service charges on MS Oosterdam
• Sightseeing tours as per the itinerary in Airlie Beach, Townsville, Cairns, Darwin, Dili,
Komodo Island, Broome, Exmouth, Geraldton, Fremantle and Perth
• Port and handling charges on MS Oosterdam
• Cruise taxes and onboard gratuities • An experienced tour manager
• 2 nights’ accommodation in Fremantle including breakfast

Included in the Circumnavigation from Perth to Sydney
• 11 night cruise in the selected cabin category on MS Oosterdam
• All meals, entertainment, and service charges on MS Oosterdam
• Sightseeing tours as per the itinerary in Perth, Albany, Port Lincoln, Adelaide,
Kangaroo Island, Melbourne and Burnie
• Port and handling charges on MS Oosterdam
• Cruise taxes and onboard gratuities • An experienced tour manager
• 3 nights’ accommodation in Fremantle including breakfast

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$6,525

per person,
twin share

*Includes GST
• The price for flights will be additional

• Enjoy a tour of Albany and surrounds,
including the Mt Clarence Desert Corp
Memorial and Padre White Lookout, for
amazing views of Albany.
• Discover Port Lincoln, known as the
seafood and aquaculture capital of
Australia, and the beautiful, tranquil
Coffin Bay featuring magnificent
coastline, beautiful beaches, incredible
wildlife and fresh seafood.
• Visit Adelaide, the “City of Churches” and explore the village of Hahndorf,
“Australia’s Oldest German Town”.
• Explore Kangaroo Island, and spot wallabies, koalas, kangaroos and fur seals.
We will have a tour of Seal Bay, viewing the Sea Lion colony.
• Tour through Melbourne, visiting the famous Queen Victoria Market, the Royal
Botanical Gardens, the CBD where we see some of the famed laneways that now
contain art, modern bars and cafes.
• Disembark at Burnie, and travel to the town Stanley where we will take the chairlift
up the Nut, and enjoy its spectacular views across Bass Strait beaches and over the
town. There will be time to wander around the historic town of Stanley, where you
will see the many historic buildings.

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Email:

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old hotel to faithfully recreate the pub that
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welcoming establishment has become the
central feature of the historic township.
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Sports Club, for reasonably priced and
hearty replenishment.
Petrolheads will be delighted with
Maffra’s comprehensive automotive
museum which contains an eye-popping
collection of vintage toy cars. The Gippsland
Vehicle Collection, housed in the old
vegetable de-hydrating factory built during
WWII, is packed with Australian motoring
history with rotating displays that reflect the
evolution of Australian-built vehicles, an era
now sadly passed.
The unsealed Cowwarr-Walhalla Road
through thick forest is a scenic highlight
but not suitable for all vehicles. While well
graded on a hard base, it’s easy enough if
you ride or drive within your comfort zone.
To stay on the tarmac, continue south via
Glengarry to the C105.
The objective is the outpost of Dargo,
north along the scenic C601 which runs
out of Bairnsdale, making an exciting
loop. Traffic is typically light but don’t get
complacent because logging trucks are
busy all through this region and can surprise
the unwary.
Take the C494 out of Stratford and meet
the C601 (Bairnsdale-Dargo Rd) after an
amble along Beverleys Road about ten clicks
south of the Mitchell River National Park.
Dargo is a delightful hamlet blissfully
remote from pretty much everywhere.
Check in to comfy cabins at the Dargo
River Inn, ideal for a travelling group or
solos. There are also rustic log cabins
behind the pub.

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Enjoy a yummy but simple breakfast at the
Dargo general store and head north on the
Dargo-High Plains Road, an adventurous
thoroughfare direct to Mt Hotham. Okay, it’s
hard and rocky and requires a bit of care but
most 2WD cars can manage with care. The
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Rejoin the tarmac (B500) south of the
Mt Hotham summit and meet the stream
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cars and even caravans, all on some sort of
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Onward to Omeo via Dinner Plain, where
lunch awaits at the sublime, art deco
Golden Age Hotel. Dine alfresco in the
balmy sunshine.
Now begin the descent to sea level on the
famous Great Alpine Road (GAR), stopping

occasionally to investigate local wineries
and breweries. The reds at Ensay Winery
are particularly good.
The GAR deserves its reputation as one
of the country’s foremost driving and riding
roads. In either direction, it beckons to be
challenged. Sweeping, rolling curves, well
signposted and a predictable surface make
it a joy in a sports car or motorcycle.
By the time salt air is in your nostrils,
you’ve dropped more than 1600 metres, but
not in some fairground, thrill-ride plummet.
It’s a gentle approach, like a glider lining up
a runway from 100 kilometres out.
Arrive exhilarated at the seaside
holiday town of Lakes Entrance and check
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rooms are in the delightful ‘old school’

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The bulk of this road trip complete,
set aside some time to visit the most
impressive Holden museum at Trafalgar,
housed in the former butter factory and is
possibly the biggest collection of Holdens
in the world.
The final leg winds through the towering
redgums around Fumina (C465), a route
clearly popular with local bikers, so keep
an eye out as you weave a path through
these stunning, carbon-based skyscrapers.
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ustainable tourism is on the rise in
Australia. Tourism Australia’s 2020
report shows 74 per cent of travellers
are looking for travel experiences
that allow them to give back to a destination,
and a plethora of paper-wasting similar
documents paint a similar picture.
So we know we’re keen. But can we really
holiday green?
One way to ensure you are travelling
sustainably is to stay in accommodation
that is eco-friendly and designed to
consider the needs of the local people
and protect our natural environment –
and where needed, help it to regenerate.
Eco-stays are often nestled in beautiful
wildernesses, making them a
destination within themselves.
The owner of Wild Luxury
eco-retreats Kim Ellis said she
had her eyes opened to the eco
world about ten years ago.
“I was referred by a very
good friend of mine who had
stayed in the Hawkesbury
River at a holiday rental, not
far from where the Calabash
Bay Lodge is today. I went up
there during the wintertime
and it was incredibly beautiful
and healing, watching the mist roll over the
river,” said Ms Ellis.
“It really felt incredible, anchoring myself
in nature. That shift was quite profound
and made me really feel like this is a place I
wanted to spend more time in but also how
I could facilitate that feeling and awareness
for other people as well.”
She was inspired and the idea of Calabash
Bay Lodge was born. The four-bedroom
sanctuary at Berowra Waters is less than
an hour from the centre of Sydney and
accessible only by air or boat. Wild Luxury
has since opened Crane Lodge at Palm
Beach in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Ms Ellis said: “When people arrive they
really feel enveloped by the beauty of the
eucalypt forest, you can really expand and
fill your lungs with clean air.
“The benefit starts with the stay but
continues when you go home, you’ve literally
plugged into something bigger than yourself.”
Australians are becoming more conscious
about where their dollars go. They are “very

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their dollars well and make really conscious
purchasing decisions.
“People are looking at the credentials
of the place they stay, the car they drive…
there’s a lot of decision-making involved.”
Many people are also combining ecostays with remote working. Ms Ellis said:
“People are staying longer. Pre-COVID, we
probably had an average stay of around
three nights. We’re increasingly seeing
that extend to five nights as people do
a combination of remote
working and their holiday.
“It’s sort of a staycation, plus
‘I can get a bit of work done
while in this beautiful area,
having gone for a kayak in the
morning.’ Luckily the move
towards flexible working has
allowed for this.”
And since COVID-19 hit,
Ms Ellis has noticed more
families booking stays.
“We’ve seen a big rise in
multi-generational travel,
groups of families coming together,”
said Ms Ellis. “That’s really beautiful
because a lot of that time and opportunity
for connection was obviously severed by
what happened in 2020, so we’re seeing a
lot more people wanting to come together
and use a beautiful eco-retreat as the
perfect opportunity to have that family
reunion event.”
If you’re considering making your next
getaway an eco-stay, then Ms Ellis has the
perfect words of encouragement for you:
“Australia has a lot more available beyond
our cities. Being able to get out into a rural
environment, whether it’s on the outskirts
of the city or deeper into the bush, can give
people a really deep sense of connection to
their country.
“If you’re somebody who’s perhaps not
sure whether it’s for them, just give it a go
and see whether it’s for you. Maybe you
don’t have the creature comforts of the
city but in an eco-luxury stay you get the
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43

Angelina Jolie as Hannah and
Jon Bernthal as Ethan in Those
Who Wish Me Dead. Picture:
Warner Bros.Pictures

Western in contemporary clothing
MA. 100 MINUTES.

THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD

★★★✩✩

Cris Kennedy

W
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hat an impressive name for a film
- Those Who Wish Me Dead. It conjures that epic oil baron drama There
Will Be Blood or the indie zombie drama The
Dead Don't Die, but Taylor Sheridan's action
crime thriller is sadly devoid of milkshake
drinking or the walking dead.
Instead, it has the glamorous Angelina
Jolie as a firefighter battling natural disasters
and bad wigs to save a boy pursued by
hitmen. That's a lot of adversity to endure in
the short space of 100 minutes. But if anyone
can do it, it's the original Lara Croft herself.
Angie is Hannah, a firefighter in Montana's rugged forest country who has been
tasked to staff a lonely fire watch tower in a
remote part of the state. She's probably been
given the solo gig as some employer-mandated self-reflection time since a fire rescue
the previous summer led to a few deaths
that Hannah holds herself accountable for.

Crashing in on her isolation and self-pity
is Connor (Finn Little), son of forensic
accountant Owen (Jake Weber) who has
uncovered the financial wrong-doings of
some seriously powerful figures.
Hitmen Jack (Aiden Gillen) and Patrick
(Nicholas Hoult) take out Owen's District
Attorney boss and the boss's whole family,
and when Owen sees this on the news he
throws son Connor in the car, disconnects
their mobiles, and heads for the remote
safety of his police officer brother Ethan (Jon
Bernthal) in the Montana countryside.
When they catch up with him, he gets
Connor safely hidden with instructions to
flee into the woods and to find an adult he
can trust, and here his path crosses that of
the anguished Hannah.
As a lightning strike has taken out her
radio, Hannah and Connor flee on foot,
but the two bad guys have set a forest fire
to cover their tracks and limit the escape
options for their prey.
You know this is a film its studio had big
plans for when every character, even the relatively minor ones, are played by big names
who should have have headlined films of

they own. Aiden Gillen of the British Queer
as Folk and better known as Little Finger
from Game of Thrones is a well-cast and
believable bad guy, but pairing him with the
beautiful Nicholas Hoult, the cute kid from
About a Boy who grew up hot to be Beast in
X-Men and Peter in The Great, is terrifically
unexpected casting.
Jon Bernthal of The Walking Dead and
Punisher is a competent sheriff and even
multi-hyphenate filmmaker Tyler Perry
cameos as a bad guy. It's a little distracting
to have such big names so under-used. Finn
Little is a convincingly solid young performer and he holds his own against his older
and more studied onscreen colleagues.
It's hard for the audience to disengage
their notions and expectations when a star
the calibre of Angelina Jolie is on the screen.
Lara Croft was a perfect role for her - she's
so cartoonish and over-the-top. But for the
woman who fights for human rights at the
United Nations and on war-torn front lines
- the woman who was too good for Brad
Pitt - to ask us to suspend disbelief and think
of her as a fragile first responder not coping
with life, it's just a bit too much to ask.

But even when we're seeing the fragility
of Jolie's character, we're distracted by the
three points of light her enormous brown
eyes pick up from the camera, like a human
anime character. For all the work the makeup team do slowly disheveling Hannah as
the film progresses, with hair singed by fire
and covered in cuts and bruises, she also has
smashingly on-point eye makeup throughout. Still, I wouldn't want my Angelina to be
represented any other way.
Director Taylor Sheridan pulls off some
fantastic shots, with the film's final showdown the kind of clever work I expect film
students will pull apart for years to come,
but these moments aren't consistent.
He is a talented writer, notably of Sicario
and Hell or High Water, but he and his
co-writers Michael Koryta and Charles
Leavitt take it all just a bit too seriously. It is
based on the novel by Koryta and is something of a western in contemporary clothing.
The bushfire scenes, or forest fires if you're
American, will be triggering for some for
who this was real-life last summer, but they
are well staged and designed by the film's
production designers and CGI wizards.

All the way from hell they come, so be careful
BY RON Cerabona
Every Breath You Take is the latest
example of that oft-used thriller trope, The
[Blank] from Hell. Villains are common, of
course, but the point in this subgenre is they
aren't, at least initially, seen as villains. A
serial killer villain is obvious (Se7en), as is
an ex-con out for revenge on the person he
blames for his incarceration (Cape Fear).
But the grieving brother of a psychiatrist's dead patient doesn't necessarily ring
any alarm bells, though if you know your
thrillers, it should.
Sometimes it should be obvious, fairly
early on, there could be problems. Having a
one-night stand if you're not in a committed
relationship might seem simple (Clint
Eastwood in Play Misty for Me with Jessica

Harper) but not if one party views it as more
than that.
An adulterous one-night stand if you're
married, however, is different since it
involves betrayal of a spouse as well as
disappointment from the spurned fling: did
Michael Douglas deserve the hassle he got
from Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction?
Spoiler: the original ending had Close's
character committing suicide and framing
Douglas for her murder; audiences didn't
like this and so we got the more hackneyed
but thrilling not-really-dead/revenge scene.
Landlords and tenants (Pacific Heights)
and roommates (Single White Female) can
make for fraught relationships at the best of
times - toilet seat up or down? who weeds
the garden? - so escalating the tensions is an

obvious dramatic possibility.
The family unit is often at the heart of such
stories, whether as a more or less united
front under threat - things can get strained
under pressure if they weren't already - or
facing problems from within. The Hand That

Rocks the Cradle exploited parental guilt and
fear at having a stranger (a nanny) looking
after the kids.
In Mikey, a couple who adopt a child don't
know he's a vicious serial killer. Likewise
the family in The Stepfather isn't aware the
new hubby-daddy is on a deadly quest for
domestic perfection (as he sees it). Both
these examples play on fears of not knowing
the people we're letting into our lives and
our perceived inadequacies.
And in The Gift, a blast from the past - an
old high school acquaintance seeking
revenge for past misdeeds - ruins someone's
life who might be said to deserve (at least
some of) it.
The moral from these movies: be nice to
people, but be careful.

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FOOD

It’s time for un ombra with Carlo Grossi

■

n Venice you’ll often hear the phrase
Andiamo per un ombra? (Shall we go
for a drink?). And it’s this “ombra”, the
Venetian name for a small tumbler of wine,
that inspired Carlo Grossi’s restaurant - a
modern take on an authentic Italian salumi
bar right in the bustling heart of Melbourne.
Any time is a good time for a drink at
Ombra, and when you step in the door at 76
Bourke Street you’ll always find a warm and
hospitable welcome (and something delicious to eat). It’s an intimate, energetic place
where all walks of life can drop by and come
together over plates of finely cured meats
and cheese, bringing with them a great sense
of community - a community that thrives at
the bar; that argues, loves and lives between
slurps of white wine and Aperol.
The Ombra cookbook brings together the
very best of Grossi’s food and hospitality,
from lovingly aged meats and homemade
sausages to mouth-watering pizzas, all sorts
of irresistible bar snacks (cicchetti), hearty
evening meals, fermented and pickled vegetables and fruits, and delectable desserts to
finish off the evening. With family heirloom
recipes and dishes inspired by his travels all
over Italy, the Italian ideals of preservation
and quality produce are on proud display in
this collection of familiar and tasty food that’s
made for sharing over a lively conversation.
So pull up a seat - it’s time for un ombra!
I

OCTOPUS, POTATO,
GREEN BEANS
Octopus can vary greatly in taste and texture
and we are really lucky here in Australia to
have such a diverse offering of the species
across all our waters. Personally, I love the
octopus from Fremantle as its texture and flavour are always sumptuous. This recipe gives
you a soft, tender, melt-in-the-mouth octopus.
Lightly boiled potatoes add a little starch while
the green beans bring just a touch of crunch. I
always find a spicier style of extra virgin olive
oil really brings things together. The octopus
looks impressive when presented whole, but
you can also chop it into 2-cm pieces before
warming it with the vegetables.
Ingredients
500g octopus tentacles
1 large onion, roughly chopped
2 sticks celery, roughly chopped
1 large carrot, roughly chopped
3 bay leaves
3 sprigs thyme
2 cloves garlic
200ml white wine
2 potatoes, boiled until tender
then peeled and cut in cubes
100g green beans, blanched

5 sprigs flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
5-6 basil leaves
extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling
1 lemon, cut into wedges
salt and cracked black pepper
Method
1. Place the octopus in a large saucepan
with the onion, celery, carrot, bay leaves,
thyme and garlic. Pour in enough water
until the octopus is just covered. Add
the white wine and bring just to the boil.

Reduce the heat to low and poach for 1
hour or until the octopus is tender.
2. Remove the pan from the heat and allow
the octopus to cool in the poaching liquid.
3. Once cooled, drain the octopus (and
chop into 2cm pieces, if desired), then
toss gently in a saucepan over low heat
with the potato, beans, parsley, basil
and olive oil until warmed through.
4. Serve warm or cold with a squeeze of
lemon, and seasoned with salt and pepper.
Serves 4.

SUCKLING LAMB,
POMODORO

This dish is one of those ones that screams
comfort. It’s bowl food, the kind you can tuck
into with some soft polenta or crusty bread to
mop up the sauce. It will make you feel good,
both cooking it and consuming it.
Ingredients
1 1.2kg piece boneless suckling lamb shoulder
3/4 tsp whole cloves
3/4 tsp toasted fennel seeds
1 tsp black peppercorns
1 tsp salt
500g Dutch cream potatoes,
peeled and cut into wedges
1 onion, finely chopped
cup oregano, chopped
2 tbsp flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
50ml olive oil
150ml white wine
350ml passata

Ombra: Recipes from the salumi
bar, by Carlo Grossi. Lantern,
$39.99. Photography: Mark Chew

350ml chicken stock
30g packaged breadcrumbs
1/2 cup grated Grana Padano
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 170C (fan-forced).
2. Cut the lamb into roughly 4cm pieces
and place in an earthenware dish or
roasting tin. Grind the cloves, fennel
seeds and peppercorns into a powder
with a mortar and pestle, then mix in the
salt. Rub the mixture into the lamb.
3. Add the potato, onion, oregano, parsley,
garlic, olive oil and white wine to the lamb.
Pour in the passata and stock and mix to
combine. Cover the top with the breadcrumbs
and cheese and, using your fingers, push
some of the crumbs and cheese into the
liquid, not disturbing the top of the lamb
which will form a crust as it cooks.
4. Bake for 75 minutes or until the meat is tender.
Serves 6.

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Baby skincare is a thing (but go gently)
PARENTS have been looking
after their baby's skin for
generations, however just
like grown-up skincare, the
options have grown exponentially over the years, new
products joining long-term
favourites that have been
relied on for decades.
Take Lucas' Papaw Ointment, for example. The
Queensland-made miracle
worker in the iconic red
packaging has been a mainstay in nappy bags for more
than 110 years, thanks to its
effective treatment of dry or
irritated skin and nappy rash.

Meanwhile
in
2019,
Australian skincare company
Gro-To arrived on the market
with products such as baby
oil and bubble bath containing ingredients like rosemary
leaf extract.
Such ingredients are included for their nourishing
properties and less likelihood of irritating baby skin.
Supermarkets and chemists are also brimming with
similar options, so what
should you look for?
Whether you opt for a tried
and true staple or are drawn
to the new kid on the block,

the most important thing to
remember is gently does it.
Apply a non-fragranced
moisturiser all over your
baby's body during or immediately after their bath to
prevent dry skin.
To avoid contaminating a
product (caused by re-dipping fingers into the container and introducing germs)
use a spoon or transfer it to a
pump pack.
Treating baby to a massage
while applying the moisturiser is of great benefit, or you
might like to try oils. Some
could suit your baby's skin

better than others, but here
are a few worth considering:
Shea butter: A creamy
natural moisturiser that's
safe for a baby's thin skin.
Look for pure shea butter
that doesn't include added
perfumes or chemicals.
Jojoba oil: Despite the
name, it's actually a liquid
wax ester from the jojoba
plant.It's recommended for
babies with eczema because
it helps heal the skin.
Rosehip oil: Helps soothe
redness and irritation in
baby eczema and other skin
conditions.

NATURAL BEAUTY: Look for ingredients that won't irritate
their delicate skin, and don't be tempted to try anything
too fancy. Photo: Shutterstock.

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The 'sleeping sickness', unpicked
NEUROSCIENCE

THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES AND OTHER STORIES OF MYSTERY ILLNESS
Suzanne O'Sullivan
Picador. $34.99.

Penelope Cottier

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disorders in a number of different
countries, ranging from refugee
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mind work together, and how social factors
are involved in illness. She also investigates
what is "normal", as the definition changes over time, and differs culturally. The
resulting book is gripping, sometimes even
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The title refers to refugee children from
certain ethnic groups in Sweden, who seem
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in a state of acute withdrawal. (That sounds
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the reader into the home of the afflicted
girls, alongside the girls' parents and usual
helpers. I felt almost uneasy about being given so many details of this visit; it is certainly
a powerful and vivid section of the book.
"Resignation syndrome" is now also seen
in Nauru, where the conditions are "much,
much worse" than those experienced in
Sweden.
Kazakhstan's independence meant
that previously privileged workers in a
remote, formerly Soviet town based around
a uranium mine, found their relatively
fortunate lifestyle evaporate. However, it
was not until some time later that those who
refused to leave their homes to be moved
to flats in another town, began to suffer
from what referred to as "sleeping sickness".
(The symptoms were actually much more
varied than that term implies.) Because of
this illness, the affected people were indeed
moved away from the town that some
remembered as "Paradise", for medical

The "sleeping sickness" cannot be reduced to the effects of simple "stress". Picture: Shutterstock

treatment, thus achieving what had been
resisted by the residents previously. O'Sullivan argues that the illness suffered cannot
be reduced to the effects of simple "stress",
as some of the press suggested. At the same
time, there was a widespread suspicion
among the sufferers that they had been
poisoned, an explanation that was preferred
to any psychological factor. Lack of trust
in the authorities and doctors fed into this
belief. The author examines how biological
explanations for illness are seen as more
"real" in many different locales.
The book also includes the outbreak of
a mysterious illness among US staff at the
embassy in Cuba. Here, the fact that the
sufferers were educated officials, and often
male, meant the response was quite different from when young girls suffer what is still
called "hysteria" by some. The press and
medical authorities seemed very anxious
to find a "real" cause for the outbreak of
illness as opposed to a psycho-social one,

searching for nefarious weapons trained on
the diplomats by the Cubans. (There are still
regular articles appearing about a possible
physical cause for the illness, which has now
also manifested itself in China.) The author
also looks at "grisi siknis" that occurs in
Miskito people in Nicaragua, and the effects
on the heart of emotional or physical shock
in a condition called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, among other issues.
In later sections of the book, the author
examines how the push to name new ailments (whether psychological or physical),
and the emphasis on more and more tests
being carried out on individuals to identify
possible illness, has an effect on people who
might once have not been seen as abnormal
at all. A young woman called Sienna "had
been taught to medicalise every bodily
change and, once that pattern was set in her
brain, she struggled to escape it". The effects
on this individual's life have been profound.
The subjectivity of many medical classifi-

cations and diagnoses is unknown to most
patients. The author brings up various revisions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and it seems that "the
trend is towards broadening categories with
new definitions and subcategories". (There
are notable exceptions; homosexuality
ceased to be considered a mental illness
in the 1970s.) The cultural background of
those writing this influential manual can
not be ignored. O'Sullivan examines how
economic and prestige factors play a part
in the expansion of both psychological and
physical tests, and new definitions.
Some of the concepts introduced are
quite difficult, but the effort required to
understand is certainly worthwhile. O'Sullivan is to be commended for taking on some
big issues about illness, the divisions drawn
between mind and body, and what is seen as
normal. She brings a wealth of research and
experience together for us all.
■ Penelope Cottier writes poetry as PS Cottier.

High heels and the heat of life on the spectrum
AUSTRALIAN FICTION

A ROOM CALLED EARTH
Madeleine Ryan
Scribe. $29.99.
Reviewed by Ian McFarlane.

MADELEINE Ryan is an Australian writer,
director, and actor, who has been widely
published here and overseas. A Room Called
Earth is her first novel, and an extraordinary
achievement.
This near 300-page monologue from a
woman preparing to attend a Melbourne
party, then leaving it for a lonely (and eerily
frightening) walk before returning to find
someone with whom she can comfortably
identify, has a flimsy plot, minimal dialogue,
and takes 15 chapters for her to even reach

the party. A lesser writer would have likely
sparked a damp squib, but Ryan's debut
novel glows with the spookily authentic heat
of existentialism on the spectrum.
Ryan was diagnosed with autism while
writing this novel but was of course already
aware of its complex nature. Her anonymous
narrator inhabits the curiously isolated
experience of internalised reality with an
astonishingly immediate presence.
The hesitant uncertainty, masking scarily
sure-footed honesty regarding routine
gaucheries at the house party, deftly delivers
witty asides with astutely drawn observations about all manner of things, from
feminism to fatalism.
The novel opens with the words: "I
wanted to wear a kimono and high heels to

the party because I wanted people to see
me in a kimono and high heels at the party",
which instantly sets the tone of a woman
confronted with the individual intensity of
her own existence, and the need to have it
acknowledged by others.
At the party she hovers on the edge of
things, seeing and being seen, but constantly aware of a closely guarded constraint.
She leaves the party in search of freedom,
walking along a lonely street, shadowed by
the single figure of a man on the other side,
not far behind, perhaps simply going in the
same direction, but maybe something more.
He disappears and she returns to the
party, still disengaged but eventually finding
herself in conversation with a man of empathy, who allows the possibility of unravelling

the long-tangled pattern of her physical and
emotional responses.
She takes him home, to her inherited
mansion in a wealthy suburb, where she
lives alone with a ginger cat called Porkchop,
whose "job is to sit on my bed and stare at
me, and he's very good at it".
She takes the party guy to a room in the
big house where Porkchop isn't allowed
because it has been sealed in order to breed
rare butterflies. One settles on his shoulder,
but he doesn't flinch. Instead, he says: "I
wish I could see what you see." When he
leaves, he is crying, but she doesn't ask why.
Ryan is working on a screen adaptation of
this remarkable novel, which sounds even
more ambitious than imagining the original
text. I wish her well.

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GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
2 At an opportune time
6 Bubbly (coll)
10 Frequent flyer’s
rewards (3,5)
14 Transfer possession
15 Hindu society division
16 Ride-on plank
with wheels
17 Cease a quarrel;
--- the hatchet
18 Very cheap; a --a dozen
19 Edible seeds
of chickpeas
or legumes
20 Basket willow
21 Champion
23 Helmets and such
26 Common seasoning
27 NASA employee
32 Port
34 Ambitious one
36 Waste disposal;
--- system
37 Break in to
many pieces
38 Turned into
40 Freeloader
43 Salary recipient
45 Deal
46 Reaping hook
49 Claim, contend
52 Circle (one’s hips)
53 Ingrained dirt
55 Hindu festival
56 Channel Tunnel train
57 Sarcasm
60 Relaxing music
genre (4,9)
65 Eight-legged arthropod
67 Top shelf drinks
68 Cereal plant
69 Scold severely
71 Merry
75 Partner of odds
77 Shrubby tracts
80 Supporting
column shaped like
a woman
81 Sedimentary rock
82 The greatest degree
83 European country
84 Recently delivered baby
85 Consensus
88 Canned fish
90 Bottomless pit
92 Intersect repeatedly
97 High-flying
tourists (3-7)
100 Unit of electric current
101 Good grief! (2,4)
103 Worker
with rocks
105 Cold storage
107 Take in
to account
109 Field, domain
110 Flesh
112 Elegance
114 Bog plant
116 Skirmish, row
(3-2)
117 Plot measure
118 Ruckus

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119 Make the most of
the present day (5,4)
124 Mr Bean;
--- Atkinson
125 Religious belief
127 Having a
firm basis
131 University
administrator
132 Object
of worship
133 A contagious
disease (6,7)
134 One’s best
clothes (4,4)
136 Complain, nag
137 Toward the dawn
140 Duo
142 Bread topping seed
145 Disorderly
outburst (2-2)
147 Over
148 Japanese
art form
151 Oversee
154 Song; The Long
and Winding --155 Painful muscle
contraction
157 Non-studio film
158 Oldstyle trousers
159 Black eye (coll)
160 Knocks lightly
161 Obtain with
difficulty; --- out
162 Squats down low
163 Tedious
164 Farm machine

DOWN
1 Spitefulness
2 Gain altitude
3 Change the
dimensions of
4 Ready for anything
5 Period marked
by frivolous behaviour (5,6)
6 Wooden box
7 Cognisant
8 Push down on
9 Having ample room
10 Extra pieces (3-3)
11 Light sensitive
eye part
12 Stain
13 Exclamation
of triumph
21 Walk with
long steps
22 Lover of beauty
23 Extended family
members (4-7)
24 Main
blood carrier
25 Tile separator
28 Cost
29 Large leafed beet
30 Silk fabric
31 However
33 Not happening often
35 Overwhelm
with wonder
38 Scottish hill
39 Mete out
40 Legally prohibit
41 Breastplate
42 Incinerated
44 Total of all units
47 Short-legged dog
48 Hold spellbound

50 Mouth edges
51 Contributed
54 With no delay
58 Hymn; ‘--with me’
59 Holiday plan
61 Breaking news
62 Spasm
63 Underwriter
64 Facial distortion
due to pain
66 Morse bit
67 Infirm with age
70 Land measure
71 Rummages, searches
72 Italian prawn dish
73 Redress
74
Stringed instrument
76 Nasal cavity

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77 Tree cutter
78 Long, indefinite periods
79 Track down
83 Save for future use
86 Microscope lens
87 Powers-of-10 system
89 Not nice
91 Artificial satellites (5,8)
93 Type of 23 across
94 Motor home
95 Impediments
96 Temporary
flood stopper
97 Boo, ridicule
98 Stun gun
99 Horse colour
102 Make free from
frost (2-3)

104 Quality of a
person’s voice
106 Sponsored foot
race (3,3)
108 Ornamental but
poisonous shrub
111 Atmosphere
113 Sorcerers
114 African wildlife reserve
115 To a lower position
116 Upholstered seat
for two
120 Marine protozoa
121 Rhyme
122 Trampled on
123 Undergo a
genetic change
126 Ouzo flavouring
128 Latin dance
129 Write back

130 Hard to endure
135 Tax official
138 Aladdin prince
139 Common
title word
140 A level playing field
141 Small round
red vegetable
142 Withdraw formally
143 Shadows
144 Cute kid
146 (From
the) beginning
149 Centre
150 Stockpile
152 Blood vessels
153 Sifter
156 Mislay

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GINGER MEGGS

GARFIELD

Soft sweetmeat
Hostility
Ward off
Limb
Deadens
Inferior
Administration
Sphere of action
In the midst of
Delicious beverage
New and strange
Afflict
Direct steering of
Alloy
Disconcert
Fitting
Make effort
Assert without proof
Portions
Protective garment
Past
Fertile spot
Fixed allowance
Harbour towns

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Excavates
Burial ceremonies
Taker of illegal interest
Comfort
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Spirited mount
Born
Refuse of grain
Gratify fully
Dance
Unit of wire diameter
Heedless
Musical toys

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29
30
31
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36
37

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Unit of noise intensity
Ooze
Explosion
Worker in stone
Catch the breath
Abel’s brother
Self

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2 Eric Waldo’s translation of
witty playwright (5,5)
3 Knocks back one of the
booms (4)
4 The etiquette, one hears,
for country houses (6)
5 Diplomatic representative
to seek advice endlessly (6)
6 A bit of hesitation after
instant impetus (8)

THE PHANTOM







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1 They are in charge of the
stud (4)
8 Change of operation about
loud instrument (10)
9 Country lovers? (8)
10 Adjusts aerials to hold
this direction when
reversed (4)
12 Boosts supply of water
in the vessel (6)
14 Is no longer a retainer! (4,2)
15 Relieves of a charge and
makes a net profit (6)
17 Aircraft involving me in
shocking cost (6)
18 To risk money with a
Greek character (4)
19 Train fellows to be early
drivers (8)
21 They bow and scrape
when performing (10)
22 Hardy female (4)





CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
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7 Give publicity in the
seventies (4)
11 Tourists observe the
prophets (10)
13 Meadows having potential
can be let out (8)
16 Give support for a very
short time (6)

17 Gross – or a score,
maybe (6)
18 A group of beautiful girls –
Turkish potentate takes
in five (4)
20 Army entertainer (4)

CROSSWORD AND CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS

QUIZ
1. What took the place of
glass valves in radios?
2. On which island would you
find the volcano Mt Etna?
3. In which year did Edmund
Hillary andTenzing
Norgay become the
first to reach the summit
of Mt Everest?
4. Jazz singer Billie Holiday
is also known by what
nickname?
5. What do butterflies eat?

1.Transistors. 2. Sicily. 3. 1953. 4. Lady
Day. 5. Plant nectar.

SOLUTION

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cake crake creak creek
keep pack package
packager packer park
parka peak peck pecker
peek perk rack rake reek
REPACKAGE

Using the nine letters in the grid, how many words of
four letters or more can you list? The centre letter must
be included and each letter may only be used once.
No colloquial or foreign words. No capitalised nouns,
apostrophes or plural words ending in “s”. Reference
source: Macquarie Dictionary.

TODAY’STARGET
GOOD: 12
VERY GOOD: 15
EXCELLENT: 17
GENIUS: 20

ACROSS: 1 Boss; 8 Pianoforte; 9 Patriots; 10 East; 12 Swells;
14 Lets go; 15 Clears; 17 Comets; 18 Beta; 19 Coachmen;
21 Violinists; 22Tess.
DOWN: 2 Oscar Wilde; 3 Spar; 4 Manors; 5 Consul;
6 Momentum; 7 Vent; 11 Sightseers; 13 Leasable; 16 Second;
17 Coarse; 18 Bevy; 20 Host.

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ACROSS: 3 Fudge, 8 Animus, 10 Avert, 11 Leg, 12 Numbs,
14 Lesser, 16 Regime, 19 Arena, 20 Amid, 21 Nectar, 23 Novel,
25 Ail, 26 Con, 28 Brass, 30 Rattle, 31 Meet, 32 Exert, 33 Allege,
35 Pieces, 38 Apron, 39 Ago, 40 Oasis, 41 Ration, 42 Ports.
DOWN: 1 Falling, 2 Digs, 3 Funerals, 4 Usurer, 5 Ease,
6 Sediment, 7 Steed, 9 Nee, 13 Bran, 15 Satiate, 17 Gavotte,
18 Mil, 22 Careless, 24 Ocarinas, 27 Lessons, 28 Bel, 29 Seep,
30 Report, 31 Mason, 34 Gasp, 36 Cain, 37 Ego.

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JUMBLE

SUDOKU

3671
Simple rules, challenging puzzle.
All the numbers from 1 to 9 must be
used once only in each 3x3 square,
in each row (horizontal) and each
column (vertical).

SOLUTION

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MOTORING

Kia's Sorento the best car in the country
THE 2021 Kia Sorento GT Line, the BEST
new car in the country, has just been awarded the 2021 Drive Car of the Year.
The Sorento beat more than 80 finalists
across 23 categories, receiving a unanimous
first-place vote from the Drive.com.au
judging panel.
So what is all the fuss about?
Tested here in the top-specification
GT-Line trim, the range topping Kia Sorento
is priced from $67,290 drive-away and
features a 2.2-litre turbo diesel engine with
all-wheel drive.
The GT-Line is loaded with kit.
Simple things like front and rear parking
sensors join impressive new functions like a
blind-spot camera which projects an image
of the Sorento's left and right blind spot in
the instrument cluster when you activate
the indicator.
Adaptive cruise control with a lane
keeping aid is included, as is autonomous
emergency braking, but the system expands
vehicle, pedestrian and cyclist detection
with a junction collision avoidance system
which will apply the brakes if a potential
collision is sensed.
There's a system that alerts passengers
before they open a door to get out if a car or
bicycle is approaching from behind, and a
central front airbag which protects the two
front-seat occupants from knocking together
in an accident.
The Sorento received a five-star ANCAP
safety rating when tested in August last
year but the only thing it doesn't have is
full-length curtain airbags which extend to
the third row. We'd very much like to see
this included.
The GT-Line features 20-inch shadow-chrome alloy wheels (on Continental
tyres) and LED lamps front and rear. The
front units include a very modern LED running lamp signature, and offer an adaptive
high beam for better vision at night, particularly in country areas.
A large glass-panel panoramic sunroof is
also standard.
As a family-centric SUV wagon, it boasts
practicality. To start, the tailgate is powered
and offers a hands-free 'kicker' function.
The boot with all three rows of seats in
place isn't huge at 187 litres, but it is still big
enough to fit some school or shopping bags
if you have seven passengers on board. The
cargo blind can store under the floor when
not in use, and there is a full-size alloy spare
wheel mounted under the car.
Fold down one or both (50:50 split) of
the rear-most row with the convenient
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When these seats are folded, you can
access a powered-fold function for the
middle row which means you can access all
2011-litres of cargo space without having to
move from the boot.
Access to the third row is easy, with the
Sorento employing a one-touch tilt and slide
button to make it simple to move the seats.
Nappa leather trim in all rows is standard
and the middle row even includes heating
on the outboard seats. You can recline
the backrests for extra comfort, there are
integrated sun blinds in the doors plus some
handy cup holders in the arm rests.
Between the front seats is a USB port and
12-volt outlet, the climate control interface
and air vents plus an extra USB port on the
back of the front seats which is very convenient if you want to mount iPad-style screens
for longer trips.
Up front the seats are comfortable and
supportive and electric adjustment with
memory is standard in the GT-Line. Vision
through to the back of the car is good, even
if the third row is deployed with the headrests up.
The dashboard design is slick and
modern, and features a staggering number
of air vents. This is enhanced further with

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steering wheel.
Material use is premium too, with the use
of leatherette and alloy trims blending nicely
with gloss-black plastics and textured metal
switchgear.
There are a pair of big LCD displays,
10.25-inches for the infotainment and navigation functions and a 12.3-inch full-digital
instrument cluster ahead of the driver.
Generally too, the dashboard layout is
clean and mostly intuitive to use, although
the volume knob is all the way to the left of
the infotainment screen which can make

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Slick and handsome design
Stacks of new and useful technology
Plus it is even nice to drive!
WHAT WE DON'T
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Diesel not brilliant above 3000rpm
A better sound system would be nice for
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reach while on the move.
It is easy for the passenger to access
though, plus there's a volume control on the
steering wheel.
A 13-speaker Bose sound system is
standard, which works well at regular
volume levels, but the bass can top out and
distort at about 70 per cent volume. It's not
a bad system, but is something that could
be improved.
The 2.2-litre turbo-diesel offers 148kW at
3800rpm and 400Nm between 17500 and
2750rpm. All four wheels are driven (with a
front-bias and variable torque split) through
an eight-speed dual-clutch automatic
transmission.
It's no hot-rod powerhouse, but the low
end accessibility of torque gives the Kia
some urgency off the line and with the
automatic shifting low in the rev range
to support the car's efficiency claim of
6.1L/100km, regular driving is smooth and
responsive enough.
What results is a well-equipped, good
looking, well-supported family SUV which
lifts the bar in terms of safety, assistance and
convenience technology, that can be yours
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Audi's A4 offers a leisurely experience
AS FAR as medium-sized
German sedans go, the
recently facelifted Audi A4 is
the cheapest of the bunch.
The entry 35 TFSI model
kicks off from $55,900 before
on-roads.
On test today, however,
we have one up from the
entry, which is the 2021 Audi
A4 35 TFSI S line. This version adds another four grand
to its starting price, bringing
up the total to $59,900
before you add any options.
A sub-$60K sporty-looking
German mid-sized sedan
looks and sounds like great
buying. Or, conversely, maybe a potential alternative to
a higher-end mainstream
large SUV?
It's probably the pick of
the two 35 TFSI models that
Audi offers in Australia.
For the $4000 cost
increase versus the nonS-line car, you get a bunch
of extra equipment with
a perceived value greater
than the difference paid.
Big items include sporty
exterior styling elements,
electrically adjustable sports
seats, and Audi's excellent
Virtual Cockpit digital

instrument cluster.
Smaller items make their
way across, too, including
a frameless auto-dimming
interior mirror, auto-dimming side mirrors (which
are incredibly handy), and
gearshift paddles for the
steering wheel. All in all, it's
$4000 well spent if you're
considering either of the 35
TFSI models.

Whatever version you
decide on will be powered
by the same engine and
transmission combo.
The A4 35 TFSI uses a
rather un-segment-like
front-wheel-drive format
and employs a 2.0-litre
four-cylinder turbocharged
engine. It produces 110kW of
power from 3900-6000rpm
and 270Nm of torque from

1350-3900rpm.
Despite the small power
figure, it surprisingly gets the
job done without struggle. It still feels relatively
urgent under your foot.
The two main reasons for
its somewhat transcendent
behaviour are its dual-clutch
automatic and low-down
torque availability.
The seven-speed 'S tronic'

dual-clutch automatic
is swift in its execution.
Off-the-mark drive and its
overall quickness when
swapping gear ratios mean
it picks up some of the slack
from the low engine output.
Where it falls down most
is in relation to kick-down,
as sometimes the transmission will take longer than
desired to go from, say, fifth

to second.
However the torque availability from 1350rpm gives
the car some guts in the low
to mid-range of its tacho,
and is all the better for it.
Some advanced driver-assist systems come as standard. Low-speed autonomous
emergency braking (AEB)
with pedestrian detection
(up to approximately 85km/
h), blind-spot monitoring
and rear cross-traffic alert
are all standard. Adaptive
cruise control, full-speed
AEB, a head-up display and
360-degree parking camera
all make up part of an assistance plus package, which
on this 35 TFSI S line version
costs an extra $2900.
General ride and comfort levels are great. As is
the general lack of noise,
vibration and harshness too.
The stop-start system works
well and general buzz from
the motor is subdued well by
a good selection of materials
and sound deadening.
It's a more comfortable,
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2011 TOYOTA COROLLA ASCENT SPORT
immac. cond., like new interior/exterior. 1 local
owner, serviced every 10,000 km, all books
avail., colour Wildfire, only 170,000 kms, TBar
auto, 4 new tyres, 10 mths rego, cruise,
towbar, elec. windows, central locking, fog
lights, front & rear parking sensors, RWC,
0437 522 387
YVL-715, $10,500.

2002 HYUNDAI GL
ACCENT

WK Limited wagon, 4x4
diesel, auto, 1HP-TUP,
grey, goes well, 150,960
km's $9250 as is.
5449 6886.

VR4687231

• Automatic
• Sedan Air Con
• Power Steering
• Service Books

$6,995

RIU-387

Dual fuel, proper lowered suspension, 4
wheel discs, centre line
wheels, 8's and 7's.
$ 5 0 0
O N O .
6FPAAAJL40LU51128
Phone 5494 7408

Visit us at 208 Creswick Rd,
Ballarat Central Or call us on
LMCT: 7539

Ph (03) 5332 3477

All Cars Warrantied! • All Drive Away Prices!
Excellent After Sales Service! • No Gimmicks!

White
sedan,
good
motor and gearbox.
Fishhook wheels, rust
underneath, good for
parts.
$400.
TRITON
ute
2008,
6FAAAJC8163935
2 x 2, 360ks, regulary
Phone 5494 7408
serviced,
manual,
petrol, 1FW-4FU, Ready
for work $4,200. Phone:
0418 503 770.

FORD Falcon FG Ute,
2009 automatic, 6 cylinder, 156,000 KM, all
options. RWC just expired -$15,000 with
RWC, $14,600 without
RWC. Reg June '21
showroom
condition.
XAH940. 0429162589

TOYOTA Camry Altise
Auto, Spotless, Paint
and int. Mech Exc. C.
Control,
cent
lock.
Alarm. D lights, Exc
tyres, books, low Kms.
First to inspect this car
will buy. Reg & RWC
1TS 7ZH 6000
0416 790 003

XF Ute

Ford El

• Only 84,000 Km’s

Motor Vehicles

Motorcycles &
Scooters

Caravans and Motor
Homes

WANTED to buy unwanted
motorcyles,
open to anything.
Call 0432 343 623.

Grand Cherokee
2014 JEEP COMPASS
5 speed manual. 72,000
klm. Registered until
October 2021, ICW 6ZC
Excellent
condition.
Owned since new. Selling as purchased a new
car and don't need two.
$12,000. Call after 6pm
or text anytime.
0447 561 946

Motor Vehicles

'89 Mercedes BenzDHC
777 (Good car) $5,000
Ph. 0434 211 189
WANTED to buy old
project cars, open to
anything.
Call 0488 335 634

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Full Service History
3.5MT Tow bar,
Side steps,
Tinted Windows
Full Electrics, incl
Adaptive Cruise Control,
Auto high beam h/lights,
Rain sensing wipers,
Front & rear park sensors
Reverse Camera,
Electric tailgate,
Heated front/rear seats
and steering wheel
Reg AOD-740
$52,800 ono
0417 922 193

2002 Factory M series
M316ti 144,000kms 5
speed manual. EC.
J2N200 12Mnths Reg,
RWC
$7,700
ono
0424 551 897

Trucks
JAYCO Finch 2007.
Bag awning, annex. All
EC. W86-159 $13,000
0417 589 523

OLYMPIC
FREIGHTLINER Argosy
10/08 build 101, 525HP
Detroit, 18spd auto/manual 90 tonne rated. Twin
SALE OF TRUCK
stacks
twin
A/C,
INCLUDES:
L/R tanks, C/S tyres, reg
Spacious & highly func- XV-11DI, $40,000.00.
tional work station (reg). Ph: 0428 508 851 or
5342 4512
Equipped with:
- Hydrobath
Caravans and Motor
- Heated water tank
Homes
- Connections for dryer
- Shelves
- Removable ramp for
larger dogs
- External storage
compartment
Truck:
154km, 2.7 litre Diesel
motor, Registered until
July 2021, Radio/CD
working, Aircon, Interior
in very good con, RWC. 2013 Fiat Ducato Series
II. 24,593kms 1AD1SJ.
$105,000.
A great opportunity for
0418 342 699
someone wanting to
start their own mobile
2017 Hilltop, 18' 6'',
grooming business.
full e/s, w/m, a/c, esc,
Everything is in perfect oven, solar, EC,
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$60,000 Y17015
All equipment is easy to Ph 0429 961 916.
use and reliable.
Truck is easy to drive JAYCO Feather poptop
12ft6, 2 beds, fridge,
and manage.
cooking facilites, awn$11,000
ing. Good condition.
For all enquiries:
$9,000. Phone Adrian
53313821 / 5344 8186 0412 180 911

POP TOP, 2010, 16' 6",
Queen island bed, front
kitchen, 2 seating areas,
full oven & grill (never
used), immac. cond.,
T57986,
$21,190.
0407 834 941.

REGENT 2004 20ft
Standard
features.
Brand new Awning. Excellent Cond. $18,000
0418 592 381
MAJESTIC SIERA 2014
19'6" Queen bed E/S
15"wheels. A/C Diesel
heater. Excellent for
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The Senior Newspaper
invite you to join them on the 2021

Circumnavigation

ofAustralia

Onboard MS Oosterdam

Highlights:

TOUR 1:

A choice of
2 itineraries:

20 NOVEMBER 13 DECEMBER 2021

Tour 1:

Tour 2:

Sydney to Perth
20 Nov – 13 Dec 2021

Perth to Sydney
8 - 22 Dec 2021

8 DECEMBER 22 DECEMBER 2021

Highlights:

TOUR 2:

• Tour Airlie Beach
• Climb to the summit of the impressive
Castle Hill in Townsville, follow The
Strand along the seaside, viewing the
Jupiters Townsville Hotel & Casino, the
Townsville Entertainment Centre, the
marina and other attractions, followed
by a tour of Magnetic Island.
• A spectacular trip on the Skyway
Rainforest Cableway above the canopy
of the rainforest to the picturesque
town of Kuranda near Cairns where
you will have time to explore.
• Call into Darwin, viewing the Chinese Temple and lush Botanical Gardens.
We tour the historic sites of the city including the East Point Military Precinct.
• Visit Dili, the “City of Peace” and capital of Timor-Leste. We will enjoy a tour of
the city and see many historical buildings, monuments & religious places.
• See Komodo Island, the largest island in Komodo National Park, a UNESCO
World Heritage Site and Man and Biosphere Reserve.
• Spend the day in Broome, sightseeing in the town and Cable Beach. We see the
Japanese Pearlers Cemetery, Monsoon Gallery, the dramatic rock formations,
Anastasia’s pool, the dinosaur footprints and much more.
• Tour Perth with a local guide. We will travel to Kings Park, an area of natural
bushland, where we have spectacular views over the city.
• Learn about the pioneering history of Western Australia during a sightseeing tour
of Fremantle.

• Learn about the pioneering history of
Western Australia during a sightseeing
tour of Fremantle.

Inclusions:

Inclusions:

Included in the Circumnavigation from Sydney to Perth
• 21 night cruise in the selected cabin category on MS Oosterdam
• All meals, entertainment, and service charges on MS Oosterdam
• Sightseeing tours as per the itinerary in Airlie Beach, Townsville, Cairns, Darwin, Dili,
Komodo Island, Broome, Exmouth, Geraldton, Fremantle and Perth
• Port and handling charges on MS Oosterdam
• Cruise taxes and onboard gratuities • An experienced tour manager
• 2 nights’ accommodation in Fremantle including breakfast

Included in the Circumnavigation from Perth to Sydney
• 11 night cruise in the selected cabin category on MS Oosterdam
• All meals, entertainment, and service charges on MS Oosterdam
• Sightseeing tours as per the itinerary in Perth, Albany, Port Lincoln, Adelaide,
Kangaroo Island, Melbourne and Burnie
• Port and handling charges on MS Oosterdam
• Cruise taxes and onboard gratuities • An experienced tour manager
• 3 nights’ accommodation in Fremantle including breakfast

FROM

$6,525

per person,
twin share

*Includes GST
• The price for flights will be additional

• Enjoy a tour of Albany and surrounds,
including the Mt Clarence Desert Corp
Memorial and Padre White Lookout, for
amazing views of Albany.
• Discover Port Lincoln, known as the
seafood and aquaculture capital of
Australia, and the beautiful, tranquil
Coffin Bay featuring magnificent
coastline, beautiful beaches, incredible
wildlife and fresh seafood.
• Visit Adelaide, the “City of Churches” and explore the village of Hahndorf,
“Australia’s Oldest German Town”.
• Explore Kangaroo Island, and spot wallabies, koalas, kangaroos and fur seals.
We will have a tour of Seal Bay, viewing the Sea Lion colony.
• Tour through Melbourne, visiting the famous Queen Victoria Market, the Royal
Botanical Gardens, the CBD where we see some of the famed laneways that now
contain art, modern bars and cafes.
• Disembark at Burnie, and travel to the town Stanley where we will take the chairlift
up the Nut, and enjoy its spectacular views across Bass Strait beaches and over the
town. There will be time to wander around the historic town of Stanley, where you
will see the many historic buildings.

FROM

Book with confidence: Deposit refundable up to 90 days before departure

Travelrite International P/L
423 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn, Victoria 3135
Toll Free: 1800
Email:

630 343 | Phone: (03) 8803 6868
balwyn@travelrite.com.au • www.travelrite.com.au

per person,

$4,265 twin share

*Includes GST
• The price for flights will be additional

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Start your career search here

Positions Vacant

Positions Vacant

Positions Vacant

TAXI DRIVERS
REQUIRED

Currently have the following positions available

• Diesel Mechanic
• HC Truck Drivers
• Excavator Operators
• Dozer Operators
• GPS Grader Operators
A very well established company in the
earthmoving/quarry industry is looking for
someone
who
holds
the
appropriate
qualifications and experience for the above
positions.
Help is available with relocation costs for the right applicant/s
Please email your confidential CV to:
wamolan@titanwillows.com
or
03 5592 1261 for more information

Positions Vacant

WORKERS for a
wholefoods market
stall at Daylesford.
SUN 7am-9am: pack
up and set up, boxes
and bags
SUN
8am-12pm:
serving customers,
experience
useful,
must be reliable.
SUN
1pm-230pm:
pack up, some lifting
involved, must be
hard worker.
0447 370 399

• Full time night driver
• Full time day driver
• Full time weekend
driver required.
Please call
0409 857 105

Delivery Driver
Must be
experienced, reliable
and physically fit.
Manual licence.
Approx 25-30 hours
per week. Genuine
enquiries only.
Please email
expressions of
interest and
resumes to

Positions Vacant

Now Recruiting
Ballarat Taxis Ltd have vacancies for full/part
time drivers for our sedan and wheelchair taxis.
Hours can be flexible to suit your lifestyle. If
you enjoy meeting people and caring for
our community this can be a very rewarding
experience.
We also have taxi leases available.
To be eligible you must:
* meet Commercial Passenger Vehicle Victoria
requirements which can be found at https://
cpv.vic.gov.au/driveraccreditation and apply
online.
* complete Ballarat Taxis induction course
Further information can be obtained by
contacting our office between 8.30am to 5pm
weekdays at 911 Doveton St Nth Ballarat.
Area: Ballarat
Ph: 0353314367
Email: admin@baltaxis.com.au

Coach/Bus Drivers Required
Airport Shuttlebus and Ballarat Coachlines
currently have positions available for our
Airport Shuttlebus service and Coach Charter
work.
Both Casual and Full time positions available.
MR or HR Required with WWC and Drivers
Accreditation.
Send Cover Letter & Resume to:
matthew@ballaratcoachlines.com.au
Area: Ballarat
Ph: 0353355300
Email: matthew@ballaratcoachlines.com.au

glt8@bigpond.com

Maryborough Education
Centre

AIRPORT SHUTTLEBUS / BALLARAT
COACHLINES

AWARD WINNING
RÉSUMÉ
WRITERS

Call Carmel

0407 143 431

Mental Health Practitioner – 0.8 Ongoing
Role Descriptions available from
Recruitment Online DET – link below
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb
/careers/Pages/advacsSCH.aspx
Further information available from MEC
5461 7900

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VR4446666

Sub School Leader Years 7-10 Leading
Teacher – 1.0 Ongoing

Experienced HR Consultant able
to assist with FREE Résumé
Assessment, Career Advice,
Cover Letter, Key Selection
Criteria, Document Writing,
Interview Coaching and
LinkedIn Profile Writing.
46 Lydiard St Sth.

       
    
         
 
 
   

  

 


    
  
     
         
 

      

     
   
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Federation University – Ballarat Campus with flexible work options

     
   

Full-time, fixed-term appointment
Are you looking for an opportunity to join the Higher Education
industry and demonstrate your business and commercial acumen?
Apply to be our next Commercial Business Development professional
in Ballarat, Victoria.

Applications are invited from suitably
experienced persons for the position of
English and Humanities Teacher
(Fixed Term - Part Time)
Immediate start (negotiable).
The successful applicant will have an
understanding of Catholic education and the
safety and wellbeing of children.
Application information is available on the
Marian College website.
Applications close at 4.00pm on
Monday, 17th May 2021
Email to Principal
principal@mcararat.catholic.edu.au
The Principal, Marian College,
PO BOX 314, ARARAT, 3377
Enquiries: (03) 5352 3861
www.mcararat.catholic.edu.au

   

Employment under the Victorian Catholic
Education Multi Enterprise Agreement 2018.
Marian College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Lead commercial development projects and support a range of
commercialisation programs.

     
   

Including:
• generation of new business;
• preparation of tenders and proposals; and
• preparation of budgets, business cases and project plans to
support new business opportunities.

   

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To be considered for this position, you will have demonstrated
experience in:
• identifying and developing new commercial business opportunities;
• successfully delivering against requirements, schedules, and
budgets; and
• preparing and delivering data, reports and recommendations.

Labourer


S.J. Weir commenced operations as Commercial
Builders in Ballarat in 1914. Since then we have been
recognised as leaders within the industry delivering
quality construction services whilst upholding
traditional values throughout the Ballarat region.

        
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$60 - $65k per annum

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APPLICATIONS CLOSE: Sunday, 23 May 2021.
Applicants are required to submit a resume and a statement
detailing alignment to the key selection criteria as detailed on the
Position Description. Please visit careers.federation.edu.au
- Job ID 850233.

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If you are experiencing technical difficulties with your application, please
contact the Recruitment team via email or on 03 5327 9756. Our position
descriptions also list a contact person for job specific enquiries.

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difference and nurture a connected, safe and respectful community.
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Skills & Experience
To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate
will possess:
Construction Industry experience
Ability to multi task and be able to
co-ordinate with Site Supervisors and
Project Managers across multiple job sites
Maintaining the warehouse to ensure it is
organised, neat and tidy
Vehicle Maintenance
Enjoys working within a Co-operative
environment
Self-motivated, resilient and a collaborative
team player with an attitude to get things
done.
Our Benefits
Full Training will be provided
Working within a dynamic supporting
team with a great culture
Immediate start for the right candidate
Fantastic Opportunity for career progression
To Apply
Please include a cover letter and resume and
email to Danielle Damcevski at
office sjweir.net

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Positions Vacant

Positions Vacant

CatholicCare
VICTORIA

WE WANT YOU!

 
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LOCAL SALES MANAGER
multi-faceted property media and data business. It is an
exciting time to join ACM.
Responsibilities:
• Building relationships with current and future customers
by creating advertising and marketing solutions that help
solve customers’ ultimate goal; growing their business.
• Partnering with some of the biggest global brands
including Google and Facebook, and partnering with
Australia’s burgeoning online portals, ACM is a one-stop
shop for businesses wanting to sell their products or
services locally - or anywhere in the world.
• Community engagement with various networking groups
and customer relationship development.
• Coach and develop an amazing, established, sales team
to achieve the revenue targets for the region.
• Proactively identify and pursue new business
opportunities.
• Keep up to date with industry trends and developments.
Skills and Experience:
Experience leading a B2B sales team, with demonstrated
achievement hitting sales targets.
Relevant professional qualifications.
High drive for results and great communication skills to
manage the commercial requirements of our business.
Apply
We embrace all aspects of diversity and inclusion and are
committed to creating a workplace, which reflects the
incredibly diverse customers, audiences and communities
we serve.
If you thrive by working collaboratively and want to actively
participate in developing a strong team culture that enables
ACM to build a modern, stronger media network then please
connect with us today!
Email Sales Director Damian Hetherington at
damian.hetherington@austcommunitymedia.com.au to
find out more and apply.

Applications will only be considered from candidates with the right to work in Australia.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We are not responsible for any fees
related to unsolicited resumes.

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Council invites applications for the existing vacancy:
VR4682925

Job description
A rare opportunity exists for someone who wants to be deeply
connected with the fabric of the Ballarat community, by joining
the team of custodians of a 150yo institution.
The Courier, one of Australia’s key regional newspapers,
is looking for a Sales Manager. Joining the leadership team
within Victoria, the Sales Manager is responsible for the
advertising revenue the paper generates by monetising our
Print & Online audience.
With a team of over 10 people, you will lead and coach
our Sale Consultants to build strong relationships with our
customers to ensure their marketing goals are met through
advertising to our audience.
What’s in it for you?
• Attractive commission leading to high earning potential.
• Car allowance.
• Competitive base salary.
• Outstanding career progression with the opportunity to
learn from industry leaders.
• A winning team culture that promotes openness and
collaboration.
Working with us
The Courier delivers the latest news, sport, weather,
entertainment and lifestyle from Ballarat. It has a loyal
readership, created by its consciousness of its role in the
community - that of an informer, watchdog and entertainer.
Australian Community Media (ACM) is Australia’s largest and
most diversified private media businesses. We have been
bringing news to our rural and regional communities for more
than 150 years.
Our network of more than 200 leading news media brands such
as The Canberra Times, Newcastle Herald, The Border Mail and
The Bendigo Advertiser serves millions of people across
Australia. More recently, ACM and realestateview.com.au
have formed a joint venture to build a market-leading,

• Coordinator Strategic Planning – Full-Time Permanent
Based at Darley
Applications close on Sunday 30 May 2021.
All details available from the website:
https://www.moorabool.vic.gov.au/my-council/
employment/careers

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Positions Vacant

STEWART'S BAKERY MT CLEAR BALLARAT

VACANCIES
Applications are to include a covering letter, resume and
response to the key selection criteria, and be submitted via
the ‘Careers’ then ‘Vacancies’ link on our website:
www.mdhs.vic.gov.au. Select ‘Apply Now’ to commence
your application.
MDHS is an equal opportunity employer. Appointments are
subject to a satisfactory National Police Check.

Full Time Qualified Baker /
Pastry Cook or Assistant
Experience in this field preferred. Monday to
Friday with some Saturday work. Must be
reliable, trustworthy and well presented.
Apply by email to
stewarts.bakery@bigpond.com

MDHS has a position available within our team.

ABORIGINAL HOSPITAL LIAISON OFFICER
Luv-a-Duck is a family business success story
from the heart of Victoria's Wimmera region.

Permanent Part-time – 48 hours per fortnight
For details and a copy of the position description, please visit www.mdhs.vic.
gov.au and select ‘Careers’ then ‘Vacancies’.
If you wish to apply please contact Sharyn on 5461 0301 to arrange a time to
discuss with Nickola Allan – Chief Executive Office.

Founded in the 1960's on the belief that
everyone should experience the delicious taste
of duck, Luv-a-Duck is now Australia's favourite and most recognised
duck of choice. Luv-a-Duck's broad range of value added, and ready
roasted duck portions have been delighting people for over 50 years.
We are committed to quality. With each duck cared for by a team of
farmers and trained livestock specialists who follow industry best
practice policies to ensure the highest standards of welfare.
At Luv-a-Duck, our greatest asset is our people and we take pride in
looking after each other, employing more than 260 employees nationally.
Our role is to meet the needs and expectations of our customers.
Family owned and maintaining its entrepreneurial spirit, Luv-a-Duck is
entering its next exciting growth phase with the development of its new
state-of-the-art value added facility in Ballarat.
With the opening of our new facility in the following months, we are
seeking candidates with proven experience in Management, Supply
Chain & Logistics, Quality Assurance, Production and Warehouse
operations on a fulltime basis.
Opportunities can be found on the Luv-a-Duck website
www.luvaduck.com click on Employment link.
For further information contact:
Antoinette Avery, Head of People & Culture
Antoinette@luvaduck.com or 0425 752 685

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The School seeks an:

MC TRUCK DRIVER – (Full-Time)
Currently seeking experienced and highly motivated MC Truck drivers to
join our team, you will be responsible for driving our fleet of modern
Volvo trucks and trailers. Our depots are based in Ballarat and
Melbourne, successful candidates can be based from either location.
Responsibilities include:
Operating HC and MC vehicles
Ensuring equipment is delivered in a safe and effective manner.
Ensuring equipment is restrained correctly and in accordance with our
standard operating procedures.
Keeping your vehicle clean and presentable.
The successful candidates will:
Have a valid HC or MC licence.
Have a construction card.
Be available to work flexible hours / weekends when required
(we are a 24/7 company)
Strong work ethic.
Ability to follow standard operating procedures.
Must be punctual and reliable.
Willing to complete a drug and alcohol screening.
Available for immediate start.
If this sounds like you, please email your resume and cover letter to

Administration and
Receptionist
Co-ordinator
Full-time, ongoing
To commence June 2021
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Sunday 23 May 2021
201 Forest Street,
Wendouree, Victoria, 3355
bgs.vic.edu.au

Team Leader, Housing Advice and
Assistance Team

AND

West Division – Central Highlands Area – Ballarat
• Salary: $87,640 - $99,438 plus superannuation
• Position is Ongoing – Full-time
The Team Leader, Housing Advice and Assistance directly manages the
operational, planning, coordination and delivery of quality housing services
across the Central Highlands Area through management and providing
leadership and direction to the Housing and Assistance Team.

operations@advancedcranes.com.au

Key role in helping to improve the lives of people with disability
Start or continue your career in the disability sector
Positions will be located at the Niddrie, Footscray, Werribee,
Sunshine and Melton offices
$74,531.95 - $80,995.58 per annum plus superannuation
Attractive salary packaging options available.

THE ROLE
LAC is pivotal in the NDIS, providing planning coordination and capacity
building support for people with disability to maximise their choice and
control over services they receive to live an ordinary life. This role also
supports people with disability to access mainstream services and to
increase the community's capacity to be accessible to people with
disability.
Assist people with disability and their carers to document their
circumstances and personal objectives.
Provide advice and information about mainstream services that will
help each person to achieve personal objectives.
Where necessary, provide direct support to link individuals with
services.
Ensure that contractual and organisational KPI's for information,
linkages and coordination work are met.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Passion for supporting the mission of BSL, and delivering excellence in
your role, are just the start. To be considered for the role and be
successful in it, we're looking for someone who has the following key
skills and experiences:
Relevant qualifications in the disability sector and/or lived experience
or awareness of the impact of existing or acquired disability upon
individuals, families, carers and the community
Demonstrated ability and commitment to helping people attain their
goals
Takes ownership and responsibility for decisions
Demonstrated experience in community development
This is a Maximum-Term Full-time position working 38 hours per week.
Please do not apply if you have applied for a Local Area Coordinator
position in the Western area in the previous 6 months.
For further information about the role contact Lisa Marson on
0437 357 743.
To review the Position Description and address the Key Selection
Criteria, please click on the link below.
https:/careers.bsl.org.au/en/job/494412/local-area-coordinator-western-suburbs

The closing date for this vacancy is Friday 21st May at 11:55pm

Based in the Ballarat Office, the role undertakes a range of tasks relating to the
provision of housing advice and assistance that may include:
• Providing support and information on public housing and other support
services

Western AG is a specialist supplier of Agronomy Services, Seed,
Fertiliser, Crop Protection Products, Animal Health and General
Merchandise inputs.
We currently operate from 12 locations throughout the Western
District, Wimmera and SE South Australia. We are a privatelyowned independent business, and our group includes a team
of experienced Agronomists and Animal Health and General
Merchandise (AH&G) Specialists.
Western AG offer;
• The opportunity to join a leading team that has a strong
business growth spirit and a positive attitude to achieving
results.
• Ongoing training, excellent career development opportunities,
a flexible and enjoyable work environment as well as a very
competitive remuneration package.
Merchandise Manager
Key responsibilities for this role include sales of inputs to clients,
managing stock and logistics as well as developing business
growth marketing strategies in conjunction with the Branch
Manager. A person with strong communication and customer
services skills and preferable experience in the agricultural
industry is required.
Logistics / Store Person (x2)
Key responsibilities will include logistics to Southern branches,
in-store assistance to merchandise staff, unloading of incoming
deliveries, confirmation of goods received, deliveries to clients,
including assisting in wrapping/loading and stocktakes.
Both positions require;
• Neat presentation and a positive attitude
• An ability to work safely and competently
• Strong communication and customer service skills
• Current vehicle licence
• Current HR truck and Forklift Licence (Logistics Role)
Both positions offer;
• Attractive remuneration dependant on qualifications and
responsibilities
• A career opportunity with“In-house”training
• Quality employment
For more information and position descriptions please contact:
Aaron Starick on 0429 909 252 or aaron.starick@westernag.com.au
or Brad Everett on 0419 801 583 or brad@westernag.com.au
Email applications and resumes, including three (3) referees
details to the Branch Manager: aaron.starick@westernag.com.au
Applications close on 24th May 2021.

• Identifying and assessing Victorians’ housing needs and their eligibility for
services
• Allocating rental properties to eligible applicants
• Visiting and working with tenants to resolve tenancy issues
• Ensuring maintenance work is carried out on tenants’ homes.
Are you:
• Able to provide management, leadership and support to a team to deliver a
quality client service?
• Able to resolve complex and challenging problems associated with client
needs and housing tenancies?
• Experienced in identifying emerging service delivery issues and areas of risk
for operational housing services?
Please Note: If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait person, please apply. We’ll
give you priority consideration, as per the Special Measures provision of the
Equal Opportunity Act 2010.” Anyone can apply for a prioritised position, but
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates will be assessed and shortlisted
for interview as first priority.

For further information on the position description and the selection
criteria visit: www.careers.vic.gov.au
Please contact Steve Turner on 5333 6840/ 0436 435 282 for further information.
Job Reference number: DHHS/WWD/379415
Applications close: Midnight, Tuesday 25 May 2021

VR4686132

Local Area Coordinator
Empower People with Disability!

3 Full Time Positions (Derrinallum)
Merchandise Manager
Logistics / Store Person (x2)

For more information about the Department of Health and Human Services visit
www.dffh.vic.gov.au To apply online and for other DHHS and Victorian
Government job opportunities please visit www.careers.vic.gov.au
Police Checks form part of the Department of Health and Human Services
recruitment process.
The department promotes diversity and equal opportunity in employment
and is committed to a more diverse workforce.
If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant,or if you have a
disability, and require advice and support with the recruitment process, please
contact our Diversity Unit on DiversityInclusion@dhhs.vic.gov.au
The department is committed to the safety of its clients. The department takes
a zero tolerance approach to abuse, including child abuse and abuse of people
with disability.
Departmental employees are required to comply with all legal requirements
including the Child Safe Standards to keep children safe from harm and abuse.

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professionals, who have a strong focus on
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TB White & Sons Pty Ltd is a well-established and
successful company in the auctioneering and stock
and station agent sector.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time
Accounts Officer to work as part of their busy and
supportive office team.
The successful applicant must be:• of a cheerful & friendly disposition
• have a demonstrated success and experience
in Accounts
• be interested in working within the livestock
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• be committed to providing our clients with a
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To find out more about this exciting opportunity
including details on how to apply, please refer to
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Applications close Friday 28th May 2021

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The Ballarat Day Procedure Centre, a privately
owned and highly successful provider of Health
Care to the Ballarat community, require the
services of an experienced perioperative nurse.
As an important team member the successful
applicant will have exceptional communication
skills, be energetic and highly organised.
The successful applicant will take responsibility
for the various roles in theatre/PACU most
importantly providing effective support to the
anaesthetist/surgeon to ensure safe patient
management at all times.
This permanent full time position requires
applicants to be flexible with working hours
Monday to Fridays.
For a copy of the job description or for more
information about this position please contact
Michelle Walker on
5338 2666
To apply please forward cover letter and current
resume to Michelle Walker
ceo-don bdpc.com.au

REINTEGRATION
COORDINATOR - ReLink
4 days per week until 30 June 2022
Work as part of the VACRO team at Langi Kal
Kal Prison with occasional days at Hopkins
Correctional Centre to deliver an innovative
pre-release program.
This role involves facilitating groups and
individual sessions. Suit motivated practitioner
with background in Social Work, Psychology,
Criminology or Education.
How to Apply:
View the Position Description and full
advertisement containing Key Selection Criteria
on the VACRO website:
www.vacro.org.au/Pages/Category
/current-vacancies. Applications close 9am,
Tuesday 25 May.

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The Ballarat Day Procedure Centre, a privately
owned and highly successful provider of Health
Care to the Ballarat community, require the
services of an experienced theatre technician.
As an important team member, the successful
applicant will have exceptional communication
skills, be energetic and highly organised.
The successful applicant will take responsibility
for all theatre technician work in theatre, most
importantly providing effective support to the
anaesthetist/surgeon to ensure safe patient
management at all times.
This permanent full time position requires
applicants to be flexible with working hours
Monday to Fridays.
For a copy of the job description or for more
information about this position please contact
Michelle Walker on
5338 2666
To apply please forward cover letter and current
resume to Michelle Walker
ceo-don bdpc.com.au

EXPERIENCED
CARPENTERS
REQUIRED
To apply Durasteel
Weatherboards.
Must have own vehicle
and tools.
Excellent contractor rates,
travel allowance and expenses.

For more information contact

Bruce Knight

on 0417 394 700
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Physiotherapist
UFS Dispensaries Ltd is a social enterprise with a rich and proud
history of caring for generations of Ballarat families.

Graduate & Accountant
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Personal & professional development
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audit, tax and consulting firm. We offer the combined benefits of a
leading professional services firm with extensive networking, learning and
career opportunities.
About the opportunity:
We are seeking 3 standout Graduates and 2 Senior Accountants to join
our Ballarat office Business Advisory division. You will be contributing to
the preparation of financial statements, income tax returns, FBT returns,
BAS and superannuation fund creation, plus much more!
RSM invests in your career early to equip you with a combination of
business and technical skills to kick start your career as an Accounting
Professional.
Working with the best and brightest minds in the business world, RSM
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and technical skills to kick start your career as a business professional.
Life at RSM:
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help our people achieve their best. We are trusted advisors to our clients,
so it is critical for us to find the right people for the job on offer. Our
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a personal service to all our clients regardless of where they are!
Working for RSM entitles everyone to a wide range of leading health,
wellness financial and lifestyle benefits.
How to apply:
For further information and to apply please visit
https://www.rsm.global/australia/careers-at-rsm

UFS Medical Doveton Street currently has an exciting opportunity
for an experienced Physiotherapist to join our multidisciplinary
team within the General Practice setting. The role involves a GP
private caseload with a focus on occupational health, with some
off-site work.
Initially 1.5 days per week with the possibility of expansion due to
growth. Flexibility in days and sessions available.
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Attractive remuneration and benefits.
AHPRA registration and WWC check essential.
3 years post graduate experience preferred.
Experience in musculoskeletal physiotherapy desirable.

For further information, please contact
Ms Danielle Trezise on: 0436 125 298
or email: danielletrezise@ufs.com.au
All enquiries will be treated in
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Agriculture....................................................61
Anniversaries................................................60
Beauty Health and Fitness...........................60
Birthdays......................................................60
Caravans & Camping...................................60
Death Notices.........................................58-59
Engagements...............................................60
Farm Machinery...........................................61
Farm Services..............................................62
Farmers Weekly ........................................... 61
For Sale........................................................60
Funeral Directors .................................... 59-60
Funeral Notices............................................59
Garage Sales................................................60
In Memoriam................................................60
Lawn Mower Chainsaw Sales and...............62
Livestock......................................................60
Livestock Auctions.......................................60
Lost & Found................................................60
Massage.......................................................62
Memorial Tributes and Services .................. 60
Pets and Pet Care........................................60
Positions Vacant.....................................53-57
Public Notices..............................................61
Tenders........................................................61
Thank You....................................................60
Trade Services............................................. 62
Trades & Services........................................57
Wanted to Buy ............................................. 60

Death Notices

Death Notices

CAIRNS
Stanley Charles
1.10.1933 – 7.5.2021
Loved Husband of Wanda for 66 years.
Adored Father of Janine, Wayne, Steven & Phillip.
Loved Father- in-law of Colin, Michelle & Maria.
Adored Nephew John and his loved family.
Precious Pa to Troy, Beau, Eliza, Luke, Lee,
Sharni, Chelsea, Jesse, Summer & partners.
Great Pa of 8 soon to be 10.
And friend to everyone.
A Private Service was held

CAIRNS

Elsie, Brad, Bronwyn,
Neil, Glynis, Glen and
families.
One of a kind

Stan
thoughtful,
man, who

A life long friend.
Rest in Peace Stan
Julie and David

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BOWN
Edmund George (Mr Ed)

COATSWORTH
Joel Stephen
(20 September 1983 – 8 May 2021)
As a result of a tragic accident.
With great sadness we announce the loss of
our beloved Joel. He was the much-loved and
loving son of Faye and partner of Tim.
Loved son of Gordon and Karen.
Brother of Luke and Andrah.
As you were so suddenly taken, we could not
say goodbye. Close to our hearts you will
always stay. So loved and remembered every
day. Now resting peacefully with his
grandmother, Thelma.
Funeral arrangements to be
advised at a later date.

BOWN
Eddy
Thanks for being a
wonderful dad to us.
- Rhonda and Glenys

BRITTEN
Margaret
19.12.1938 - 12.5.2021

15.3.1936 - 12.5.2021
Son of John and Ellen (Nell).
Loved brother of Janette (dec), Beverly (dec),
Lynette (dec), Carmel and Joy (dec).

23.2.1957 - 9.5.2021

Loving husband of Pam and Blanche (dec),
adored father of Mark and Leanne,
loved father-in-law of Sue and Andrew.
Cherished Pa of Courtney, Holly, Bayley and
Campbell. Dearest step father of Lee,
Vicki and family.
My heart was broken when you said goodbye,
but you will remain in my heart forever.
I will cherish the wonderful 27 years
we spent together.
I'm sure there will be a new truck and
loader awaiting you in heaven.
Your little lady Ruby will miss her fun and
games with you and
I will miss your cheeky smile.
Your forever loving wife Pam.

Geoff, from the first day we met I felt loved
and welcomed into the family.
I could not have asked for a
better father-in-law.
I will always miss your beautiful smile.
Love Sue.
Geoff, you have left us too early.
Thank you for being there throughout the years.
You will always be in my heart and in
my memories always.
Love Lee.
Pa, we’ll miss your honest humour and
that no matter how poorly you
felt, you ALWAYS had to comb your hair.
Finally you can rest without pain.
All our love, your “loves” Courtney & Holly.

DUNN
Shirley Margaret
Passed away quietly at Nazareth House on
Wednesday 12th May 2021.
Much loved daughter of Clarice (dec) and
Father.
Loved sister of Kevin and sister to Norma.
Dearly loved aunt to Noleen, Jennifer, Wendy,
Glenys & Karen.
21 forever
Forever in our hearts

Beloved son of Ron (dec) and Dorothy.
Much loved brother to David & Penny
and Chris & Daryl.
Amazing Uncle to all of
his nieces and nephews.
Lovingly remembered & always in our hearts.

GURRIE
Thomas Richard
17.1.1922 - 13.05.2021
Passed away peacefully and now with Kath
and Kevin.
Understood and delivered the essence of being
a father.
Loved as Grandfather and Great Grandfather.
Max, Zarinan, Josh, Samantha, Jarrah, Noah
and Aisha.

HUGHES
David Charles
My life;
My love;
My everything;
My world.
“D”
Dad
My best friend;
Sleep peacefully
We love you.
Terry (Boss), Paige, Nyah & Indi
My Dad,
Now at peace;
Forever loved and missed.
Timmy (Mate), Renee, Ethan & Sharni
Dad,
With you in our world;
We had it all.
Danny (Chief), Nat, Izaak & Milla
Loved beyond belief.
Lindy, James and Beth
Dearly loved brother of Teddie (Edwina). Loved
by Kerrie, Stacey, Christian and families. Sweet
is the peace that ends all pain. I will not forget
your smiling face, the love you showed us and
the long battle you fought, never complaining,
always caring about everyone else. Be proud of
all you were. Thanks Neicy for your love and
devotion to my bro and thanks mate for waiting
for me.

HUGHES
David Charles
Dearly loved brother of Teddie (Edwina), loved
by Kerrie, Stacey, Christian and families.

On May 12 2021 peacefully at Ballarat Base
Hospital, aged 91 years.
Loved and loving husband of Yvonne for 67
years; dearly loved Dad of Rhonda and
Norman, Glenys and Leon; loving Pop of
Michelle and Ben, and Hayley.
See you Fatty
Forever in our hearts

EDWARDS
Paul Anthony

Dad, you were always there for me when I
needed you.
I will cherish the special times and laughter we
shared. Love and miss you always. Leanne.

CAIRNS

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Geoffrey Scott

Dad, you were an inspiration,
I admired everything you did.
You made me the person I am today.
I will miss you so much.
Love Mark.

Stan
Loved brother-in-law.

Treasured
memories
of
a
kind-hearted and courageous
adored his loving family.

Death Notices

DUNN

COATSWORTH
Joel
The Board, CEO, executive team and staff of
Cafs send our deepest condolences to Joel's
partner, family and friends on his sudden
passing.
We remember our former colleague as a man
with a generous heart, a big capacity for fun,
and a passion for everything he did. Joel was
a vibrant character and we are deeply
saddened by his loss.
Rest in peace, Joel.

Shirley
Shirley passed away
peacefully
on
12.05.2021
at
Nazareth
House.
Loved
aunt
of
Graeme, Rose and
family.
A lovely lady
now at peace.
Always in our hearts.

EDWARDS
Paul Anthony
23.2.1957 - 9.5.2021

Loved and cherished wife
of Robert for 60 years.
Adored Mum of Barbara (dec), Margaret,
Charles, Robert Jnr, Brian and Kathleen.

Much loved husband of Donna.
Loved and admired father of Leigh and Brett.
Cherished father in law of Lozzy.
Adored Darsy to all his grandchildren.

Always Loved.

A much loved friend to all who knew him.
He will live forever in our hearts.

Sweet is the peace that ends all pain.
I will not forget your smiley face,
the love you showed for us and the long
battle you fought.
Never complaining,
always caring about everyone else.
Be proud of all you were.
Thanks Neicy for your love and devotion to my
Bro and thanks mate for waiting for me.

HUGHES
David

Dearly beloved brother-in-law of Deidre and
Tony Scholten, treasured uncle of Natalie (and
Trevor), Casey and Georgie, great uncle of
Anthony and Hunter.
You fought till the end but now your suffering is
over. Remembered always.
Deepest sympathy to Denise and family.

HUGHES
David
Words cannot express the sadness I feel for
Denise and her family on the tragic loss of
David.
Anne

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Peace Perfect Peace
HUGHES
David
Denise, Terry, Tim, Danny and families.
Our love and sympathy to you all.
Reg, Daryl (dec), Kerrie and families
Rest peacefully David

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Funeral Notices

PARKER

BRITTEN

HUGHES

Patricia Marjorie

Margaret

David Charles

29 3 1926 – 11 5 2021

Relatives and friends of the late Mrs. Margaret
Britten are advised that her Funeral Service and
Committal is appointed to take place at the
Doveton Park Funeral Centre, 1251 Doveton
Street North, Ballarat on WEDNESDAY May 19,
2021 commencing at Two (2:00) pm.

Relatives and friends of the late Mr. David
Charles Hughes are advised that a private
Funeral Service and Committal is appointed to
take place on FRIDAY May 21, 2021
commencing at Two (2:00) pm. David’s Service
will be webcast live via the Peter Tobin Funerals
website, and can be viewed at the Lake View
Hotel, 22 Wendouree Parade,
Lake Wendouree.

HUGHES
David
Our deepest sympathy to Denise and family.
Auntie Pat, Uncle Wilson (dec), Jude (dec).
Ian, Christine and families

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Loved & Cherished Mother/Mother-in-law
of Jenny & Scott, Pam & Colin.
Loved Nanna to Haley, Bradley,
Nathan, Nic, Ben & Natalie.
Great Son-in-law to Jeremy.
Great Nan to 10.

Attendee numbers may be restricted due to
COVID social distancing requirements.

A Mother is one who can
take the place of all others,
but whose place no one can take.

NEWTON
Vicki Maree
30.3.1964 - 12.5.2021

PHILLIPS

DOBBYN

NEWTON

Geoffrey Scott

Vicki Maree

My Beautiful Wife,
For every day, I miss you
For every hour, I need you
For every minute, I feel you
For every second, I want you
Forever I love you.
Love always Paul

(Pike) Joy

Relatives and friends of the late Mr. Geoffrey
Scott Dobbyn are advised that his Funeral
Service is appointed to take place at the
Doveton Park Funeral Centre, 1251 Doveton
Street North, Ballarat on THURSDAY May 20,
2021 commencing at Two (2:00) pm.
The funeral will leave at the conclusion of the
service for the Ballarat New Cemetery.

Relatives and friends of the late Mrs Vicki
Maree Newton are advised that her Funeral
Service will be live streamed on THURSDAY
May 20, 2021 commencing at Ten-thirty (10:30)
am via the Peter Tobin Funerals Webpage.
You are welcome to join mourners at the
Ballarat Yacht Club, Wendouree Parade, Lake
Wendouree to view the service.

Mother and Daughter, their hearts as one
A link that can never be undone.
Rest peacefully our beautiful Angel
Love always Kasey & Brett xox
Granny, you held our tiny hands for just a little
while but filled our hearts forever.
Love always Cooper & Remi xox

On May 10 2021, peacefully at St John of God
Hospital, in the presence of her family, aged 77
years.
Loved wife of Clive for 57 years, Mum of Karen
and Michael; Mother in law of David and
Kathryn; Nana Joy of her five grandchildren
and two great grandchildren.
Daughter of Ivan and Nancy Pike of
Christchurch N.Z. (both dec.); sister of Gavin,
Maree, Julie, Linda and families.

Attendee numbers may be restricted due to
COVID social distancing requirements.

Now at Peace

Always so loving, thoughtful and kind,
what beautiful memories you leave behind.
You may have left this world behind,
but you will never leave our hearts and mind.
Love Mum & Dad
We can no longer see you with our eyes
or touch you with our hands
but we will feel you in our hearts forever.
Love Sharryn, Paul, Nathan, Sophie, Cameron,
Shanae, Archie, Harry, Lotti & Pippa

PHILLIPS
Joy
The Bungaree Football Netball Club extends its
deepest sympathy to Clive and family on the
passing of Joy.

NEWTON

Love, Paul, Amber, Jed and Archie Cubitt.

NEWTON
Vicki
Treasured memories
are ours to keep,
deepest sympathy to
paul, Casey, Ryan
and families.

On April 29, 2021, peacefully at home, aged 75
years. Fourth child of Herbert and Kathleen
Rinaldi of Warrenheip (both dec.); dearest
husband of Marie, father of Michael, Stephen,
Damien and their families.
Respected brother of Margaret Hayes, Patricia
Reedy, Irene Moloney, Kevin (dec.), Judy
Cotton, and Jim, and his many nephews and
nieces.

WEBB

Attendee numbers may be restricted due to
COVID
social
distancing
requirements.
Attendance should be confirmed with the
family.

(Cochrane)
Rosalea Jaine
On May 10 2021 peacefully at Ballarat Health
Services, aged 59 years. Loved and loving
Mum of Samuel, Phillip and Adam.
Loved but never forgotten

The service will be live streamed:
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17, 2021) at 11.00 a.m.

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Paul Anthony
Relatives and friends of the late Mr. Paul
Anthony Edwards are advised that his Funeral
Service and Committal is appointed to take
place at the Doveton Park Funeral Centre, 1251
Doveton Street North, Ballarat on TUESDAY
May 18, 2021 commencing at Ten-thirty (10:30)
am.
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the Peter Tobin Funerals webpage.

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NEWTON

EDWARDS

In the presence of God

— The girls from
Venture Stores

John Robert
The President, Committee and Members of the
Begonia City Probus Club wish to pass
on our deepest sympathy to Nancy and family.

Donations to Ovarian Cancer Research would
be appreciated.

William (Bill) John OAM

Vicki
How lucky we are to have been blessed with a
friendship like ours with wonderful memories to
last us a lifetime. We will miss you always,
"Nana Vick"

A Service to Celebrate the life of the late
Shirley Margaret Dunn will be held at the
F.W.Barnes Chapel, Cnr of Darling and
Pleasant St, Ballarat, on Thursday 20th May at
1pm, followed by Burial at Ballarat New
Cemetery Lawn G.

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Mrs. Joy Phillips will be held in The Ballarat
Funeral Centre, 1114 Doveton St Nth, Ballarat
North, on Monday (May 17) at TEN (10.00) a.m.

RINALDI

Vicki

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adored and loved cousin of Darren, Leigh,
Donna, Heath, Jamie and their families.

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Thanks to Dr Craig Carden and staff of St John
of God Hospital, Ballarat.

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Real Madrid stay in La Liga title hunt

Monaco set up French final date with PSG

Real Madrid have earned a 4-1 win at Granada to keep their La Liga
title defence alive. Zinedine Zidane's side moved to second, on 78
points, two behind leaders Atletico Madrid. Luka Modric fired Madrid ahead in the 17th minute and Rodrygo (pictured) doubled the
lead with his first goal of the season as the visitors dominated. Jorge
Molina pulled a goal back for Granada but Madrid quickly restored
their advantage through Alvaro Odriozola and Karim Benzema.

Monaco have recovered from a sluggish start to beat fourth-division Rumilly Vallieres 5-1 away and join Paris St Germain in the
French Cup final. Alexis Peuget opened the scoring for Rumilly
before they were overwhelmed by the Ligue 1 side, who booked
their ticket for Wednesday's showdown at the Stade de France with
an own goal by Arthur Bozon and goals by Aurelien Tchouameni,
Wissam Ben Yedder, Cesc Fabregas and Aleksandr Golovin.

Titles worth the hard days: Kerr
AUSSIES ABROAD
SAM Kerr says she wanted to
come home at times during
her stunning English season.
As the English winter
bit hard amid the global
coronavirus pandemic, the
Australian striker was pondering her stint at Chelsea.
"Everyone just sees the
90 minutes (of a game) and
thinks it's so great," Kerr said.
"But it is a long and hard
journey. This season has
been so long and there
has been so many ups
and downs.
"There have been moments where I'm like, 'Gosh,
I just want to go home. I'm
missing my family, it's cold,
it's hard'.
"It has been nearly a year
since I have been home and
it looks like it will be another
year until I get home without
quarantine so it has been
tough."
Kerr kept at it. And was rewarded with not just a Women's Super League title with
Chelsea, but also the league's
Golden Boot award.
"Winning titles ... makes it
all worth it," Kerr said.
"It's not all roses and butterflies for sure. But at the
end of the day, I do it because
I love it.
"There is hard days. But I
do enjoy it, for the most part."
The Matildas star scored 21
times in her debut season for
Chelsea to collect her sixth
Golden Boot award in the
27-year-old's storied career.
The only other player to
collect half-a-dozen Golden
Boots? Argentina's male me-

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"It's cool that people are
talking about men's footballers and women's footballers
on the same level," Kerr said.
Kerr's club season culminates on Sunday when
Chelsea tackle Barcelona in
the Women's Champions
League final in Gothenburg.
Then the West Australian
turns her attention to the
Matildas' campaign at the
Tokyo Olympics starting in
late July.
Australia has yet to settle on its preparations for
the Olympics.
"I don't know what we're
doing honestly," Kerr said.
"We have a camp in
June, it's all up in the air at
the moment.
"The
government
in
Australia is really strict and
we're not sure if we're going
to be let in.
"We're just trying to figure
out what is the best option
for us as a team to prepare
for the Olympics."

Veart plays
down Reds'
winless run

Sam Kerr admits her stellar English soccer season was challenging. Picture: AP

ADELAIDE United are
winless in five A-League
games but coach Carl Veart
is confident the Reds aren't
far off their best.
The Reds slipped to a
4-1 loss to Melbourne City
at AAMI Park on Thursday
night but had some promising moments throughout.
Veart said he'd "never
really felt under any threat"
when City had the ball
but he was left to lament
poor decision making and
execution in attack, while
City's first two goals both
came from short corners.
"The football we're playing
is good. It's just small
details," Veart said.
"At times it's the pass is
under-hit, or it's hit to the
wrong side, or the cross is
not quite in the right area.
"We had some really good
opportunities to get close,
and we didn't take them and
then they took their opportunities at the other end."
Thursday night's game
was the first of four in 11
days, with the Reds facing
a short turnaround before
hosting Brisbane on Sunday.
Adelaide then travel to
Perth to face the Glory on
Wednesday, then take on
Melbourne Victory away
next Sunday.
Veart said with the short
turnarounds in mind, fringe
Socceroos striker Tomi
Juric had been deliberately
managed when he was
substituted at halftime.

Liverpool's top-four hopes alive after stunning Man United
EPL
JUERGEN Klopp tasted
victory at Old Trafford for
the first time as Liverpool
breathed new life into their
top-four push with a thrilling
4-2 win in the rearranged
fixture against Manchester United.
After anti-Glazer protesters got into the ground
and onto the pitch 11 days
ago, further demonstrations
could not stop Friday's Premier League fixture going
ahead in Old Trafford's final
match behind closed doors.
United missed this chance

Roberto Firmino

to all but end Liverpool's
Champions League qualification hopes as their fourth
match in eight days ended
in a first home loss to their

bitter rivals since 2014.
Stand-in skipper Bruno
Fernandes' deflected effort
had got Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side off to a dream
start, only for Diogo Jota to
level with a smart flick after
a penalty decision was overturned.
The equaliser came from a
corner and United's soft underbelly from set-pieces was
again exposed in first-half
stoppage time, with Roberto
Firmino heading home Trent
Alexander-Arnold's excellent
free-kick.
Liverpool pulled further

ahead 72 seconds after halftime as a comedy of errors at
the back ended with Firmino
turning home his second of
the evening.
United looked punchdrunk but eventually rallied
as Marcus Rashford reduced
the deficit before Nat Phillips, who had deflected home
Fernandes' opener, cleared a
Mason Greenwood attempt
off the line.
Mohamed Salah ensured
United would lose their sixth
home league game of the
season, racing through at the
death as Liverpool moved

into fifth and four points
behind Chelsea with a game
in hand.
Klopp was delighted to
bag all three points.
"Great fight, good game,
intense - how a derby should
be and our first, since I am
in Liverpool, win at Old
Trafford," he told Sky Sports.
"Good timing I would say.
We needed it, obviously, and
we fought hard for it and deserved it, so all good.
"It was necessary. Without
this result, we don't have to
talk too much about it. We
are still in the game and in

the race. That is all we could
do tonight and we did that."
Earlier, Everton's European hopes suffered a blow
with a damaging goalless
draw at Aston Villa.
A win would have kept
the pressure on the Premier
League's top six.
They climbed to eighth,
above Arsenal, to move two
points behind fifth-placed
West Ham.
Boss
Carlo
Ancelotti
warned afterwards Everton
would need to win their final
three games of the Premier
League season to qualify.

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Saturday May 15, 2021

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SPORT RACING

FLEMINGTON RACES SATURDAY
DAILY DOUBLE 7 & 9

E/QUAD 2, 3, 4, 5

TREBLE 7, 8, 9

CODE: MR

QUADRELLA 6, 7, 8, 9

BIG 6 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

TRACK: SOFT (5) RAIL: OUT 2M
1

2yo SW+P. Apprentices cannot claim $125,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1
ABRAZEN LAUGH h (9) ........... T Stockdale (a) 57 76 9.50
2
20 DELUXE LEGEND (4).....................................M Dee 57 100 9.50
3 46s I AM WAR (2)..................................................N Punch 57 83 31.00
LAFARGUE h (10) ................................ F W Kersley 57 76 *3.20
4
MIMOSAS (8).................................................. L Nolen 57 78 10.00
5
REYNAIRE (3)...................................................B Allen 57 78 5.00
6
7
0s RIVER VIEWS (1)..........................................M Zahra 57 91 5.50
8 8s0s2 VINLAGO b (6)...........................................B Prebble 57 96 31.00
9
FOR REAL LIFE (5)....................................................... 55 78 7.00
THAT’SWHATSHESAID (7) .................. C Newitt 55 81 126.00
10
LAFARGUE, Mimosas, For Real Life, Deluxe Legend

Goodwood Trophy

1600m

3yo Fillies Benchmark 78. Apprentices can claim $135,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 30s10 STAR OF EDEN wh (6)..............................M Zahra 58 100 5.00
2 21s21 SWEET KAROLINA (10)...........T Nugent (a1.5) 57 94 4.40
3 41754 DRONE STRIKE wn (9).......M Cartwright (a3) 56.5 10010.00
4 134s0 CAKEWALK BABY w (5) ..............................M Poy 55.5 95 26.00
5 s1339 PROMADA (1) ...................................... W Price (a2) 55.5 96 7.50
6 10s29 SABRE PRINCESS d (8) .......................... C Newitt 55.5 96 14.00
7 s5521 SEERESS w (12) ........................... Ms M Lloyd (a3) 55.5 91 18.00
8
312 SURECAN wb (11)........................................ H Coffey 55.5 99 *4.20
9 5s563 COUNTESS TESSA (4) ..............L Neindorf (a2) 55 95 11.00
10
2 RECKLESS MOON (7) ...............Ms C Hefel (a3) 55 97 34.00
11 34s21 ROSENSTRASSE n (2) .......................D Thornton 55 97 23.00
12 5s452 ELOPED (3)...............................................S M Mc Kay 54 91 81.00
STAR OF EDEN, Surecan, Sweet Karolina, Eloped

3

12.55

Breeders’ Handicap

1000m

Open. Apprentices can claim $125,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 s2141 SARTORIAL SPLENDOR cdwn (5).M Cartwright (a3) 58 100 *2.30
2 11173 IDIDITFORLOVE tdwb (1).......L Neindorf (a2) 56.5 95 6.00
3 00s5s THE CENTAURIAN dw (9)......................N Punch 54.5 86 34.00
4 55510 LI’L KONTRA dw (6) ...............................B Prebble 54 97 11.00
5 9406s CHICAGO CUB tdwh (4)................... F W Kersley 54 98 11.00
6 s5318 BRIMARVI VEHERO d (8) ....................................... 54 95 7.00
7 50s9s FREE OF DEBT t (3) .......................... W Price (a2) 54 91 9.00
8 1600s PINYIN dw (7) ................................Ms C Hefel (a3) 54 94 8.50
9 89s45 ROCK PROPHET dw (2).......................B Mertens 54 90 21.00
SARTORIAL SPLENDOR, Ididitforlove, Rock Prophet,
Chicago Cub

4 1.30 Aust Racing Hall Of Fame Trophy 2000m
3yo & up. Apprentices can claim $135,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 27s20 BRIMHAM ROCKS dwh (2)..................................... 60 91 4.60
2 71s72 ANOTHER DOLLAR dw (9) .................... L Nolen 59.5 90 6.00
3 396s9 HAKY tw (4).......................................................B Allen 58.5 87 17.00
4 79732 HYPNOS w (3)................................T Nugent (a1.5) 57 100 4.20
5 11060 DECLARES WAR tcdwn (8)...............P Moloney 54 93 9.00
6 9s905 TAVIRUN dw (1) .....................................Scratched 54
—
7 s0848 MIDTERM dwh (6).............................. F W Kersley 54 86 41.00
8 64s36 DON’T DOUBT DORY wn (5) . Ms C Hefel (a3) 54 99 *2.80
9 7s040 DOGMATIC dw (10)...............Ms L Lafferty (a3) 54 84 21.00
10 40917 SILENCE THE STARS dw (7) ................ H Coffey 54 82 41.00
HYPNOS, Brimham Rocks, Don’t Doubt Dory,
Another Dollar

5 2.10

Curragh Leilani

1200m

F&M Benchmark 84. Apprentices can claim $125,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 17s70 JUST HIFALUTIN cdwn (11)..Ms M Julius (a3) 63.5 93 41.00
2 1495s STROME dw (6) .............................J Richards (a3) 61 91 41.00
3 7s612 CORDILLA twbn (7).......................... W Price (a2) 58.5 100 *3.20
4 185s9 AIMEE’S JEWEL dw (2).........................J Maskiell 58 96 34.00
5 12231 MAGNAVALE dw (4)....................L German (a2) 58 97 19.00
6 0s110 THE STYLIST dw (10)............................... H Coffey 56 98 18.00
7 34551 BONS ABROAD w (1) .................T Nugent (a1.5) 55.5 100 5.50
8 38s62 PLAQUETTE dhn (8).....................................B Allen 55.5 99 3.60
9 53826 DON’TTELLTHEBOSS dwn (3).Ms C Hefel (a3) 54 98 12.00
10 3235s EXCELIDA dwh (5)..........................................M Dee 54 100 9.00
11 72233 GARVOC w (9)................................................................ 54 98 13.00
CORDILLA, Bons Abroad, Plaquette, Garvoc

6 2.50

DAILY DOUBLE 6 & 8

E/QUAD 1, 2, 3, 4

TREBLE 6, 7, 8

The Andrew Ramsden

2800m

WFA Listed. Apprentices cannot claim $400,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 0s055 CONSTANTINOPLE h (8)............ Dean Holland 58.5 84 51.00
2 4s221 GRAND PROMENADE (1)...................... H Coffey 58.5 93 6.00
3 5s124 PERSAN twb (4)................................................M Dee 58 100 4.80
4 86112 MOHICAN HEIGHTS wh (9)................................... 58 92 9.00
5 87833 MIAMI BOUND twh (10).............................B Allen 56 99 4.20
6 s6225 REALM OF FLOWERS w (6)..................M Zahra 56 92 *3.90
7 s9s77 NEVER LISTEN (2) ...............................Scratched 56
—
8 12s47 LION’S SHARE wb (7).........................W Price (a) 56 79 151.00
9 33121 THROUGH IRISH EYES cw (3)..................M Poy 54 91 6.00
10 82302 SALTO ANGEL (5).................................D Thornton 52 87 16.00
GRAND PROMENADE, Persan, Through Irish Eyes,
Mohican Heights

7

3.30

Royal Ascot Silver Bowl

1400m

3yo. Apprentices can claim $135,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 8s983 RANTING h (10)............................T Nugent (a1.5) 63.5 91 6.00
2 18441 ALTAI RANGER n (9) ...........M Cartwright (a3) 57.5 91 *5.00
3 633s8 MARK OF THE MAN d (1) ............................M Poy 55 88101.00
4 s4342 RATHLIN (8).......................................................M Dee 55 91 5.50
5 21558 CUMBERBATCH cdw (5) .......................................... 54.5 97 9.00
6 12136 WINSUM wn (4)........................................... C Newitt 54 100 8.00
7 7s105 CELESTIAL SOL wh (7) .....................D Thornton 54 94 12.00
8 12s38 FIELD OF ROSES wn (2) ...........J Richards (a3) 54 93 18.00
9 1312s VIBRANT GLIDER dw (6).............. W Price (a2) 54 86 6.50
10 15221 GRAND POPE hn (3)...............................B Prebble 54 89 9.00
11 4s181 SUMMAROCA d (11).................T Stockdale (a2) 54 90 34.00
RANTING, Winsum, Altai Ranger, Rathlin

8 4.08 Congratulations ARHOF Inductees 1400m
Open. Apprentices can claim $125,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 5s446 REYKJAVIK tcdw (4) .................L Neindorf (a2) 59 91 8.50
2 4235s ODEON tdwh (5)......................Ms L Lafferty (a3) 57.5 87 23.00
3 0437s SALSAMOR tdw (8)..................T Stockdale (a2) 57.5 85 51.00
4 6s243 RIDDLE ME THAT cdwn (11). M Cartwright (a3) 57 94 5.50
5 660s5 ROX THE CASTLE cdwn (12).................. L Nolen 57 91 21.00
6 4s576 ICONOCLASM tcdn (13)..............................B Allen 56.5 90 41.00
7 88s82 YULONG JANUARY cdw (9) .................M Zahra 56.5 100 5.50
8 30s33 GALAXY RAIDER tcdw (2).........................M Dee 56 91 12.00
9 65s11 INN KEEPER w (1)............................ Dean Holland 56 98 18.00
10 41s46 NATIVE SOLDIER dn (7) ..............................M Poy 55.5 91 23.00
11 69s85 BUMPER BLAST tcdw (14) ...................................... 54 93 11.00
12 2313s VIRAL cdwbh (3)................................ W Price (a2) 54 91 *4.40
13 34053 BIOMETRIC dwh (10)............................... H Coffey 54 92 14.00
14 51745 DESIGN ROUGE dn (6) ..............J Richards (a3) 54 92 19.00
RIDDLE ME THAT, Viral, Iconoclasm, Reykjavik

9 4.45

York Trophy

1600m

Benchmark 78. Apprentices can claim $75,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 411s8 SIGNIFICANCE d (11).................................. L Nolen 62 87 71.00
2 37s33 MR TIPLA wn (3)........................T Stockdale (a2) 60 95 12.00
3 4280s SENTIMENTALIST dw (4)....................B Prebble 60 83 81.00
4 s7487 JITTERY JACK tdw (20)......... Ms M Lloyd (a3) 59 94 34.00
5 19s61 REFORMIST d (16)..........................................M Dee 59 91 15.00
6 320s9 SAVOIE td (17)..................................L German (a2) 59 87 101.00
7 230s7 INFLUENTIAL GIRL dwn (15)..Ms C Hefel (a3) 58.5 95 21.00
8 6s081 ZERO DOUBT d (18) .................................. C Newitt 58 89 21.00
9 77725 VEGAS KNIGHT d (6)................................M Zahra 57.5 96 14.00
10 36s12 OCEAN MISS dw (5)................................J Noonan 57 97 *4.40
11 77231 FALLS dwn (10) ..............................J Richards (a3) 56.5 94 17.00
12 s008s WAR TIGER h (19)........................T Nugent (a1.5) 56.5 86201.00
13 41s36 PEARL BANDIT dw (8)................................B Allen 56 95 11.00
14 43222 DIRTY DEEDS dwh (1)........................D Thornton 55.5 99 5.50
15 31342 PRINCE OF HELENA wb (13).L Neindorf (a2) 55.5 91 7.50
16 31s47 DAZZLING DAMSEL dw (2)............Scratched 55
—
EMERGENCIES
17 160s2 SAN FABRIZIO dwbh (7) ............... W Price (a2) 55.5 100 5.00
18 90s40 SUKOOT dwh (9) ................................. F W Kersley 55 90 51.00
19 8302s DUSK FALLS (12)......................................... H Coffey 55 87 101.00
20 s4331 MISTER YU SHU w (14).......M Cartwright (a3) 54 92 19.00
OCEAN MISS, Vegas Knight, Dirty Deeds, Mr Tipla

Gear Changes
RACE 1: (1) Abrazen Laugh lugging bit on first time; (2)
Deluxe Legend blinkers on first time; (5) Mimosas blinkers
on first time, cross-over noseband on first time; (6) Reynaire
tongue-tie on first time; (7) River Views blinkers on first time,
gelded, winkers off first time
RACE 2: (4) Cakewalk Baby cross-over noseband off first
time; (5) Promada winkers on first time; (9) Countess Tessa
blinkers on first time
RACE 3: (2) Ididitforlove, (4) Li’l Kontra blinkers on first time;
(3) The Centaurian stallion chain on first time; (7) Free Of
Debt cross-over noseband off again, ear muffs pre-race only
on first time, lugging bit off again
RACE 4: (5) Declares War blinkers on again, winkers off first
time
RACE 5: (1) Just Hifalutin blinkers off first time, winkers on
again; (2) Strome tongue-tie off first time; (4) Aimee’s Jewel
cross-over noseband on first time
RACE 6: (7) Never Listen blinkers on again, noseroll off first
time
RACE 7: (5) Cumberbatch ear muffs pre-race only on first
time
RACE 8: (6) Iconoclasm blinkers off again; (13) Biometric
winkers on first time
RACE 9: (12) War Tiger ear muffs off first time; (14) Dirty
Deeds blinkers on first time

Note: Race times correct at time of publication.

This publication takes all care in compiling TAB details, but cannot accept responsibility for any errors.
Readers are urged to check TAB information with the official lists before placing their bets.

1

12.01 Emmett’s W’beal Branch Plate

1200m

3yo Maiden SW. Apprentices can claim $23,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1
5 MIGRATING (7)....................................C Robertson 58 81 6.00
2 36435 TONY’S KICK (2).......................................Ms C Puls 58 91 12.00
3 08s5 YANKEE SPIRIT (3)........................Ms J Andreou 58 90 14.00
4
7s DAMASK ROSE (4) .............J B Opperman (a2) 56 97 8.00
5 74s3 MISS CLICQUOT (6) ..........................................J Hill 56 100 *2.20
6
NURIYA (1).......................................................N Farley 56 87 9.00
7 475s3 SIDEWALK SINNER (5)............... Ms T Bull (a2) 56 89 4.00
MISS CLICQUOT, Sidewalk Sinner, Migrating, Damask Rose

2 12.36

Emmett’s/John Deere Plate

1000m

Maiden SW. Apprentices can claim $23,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 2s37 EXTRAPOLATE b (9)........................C Robertson 59.5 99 *2.20
2 s789s JESTER MONTY (1).............J B Opperman (a2) 59.5 79 34.00
JUNGLE FLIGHT (8)................................Ms C Puls 59.5 80 26.00
3
4 s9426 SPURGE (3) ............................................. Dylan Dunn 59.5 100 9.50
5 737s BOB’S RELISH (6).....................................L Riordan 57.5 94 8.00
6 9970s DEPTHS OF BLUE (11)......................... K Bohorun 57.5 78 51.00
7 97s3 IRREWARRA GEM (7)...............................N Farley 57.5 91 21.00
8 67s LADY ZOFFANY (10) ....................................J Duffy 57.5 83 18.00
PERFECT COSTA (4)............................J Bowditch 57.5 82 6.50
9
10 46396 RUN DANCE FLY (2).............................Ms S Noble 57.5 80 26.00
11 4s58 SHERIFF’S LADY (5)................................ R Beattie 57.5 93 4.00
EXTRAPOLATE, Sheriff’s Lady, Perfect Costa, Bob’s Relish

3

1.11 We Thank Apex Club W’beal Plate 1600m

Maiden SW. Apprentices can claim $23,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1
BOYSZEE (8)...........................................................J Hill 59.5 92 7.00
2 6s5 GLADIOLO (1)..........................................J Bowditch 59.5 98 21.00
3 s6627 HEADMAN (12) .........................................W Gordon 59.5 90 34.00
4
33 KALEB HUGH (4)......................................L Riordan 59.5 100 5.00
5 26s76 LAND OF THE BRAVE (5)..............C Robertson 59.5 99 18.00
6 33s50 NATIVE BLUE (3)................................. Dylan Dunn 59.5 93 21.00
7
5 OPPORTUNITY LOST (2)...........................J Duffy 59.5 95 26.00
8 885 CYCLONE LOUIE (10)..............................J Keating 57.5 93 16.00
9 23s95 JARRAH MISS (7).....................................Ms C Puls 57.5 94 21.00
10 s3343 JO JO EXPRESS b (17).......J B Opperman (a2) 57.5 97 *4.00
11 0s544 MAGNOLIA ROSE (14)................. Ms T Bull (a2) 57.5 98 8.00
12
0 REBEL LEYLA (15).......................................N Farley 57.5 91 26.00
EMERGENCIES
13 8s59 ROCK’N’ROLL HEART (16) ..................................... 59.5 91 16.00
14 8s796 NORFOLK LOVE (9)............................Scratched 57.5
—
15 97s77 FIORENTINO (11) .......................................................... 59.5 91 18.00
16 s06s9 FAST FOILS (13)..................................Ms K Walters 59.5 87 51.00
17 s5775 WONGA FLYER (6) ...................................................... 59.5 95 12.00
JO JO EXPRESS, Kaleb Hugh, Boyszee, Magnolia Rose

4 1.46 Bet365 Protest Promise Handicap 1600m
Rating 58. Apprentices can claim $22,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 23516 LORD OF THE TURF dw (3)................L Riordan 60 91 6.00
2 27731 DRAIOCHTA dw (1) ...........................C Robertson 59.5 91 *3.20
3 92s08 GUNNER GET IT DUNN d (9)........ Dylan Dunn 59.5 99 21.00
4 6s348 REDJINA tw (14)................Ms M Lawrence (a3) 59.5 94 26.00
5 00s51 CORAGGIO w (11)...............................Ms K Walters 58.5 94 16.00
6 47381 ROEDERER d (10).................................Scratched 58.5
—
7 s9s09 YOUNG CLIFFY b (5) .........J B Opperman (a2) 58.5 100 5.50
8 9s275 BOUFFON (2) .................................................................. 55.5 91 16.00
9 25809 BELLATOR (6) .................................. Ms T Bull (a2) 55 93 8.50
10 s70s5 ALI ORPHAN dw (4).............Ms L Halliday (a3) 54 90 26.00
11 6808s BALEKA (8)..................................................... S Fawke 54 85 21.00
12 7s856 BLACKLISTED w (13)....................................J Duffy 54 88 12.00
EMERGENCIES
13 s2763 HONOR THE MOMENT d (7).............Ms C Puls 54 88 21.00
14 83976 TRAFFIC COP dw (12) ................................................ 54 87 26.00
DRAIOCHTA, Young Cliffy, Lord Of The Turf, Bellator

5 2.26

Many Thanks W’nabeal Lions

1200m

Rating 58. Apprentices can claim $22,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 25145 HIGHWAY TO SUCCESS (6) ................ R Beattie 59.5 90 16.00
2 224s6 TEDDY MERCURY d (3)........................L Riordan 59.5 96 5.00
3 69s85 ELMORE LAD dw (1).......................... Dylan Dunn 58.5 93 11.00
4 485s5 TELEMARKETER w (13) ..........................N Farley 58 92 12.00
5 5797s COSTA MAYA (10)...............................Ms L Meech 57.5 87 9.00
6 329s2 GINNY ANN wb (11)...............................J Bowditch 57.5 100 *3.40
7 9154s COSMOTRIX (8)........................................Ms C Puls 57 87 16.00
8 42725 FUNDING d (12) ...............................................J Duffy 57 88 8.00
9 374s8 TRIPLE RED (2).....................................................J Hill 56 93 16.00
10 90s0s OUR ELLIE ROSE dw (7)................Ms K Walters 55 82 51.00
11 89959 INFERNAL dw (4) ......................................................... 54.5 89 18.00
12 99s20 AUTUMN’S BEST (9)..................... Ms T Bull (a2) 54 88 8.50
EMERGENCY
13 s4860 STATTON dwn (5)......................................................... 54 88 34.00
GINNY ANN, Teddy Mercury, Funding, Costa Maya

6 3.06

1 4.57 DNR Logistics Vicbred Pace 1720m
4yo & up RBD Mobile. $20,000

1— s8s82 ICONIC MAJOR .................. Fr 2.00
2— 33135 LA PUDDIE............................. Fr 4.50
3— 21235 FLYING ART (EM) .............. Fr
4— 56574 CEE CEE IN AMERICA..... Fr 16.00
5— 03325 BRACKENREID ................... Fr 21.00
6— 12332 MYNAMEISJEFF................ Fr 6.50
7— 14621 DOT THE EYE ....................... Fr34.00
Second Row
8— 28426 DELIGHTFUL MIA............. Fr 21.00
9— 14893 LETS MAKE TRACKS ...... Fr 14.00
10— 41062 FOOLISH PLEASURE....... Fr 7.00
11— s1224 DAYLIGHT AT DAWN ...... Fr 14.00
ICONIC MAJOR, La Puddie,
Mynameisjeff, Foolish Pleasure
2 5.33
Hero Pace
1720m
Claiming ($10000 not exceeding
$50000) PBD Mobile. $10,000
1— 97657 LEXUS ON THE BEACH.. Fr 101.0
2— 87137 POCKET THEDEAL........... Fr 21.00
3— 51531 VAN MARA ............................ Fr 2.80
4— 57639 JOE NIEN................................. Fr26.00
5— 92527 DIKERRY................................. Fr 21.00
6— 86811 AMPLE POWER .................. Fr 4.50
7— s5338 ARDEN VOYAGER ............. Fr 5.50

QUADRELLA 5, 6, 7, 8

E/QUAD 1, 2, 3, 4

3 6.02 Vicbred Platinum Metro Trot 2240m
Trotters NR 70 to 85 PBD Mobile Heat.
$20,000

1— 79s67 MAH MUKKER .................... Fr 21.00
2— 7115s FREMARKSPOETRY........ Fr 4.50
3— 2s474 COL DU GALIBIER............. Fr26.00
4— 78119 TEETREETOMMY.............. Fr 7.00
5— 7405s IMSETTOGO.......................... Fr 4.00
6— 22113 BEAU GARCON ................... Fr Scr
7— 74123 PEREGRINE PHOENIX ... Fr 4.00
Second Row
8— 22252 YMBRO WASTED............... Fr 14.00
9— 23213 HATCHBACK ........................ Fr 3.50
10— s4679 CHIEF RUNNINGCLOUDFr34.00
IMSETTOGO, Hatchback, Peregrine
Phoenix, Fremarkspoetry
Note: Race times correct at time of publication.

1200m

7

3.46

Warrack Motel

1200m

Benchmark 64. Apprentices can claim $22,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 40131 PILL BOX dw (9).......................... Ms Z Lloyd (a4) 63 10012.00
2 10201 ROHLON DRUNK dw (4) .J B Opperman (a2) 62 99 16.00
3 s3817 PARK BENCH dw (13).............................Ms C Puls 60 92 34.00
4 4170s BILL THE BEE (1)........................................J Keating 59.5 90 18.00
5 31229 MALAUKA dw (7).....................................L Riordan 59.5 97 14.00
6 814s3 LUXITORAH w (6)....................................... S Fawke 58.5 99 21.00
7 2s411 THE TURFFINATOR dw (12)..... Ms T Bull (a2) 58.5 95 *4.20
8 07s09 STRATEGIC FORCE w (8) ...............................J Hill 58 98 26.00
9 1s75 TYCOON RONNIE (5)..........................J Bowditch 58 96 8.00
10 53428 SUNDAY NIGHT TEA dw (10)..................J Duffy 57 95 21.00
11 6s321 EUPHEGENIA (14).......................................N Farley 56.5 92 5.50
12 33419 I’M STILL STANDING (3).................... Ms L Boyd 56 98 16.00
EMERGENCIES
13 27551 OVER THERE d (11)............................... K Bohorun 57.5 95 8.00
14 035s3 UNO VELOCE dw (2)............................J Bowditch 56.5 97 6.50
THE TURFFINATOR, Euphegenia, Uno Veloce, Over There

8 4.26 Bet365 Racing Refunds Handicap 1800m
Rating 58. Apprentices can claim $22,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 77523 EL SANTO b (8).....................................................J Hill 60 90 8.00
2 41244 QUANTRELL w (5) ...............................Scratched 60
—
3 32174 ARTHURAS (4)...................................... Dylan Dunn 59 88 14.00
4 627s0 BARMAH AL (6).......................................W Gordon 58.5 85 51.00
5 47s21 DELEGATED dw (14).........................C Robertson 58 96 *4.80
6 35451 FRATELLO w (11)............................. Ms T Bull (a2) 58 86 8.50
7 s0486 LONDON TOWN w (10) ..........Ms K Quilty (a3) 57.5 86 21.00
8 67s43 CLEVER MAN b (2) .............J B Opperman (a2) 57 100 6.50
9 331s0 TANGO GOLD w (15)...............................L Riordan 57 93 16.00
10 56188 VELVET THUNDER (18) ....................Scratched 57
—
11 109s9 ZABEXTRA dw (7).............................Ms K Walters 56.5 88 18.00
12 0s563 NORTHERN BLISS (13).............................N Farley 55.5 86 14.00
EMERGENCIES
13 72543 SOUTH BEND (12).................................Scratched 56.5
—
14 0s994 LUCADONIS w (3) ........................................................ 56 86 18.00
15 66821 SAVVY ACQUISITION d (17) .................................. 56 82 16.00
16 45690 GO FERRANDO dw (16) ............................................ 56 84 34.00
17 623s8 WRITTEN RULZ w (9)............................... S Fawke 56 82 26.00
18 53473 BASSONS dw (1) ............................................................ 54.5 88 18.00
DELEGATED, Clever Man, El Santo, Fratello

Gear Changes
RACE 1: (1) Migrating blinkers on first time; (4) Damask Rose
hind bandages on first time
RACE 2: (4) Spurge blinkers on again, winkers off first time;
(5) Bob’s Relish pre-race ear muffs on first time; (7) Irrewarra
Gem blinkers on first time; (11) Sheriff’s Lady blinkers on
first time
RACE 3: (5) Land Of The Brave nose roll on again, winkers
on first time; (8) Cyclone Louie blinkers on first time; (9)
Jarrah Miss cross-over noseband on first time, hanoverian
noseband off first time, nose roll off first time
RACE 5: (2) Teddy Mercury visors on first time; (5) Costa
Maya blinkers off first time, cross-over noseband off first
time; (6) Ginny Ann blinkers off first time, tongue-tie off first
time, winkers on again; (9) Triple Red blinkers on first time;
(13) Statton front bandages off first time
RACE 6: (2) Benatari barrier blanket on first time, blinkers
off again, winkers on again; (3) Gingerson winkers on first
time
RACE 7: (2) Rohlon Drunk blinkers on again, winkers off
again; (12) I’m Still Standing near-side bubble cheeker on
first time, lugging bit off first time; (13) Over There bit lifter
on first time
RACE 8: (8) Clever Man cross-over noseband on again; (14)
Lucadonis blinkers on first time

LEGEND: t Won at track. c Won here this distance. d Won this distance on another course. w Won
on rain affected going. n Won at night. s Spell of three months. b Beaten favourite last start. h Home
track. D Disqualified. F Fell. P Pulled up. L Lost rider.

CODE: MH

TREBLE 6, 7, 8

Second Row
8— 44225 YORKSHIRE .......................... Fr 9.00
9— 52310 YOUNG ROOSTER............. Fr 14.00
10— 12341 GLENAVRIL KING.............. Fr 4.50
VAN MARA, Arden Voyager, Glenavril
King, Ample Power

Pony Xpress Handicap

Rating 58. Apprentices can claim $22,000
No Form Horse
Jockey Wgt Rtg Price
1 0s524 THAT SONG d (9)................................C Robertson 60 97 8.50
2 6s602 BENATARI dw (1) .............................Ms J Andreou 59.5 95 16.00
3 5s768 GINGERSON tdw (4) ..................... Ms T Bull (a2) 59 97 14.00
4 8s3s2 TAVOLIERE MIST (13)..................................J Duffy 58 98 8.00
5 10s30 GOODNESS GRACIE (7) ..................................J Hill 57.5 92 12.00
6 9s372 RUSHIN’ RHONDA (8)........................J Bowditch 57.5 99 5.50
7 48435 SHIP OF DREAMS dw (12) ...............Scratched 57.5
—
8 39079 EPAULETTE PRINCE (3) .......................J Keating 57 93 26.00
9 50012 END OF DAY (5)............................................N Farley 56 96 12.00
10 27472 COMIENDO w (14)...............J B Opperman (a2) 55.5 97 16.00
11 22122 DISHY’S (10) ........................Ms M Lawrence (a3) 54.5 98 *4.80
12 98335 WINDCHILL w (11)........................................................ 54.5 100 9.50
EMERGENCIES
13 14s74 FRISKOCITY d (6)........................................C Quilty 54.5 95 51.00
14 43767 TECOFSKY d (2)........................................... S Fawke 54 94 34.00
DISHY’S, Rushin’ Rhonda, That Song, Benatari

MELTON HARNESS SATURDAY
DAILY DOUBLE 5 & 7

CODE: CR

TRACK: GOOD (4) RAIL: TRUE

11.45 Celebrating 20yrs Of The ARHOF 1000m

2 12.20

WARRACKNABEAL RACES SATURDAY

QUADRELLA 5, 6, 7, 8

4 6.31 Vicbred Platinum Metro Trot 2240m
Trotters NR 70 to 85 PBD Mobile Heat.
$20,000

1— 76415 ANYWHERE HUGO........... Fr 4.50
2— 04918 ROYAL CHARLOTTE........ Fr 16.00
3— 98338 FEAR NOT .............................. Fr26.00
4— 5s751 NO REPUBLIC...................... Fr 10.00
5— 35231 GEORGIAS PRIDE.............. Fr 14.00
6— 2433s SCRUFFY DOOLAN.......... Fr 16.00
7— 56554 NEPHEW OF SONOKO ... Fr 7.50
Second Row
8— 22s74 BRANDLO PRINCE............ Fr 2.50
9— 51544 MOONSHINE LINDA........ Fr 5.50
10— 99191 RAVE ON HALL ................... Fr 10.00
BRANDLO PRINCE, Anywhere Hugo,
Moonshine Linda, Nephew Of Sonoko
5 7.03 Melton Toyota Pace 2240m
NR 78 to 94 PBD Mobile. $20,000

1—
2—
3—
4—
5—
6—
7—

38123
6s454
34187
37296
3s946
07371
65127

EXPLICIT CASTLE............. Fr 6.50
TORRID SAINT.................... Fr 5.00
CASTLE RETREAT............. Fr 6.50
BOY FROM BONDI............ Fr 5.50
SOEXTRA................................ Fr 10.00
MAJOR MANBAR.............. Fr 5.50
IM NO OUTLAW.................. Fr 6.50

M1/C3 - Class of race (one metro win/three career wins). RBD - Random barrier draw. PBD - Prefential barrier draw. ODM - Out of the
draw in mobiles. RODM - Right out of the draw in mobiles. ODS - Out of the draw in stands. RODS - Right out of the draw in stands. EOD
- Moved to extreme outside draw. RHCP - Rehandicapped. TR - Trotter. C&G - Colts & geldings. (C) - Concession driver. (C,cl) - Claiming
concession driver

BIG 6 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Second Row
8— 54353 MAESTRO BELLINI........... Fr 16.00
9— 65659 LOVE INA CHEVY .............. Fr 21.00
10— 91529 ASSASSINATOR ................. Fr 14.00
11— 86796 ROMAN AVIATOR............. Fr26.00
BOY FROM BONDI, Castle Retreat, Torrid
Saint, Explicit Castle
6 7.35 Nutrien Equine Pace 2240m
Mares NR 70 to 89 PBD Mobile. $20,000
1— 81243 ITZAMAJOR SURPRISE Fr 21.00
2— 55774 MADAME ANNIE................ Fr 51.00
3— s5832 FINAL PEACE ....................... Fr 21.00
4— 83634 ROCKASAKI.......................... Fr 6.50
5— 82351 STILL HUNGOVER ............ Fr34.00
6— 07s11 SPELLBOUND...................... Fr 1.30
7— 12221 IOLANTA................................. Fr 14.00
Second Row
8— r2224 THE PANTHEIST ................ Fr 16.00
9— 86645 PICK UP LINE ....................... Fr 21.00
10— 71435 DELIGHTFUL JAZZ........... Fr 12.00
SPELLBOUND, Rockasaki, Itzamajor
Surprise, Final Peace
7 8.07 Mimosa Homes Pace 2240m
NR 68 to 77 PBD Mobile. $20,000
1— 43651 ONA HIGHWAY TOHELLFr 5.50
2— 71826 STINGRAY TARA................ Fr 5.00
3— 41775 TOBY OGARA (EM)........... Fr
4— 516s4 YANKEE GOLD .................... Fr 21.00
5— 64455 BELITTLED ............................ Fr34.00
6— 25406 AZZA.......................................... Fr26.00
7— 96121 RADIUS .................................... Fr 14.00

FRONT LINE: MOBILE (7) STAND (7)
Second Row
8— 16431 WOULD YOU MIND .......... Fr 7.50
9— 64694 HUGO ROCKS ...................... Fr26.00
10— 64275 PUNTARNO STRIDE ........ Fr 14.00
11— 37750 MONGIANA........................... Fr 7.50
12— 33s24 JILLIBY NITRO .................... Fr 2.80
13— 96912 HULI NIEN .............................. Fr 21.00
ONA HIGHWAY TOHELL, Jilliby Nitro,
Mongiana, Stingray Tara

Second Row
8— 58510 ICICLE....................................... Fr26.00
9— 59736 DELS DESTINY .................... Fr 3.50
10— 422s6 A JEWEL IN THE CROWNFr 5.00
11— 70s92 MAJESTIC MANNEQUINFr 4.50
12— 11471 LEANNE LEEANN .............. Fr 7.50
13— 6s0s5 PROSTHESIS ........................ Fr 21.00
DELS DESTINY, Majestic Mannequin, A
Jewel In The Crown, Leanne Leeann

8 8.42 TAB Young Pedro Free For All 1720m
NR 90 to 120 PBD/L4$ Mobile. $24,000
1— 87629 SMITHSTARS LEXUS....... Fr 151.0
2— 44070 RISHI.......................................... Fr 17.00
3— 140s2 RUPERT OF LINCOLN..... Fr26.00
4— 52134 MAX DELIGHT..................... Fr 1.35
5— 71216 BONCEL BENJAMIN........ Fr 10.00
6— s1713 JILLIBY CHEVY................... Fr 4.60
7— 6919s BETTOR BE THE BOMB . Fr 10.00
MAX DELIGHT, Jilliby Chevy, Bettor Be
The Bomb, Rupert Of Lincoln

10 9.42 Ticketblaster Vicbred Pace 1720m
4yo & up RBD Mobile. $10,000

9 9.16 Alamora Tarneit Now Selling Trot 2240m
Trotters NR 56 to 69 PBD Mobile.
$10,000

1—
2—
3—
4—
5—
6—
7—

13214
22223
79167
63195
06286
37170
1884s

NIGHT WHISPERER......... Fr 21.00
CLASSY SPIRIT................... Fr 5.00
FLING ABOUT (EM).......... Fr
BOOTLEG BERT.................. Fr 16.00
HOLLYS MISS MOLLY..... Fr34.00
CARNERA............................... Fr34.00
RIGONDEAUX...................... Fr 16.00

1— 59366 SEW WHAT (EM)................ Fr
2— 17812 KISSMELVIS.......................... Fr 9.00
3— 23623 BRING THE FLAVE............ Fr 16.00
4— 64944 ROCK ON PLAYBOY......... Fr34.00
5— 151s9 STEFSASTAR........................ Fr 5.00
6— 72155 BLISSFULL MIND .............. Fr26.00
7— 04714 EXCITER.................................. Fr 16.00
Second Row
8— 95359 MANASSA SKY ................... Fr 21.00
9— 21235 FLYING ART .......................... Fr 1.50
10— 21884 OUR SIR OLIVER................ Fr 21.00
11— 9589s WILLEM................................... Fr 16.00
FLYING ART, Stefsastar, Kissmelvis,
Willem
This publication takes all care in compiling
TAB details, but cannot accept responsibility
for any errors. Readers are urged to check TAB
information with the official lists before placing
their bets.

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65

SPORT

AFL welcomes back Thursday night lights
AFL
PREMIERSHIP contenders
Port Adelaide and Geelong
will clash in the first of three
Thursday night fixtures when
the marquee timeslot returns
to the competition's schedule in June.
The AFL on Thursday confirmed its fixture for rounds
13-15, with the Power-Cats
encounter at Adelaide Oval
one of the highlights.
West Coast host Richmond
on a Thursday night in round
14, then Brisbane meet Geelong in round 15.

FIXTURE HIGHLIGHTS
■ ROUND 13 - Thursday, June 10: Port Adelaide v Geelong,
Adelaide Oval, 7.40pm.
■ ROUND 14 - Thursday, June 17: West Coast v Richmond,
Optus Stadium, 8.10pm; Friday: Geelong v Western Bulldogs,
GMHBA Stadium, 7.50pm.
■ ROUND 15 - Thursday, June 24: Brisbane Lions v Geelong,
Gabba, 7.20pm; Friday: Richmond v St Kilda, MCG, 7.50pm;
Saturday: Port Adelaide v Sydney, Adelaide Oval, 7.40pm;
Sunday: West Coast v Western Bulldogs, Optus Stadium,
3.20pm.

Most clubs playing on
Thursday nights will be

coming off a bye, however,
the Lions (five days) and

Cats (six) will do battle after
short breaks.
"Thursday-night primetime footy returns with three
huge match-ups across three
different states," AFL broadcast and scheduling boss
Marcus King said.
"With the support of the
AFLPA and clubs, we can
utilise up to one five-day
break per club subject to
certain parameters and this
has helped in achieving and
optimising this next block of
Thursday matches."
Round 13 also features

the return of the popular
'Big Freeze' feature match
between Melbourne and
Collingwood.
It will be played at the
MCG on the Queen's Birthday Monday for the first
time since 2019, having been
wiped off the calendar last
year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Round 13 will also see
St Kilda play a home game
against Adelaide in Cairns,
which hosted four matches
during the coronavirus-affected 2020 season.

"It is great for the fans of
St Kilda and the Crows, as
well as fans in Queensland,
to attend and host a Saturday
night fixture at Cazalys Stadium," King said.
Rounds 13 and 14 will
feature standalone Sunday clashes and conclude
a three-round bye period,
which sees six clubs each
week have a break.
Regular
nine-match
rounds resume in round
15, with the schedule from
round 16 onwards still to be
determined.

McKeown, McKeon
post blistering times
SWIMMING

Emma McKeon recorded the fastest 100m freestyle time this year at the Sydney Open on Friday. Picture: AAP

AUSTRALIAN swim stars
Kaylee McKeown and Emma
McKeon have clocked this
year's world-best times in
their respective events at the
Sydney Open.
The 19-year-old McKeown
broke her own Commonwealth and Australian records in the 200m backstroke
on Friday.
McKeown's time of two
minutes 04.31 seconds is the
quickest in the world in the
event in the past 18 months.
And McKeon has recorded the fastest 100m
freestyle time this year to
notch another victory over
Cate Campbell.
McKeon triumphed at the
Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre Open in 52.29s,
bettering this year's previous
world-best mark of 52.43s set
by Campbell at last month's
national titles.
Campbell set that time
in a heat at the nationals,
with McKeon beating her in
the final.
And McKeon repeated
that feat on Friday with a sizzling personal best to eclipse
Campbell (53.27s) and Mad-

ison Wilson (53.78s).
"I've just got a lot stronger and done a lot of work
in the gym, that's where I
think I've made big gains,"
McKeon said.
"And every time I get to
race Cate and be up against
the best in the world it adds
to my confidence and it's just
good race practice."
McKeown's personal best
in the 200m backstroke final
came after she went hard in
Thursday night's heat.
"I planned to come back
this morning and see what
we could do, so I'm pretty
impressed that we were able
back up some pretty good
swims," McKeown said.
"I just trusted myself a bit
more in the first 100m today
to get out a little faster which
did hurt a lot in the back-end.
"It's always our plan to put
as much pressure on as we
can at these meets to get the
most race practice we can.''
Australia's Olympic swimming trials will be held in
Adelaide on June 12-17,
where McKeown will take
on stalwart Emily Seebohm,
who placed second in Friday's final.

Red faces after BikeExchange car topples cyclist at Giro
CYCLING
AUSTRALIAN cycling has
endured a calamitous day at
the Giro d'Italia as last year's
runner-up Jai Hindley suffered on the sixth stage and
saw his hopes of winning
the title take a potentially
fatal knock.
It also proved an embarrassing afternoon for
Australian outfit Team BikeExchange on Thursday,
as they ended up having to
apologise after their team
car inexplicably ran into the
back of a cyclist, knocking
him to the ground.

The Australian driver, the
team's sporting director
Gene Bates, was later expelled from the race.
The blessing was that the
Belgian rider, Pieter Serry
(Deceuninck-Quick
Step)
was able to remount and finish the stage. Gracefully, he
later accepted their apology.
Western Australian Hindley, who just missed out on
winning the title last year,
lost valuable time in the general classification battle after
getting dropped on the climb
with just over two kilometres
left of the 162km slog in the

rain from Grotte di Frasassi
to San Giacomo.
At the end of the ascent,
the DSM co-leader, along
with Frenchman Romain
Bardet, trailed home 34th,
two minutes 38 seconds behind the stage winner, Swiss
Gino Mader, who claimed his
maiden grand tour victory.
His struggle meant that
Hindley is now 25th, a forbidding 3:29 behind the
new race leader, Hungary's
Attila Valter, who took the
Maglia Rosa off Alessandro
De Marchi.
The big talking point of

the day, though, came on the
approach to the final ascent,
about 10km from the finish
as Bates drove the Team BikeExchange support car ran
straight into the back of the
unsuspecting Serry.
"Our sport director Gene
Bates has spoken directly to
Pieter Serry and to Deceuninck-Quick Step to apologise
personally following the
incident on today's stage 6,"
Team BikeExchange said
on Twitter.
"We're all happy to see
that Pieter was able to finish
the stage."

Gino Mader celebrates as he crosses the line to win the
sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia. Picture: AP

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SPORT FOOTBALL

Wounded Tigers
stick to their guns
TIGERS

#
#

RICHMOND coach Damien Hardwick will
continue to back his side's famed pressure
and surge brand of football against Greater
Western Sydney on Saturday night in the
face of a mounting injury toll.
The Tigers are reeling from a 63-point
hammering by Geelong in round eight and
have tackled off-field distractions in recent
days, with star duo Shai Bolton and Daniel
Rioli involved in a nightclub scuffle that left
both nursing injuries.
Rioli (black eye) will play against the
Giants at Marvel Stadium, but Bolton (broken wrist) has been added to the reigning
premiers' long list of absentees.
Dion Prestia, Kane Lambert, Shane
Edwards and captain Trent Cotchin are
also missing from a depleted midfield that
was out-muscled by the Cats in the Tigers'
heaviest defeat of the season.
"If you don't get your hands on the ball
you're defending for a hell of a long time and
you're always going to get beaten up on the
scoreboard," Hardwick said.
"Sometimes you can hurt your own
system with the way you use the ball and
the way you move the ball forward, but we'll
always continue to back-in the way we play
because we know it holds us in good stead.
"When the whips are cracking we know
we're thereabouts and our very best footy is
really, really hard to beat."

When the whips are
cracking we know we're
thereabouts and our very
best footy is really, really
hard to beat.
Damien Hardwick

Hugo Ralphsmith will debut for Richmond against GWS and Hardwick expects a
fierce response from the likes of second-tier
midfielders Jack Graham, Marlion Pickett
and Riley Collier-Dawkins.
The Giants are also nursing a raft of injuries but have onballers Callan Ward, Josh
Kelly, Jacob Hopper, Tim Taranto and Tom
Green in good form, and have won four of
their past five games to surge into top-eight
contention.
Richmond chief executive Brendon Gale
has expressed his frustration at being forced
to play a home game away from the MCG,
saying this week it will cost the club "hundreds of thousands of dollars".
But Hardwick doesn't see it as a major
issue for his team.
"The game's at Marvel Stadium and we're
happy to play anytime, anywhere," Hardwick said.

Daniel Rioli will play against the Giants despite nursing a black eye from a nightclub
scuffle. Picture: AAP

AFL TEAMS ROUND 9
1.45PM SATURDAY AT SCG

2.10PM SATURDAY AT UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA STADIUM

SWANS V MAGPIES

HAWKS V KANGAROOS

Sydney
FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

Collingwood

Cunningham
Rampe
Hewett
Fox
McCartin
Dawson
Lloyd
Kennedy
Blakey
Wicks
Heeney
Hayward
Papley
Franklin
McLean
Hickey
Parker
Mills
McInerney, Rowbottom, Warner, Florent

Emergencies: O’Riordan, Stephens, Sinclair, Bell
In: Hewett, Heeney
Out: Sinclair (Omitted), O’Riordan (Omitted),
Errol Gulden (Injured)

Mayne
Moore
Quaynor
Keane
Hoskin-Elliott
Pendlebury
T Brown
Mihocek
De Goey
Cameron
Grundy
Sidebottom
C Brown, Daicos, Henry, Wilson

Hawthorn
Maynard
Noble
Poulter
Thomas
McCreery
Crisp

Emergencies: Cox, Macrae, Madgen, Rantall
New: Wilson
In: Wilson
Out: Roughead (Injured), Murphy (Injured)

FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

Frost
Impey
Phillips
Wingard
Koschitzke
O’Meara

Emergencies: Hartley, Shiels, Cousins, O’Brien
Ins: O’Meara, O’Brien
Outs: Howe (Managed), Jeka (Omitted), Morris (Omitted)

FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

Young
McKay
Atley
Ziebell
Walker
Hall
Powell
Simpkin
Dumont
Turner
Taylor
Zurhaar
Mahony
Larkey
Thomas
Goldstein
Cunnington Davies-Uniacke
Garner, Menadue, Lazzaro, Campbell

Emergencies: Garner, Menadue, Lazzaro, Campbell
Ins: Garner, Dumont
Outs: Bonar (Injured), Stephenson (Injured),

BETTING: HAWKS $1.33, KANGAROOS $3.37

4.35PM SATURDAY AT METRICON STADIUM

7.25PM SATURDAY AT MARVEL STADIUM

SUNS V LIONS

TIGERS V GIANTS

Lemmens
Farrar
Powell
Corbett
Flanders
Atkins

FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

Gardiner
Andrews
Rich
Adams
Zorko
Bailey
McCluggage
Daniher
McStay
Hipwood
McInerney
Lyons
Robertson, Prior, Lester, Mathieson

Starcevich
Birchall
Ah Chee
McCarthy
Cameron
Robinson

Emergencies: T Berry, Coleman, Fullarton, Ballenden
Ins:
Out: Coleman (Omitted)

FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

Astbury
Vlastuin
Broad
Houli
McIntosh
Collier-Dawkins
Rioli
Ralphsmith
Lynch
Martin
Nankervis
Baker
Mansell, Pickett, Castagna, Balta

7.40PM SATURDAY AT ADELAIDE OVAL

POWER V BULLDOGS
Western Bulldogs

Burton
Clurey
Aliir
Hartlett
Jonas
Byrne-Jones
Drew
Wines
Amon
Fantasia
Marshall
Motlop
Rozee
Dixon
Gray
Ladhams
Boak
Powell-Pepper
Bergman, Bonner, Farrell, Georgiades

Emergencies: Frederick, Hayes, McKenzie, Mayes
In: Ladhams, Bonner
Out: Houston (Injured), Frederick (Omitted), Lycett (Suspension)

FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

B Smith
Keath
Williams
Johannisen
Naughton
Lipinski
Weightman
Dale
R Smith
Hannan
Wood
McNeil
Scott
Bruce
Sweet
Cordy
Daniel
Duryea
Treloar, Bontempelli, Macrae, Liberatore

Emergencies: Young, West, Butler, Crozier
Ins: Williams, Weightman, R Smith
Out: Khamis (Omitted), Crozier (Managed), Hunter (Injured),
West (Managed)

BETTING: POWER $1.64, BULLDOGS $2.27

Grimes
Short
Naish
Aarts
Riewoldt
Graham

Emergencies: Ross, Caddy, Coleman-Jones, Rioli
New: Ralphsmith
Ins: Grimes, Ralphsmith
Out: Ross (Omitted), Bolton (Injured), Edwards (Injured)

BETTING: SUNS $3.80, LIONS $1.27

Port Adelaide

Greater Western Sydney

Richmond

Brisbane

Graham
Collins
Markov
Ballard
Ellis
Greenwood
Swallow
Rosas
Lukosius
King
Burgess
Rankine
Ainsworth, Anderson, Bowes, Weller

Emergencies: Brodie, Fiorini, MacPherson, Sexton
New: Atkins, Rosas
Ins: Rosas, Atkins
Out: Sexton (Omitted), Holman (Injured), Miller (Suspension)

FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

North Melbourne

Hardwick
Hartigan
Scrimshaw
Jiath
Morrison
Worpel
Hanrahan
Breust
Moore
Lewis
McEvoy
Mitchell
Hartley, Shiels, Cousins, O’Brien

BETTING: SWANS $1.29, MAGPIES $3.64

Gold Coast
FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

FB
HB
C
HF
FF
FOL
INT

Buckley
Taylor
Whitfield
Cumming
Kelly
Hopper
Hill
Hogan
Greene
Flynn
Briggs
Taranto
Idun, Riccardi, O’Halloran, Green

Buntine
Ash
Perryman
Lloyd
Himmelberg
Ward

Emergencies: Stone, Bruhn, Sproule, Shipley
New: Briggs
In: Riccardi, Hogan, Briggs, Buntine, Flynn
Out: Stone (Omitted), Finlayson (Suspension), Keeffe (Injured),
Mumford (Managed), Bruhn (Omitted), Sproule (Omitted)

BETTING: TIGERS $1.53, GIANTS $2.52
LADDER AFTER ROUND 8

P

W

L

D

For

Agst

%

Pts

MELBOURNE
WESTERN BULLDOGS
PORT ADELAIDE
GEELONG
BRISBANE LIONS
SYDNEY
WEST COAST
RICHMOND
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY
FREMANTLE
ST KILDA
GOLD COAST
CARLTON
ADELAIDE
ESSENDON
COLLINGWOOD
HAWTHORN
NORTH MELBOURNE

8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8

8
7
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
-

1
2
3
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
5
5
5
6
6
6
8

-

714
793
706
728
694
723
738
654
641
632
607
589
711
643
745
601
561
455

492
528
553
571
596
660
676
636
652
673
734
583
747
744
779
684
763
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Coach reassures West after Dad's rant

Port call up Ladhams for Bulldogs clash

Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge says he's reached out to
young forward Rhylee West (pictured) after his father, club great
Scott West, criticised his team selection on social media. Rhylee
was dropped after playing his first full game for the season against
Richmond. It prompted a Facebook post from his father, who won
seven best and fairest awards across 324 games at Whitten Oval,
reproaching Beveridge for "absolutely disgraceful management".

Port Adelaide has summoned Peter Ladhams to replace suspended
ruckman Scott Lycett for Saturday night's high-stakes encounter
with the Western Bulldogs. Lycett's four-game ban for a sling tackle
opened the selection door for Ladhams, who hasn't been sighted
in AFL ranks since being dropped after round four. The Bulldogs
will be without Lachie Hunter, who was unable to complete Friday's
session - he had surgery on a broken hand on Monday.

Rioli's fate to
be decided
next week
EAGLES

Sam Taylor will marshal an inexperienced GWS backline in their clash with reigning premiers Richmond on Saturday night. Picture: AAP

Taylor ready to lead young defence
GIANTS
YOUNG gun Sam Taylor,
having schooled himself
throughout summer by studying some of the AFL's best
defenders, is ready to marshal GWS's inexperienced
backline in arguably his
greatest test yet.
Taylor will play his 43rd
game when the Giants tackle
Richmond at Marvel Stadium on Saturday night, when
he will also assume the role
of defensive general.
The injury-enforced omis-

#
#
#

I've played on both Lynch and
Riewoldt, definitely looking
forward to it.
Sam Taylor

sion of Lachie Keeffe, who
has joined Phil Davis and a
stack of GWS backmen on the
sidelines, means Taylor's responsibility has grown since
last week's dominant performance against Essendon.

The 22-year-old has been
one of GWS's most consistent contributors throughout
a 4-4 start, playing on the
likes of Lance Franklin, Taylor Walker and Nat Fyfe.
Tom Lynch or Jack Rie-

woldt will be next.
Taylor can't wait, having
missed last year's grand-final
rematch against the Tigers
because of a bacterial infection that resulted in a long
stint in hospital plus the loss
of 10 kilograms and - at his
worst - - the capacity to walk.
"I've played on both Lynch
and Riewoldt, definitely
looking forward to it. They're
both great players," he said.
"I find Lynch quite hard to
play on. He's so strong and
dominant, runs really well.

"Riewoldt is one of the
smartest forwards going
around, he just has great
timing and footy smarts. A
bit like Toby Greene, they
just know the right time to
lead and sometimes you just
can't stop them."
Taylor has spoken with
Keeffe and coach Leon Cameron this week, with the latter
urging the West Australian
to keep things simple while
directing teammates Isaac
Cumming, Connor Idun and
Jack Buckley.

WEST Coast captain Luke
Shuey says he's still got
plenty of love for Willie Rioli
despite the star forward's
"bad mistake" that could
affect the club's flag hopes.
The Eagles are set to
decide by next week whether
to sack Rioli after the
25-year-old was caught with
24.23g of cannabis during a
screening at Darwin airport.
West Coast were furious
Rioli failed to inform them
about the incident, with
the club only finding out
last week when a journalist
called them to ask about it.
It then took the Eagles
several days to be able to
get in contact with Rioli,
who has been living in the
Tiwi Islands.
Shuey says he has
empathy for Rioli, but
acknowledges the goalsneak
has now made a series of
bad mistakes.
"My relationship with
Willie has been good. I love
him," Shuey told Triple M
on Friday.
He said it was important
for the club to show a united
front when the decision on
Rioli is handed down.
"The important thing is,
whatever decision the board
or the footy club make, we
get everyone to buy into it,"
Shuey said.
"We don't condone what
he's done. He made the
wrong decision, he's made a
couple of wrong decisions in
his past."

Hawks wary of veteran Kangaroos in battle of cellar-dwellers
HAWKS
HAWTHORN will be wary
of North Melbourne's experienced campaigners when
they face off in a bottom-ofthe-ladder clash in Launceston on Saturday.
The match shapes as a
must-win for Hawthorn,
chasing their third victory of
the year - but winless North
Melbourne have improved
significantly in recent weeks.
The likes of Jack Ziebell,
Ben Cunnington and Todd
Goldstein have been typically positive - while young
gun Tom Powell has been

Hawks onballer Jaeger O'Meara. Picture: AAP

particularly impressive.
"They've been really strong
the last two or three weeks,"
Hawthorn coach Alastair

Clarkson said.
"(Jack) Ziebell and (Aaron)
Hall playing across half-back
have been really strong for

them and (Todd) Goldstein
and (Ben) Cunnington.
"It's been their old brigade
- the guys that are experienced and they're just really
showing the way for their
younger players and they've
been able to show some
good form.
"We're hoping we can
show the same - some of our
leaders play some good footy
tomorrow with some of our
younger guys stepping up as
well and hopefully it'll be a
really good contest."
Clarkson cited both Hawthorn and North Melbourne's

recent strong performances
against ladder-leaders Melbourne as reason to expect a
fierce contest.
"We've both played Melbourne in the last two or
three weeks and both sides
were in front at half-time,"
Clarkson said.
"... Obviously when you
play the good sides it's
being able to sustain that
sort of performance for
four quarters and both we
and North couldn't do that
against Melbourne.
"But there was parts of our
games we really liked, play-

ing against good sides."
Hawthorn have regained
key
midfielder
Jaeger
O'Meara after two weeks on
the sidelines with "groin and
hip discomfort", along with
big man Tim O'Brien.
But forward Jack Gunston
will miss at least two weeks and could well be sidelined
until after the mid-season
bye - after a back issue flareup while veteran Shaun
Burgoyne (ankle) is at least a
week away.
The Kangaroos lost Jaidyn
Stephenson (wrist) and Aiden Bonar (ankle) to injury.

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Time that the Miners
start to play as a team
BALLARAT MINERS
BY GREG GLIDDON

THE challenge has been set
for the Ballarat Miners to
make the most of their undoubted talent and play as
a combined unit when they
clash with Ringwood on Saturday night.
Two bad home losses
where the team was plagued
with inconsistency has left
the club vulnerable at 2-3
and with three away games
in a row, including next
week's double-header, a win
against a Ringwood side which also only has two wins
on the season - is critical.
Coach Brendan Joyce has
spent a lot of time this week
getting the cohesion right in
the unit and he says the turnaround in form is just around
the corner.
"Shorty (Sam Short) has
had two training sessions
and two games, Jock (Perry)
has had three sessions and
three games, what we saw is
that they forgot the offence,
they haven't trained enough
and I think that's part of it.
"It's disappointing that it
has happened, but I'm not
surprised by it, it was always going to take a little bit
of time.
"We worked a lot on our
zone offence on Tuesday
night to make sure we are
remembering what we are
supposed to do and I think
this is the teething problems
you face when you bring
players in."
There's no doubt in the
Miners' talent with many in
the squad of earning NBL
contracts, but Joyce knows
that for that to occur players
need to work as a team.
"The quicker we gel, the
better it will be," he said.
"We're not gelling, let's be

ON GUARD: WestVic's Ava
Sharman has been a star in
the opening rounds.

WestVic
looks to
continue
its form
HOCKEY

CALLING THE SHOTS: Miners coach Brendan Joyce wants a consistent defensive effort from his team which he says
will lead to stronger offence. Picture: Adam Trafford

honest, but we will and what
I have to look at right now is
periods of the game when
we do.
"Probably 28-30 minutes
was pretty good against
Frankston, but we've got to
find four quarters because
you're playing quality teams
each week.
"Frankston, for exam-

ple, six of those guys have
played a lot together for a
lot of years, we're very inexperienced, so why are still
in the process of finding our
consistency and cohesion.
It's there, but we've just go to
find it on a consistent basis.
You're never as bad as you
think you are, but you're
never as good as you think

you are." Joyce said the key
to beat Ringwood was gelling
on the court.
"You hear of teams that
don't necessarily get along
off court, but gel well on the
court, well we don't have that
issue, everyone gets along
pretty well," he said.
"Collectively as a group,
there's really good signs

there, but you just can't nail it
on the head when it is going
to happen.
"It could happen on Saturday, it could take another
couple of weeks. We're good
enough if everybody plays
their role, we should get the
job done."
The Miners clash with
Ringwood tips off at 8pm.

WESTVIC'S men find themselves just one point off second spot after last week's six
goal haul against St Bernards.
This weekend the team
takes on the longest road
trip in Men's State League 3,
heading to Churchill to face
Latrobe Valley.
On paper, this would be
a game that WestVic would
have penciled in for a win at
the start of the year, but there
is a tough of trepidation
giving a whole host of impressive youngsters will be
absent due to representative
duty at the country championships.
Meanwhile, the women's
team will be keen to continue their dominant start to
the season, chasing a fifthstraight win when they clash
with seventh placed Melton.
WestVic sits on top of the
ladder, but incredibly has
the same points, goals for
and goals against as second
placed Frankston.
So while there is no doubt
they would be favourites for
the contest, they need to
maintain their form to stay
on top of the Women's State
League 2
– GREG GLIDDON

Rush can see a win ahead
BALLARAT RUSH

ON THE ROAD: Millie Cracknell was one of the stand out performers for the Ballarat
Rush in the loss to top team Frankston last week. Picture: Adam Trafford

RINGWOOD'S star Marena
Whittle is the player the Ballarat Rush will need to stop
if it is to secure its third win
of the season when the two
sides clash this evening.
Whittle helped herself to
38 points and 15 rebounds
in the last match against
Knox, hitting more than
half her team's score and
bringing down just under of
the rebounds.
But despite her starring
role, Ringwood fell 14 points
short of Knox.
The Rush, who missed
Kristy Rinaldi last week, ran
the unbeaten Frankston to

11 points after coach Eric
Hayes implored his side to
focus on selfless defence.
While it meant the Rush
struggled to score managing
just 50 points on the night
despite some clear, open
looks early in the match, it
at least meant they stayed
competitive against the competition front runner.
You would expect a more
attacking mindset from the
Ballarat side who will be
looking to continue their
solid away form, having won
two of its three matches on
the road so far.
The Rush will be looking
for a big game from Alicia

Annie Collins.

Froling at centre, while Claire
Constable, Kasey Burton and
Milly Sharp will also be looking for strong performances
to be able to put the team
back on the winners list.

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CHANGE: Current Ballarat
coach Joe Carmody with
1971 coach Len Templar.

Mighty
Swans
to share
old tales
BFNL FOOTBALL
BALLARAT'S history-makers will have a chance to tell
stories of the glory days and
reminisce over a golden year
in the Swans' history.
The club will invite players
from its 1971 team to reunite
for a luncheon to honour the
50th anniversary of a memorable premiership.
Premiership coach Len
Templar will be in attendance and speak on the day.
Templar holds the record
of most years spent as Ballarat coach; leading the prestigious club for 15 seasons
across three separate stints:
(1958-1967,
1970-1972,
1977-1978).
The 13.7 (85) to 5.7 (37)
triumph against Beaufort in
1971 was Templar's second
premiership as the Swans'
coach.
The 50-year reunion will
be held on Saturday, May 29,
starting at 12pm - before the
Swans' round seven clash
against East Point.
Any former premiership
players or club members
wishing to attend are invited
to RSVP to Trecia, at 0402
413 107, before Wednesday,
May 26.
– MATT CURRILL

MILESTONE MAN: Lake Wendouree stalwart Nathan Pring runs away from his Bacchus Marsh opponent.

Laker notches record
BFNL FOOTBALL
BY MATT CURRILL

HAPPY DAYS: Nathan Pring
celebrates a goal for the
Lakers.

STARTING out, Nathan
Pring says he would have
been happy to play just one
senior game for his beloved
club, let alone 150.
Yet, the Lake Wendouree
stalwart will write his name
into the record books when
he charges out alongside his
teammates to take on Sebastopol on Saturday.
'Pringa', as he's known in
footy circles, was reflective
ahead of his milestone game.
"I'm pretty happy and
pretty proud to have played
that many games at the one
club," Pring told The Courier.
"I remember back playing
under 19's I was happy just
playing with my mates and
would have been happy play-

ing at least one senior game.
"To have played 150 with
the club, I'm pretty proud of
that actually, to be honest."
After the weekend, Pring
would have played 256
games for his boyhood club
- 150 in the senior ranks, 41
under 19 games and 74 as
a junior.
The forward hasn't spent
his whole career at Lake
Wendouree, having crossed
to Carngham-Linton in 2012
for a three-season stint to
play with his brother.
However, a return to the
Lakers would beckon with
the allure of a newly-resurfaced Wendouree Reserve
and the chance to reunite
with mates proving too
strong.
"It's my home club, and
it's a family club. I've got

‘‘

I would have
been happy
playing at least
one senior game.
To have played
150 with the
club, I'm pretty
proud of that
actually to be
honest.
Nathan Pring
good mates and friendships
there," Pring said.
"(It's great) having a beer
with the boys after a good
win, and because it is a fam-

ily club, it's good just getting
around the older supporters
and having a chat with them."
Pring was a member of
Lake Wendouree's history-making 2010 side that
won the merged club's only
premiership to date.
The Laker also represented
the Ballarat Football League
on three occasions.
"The 2010 premiership (is
a highlight)," Pring said.
"The other one would be
that in 150 games, I think I've
only missed finals once. I've
had a successful time at the
club, and we haven't had too
many bad years in the lower
part of the ladder.
"Going back to the club
(the highlight) would just be
the mateship with the boys
and making life-long friendships."

AFL pair selected for first game together
CHFL
GEELONG
premiership
players James Kelly and
Shannon Byrnes have been
named to play their first
game together for Gordon.
Byrnes made his debut for
the Eagles in their round one
68-point smashing of Skipton but has not been sighted
since, owing to Melbourne
Demons duties at AFL level.
Kelly made his debut for
the club in round four, slotting in beautifully down back

to assist in the 101-point win
over 2019 preliminary finalists Newlyn.
The pair will now run out
together in one of Gordon's
biggest tests to date, as it
takes on Buninyong.
"It will be awesome, it'll
be good fun," Kelly told
The Courier.
Co-coach Ron Watt said it
was great for the club to see
the two friends out on the
field together.
"They're great players and

even more so they're great
people. To have them around
the club has been fantastic
for the whole group," he said.
"They've both been at
training and helping out
with different components
of the game and brought a
lot of knowledge to the place
already.
"They're as keen as anything to get out there and
play together."
Gordon is off to a flyer in
the Central Highlands Foot-

ball League, sitting 4-0 and
first on the ladder.
It's fixture doesn't get any
easier, however, as it takes on
Buninyong this weekend.
"We're expecting they'll
be pretty tough opposition,"
Watt said.
"Their results so far have
indicated that they're, again,
going to be up around the
mark.
"We'll be really keen to
have a good strong hit-out."
– OLLIE NASH

LONG AWAITED: AFL pair James Kelly and Shannon
Byrnes will be a welcomed sight for Gordon when it faces
Buninyong. Picture: Kate Healy

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City chasing Victory
as it backs youngsters
HIGH HOPES: Paige Daly
could return from injury
this week. Picture: Kate Healy

Can this
be the
game for
the girls?
BALLARAT FC WOMEN
BALLARAT City's women
will be confident of getting
on the board this weekend,
with a home game against
Keilor Park, the only other team yet to open their
account in Women's State
League North West.
There was little the City
girls could take of the clash
with Elwood in the previous
round, conceding two goals
within the first 10 minutes of
the game before eventually
going down 5-0.
This Sunday's home clash
should provide City with its
best opportunity to get on
the board, and it is hoped a
possible return of goal keeper and co-captain Paige Daly
who suffered a knock to her
knee two weeks ago could
be the catalyst for a return
to form.
It is hoped that gradually
some more players will be
able to be added to the squad
in coming weeks.
Like Ballarat City, Keilor
Park sits anchored near the
bottom of the ladder, having
scored just four goals in its
first four matches.
Sunday's game is at Morshead Park and is scheduled
to kick-off at 2pm

ON THE RUN: Mohammed Chlihi in action for Ballarat City against Geelong last weekend. Picture: Lachlan Bence

BALLARAT CITY MEN
BY OLLIE NASH

THERE will be a youthful feel
to Ballarat City's men's side
when it hosts Melbourne
Victory on Saturday, with just
three players over the age of
20 in the starting line-up and
eight players aged between
16 and 19.
"It's really exciting for the
club," coach Adam Grinholz
told The Courier.
"It's definitely something
that we've been talking about
throughout the pre-season
... in terms of allowing and
giving young players an environment and an opportunity
to play and show what they
can do.
"It's something that is very

forbidden in a lot of senior
environments and something we've been talking
about and really wanting
to do."
It's a case of rewarding
players for their effort and
commitment
according
to Grinholz.
"Their effort, their attitude,
their professionalism, their
character, they concentrate
on football, they just think
about football and they do
what is asked and they do it
the best they can," he said.
"They'll run through a
brick wall for any of their
teammates."
City will welcome Hassan
Hadi and Charif Mohammed
to the starting line-up. Huri
Mwarabu will move back to

Tristan Romein

his traditional spot at centre
back after a stint at right back.
"It should be good to
see him there and see him
competing against some
other young players," Grinholz said.

The youthful City will
welcome Victory to town
hoping to go one better than
their 2-1 defeat to Geelong in
round seven.
Sitting fifth on the ladder
with three wins, two draws
and two losses, Victory won't
be easy beats, however, City
coach Adam Grinholz believes his side can get the job
done after a tough fixture in
the last few weeks.
"It was just hard playing
three games in seven days
and making one change each
of those games," he said.
"It's nice this week to actually have training and actually have preparation when
last week we didn't train."
While Victory have scored
the least amount of goals of

the top six sides, Grinholz
said it's their control of the
contest that is their most
damaging trait, which usually leads to low scoring,
close games.
"We can't allow them to
have control over the game,"
Grinholz said.
"Without the ball we
have to make sure that our
pressure is really good on
the ball and make it a little
bit more chaotic and make
them unsettled.
"With the ball we have to
basically break down what
they want to do and make
them do different things and
change their patterns."
Kick-off is 3pm on Saturday at Ballarat Regional Soccer Facility.

Vikings need quick recovery
SEBASTOPOL VIKINGS

GOAL KICKER: Sebastopol Vikings layer Owen Turbitt has been in goal kicking form this
season. Picture: Lachlan Bence

WHEN you're on top of the
ladder, it rare that you head
into any match needing a
win, but that's just the task
that faces the Sebastopol Vikings this week, who will be
looking to bounce back from
a couple of down matches.
While there's nothing
wrong with a 1-1 draw
against a side last week that
the club has traditionally
struggled to combat, coming
off the back of the season's
first loss, there are a few danger signs that will need to be
taken care of this week.
This weekend though the
club should have no con-

cerns about being up and
about when it travels to face
arch rivals Point Cook.
While on paper, the Vikings should be too strong
for the ninth placed opposition, these are two clubs that
have had a fierce rivalry with
each other over a number
of years.
In 2017, it was late Vikings
goals against Point Cook that
essentially saw Sebastopol
earn promotion. Point Cook
also earned promotion that
year and the clubs have been
going toe-to-toe pretty much
ever since.
The Vikings will be keen to
get back their consistency on

Goalkeeper Michael Henry.

the score sheet this week and
will look to the likes of Owen
Turbitt to continue his strong
goal scoring form. Turbitt
has scored in three different
matches this year.

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Ballarat should unite
for future of A-League
OPINION
BY GREG GLIDDON

NO SPORT in this country
has missed golden opportunities to make the most of its
potential than soccer.
Despite the success of the
national teams in qualifying
for World Cup finals and
Australia and New Zealand
gearing up to host the Women's World Cup in 2023, the
major competition in the
country, the A-League is
floundering.
And right in the middle of
that is Western United.
Earlier this season the club
played in front of the lowest
- non-lockout - attendance
ever recorded in this country
when officially 990 people
attended a Monday night
fixture at AAMI Park.
Some at the ground suggest the official attendance
may have counted legs,
rather than actual numbers,
given the sparsity of the attendance that night.
Speaking to The World
Game
afterward,
United chief executive officer
Chris Pehlivanis said the
circumstances
surrounding the staging of that fixture had made attracting a
crowd difficult.
"We also clashed with
schedules of homework,
schooling, parenting and the
timeslot wasn't ideal either,
at 7pm, considering kids
have got school the next day
and (they wouldn't) be home
until 10pm, parents chose
not to come," he said.
Yes, that was a one-off,
and while you have to understand the challenges faced
by the league this year with
rescheduling happening all
over the place, low crowds
are a common thread for the
club despite boasting arguably the most talented squad
in the competition.
When it was introduced
into the A-League in 2017,
it was based on the promise
that the club would have its
own 15,000 seat home venue
at Tarneit within a couple
of years. But four years later, the first sod hasn't even
been turned at the venue,
despite assurances that it is

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THE TIDE IS
RISING FOR
BALLARAT
BALLARAT SC
FRESH off a 6-1 win over
Maribyrnong Green in the
last round, Ballarat SC will
be confident of scoring
back-to-back wins when
it hosts Surfside Waves
in State League 5 West at
Trekardo Park on Saturday.
The victory in the previous
round has seen a pressure
release on the club who will
be looking to continue its
good form with a winnable
match at home. Surfside
Waves sits just one point
ahead of Ballarat on the
ladder. Saturday's match
is scheduled to kick-off
at 3pm.

LAST CHANCE: United's
Alessandro Diamanti.
Picture: Adam Trafford
HOME GROUND ADVANTAGE: You only have to look at Western United's 4-1 demolition of Macarthur FC this season
to know how important a home ground is. Picture: Adam Trafford

"on track" to begin in July or
August this year.
Even if the stadium does
get underway, realistically,
the club would not be able to
open the venue until the first
game of the 2023-24 season.
In the meantime, the club
is a nomad and is simply
unable to build a regular following due to the transient
nature of games.
This year Western United
has played six home games
at AAMI Park, three games
at Mars Stadium, two games
in Geelong and two games in
Tasmania. It's simply unsustainable for any club trying to
build a base.
Which is why the club
and the league should look
to bed down Ballarat as the
club's base for at least the

near future while it gets a
foothold in Melbourne's
western suburbs.
We're not suggesting
playing all home matches
in Ballarat, derby's against
Melbourne Victory and
Melbourne City need to be
played where bigger crowds
can be accommodated in the
city and if the club is determined to continue with the
Tasmania experiment and
if it provides much needed
commercial opportunities,
then let it do so.
But it's clear Geelong
doesn't want United, preferring to keep Kardinia Park
for its AFL and AFLW clubs,
which leaves Ballarat, which
is why this city needs to
come to the party and make
it commercially viable now.

Let's be honest here, Mars
Stadium is an AFL stadium,
but as opposed to Morshead
Park which is a soccer pitch,
Mars offers 10,000 capacity, a
perfect pitch every game and
most importantly, broadcast
and sponsorship opportunities that the other doesn't.
And for those who say Ballarat simply doesn't have the
population to sustain a club,
you only have to look at the
Central Coast Mariners to
know that regionally based
clubs can work.
The City of Ballarat is keen
to sign a long-term agreement with the club to base
its women's team in Ballarat
going forward, its men's
team needs to be an integral
part of that discussion. If you
live in Melbourne's western

suburbs, Ballarat is an easy
venue to reach and you only
have to look a the train platform on AFL game day to
know that Ballarat residents
are happy to travel.
The other advantage of
basing United here would be
the potential for the growth
of the game. Every week,
hundreds of people play in
Ballarat. Western United already has a pathway program
with Ballarat City, imagine
what that exposure could do
for the game in this town?
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about growing the game
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AFTER a 3-0 loss against
Perth on Wednesday night,
it's a now or never situation
for Western United when it
clashes with Sydney FC on
Saturday afternoon. In an
incredibly tight A-League
season, United sits in
eighth position on the
ladder after two bad losses,
but remarkably is only five
points adrift of second spot
but it will need everything
to go right when it clashes
with one of the powerhouses of the A-League
on Saturday.The match at
Mars Stadium gets underway at 2.35pm.

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GOOD RUN: Tim Clarke has enjoyed some highs and lows in his career at
Carngham Linton, 300 games a great reward for the club champion. Picture: Kate Healy

HISTORY-MAKER

Clarke to become first footballer to play 300 games for Carngham-Linton
CHFL
BY OLLIE NASH

ONE of Carngham-Linton's
last remaining premiership
players from the Lexton
Plains Football League,
Tim Clarke, will become
the club's first footballer to
reach 300 games against Ballan today.
Debuting in 2000 as a
16-year-old, Clarke has been
through the highs of four

senior premierships (2004,
2006-2008) in the Lexton
Plains and the lows of no
senior finals experiences in
the Central Highlands Football League.
The 37-year-old told The
Courier the people at the
club have kept him there for
the last 21 years.
"Just a good club. Family
orientated and just a good
vibe, good people," he said.
Since his debut he's en-

‘‘

He's hung
in there, he
means a lot ...
he's just been
magnificent.
Greg Spratling
joyed a best and fairest win,

runner-up best and fairest
and some coaches awards in
his early years.
He said he never envisioned 300 games as a possibility when he started out
with the Saints.
"Definitely not. Pretty
lucky in the early years of
the senior career that I won
a few flags that kind of kept
me going and wanted to win
more," he said.
President Greg Spratling

said he's been a great stalwart
of the club for a long time.
"He means the world (to
the club). He's just one of
those blokes, you see people
post on the player page how
much they want to play with
him," he said.
"He's hung in there, he
means a lot, juniors and
senior wise with his playing
career he's just been magnificent.
"You'll see the support out

there that he'll get and how
much he actually means to
the club."
Among other surprises to
come for Clarke on the day,
the playing group put together a video presentation
for him during the week, featuring messages from former
coaches and teammates.
The netball game will start
later than scheduled, so they
can be at the ground when
Clarke runs out.

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$885,000 - $935,000
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Newington.
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then the house most certainly will.
The restoration has been done over

many years, and no shortcuts have been
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To the left and right of the entrance
are two well-proportioned bedrooms,
both with built-in robes, leadlight feature
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been retained in the living spaces.
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and the new seamlessly.
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island bench, a wall oven and cooktop, and
dishwasher.
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use of the space with plenty of storage.

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high ceilings and many original features.
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and you'll discover the private deck that
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and friends.
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BALLARAT
MARKET UPDATE
Property trends / Lake Wendouree
MEDIAN
HOUSE PRICE

MEDIAN
UNIT PRICE

AVERAGE
RENTAL RETURN

$870,000

$489,500

$340 PW

SOLD IN THE
LAST 12 MONTHS

SUBURB
GROWTH

SUBURB
RENTAL YIELD

49

+2.4%

+2.0%

Sales results
DATE - MONDAY, MAY 03 2021 TO SATURDAY, MAY 08 2021
SUBURB

PRICE

AGENT

$302,000
$430,000
$522,500
$196,000
$1,100,000
980,000
$560,000

Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig
Harcourts Ballarat
Bartrop RE
Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig

$535,000

Jellis Craig

$760,000
$550,000
$514,000

Jellis Craig
Wilson Estate Agents
Ballarat Real Estate

$590,000
$355,000
$700,000
$520,000
$525,000

Ray White Ballarat
Harcourts Ballarat
Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig
Ballarat Real Estate

$260,000

Harcourts Ballarat

$605,000
$940,000

Jellis Craig
Ray White Ballarat

$489,990
$560,000
$580,000

PRD Nationwide
Ray White Ballarat
Ballarat Real Estate

$425,000

Jellis Craig

$310,000
$189,900
$204,900
$466,000
$278,000

PRD Nationwide
PRD Nationwide
PRD Nationwide
Jellis Craig
PRD Nationwide

ALFREDTON
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS

Cuzens Rd
Magnetic Dr
Merino Dr
Munro St
Peppertree Ct
Prince Of Wales Blvd
Sligo St

BAKERY HILL
PS

Barkly St

BALLARAT CENTRAL
PS
PS
PS

Drummond St South
Peel St North
Skipton streeet

BALLARAT EAST
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS

King St South
Rodier St
Victoria St
Victoria St
Eureka Street
Walker St

BLACK HILL
PS
PS

Gregory St
Peel St North

BROWN HILL
PS
PS
PS

Thompson St
Middlin St
Gala Close

BUNINYONG
PS

Herriott St

CANADIAN
PS
PS
PS
PS
PS

Butt
Estlley Ct
Estlley Ct
Kline St
Richards St

CARDIGAN

PRICE

AGENT

SUBURB

PS
PS

$1,350,000
$498,000

Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig

SKIPTON

$505,000
$500,000

Harcourts Ballarat
PRD Nationwide

PS
PS

$365,000

PRD Nationwide

$450,000
$685,000
$685,000

Harcourts Ballarat
Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig

PS
PS
PS

$860,000

Jellis Craig

$530,000

Jellis Craig

WINTER VALLEY

$339,000

Harcourts Ballarat

PS
PS

$565,000

PRD Nationwide

$710,000
$720,000

Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig

$230,000

Jellis Craig

$515,000

Jellis Craig

$495,000

Ballarat Real Estate

$595,000

Ballarat Real Estate

$285,000

Jellis Craig

$305,000
$345,000
$430,000
$290,000

Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig
Jellis Craig
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Blind Creek Rd
Mcgrath Ct

CRESWICK
PS
PS

Hickory La
Melbourne Rd

EUREKA
PS

Ford St

INVERMAY PARK
PS
PS
PS

Falcon Dr
Harrier Dr
Slatey Creek Rd

LAKE GARDENS
PS

Lake Gardens Av

LAKE WENDOUREE
PS

BALLARAT NORTH
PS

SUBURB

Gregory St

LEXTON
PS

Lexton-Talbot Rd

LINTON
PS

Glenelg Hwy

LUCAS
PS
PS

Shortridge Dr
Shortridge Dr

PS

Pett St

PRICE

AGENT

$651,000

PRD Nationwide

$1,125,000
$235,000

Jellis Craig
PRD Nationwide

$475,000
$571,000
$440,000

Jellis Craig
Ballarat Real Estate
Ballarat Real Estate

$492,000
$527,000
$455,000
$500,000

PRD Nationwide
Ballarat Real Estate
Ballarat Real Estate
Ballarat Real Estate

$592,000
$458,000

Ballarat Real Estate
Ballarat Real Estate

SMYTHES CREEK
Anne Ct
Pontiac Dr

SOLDIERS HILL
Wood St
Brougham Street
Havelock Street

WENDOUREE
PS
PS
PS
PS

Glasgow St
Orama Avenue
Huntington Street
Browns Parade
Greenhalghs Road
Masters Drive

Compiled by the Real Estate Institute of Victoria Ltd, telephone 1300 858 788, email salesresults@reiv.com.au

MINERS REST
PS

Bold Front Ct

MOUNT CLEAR
PS

Marina Dr

MOUNT HELEN
PS

Yarna Street

NERRINA
PS

Haines Street

SCARSDALE
PS

Tilligs Rd

SEBASTOPOL
PS
PS
PS
PS

Alfred St
Beverin St
Vickers St
Verdon Street

KEY: S - SOLD, SB - SOLD BEFORE, SA - SOLD AFTER, PI - PASSED IN, PS - PRIVATE SALE, VB - PASSED IN ON VENDOR BID, LO - LATE OFFER, EOI - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST, T - SALE BY TENDER

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Homebuyers reveal their path to purchase habits in latest
real estate survey
Joanne Crawford

AUSTRALIANS spend about eight months
dreaming about buying a new house before
taking any active steps to purchase, new
research on real estate behaviour has found.
The research, commissioned by realestateview.com.au, found homebuyers then
spend about 10 months, on average, actively
in the market before deciding on a property
and finalising the sale.
The "dreaming" phase is when a
person first considers moving house or
buying property, but hasn't started the
heavy research.
They are reasonably sure what type of
property they want but may be undecided
on the details, perhaps even the location.
The next step in what realestateview.com.
au calls the "path to purchase" is the "considering" phase. It lasts about six months,
during which the person starts to look at
various properties for sale.
"They are actively seeking ideas and
inspiration, nutting out the details of what
they want in their new home or investment,"
Paul Tyrrell, chief marketing officer of
realestateview.com.au, said.
"In the considering phase, buyers are
firming on plans to move in the next year,
and price and repayment considerations are
starting to come into the picture."
During the "active" phase, which lasts
three to four months, the buyer narrows
their property choices, conducting inspections, perhaps putting in an offer and
arranging finance approvals. It's a task-driven phase involving internet searches and
information gathering.
"At last, the buyer reaches the 'purchase'
phase when the 'sold' sign goes up and they
can look to move in," Mr Tyrrell said.
"Looking back, many buyers realise it's
been almost 20 months since they first entertained the idea of moving. They'll wonder
where the time went!"
Mr Tyrrell said realestateview.com.au

commissioned the research in conjunction
with ACM's research arm Chi Squared to
help it better understand how to support
property buyers to find the information they
were seeking at the right time and in the
right place.
ACM, publisher of this newspaper, and
realestateview.com.au have built a market-leading, multi-faceted property media
and data offering.
"The research largely confirmed what our
experience was telling us," Mr Tyrrell said.
"In the dreaming phase, people are drawn
to real estate sections in newspapers.
"As they move into the considering phase,
print remains strong but general online
searches and property websites become
more important.
"In the active phase, buyers are most
likely to use a dedicated real estate portal
like realestateview.com.au to find exactly the
property they are after."
ACM and realestateview.com.au have
developed a three-step approach to property
marketing and sales that is designed to
talk to buyers at every stage of their "path
to purchase".
"Our bundled solution captures people
at every stage of their property journey whether they are just thinking about their
dream home or actively seeking to buy," Mr
Tyrrell said.
"We offer the power of print through
ACM's newspapers, digital extension
products that use social media and off-site
targeting to reach buyers and then of course,
we have our realestateview.com.au listings platform.
"Our aim is to help vendors reach
potential buyers at all stages of their path
to purchase."
The Chi Squared research was conducted
in November last year. More than 1200
people participated in the research, with the
biggest cohort between 25 and 34 years and
living in regional centres.

Homebuying starts with a dream, before consideration and action take over. Picture:
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Lifetime pensions, are they really as good as they sound?
NOEL
WHITTAKER

noel@noelwhittaker.com.au

THE government's recent
retirement income review
pointed out that many retirees live on just the income
from their superannuation,
rather than drawing down
on the balance as they progress through retirement. As
a result, many retirees die
with a major chunk of their
financial assets unspent, sacrificing their own standard of
living, and leaving more to
their beneficiaries.
In December 2016, the
Treasury called on income-stream providers to
develop products that would
solve this problem, but to
date, the industry has been
slow to take up the challenge.
After a lot of talk and not
much action, we finally have
one fund that has come up
with an interesting solution.
QSuper, one of Australia's
largest
superannuation
funds, has just launched a
new product, the Lifetime
Pension, which pays a fortnightly income for life. It is
designed to ensure you or
your estate get back at least

your initial investment, irrespective of how long you
live. Ideally you would receive your return by income,
but for a premature death
it may be by death benefit.
For example, if you invest
$100,000 and die after receiving $60,000 in income, your
beneficiaries will receive the
final $40,000.
You can open a Lifetime
Pension with your super any
time between your 60th and

80th birthdays. Annual rates
of income per $100,000 invested range from $6164 to
$10,834 for singles - a bit less
if you take the option to cover
your spouse's life too.
These pension rates are
quite a bit higher than a
lifetime annuity or an account-based pension drawn
at the minimum. The reason is simple: the money is
pooled and invested in a balanced growth option. Apart

from the fund's low management fees and the cost
of insuring the money-back
death benefit, all of the money is spent on income. However, that also points to the
products three drawbacks.
First, this isn't a product
where you can withdraw
lump sums or exit after a
six-month cooling-off period - you are permanently
purchasing
an
income
stream. Second, after you've

received your purchase price
as income, no death benefit
is payable. And third, unlike
a traditional annuity which
pays fixed income for life,
this product pays variable
income for life.
Every 1st of July, the previous year's income is adjusted
based on how the pool performed against a benchmark
net return of 5 per cent.
A major benefit of this
Lifetime Pension product is

that only 60 per cent of the
sum invested is assessed
for the assets test (and after
you pass your official life
expectancy it drops to 30 per
cent). This therefore gives
assets-tested pensioners an
immediate rise in their age
pension, in addition to the
income from the product.
Also, it may allow people
who are currently unable to
get the age pension because
they are over the assets test
by a small margin to qualify
for at least a part pension.
This product may not be
suitable for income-tested
pensioners because 60 per
cent of the income is assessed for the income test
- this is a much higher proportion than people who are
subject to deeming.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend anyone put all their
money into a product like
this, as it provides no flexibility to withdraw lump sums.
However, may be worth considering in conjunction with
an account-based pension,
as the combination would
offer a good income for life.
■ Noel Whittaker is the
author of Retirement Made
Simple. Email: noel@
noelwhittaker.com.au

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Alternative ways to invest in property
IF YOU are looking to invest in property, there are
many ways to do this without becoming a residential landlord.
There are property syndicates, commercial property,
land banking and investment
funds to name just a few.
"There is no denying property is one of the safest forms
of investment, especially
considering the significant
capital growth in property
values nationally at the moment," said Toby Balazs, CEO
of realestateview.com.au.
"To get ahead in property
investment, it's imperative to
fully immerse yourself in the
market, attending auctions,
subscribing to property news
and engaging with agents
who are experts in their local
area," said Toby.
"With property prices at
record highs, we have seen
more and more mum and
dad buying in partnership
with their children, to not
only assist their children in
entering the market but also
to reap the benefits of property investment for themselves."
According to realestateview.com.au
property

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We have seen
more and more
mum and
dad buying in
partnership
with their
children
Toby Balazs

JOIN FORCES: Property syndicates suit those who may have a limited budget and want to see long-term growth rather
than flip properties. Photo - Shutterstock.

syndicates are also an increasingly affordable way
people can buy an investment property for sale and
then develop their property
portfolio across all forms
of investments, especially
property investments.
Rather than find an in-

vestment property for sale
and accept the compromises
that come with your budget,
a property syndicate allows
you to pool your resources to
expand your property investment options.
Property syndicates suit
those who may have a lim-

ited budget and want to see
long-term growth rather
than flip properties. Getting
into the market sooner, however, allows you to see returns sooner than you would
if you had to save for an extra
two-three years for a deposit
on your own.

Look to commercial
Commercial
properties
can be great investments. But
according to realestateview.
com.au, they do come with
their risks. The choice between investing in residential or commercial should
eventually be a simple one

and usually depends on your
financial position and what
you hope to get out of your
investment.
The upside is commercial
tenants are invested tenants.
Their business is their lifeline so they have a greater
incentive to take care of
your property.
They also meet the costs
of many outgoings that
you would have to face as
a residential investor. This
includes taxes and council
rates, maintenance costs,
utilities, cleaning and garbage disposal.
On the downside, commercial properties can run
the risk of being vacant for
months at a time.

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AGENT’S CHOICE

BUNINYONG

DELACOMBE

CA 128B1 SOMERVILLE STREET

16 TAIT STREET

A - | B - | C - | D 113716.7

A 3 | B 1 | C 2 | D 614

PRICE / Auction Sat 29th May @12:00pm
AGENT / Ray White - Josh Todd: 0428 621 004

PRICE / $415,000-$440,000
AGENT / Doepel Lilley & Taylor - Leigh Hutchinson: 0407861960

Open for inspection: Sat 15/05 1:30 - 2:00pm
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/{doc.ReferenceID}

Open for inspection: Saturday 11.00am-11.30am
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/13597844

Lifestyle: Highly sought yet seldom found, situated only 1700 metres from Buninyong’s
town centre this property consists of two titles each favourably zoned “Rural Living”
offering potential for further development (subject to council approval). Features:
Elevated and predominantly cleared (approximately 60% grazing) with some areas of
native timber the property offers multiple suitable locations to establish your home
in this peaceful setting. Mains power is connected and the property has a number
of historic outbuildings and a former dwelling (all now uninhabitable) which are
relics of past farming activities. A genuinely once in a lifetime opportunity to secure a
significant parcel on the edge of this ever popular township. Location: This property is
situated at the Western end of Somerville Street and vehicular access to this section of
Somerville Street is only possible from Eason’s Road.

Lifestyle: Presenting as a fantastic opportunity, this neat and tidy 3 bedroom home
is great for anyone looking for a compact family home, retirees downsizer or potential
investment opportunity with a rental appraisal of $330pw. Features: Emphasis on
spaciousness and low maintenance living; featuring 3 bedrooms with built in robes,
master with ensuite and walk in robe, open plan kitchen, meals and living space
including gas Rinnai energy saver heating, and a carport or great optional outdoor
undercover entertaining area for all year-round enjoyment. All set on 614m2 block
providing you with an option to extend utilising the land (STCA) making this a larger
family home and giving a true sense of purpose that makes living in such a convenient
location enjoyable. Location: Perfectly placed close to Delacombe Town Centre,
walking distance to childcare and schools plus only a short drive to the local bowling
club and 5 min to Ballarat CBD.

AGENT’S CHOICE

AGENT’S CHOICE

SOLDIERS HILL

NEWINGTON

416 NEILL STREET

3 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET

A 3 | B 2 | C 2 | D 688m2

A 4 | B 2 | C 2 | D 520m2

PRICE / $995,000 - $1,090,000
AGENT / Ballarat Real Estate - Brian Te: 0477 429 859

PRICE / $880,000 - $950,000
AGENT / Buxton - Mark Nunn: 0409 412 518

Open for inspection: Sat 12:30 - 12:50pm
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/

Open for inspection: Saturday 11.00AM - 11.30AM
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/135991778

Lifestyle: A quality designed Victorian home in one of Soldiers Hill’s best tree-lined
streets. Conveniently positioned within walking distance to multiple primary schools,
the Ballarat CBD, train station and local eateries and cafes is this immaculately
presented family home. In one of Ballarat’s blue-chip locations is this once in life time
opportunity to secure this expansive residence. Entering the home, your eyes will be
drawn to the quality, period detail, soaring ceilings and polished floorboards retaining
character features of yesteryear. The king size master bedroom is filled with natural
light through its stunning bay window and has a WIR and en-suite including a shower,
vanity, granite stone benchtops and separate toilet. The formal living is an ideal sitting
area or lounge and is adjacent to the study or home office. The heart of the home has
been designed with entertaining in mind and is every chef’s dream.

Lifestyle: For those looking for a central location lifestyle Features: From the attractive
garden surrounds, lovely welcoming veranda, you’ll fall in love the minute you step
inside. Featuring polished timber flooring, bathed in natural light, plenty of storage
with quality fittings from front to back, inside and out. This gorgeous home incorporates
four good size bedrooms with the master bed room including a wonderful ensuite
and walk-in robe. The wonderful open plan living area incorporates a modern classy
kitchen. The living area overlooks the wonderful undercover alfresco area, perfect for
entertaining family and friends. Outside features a stunning mineral salt inground pool
with heat pump and an oversized double car garage/ workshop. Location: Situated
only minutes from Ballarat CBD, Lake Wendouree, medical facilities, retail shops, cafes,
restaurants and outstanding schooling, this attractive double fronted character home
with all the modern-day feature comforts is positioned to perfection and in a class of
its own

309 Armstrong Street North
Soldiers Hill
3A 1B 1C 2F

Stunning Fully Renovated Home
This absolutely stunning solid brick home from the
Californian Bungalow era has been fully renovated
and offers modern living with the original
character and charm of yesteryear. Immaculate
in presentation, the home incorporates three
large bedrooms, two with built in robes. The large
entrance opens into a front formal living with
double doors leading though to a separate living
area with gas heater. Continue through the home
leads to an open plan kitchen and dining. Kitchen
is equipped with gas appliances, oven, dishwasher,
double sink and ample storage. From the dining
area, doors fully open up to an outside paved
alfresco, overlooking a stunning well-designed
gardening area, perfect for sitting back and
watching the kids play.
Private Sale
Price
$1,100,000 - $1,200,000
Inspect
Saturday
12.00PM - 12.30PM
Contact
Mark Nunn 0409 412 518
Tim Veal 0419 561 915

43 Midlands Drive
Ballarat North
3A 2B 2C 2F

Large Family Home – Ballarat North School
Zone
Located in a popular locale within Ballarat North is
this beautiful home that offers two separate living
zones, 3 large bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (master
ensuite WIR) with remaining 2 bedrooms having BIR
& 2 separate living zones all on a low maintenance
allotment with DLUG that accommodates Drive
through access to the backyard and double gates
for genuine side access for off street caravan, trailer
storage. The main bathroom is centre to the home
fitted with a spa bath and separate toilet. Sitting on
approx. 650m2 with DLUG being larger than normal
at approx. 6 x 7.9m with direct access to the home.

Private Sale
Price
$530,000 - $550,000
Inspect
Saturday
11.00AM - 11.30AM
Contact
James Montano 0424 157 499
Brayden Dorney 0408 124 576

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SEBASTOPOL

BLACK HILL

34 VICTORIA STREET

16/10 SIMPSON STREET

A 3 | B 1 | C 2 | D 774m2

A 1 | B 1 | C 1 | D 101m2

PRICE / $429,000 - $439,000
AGENT / PRD Nationwide - Catharina Hartzheim: 0429 880 290

PRICE / $215,000
AGENT / Bartrop Real Estate - Thomas Reardon: 0458 207 065

Open for inspection: Sat 12.30 - 1.30PM
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/13629707

Open for inspection: By Appointment
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/13672494

Lifestyle: Representing an exciting beginning for those buyers seeking a comfortable
family home, a solid investment or an opportunity for future development with a
fabulous 774m2 allotment (subject to council approval). This home is the very essence
of low maintenance living, which sits to the front of a large allotment with a freestanding
garage and numerous sheds & storage to the rear. Features: The kitchen is fitted with
a cosy gas heater, along with a touch of 70’s with chocolate floral tiles & laminate
cabinetry. Eating with family or lounging in the sunshine is not a problem, as the rear
of the home has been neatly enclosed for a sun soaking dining experience. A gas log
fire warms the lounge, while original picture rails, timber trims & a neutral palette keep
a touch of nostalgia in tack. Location: This fantastic single level weatherboard benefits
from a well-connected street & proximity benefits to all the action of Sebastopol.

Lifestyle: This home unit is a must-see for investors, first home buyers and those seeking
comfortable easy-care living. Features: Centering around spacious open plan kitchen,
dining and living area in a great atmosphere. The kitchen itself has previously updated
benchtops and modern oven/stovetop. Good-sized bedroom with ample built-in
robes, whilst the bathroom has also been previously modernised. Outside is a low
maintenance courtyard, backing onto natural timbered reserve. Carport also included
on title. Location: This position offers the best of both worlds. A leafy complex backing
onto a natural reserve, whilst also just minutes drive to the CBD. An excellent unit and
location for the future.

Ballarat Central

A3 B1 C2

703 Sebastopol Street

Well located! Entry level + charm & potential
Sound and solid 3 bedroom weatherboard home on 405sqm corner
block. Perfect location close to main city centre, hospitals, etc. Separate
living room features gas heating, and the bright kitchen features electric
cooking and generous bench space. All 3 bedrooms are of similar size, and
the bathroom laundry combo features cast iron clawfoot bath, shower
recess, wc and laundry trough. Outside there is great yard access to a
single carport and garden sheds, back verandah and 2nd toilet. Be quick to
inspect as entry-level properties like this don’t stay on the market for long.

- Sound & solid 3 bedroom & gas heating
- Spacious kitchen & clawfoot bath
- Corner block 405sqm & carport
Sale
$399,500

Contact
John Morris
0418 543 637

Open House
Saturday
10.30am-11.00am

Office
5331 2000

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REAL ESTATE

GOLD COAST OPULENT HAMPTONS-STYLED COUNTRY HOME HAS INSTANT STREET APPEAL

A grand scale luxury farmhouse design
HOUSE DESIGN
Vickii Byram

SITUATED in the sprawling
rural community of Tallai,
on the outer edge of the
Gold Coast, is a home with
a unique take on the luxurious Hamptons style and
the timeless comfort of the
Australian country aesthetic.
Fontaine, by Australia's
top builder Metricon Homes,
is an acreage design, spanning 600 metres square,
combines
contemporary
farmhouse living with the
glamour of that exclusive
south fork community of
Long Island, New York.
"We've seen a dramatic increase in requests for
Australian Hamptons and
similar designs. It's easy to
see why as it combines our
shared love of relaxed outdoor living, entertaining and
coastal locations, while adding elements that make the
style our own," says Adrian
Popple, design director of
Metricon Homes.
"We started the design
with a vision of white country style, open truss gables,
set against contrasting grey
painted James Hardie Linea
Weatherboards that create
uniform shadow lines.
"Elements such as feature
mouldings, corner stops,
exposed rafters and thick
window frames were used to
accentuate the coastal look
and create consistency with
exposed beams inside the
home," Adrian says.
By creating a seamless
transition between indoor
and outdoor areas, the home
has a light, airy feel from the
moment you enter the openplan living, dining, kitchen.
The white ceiling beams
and truss are contrasted by
HardieGroove panels creating textural lines that draw
the eye out to the alfresco
area and back garden. The

AFFORDABLE LUXURY: The design elements of this
Australian Hamptons home meld interior with exterior for
an elegant yet eminently livable family dwelling.

panels took half the time of
individual timber board installation, thus being a less
expensive option yet still
giving a look of luxury.
The family and dining
room is grounded by rich
ebony floorboards, adding to
the look of expert craftsmanship seen on the exterior. The
rest of the palette is muted

and ornamentation is kept to
a minimum for a more contemporary feel.
In the kitchen and butler's pantry, the white walls
contrast with light grey cabinets that have pared back
detailing that nods to the traditional shaker style of The
Hamptons. The splashbacks
and counter tops are marble.

The master suite - the
largest of the four bedrooms
- extends the play of textures,
muted tones and stonework
with large format tiling in the
ensuite, walk-in wardrobe
cabinetry and raked ceilings
with exposed beams.
"Plus, the durable James
Hardie fibre cement composition makes them resistant

to impact and damage from
cracking, moisture, rotting,
fire and termites, so we
were able to use them under eaves and on the raked
ceilings of the alfresco area
and cabana."
Along with the property's
generous guesthouse, the
cabana perfectly flanks the
back of the home from its
place adjacent to the 8x4m
swimming pool. By mirroring the detailing of the main
building, it shows how easy
it is to create consistency in
additional living spaces.
"This is especially important on big blocks with
multiple structures, which
are becoming more popular
as people adapt to working
from home and move to outer suburbs for better blocks.

"The Fontaine has the
breezy elegance and craftsmanship you see in the
Hamptons, combined with
the rustic charm of Queenslander and country designs.
"It's a vision we wouldn't
have been able to achieve
with brick as it's visually too
heavy, while render wouldn't
have provided a contrast to
the lines of the open truss
gables," Adrian says.
The Fontaine provides
the ultimate sanctuary on a
grand scale and an affordable budget, making it the
ideal family home.
To get the Australian
Hamptons
look
see
jameshardie.com.au.
For
Metricon Homes and the
Fontaine go to: metricon.
com.au.

Ugly vegetable plants that deserve a chance in the garden
GARDENING
John Gabriele

WHEN it comes to fruit and vegetables there
are the good, the bad and the ugly.
It is the ugly ones that are often overlooked
purely based on their appearance, but looks
can be deceiving.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and
these vegetables are more than gorgeous as
an addition to your dinner plate.
For example, kohlrabi may not look all
that attractive with its large swollen stem that
grows atop a cabbage-like root, giving the
appearance of swollen turnip with a rosette
of blue-green leaves. The name is German
and translate to "cabbage turnip" but it is not
a root vegetable. The stem of kohlrabi grows

The choko is more than its looks.

above ground and can be purple, white or
green depending on variety.
Ugly or cute depending on your perspective, kohlrabi makes a great conversation

piece in the garden and the inner flesh can
be eaten raw in salads, roasted or stir fried.
Celeriac is another ugly plant punctuated
by its rather unattractive name. Celeriac is related to celery and the foliage looks remarkably similar, but unlike celery the leaves are
rarely eaten. Celeriac is grown for its swollen
root tuber which has a knobby outer appearance with tightly twisted roots.
The flavour is remarkably like celery and is
ideal as a mash, in soups, stews or roasted.
Salsify would have to be one of the unluckiest vegetables when it comes to appearance,
looking like nothing more than a brown stick.
What salsify lacks in appearance, it makes up
for in flavour with a mild oyster taste. This
makes it a versatile vegetable to use in the
kitchen. It requires a deep soil enriched with

organic matter to fully develop long tapered
carrot-like roots for harvesting. Be careful if
you grow salsify as it can become weedy in
some areas.
One ugly fruit that has the capability of
polarising gardeners is the humble choko,
not so ugly, as it looks somewhat like a pear,
albeit with a knobbly appearance. Choko
was in fact renowned as the poor man's pear
some 50 years ago. The beauty of choko is
that it takes on the flavour of whatever else
it is cooked with, so it makes a great extender
for apple pies and in stews. If you decide to
plant a choko, be warned, they are vigorous
tendril climbers and can take over.
Despite their appearance some of the ugliest vegetables can be the most flavoursome
and are well worth a second look.

Fertile 50-Acre Block Just North Of Miners Rest

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For Sale Now or EOI Closes Tuesday
15th June at 4.00PM

• T h e l a n d i s d i v i d e d i n t o e i g h t p a d d o ck s , a b o u t 7 5 , 0 0 0 l i t r e s o f t a n k wa t e r & b o r e c o n n e c t e d t o

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Tightly Held Burrumbeet Land Opportunity Of Approx 224 Acres

L o t 4 M o d e s t y L a n e , B u rru m b e e t

Country & Lifestyle

• T h i s p r o p e rt y i s zo n e d f a r m i n g a l l o w i n g o n e d w e l l i n g ( ST C A ) - b e i n g m o r e t h a n 8 0 h e c t a r e s , a l o n g

E O I C l o s e s M o n d a y 3 1 s t M ay
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with permissible use for a well-positioned service station - permit required - full details with agent
• A p p r ox 1 , 17 8 m e t r e s t o t h e So u t h s i d e o f t h e We s t e r n Fr e e wa y - r e c e n t l y l e a s e d o n a m o n t h b y
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MOUNT PLEASANT

WINTER VALLEY

208 GLADSTONE STREET

60 ELEGANTE DRIVE

A 3 | B 2 | C 2 | D 385m2

A3| B2| C2

PRICE / $555,000 - $575,000
AGENT / Barry Plant - Josh Coull: 0438 492 531

PRICE / $485,000
AGENT / Professionals Ballarat - Michael Edgar: 0407 332 040

Open for inspection: Sat 15 May 10:30am - 11:00am Sat 15 May 12:30pm - 1:00pm
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/

Open for inspection: By Appointment
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/

Lifestyle: Presenting a wonderful opportunity to secure a heritage filled residence
in a historic Mount Pleasant precinct. This tastefully renovated home provides an
old charm ambience with modern facilities making it the perfect mix of young and
old. Features: Upon entry, this home greets you with an abundance of charm from
stained glass windows to beautiful fireplaces in the bedrooms. The bathroom and
master ensuite have been elegantly updated and all bedrooms are well sized. The
open plan kitchen, dining and family area is completely new and offers the latest
appliances. Outside is a deck and paved alfresco with a low maintenance garden
perfect for entertaining. The property also has rear access for vehicles or a caravan
with room for a carport or garage. Location: Perfectly located close to schools, shops,
transport and only a short drive to the CBD, this property is ready for someone to settle
in and enjoy all it has to offer.

Lifestyle: Set in the rapidly developing Winter Valley Estate, 12 month old home is
surrounded by quality properties, lots of parklands and excellent recreation. Amenities.
Walking distance to fantastic Delacombe Town Centre, Bunnings and associated
shopping this is a wonderful place to raise a young family or invest. Features: J G
King built, the home comprises three generous size bedrooms including full ensuite
bathroom to the master, along with a lovely north-facing aspect. Terrific open plan
kitchen. Dining and living area which opens onto a patio entertaining area and huge
backyard. Quality fittings throughout and loads of space. Location: Enjoy the stroll
along the landscaped trails and gardens, and the beautiful semi-rural environment
that exists with this low maintenance residence. Easy access in and out of town, yet
only minutes from the centre of the city. Surrounded by schools, private, primary &
secondary colleges.
Arrange your inspection today.

Auction Sat 29th May at 11.00AM

Stunning Unique Inner City Residence With Income

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Au c t i o n

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Saturday 29th May at 11.00AM

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S h o p 4 2 8 A S t u rt S t r e e t - B a l l e t i c D a n c e - n e t r e n t $ 2 5 , 4 74 p / a
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YOUR HOME

Organise your kitchen with
tips from a decluttering expert
KITCHENS may be the heart of the home,
but they're the place we meal prep, dump
school bags, stack bills and receipts, chill
wine, the list goes on.
They're also quick to become disorganised
chaos, especially when there are kids and
working parents involved.
To help Australian families, Westinghouse
has teamed up with expert declutterer
Amy Revell.
"We spend so much time in the kitchen
that we need it to be simple, organised and
decluttered, otherwise it's a nightmare to use
- and clean," said Amy, who is one half of the
duo behind The Art of Decluttering.
"From Tupperware falling out of cupboards every time you open them, to plates
and bowls mixed up together, there are so
many common but easily solved problems
in Australian kitchens messing with our productivity.
"And there's nothing I love more than
transforming a cluttered kitchen with practical systems that make life easier."
Here are Amy's decluttering tips to follow
in your home:
Get clear on purpose. Before decluttering, consider what works in your kitchen and
what are the pain points in need of solutions.
Ask yourself questions such as, "What do
you love about your current kitchen setup?
Do you have clear storage spaces? What appliances do you need on your bench?" as a

starting point.
Follow the everyday rule. Remember
that the kitchen benchtop is designed as a
surface to prepare food, not as a purveyor of
the blender, toaster, sandwich press, coffee
machine, microwave, and so on.
Be selective about what appliances get that
precious benchtop space, reserving it only
for items that get used every day. Otherwise
store them in dedicated appliance cupboards
or invest in hybrid appliances.
Create zones. Before your next grocery
run, empty your fridge of expired items and
organise everything into zones, grouping
similar items together.
For example, fruits and vegetables can be
stored in the crispers, ready to eat foods such
as cheese and yoghurt on the top shelf and
raw meat and fish in sealed containers on the
bottom shelf.
You could also get the kids help create a
healthy snack tub, filled with easy access
options for when they chorus that they're
hungry.
So the whole family can follow, you may
also consider labelling your zones or using
storage containers and fridge bins, which will
save you time and food waste in the long run.
Make over your pantry. There are a few
rules to follow: group like with like, use labelled clear storage containers for raw ingredients, and open containers for spreads, oils,
sauces, and meal bases.

CHAOS TO CALM: Amy Revell from The Art of Decluttering. Photo: Supplied.

Also, don't let any space go to waste and
store small items such as spices on the back
of the door.
Do an audit. Knowing what to keep and
what items you'd like to find a new home for
is as simple as this: if you haven't used it in 12
months and there are no plans of using it in
the next six months, it's time to go.
Declutter double ups as well. For example,
you don't need a water jug if your fridge has
an inbuilt water filter.
Clean on the go. Easy-to-clean appliances
will save on the cleaning products you'll need
to store under the kitchen sink and on the
time and elbow grease you'll need to use.
I absolutely adore the self-cleaning PyroClean function that comes with selected
Westinghouse ovens.

TIDY: Group items that are similar in your
pantry. Photo: Shutterstock.

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Stunning Contemporary Family Home In Brown Hill

$770,000 - $800,000

Set amongst the trees and parkland of the incredibly popular and tightly held Apple Orchard Estate is this breathtakingly modern family home. Thoughtfully
designed with the family in mind the home features a grand master bedroom suite with his and hers walk in robes and luxurious bathroom, three further bedrooms
with built in robes, a spacious study and large family bathroom. Take your pick of three separate and spacious living zones; the front theatre room, the ideal kids’
playroom at the rear or the breathtaking and expansive open plan kitchen and living space. The kitchen has been tastefully created with on-trend fittings and
fixtures, butler’s pantry and stone benchtops. The home is kept comfortable year-round with gas central heating and evaporative cooling throughout. Outside is
just as impressive with undercover alfresco area, gorgeous low maintenance gardens and a double lock up garage with direct internal access all set on 698m2
(approx.). Be quick to inspect this one!

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Sat 11:30 - 12:00pm

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Oscar Currell 0499 070 759

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58 King Street South, Ballarat East

3A

Tastefully Renovated Home Ready For You To Move Straight In!

$495,000 - $540,000

Tastefully modernized from top to bottom is 3-BR BV home in a convenient location of Ballarat East. Situated on a generous allotment of approx 700m2 this is one
you really don’t want to miss. You will love its close proximity to the Ballarat CBD, Western freeway & local restaurants & cafes. Entering the home, your eyes will
be drawn to the wide entry, high ceilings, ‘Blackbutt’ timber flooring and period cornicing. Freshly painted & carpeted throughout the formal lounge is spacious
and features a gas heater and s/system along with gas central heating servicing the rest of the home. The light filled chef’s kitchen has been tastefully renovated
with timber benchtops, ‘Terrazzo’ splashback, a 900mm ‘Westinghouse’ gas & electric cooking appliance, DW, BIP & generous drawer & cupboard storage. The
open dining space is perfect for entertaining. All 3 BRs are of large proportions with 2 of the 3 including BIR’s. The luxurious bathroom has a freestanding timber
vanity, over-sized shower and a magnificent modern colour palette. Completing this amazing renovation is stunning front entry with porch and built-up garden bed,
a generous sized laundry with good storage, large shed ideal for a workshop or to accommodate multiple vehicles and a huge backyard.

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1B 2C

Sat 11:30 - 12:00pm

Brian Te 0477 429 859

29 Wicklow Drive, Invermay Park

4A

Stunning Family Home On Corner Block In Popular Location

$620,000 - $650,000

Located in highly sought-after Invermay Park, this attractive executive home has everything you need. Internally you will find four spacious bedrooms and study.
The master has a large walk-in robe and a spa bath in the ensuite, the remaining bedrooms all have built in robes and two with ceiling fans. The home includes 3
spacious living areas that can be closed off and a modern kitchen appointed with dishwasher and dual oven. The family bathroom has a separate bath and shower
recess. There is a separate laundry, a lovely tiled entrance and gas central heating. Externally the home has much to offer with a generous corner block with rear
access, an undercover alfresco area, lock up garage and a low maintenance garden. Close to shopping, golf club and schools this one will not last long and is a
must to inspect.

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Sat 11:30 - 12:00pm

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13 Ainley Street, Brown Hill

5A

Investment Potential Galore In Brown Hill

$790,000 - $850,000

2B 6C

Situated in one of the fastest growing areas of Ballarat is this great opportunity situated close to shops, schools and walking tracks on a 1270m2 approx. allotment.
This property is perfect for those wishing to house cars, earn rent or house a loved one in the separate fully self-contained one-bedroom granny flat and still have
room for all the toys. The main home comprises of four bedrooms all with built in robes, an updated kitchen and bathroom that will not disappoint, all perfectly
climate controlled with gas central heating and duel split system heating and cooling. This property also boasts under house workshop and secure private mancave
to get away from it all without losing yard space. This property has been updated throughout and won’t disappoint. Call Blaise Newnham today on 0423 175 643.

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Size Matters! Huge Family Home In Premier North Location

$850,000 - $890,000

Set on approx. 1398m2 with views across Ballarat, this quality home offers unique design features and an incredibly flexible floor plan, making it appealing to a
broad range of buyers. This extensive family home features 6 good sized BRs on the main level all with BIR and the master offering WIR & ensuite. There is also
a separate purpose-built study off the main living area. Downstairs is an additional 7th bedroom complete with separate kitchenette, compact dining/living and
further potential to expand to include WIR and ensuite (STCA); perfect for teenage retreat, extended family, guest quarters or potential income stream. The heart of
the home is certainly the kitchen which comes complete with built in wood fire pizza oven. Open plan living with sunken lounge and large dining with double doors
that lead you to the backyard. Completing the family home is a generous laundry, quirky and unique main bathroom with separate powder room and massive
second living space with views. Externally there is secure storage for the trailer or caravan at the front, a SLUG with workshop space, landscaped gardens at the
front and a large backyard at the top of the block.

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Sat 12:30 - 1:00pm

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3A

Original Architectural Residence Set On Over An Acre

$950,000 - $1,000,000

1B 2C

Perfectly positioned on a rare double block of over 4000m2 and located in Mt Helen is this architecturally designed brick home. This residence must be seen to be
truly appreciated with features including floor to ceiling windows in the large, multi-purpose living spaces that take in the garden vistas, high soaring ceilings and
a custom-built under-house wine cellar. Each of the 3 BR’s offer BIR’s and stunning framed views of the mature gardens. Enjoy the warmth of gas ducted heating
throughout and a wood combustion fire for the winter months. The home is ready for updating or extending (STCA) while the vacant block next door could be split
off (STCA) or kept to make the most of the expansive and picturesque grounds. Be quick to inspect this one!

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Oscar Currell 0499 070 759

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205 Eddy Avenue, Mount Helen

4A

Forest Oasis Or Development Opportunity

$460,000 - $480,000

1B 2C

Situated in a picturesque location of Mount Helen is this flat and impressive 1437m2 approx. allotment with room for subdivision, that giant shed or even extension
(STCA). This family home comprises of three or four bedrooms with a study as an optional 4th bedroom, two generous living spaces and with elevated footings.
This original home is ready for your final touches and would be perfect for developers, investors or first home buyers. Don’t miss this rare opportunity call Blaise
Newnham today 0423 175 643

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6 Meribel Street, Winter Valley

4A

Brand New Four Bedroom Home Of Grand Proportions

$520,000 - $540,000

This large four-bedroom home is located in a quiet street adjacent to Delacombe Town Centre offering a convenient lifestyle or wise investment. The home has
just been completed by Burbank homes and has been finished to the highest standard with plenty of space both inside and out. The house sits in the front corner
of the block allowing for side access to the spacious backyard. The kitchen, meals and living are open plan and flow nicely out to the alfresco for all year round
entertaining. There is also a second separate lounge. The master bedroom is at the back of the property with large ensuite and walk in robe. The other bedrooms all
feature built in robes and are a great size. The main bathroom has separate shower and bath as well as a separate toilet. Other features include a full laundry, direct
access to double remote garage and gas central heating. This quality home will not last long in the current market, the exclusive listing agent Dominic Morrison
looks forward to seeing you at another busy Ballarat Real Estate open home.

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Sat 12:30 - 1:00pm

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3A

Fully Renovated Three Bedroom Home On Around 960m2 With Plans And Permits Approved For Subdivision

$565,000 - $595,000

This recently renovated home is well positioned on a service road in between the Ballarat CBD and Federation University. The location also offers close proximity to
a shopping centre, primary and secondary schools and public transport. There are approved plans and permits for a two lot subdivision allowing for the purchaser
to either go ahead or keep the existing property on the full block. If the subdivision was the preference of the purchaser both properties would be left with spacious
blocks in this sought after location. All plans and permits will be included in the sale. The existing house consists of three bedrooms, two with built in robes. The
kitchen is modern with attached meals area while the lounge has a feature gas log fire as well as a split system. There is a main bathroom while the laundry includes
a second toilet and second shower. Other features inside include further gas heating and a sun room. Outside you have a low maintenance yard and double garage
with the further space behind to allow for potential subdivision. This rare opportunity will not last long, the exclusive listing agent Dominic Morrison looks forward
to meeting you at another busy Ballarat Real Estate open home.

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3/239A Albert Street, Sebastopol

2A

High Quality Townhouse In Prime Location Offering Peace And Quiet Close To Shopping

$300,000 - $330,000

Set in a sought after locale close to shops, schools and sporting facilities is this quality townhouse offering a high standard of living as well as peace and quiet.
Inside you will discover a wonderful and spacious open plan meals and living area that is light filled and very comfortable. The modern kitchen enjoys ample
cupboard and bench space with gas cooking, double sink and dishwasher. There are two good sized bedrooms featuring ample BIR’s. The semi ensuite offers
both a bath and shower along with separate toilet. The home has central heating throughout as well as a split system for cooling. There is a lovely pergola and
courtyard space accessed from the meals area ideal for private outdoor entertaining. In addition there is also a single lock up garage. A beautiful property that
must surely be inspected.

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1B 1C

Sat 11:00 - 11:30am

Allister Morrison 0438 508 855
Adam Vranesic 0432 788 733

6 McNulty Drive, Wendouree

3A

Renovated Classic Brick Home With Good Shedding.

$395,000 - $425,000

Located in a quiet pocket of sought after Wendouree is this attractive home which has recently been renovated throughout. Conveniently positioned minutes to
Western Freeway, Stockland shopping centre and schools. This well-maintained home will suit a wide range of buyers. Entering the home, you a greeted by a tiled
entry and a large formal lounge which has been freshly painted and carpeted throughout. The open dining and modern kitchen has been tastefully updated with a
bright colour palette and has gas and electric cooking, generous new cabinetry, soft closing drawers, dishwasher and BIP. The central main bathroom includes a
shower, bath and new vanity with a separate toilet off the laundry. Double glazed windows, gas central heating and an air conditioner in the dining area will keep
you comfortable through all seasons. Leading to the backyard you will find a large double lock up garage with an inground oil pit. The garage is fully lined along
with power ideal for your very own workshop. Completing this appealing property is a large backyard, secure fencing for kids or pets and an attached studio or
home office towards the rear. Call Brian Te 0477 429 859 to arrange your viewing today.

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Sat 10:30 - 10:50am

Brian Te 0477 429 859

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$270,000 - $290,000

1B 1C

Situated within a quiet complex, this two-bedroom unit is nestled amongst other privately owned units. The grounds are beautifully maintained including a central
garden rotunda. A great first home or investment property with plenty of potential. Open plan kitchen leads into a spacious lounge room an abundance of natural
light. From the main hallway leads to 2 generous bedrooms, both with WIR’s. Central bathroom with separate toilet and laundry. The private rear garden is low
maintenance and offers a quiet place to sit. There is also a garden shed and single undercover carport. Conveniently located just a minute’s walk to public transport
and shops, this property is a must see. Contact Damian Larkin today to avoids missing out.

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7 Hardy Court, Sebastopol

3A

Immaculately Presented Brick Home With 6 Car Spaces

$390,000 - $410,000

1B 6C

Located close to shops, schools and the Delacombe Town Centre is this quality three-bedroom brick home. This neat and tidy brick home is immaculately
presented by the current owner and presents a unique opportunity for a purchaser to move straight in and enjoy. The home offers three good sized bedrooms all
with BIR’s, master with two-way ensuite which also acts as the main bathroom. The heart of the home is the open plan kitchen, meals and living area. This home
boasts a large undercover alfresco plus a small alfresco at the rear of the home which also incorporates 2 private yards and two garden sheds. Homes of this
standard don’t last long, call the exclusive listing agent Damian Larkin on 0417 088 755 today!

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21 Falkner Street, Linton

4A

20 Acres Approx. With Horse Arena Perfect For Investors

$599,000 - $650,000

2B 4C

Situated in the quiet township of Linton is this picturesque lifestyle property with long term tenants paying $650pw until September 2022. The home comprises of
four bedrooms with original timber floors, it is climate controlled with 3 split systems, 2 wood fire places, the master bedroom is complete with robe and en-suite.
This large family home is the perfect investment opportunity sitting on 5 titles and well set up for horses or livestock being largely cleared land. There are a number
of out buildings and shedding perfect for any true lifestyle property, the roof has been recently replaced and offers great returns at this price bracket. Don’t miss
this rare opportunity to buy land and gain a long-term tenant wishing to stay longer. Call Blaise Newnham today 0423 175 643

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42 Creekstone Drive, Alfredton

4A

Four Bedroom Family Home In Brilliant Location

$520,000 - $550,000

2B 2C

Situated in the highly sought after suburb of Alfredton close to shops, walking tracks and schools is
this four bedroom family home. Internally, this home features four spacious bedrooms, the master
with an ensuite and large walk in robe, the remaining three bedrooms all with built in robes. The open
plan kitchen, meals and living area enjoys plenty of natural light and is perfect for family living. Other
features of this home include split system cooling, gas central heating, solar panels, a spacious laundry
and main bathroom which is cleverly positioned near the three bedrooms at the rear of the home.
Externally, this home is just as impressive with a large double lock up garage, a low maintenance yard
and concreted outdoor area. This one is sure to impress, contact Lachlan Sylvia to inspect today.

Inspect
Sat 12:40 - 1:00pm

Lachlan Sylvia 0458 068 234

15 Hamlet Street, Wendouree

4A

Light Filled Family Home In Popular Location

$480,000 - $510,000

Situated in one of the most popular pockets of Ballarat close to train station, Lake Wendouree, local
schools and shopping precinct is this gorgeous, updated home set on a large block. Updated in and
out this home offers four spacious bedrooms with built in robes, new carpet, walk-in robe and ensuite
in the master bedroom, a fully equipped tiled kitchen and central family bathroom with separate toilet.
There’s also a light filled, good sized main living space at the front and an adjoining meals area off the
kitchen. Featuring new split system heating and cooling in the living area as well as the additional split
system in the master bedroom. The good sized secure landscaped backyard has a great lock up four
car garage/work shed with large decked area perfect for entertaining.

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402 Sturt Street, Ballarat

2B 4C

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120 Warrina Drive, Delacombe

3A

2B 2C

Quality Home Located On A Huge Allotment

$460,000 - $490,000

Situated close to shops, neighbouring Delacombe Primary School and close the Delacombe Town
Centre, is this rare opportunity accommodating first home buyers, families and investors alike. This
stunning home comprises of three bedrooms, the master with ensuite and walk-in wardrobe, two living
spaces including open plan kitchen and meals area and a purpose made storage/workshop which
joins the DLUG. The corner property possesses side access to fully utilise the generous backyard
where there is ample room for children & pets to play. This great family home has everything covered
with the added bonus of a large undercover entertainment area. To top off this great package the home
offers ducted gas heating in addition to the s/system heating & cooling.

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66 Merino Drive, Alfredton

4A

Huge Home In A Popular Suburb

$640,000 - $680,000

Situated on a huge allotment and in close proximity of the Lucas Town Centre and DTC, multiple
primary schools and Ballarat High School sits this 4-BR home. The master BR is extremely spacious &
acts as the perfect couple’s retreat. While the remaining 3 BRs are cleverly positioned at the rear of the
home & all include BIRs. Upon entering the home, you are greeted by a large entrance hallway with a
study on your right. A front living space which enjoys plenty of natural light & flows through to the open
plan kitchen, meals & living area features gas cooking, DW, BIP along with plenty of cupboard space.
Tucked away at the rear of the property is a generous sized theatre room. Externally, this property
features a DLUG, a well-kept garden & side gate access to the yard.

Inspect

Sat 12:00 - 12:20pm

Alex Stepnell 0407 373 507

3B 2C

Sat 11:10 - 11:30am

Alex Stepnell 0407 373 507

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326 Errard Street South, Ballarat Central

3A

Meticulously Renovated Family Home In Heart Of Ballarat

$820,000 - $860,000

2B 5C

Conveniently positioned minutes from cafes, shops, medical centres and Lake Wendouree. Entering
this heritage home, you are greeted by period detail with stained glass door, iron lace balustrade and
dado wall panelling. The two front bedrooms both have BIR’s. The master bedroom has his and her’s
WIR and modern ensuite with oversized shower, sleek vanity and seperate toilet. The large formal
lounge houses a split system for heating and cooling whilst a wood log fire place takes care of the
open dining and second living area. Thoughtfully designed, the chef’s kitchen is well appointed with
900mm electric cooktop and oven, Tasmania-Blackwood timber island bench and marble bench tops,
soft closing drawers and dishwasher.

Inspect
Sat 2:00 - 2:20pm

Brian Te 0477 429 859

57 Cambridge Street, Wendouree

3A

Triple Fronted Home Close To Shopping Centre & Train Station

$420,000

Ideally located close to Stockland Shopping Centre, Ballarat Grammar and the Wendouree Train
Station is this very neat triple fronted, weatherboard home. Set in a very quiet, family friendly street the
home offers three spacious bedrooms, large L-shaped living space, a functional main bathroom and a
generous kitchen. Outside there is a very handy studio/home office, single garage, single carport and
low maintenance gardens. This property would make the ideal home or investment purchase. Just be
quick!

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402 Sturt Street, Ballarat

1B 2C

Sat 10:30 - 11:00am

Dave Morrison 0438 342 227
Oscar Currell 0499 070 759

92 Warrenheip Road, Warrenheip

6A

Car Lifestyle At Its Best With Large Family Home

$850,000 - $900,000

3 B 14 C

Situated in the tightly held locale of Warrenheip on the popular Melbourne side and sitting on a
6,535m² approx. allotment, this home offers everything you have ever wanted. Glorious views of Mount
Warrenheip, easy access to the Western Hwy, Schools close by and of course the star of the show a
9x36m long shed of your dreams which comes equipped with concrete floors, fully lined and powered,
complete with bar and additionally has separate from the home fully self-contained 2-BR bungalow.
The home comprises 4 large BRs, the master is king sized & has en-suite and WIR. This custom-built
home has the added advantaged of central open plan multiple living areas all based around split
system heating and cooling and central wood heating.

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622 Eyre Street, Buninyong

4A

Luxury Country Living On Large Allotment

$750,000 - $785,000

Situated on 862m2 approx. with extremely rare side access perfect for a caravan, trailer or boat and
rear garage/man cave and workshop with room for further shedding (STCA). Located close to local
schools, shops and the Midland Hwy with the added bonus of framed and sprawling views of Mount
Buninyong. The home comprises of four bedrooms all with built in robes with an extra room for 5th
bedroom or home office, the master has both en-suite, walk in robe and private balcony to enjoy the
views. Exceptional features include ducted heating and cooling, large open plan kitchen with stone
benchtops and high-end fixtures and fittings, walk in pantry with two attached living zones with a
feature gas log fire and 3rd separate living area upstairs with picturesque window of Mount Buninyong.

Inspect

Sat 3:00 - 3:30pm

Blaise Newnham 0423 175 643

2B 4C

Sat 2:00 - 2:30pm

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6/633 Bond Street, Golden Point

2A

Quality Two Bedroom Townhouse In Golden Point

$370,000 - $390,000

Situated in one of the most sought-after locations of Ballarat is this fantastic two-bedroom townhouse.
Walking distance to Sovereign Hill, parks and local cafes this property is the ideal investment, Airbnb
or downsizer. Featuring two good-sized bedrooms with BIR and WIR to the master. The open plan
kitchen, living and meals boast comfortable and spacious living with gas cooking, modern fixtures
and heaps of storage. Additional features of the home include a vibrant bathroom with shower and
bath, central ducted heating throughout and a single garage with an automatic door and direct internal
access. Currently tenanted at $270pw to fantastic tenants, this won’t last long.

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514 York Street, Ballarat East

3A

Perfectly Situated 3 Bedroom Home On A Massive Block With Potential.

$490,000 - $520,000

This lovely home, minutes away from the Ballarat CBD is situated on a generous 927m2 (approx.)
block with potential to subdivide (STCA). The home features 3 large bedrooms all with built in robes.
There are 2 living spaces and a fantastic kitchen, featuring lots of cupboard and storage space. A
low maintenance front yard and rear courtyard allow for easy care and minimum fuss. There is also
a modern self-contained unit at the rear of the property which is separately metered with kitchen,
bathroom and open plan living. With secure car parking via a DLUG as well as carport and being only
a short walk to public transport, this home will not be available for long.

Inspect

402 Sturt Street, Ballarat

1B 1C

Sat 10:45 - 11:00am

Dave Morrison 0438 342 227
Oscar Currell 0499 070 759

1B 3C

Sat 12:30 - 12:50pm

Allister Morrison 0438 508 855
Tash Guinea 0439 831 058

61 Dyson Drive, Alfredton

4A

Large Four Bedroom Home In Popular Alfredton

$600,000 - $630,000

2B 2C

Located in highly sought-after Alfredton locale amongst other quality residences is this 4-BR executive
home. The home consists of 4 spacious BRs, 3 with BIRs & the master has a large WIR & a modern
ensuite. The home includes 2 spacious living areas, a formal living area at the front of the home & a
large lounge at the rear. The modern kitchen is well appointed with a stainless-steel wall oven, a DW,
a double pantry & an adjoining tiled meals area. The family bathroom has a separate bath and shower
recess & the home also includes a separate laundry, a lovely tiled entrance, gas central heating & a
ducted vacuum system. Externally the home has much to offer including a DLUG with remote access
& a fully enclosed rear yard with low maintenance gardens.

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115 Skipton Street, Ballarat Central

3A

Renovated Three Bedroom Brick Home With Huge Shed

$445,000 - $465,000

This attractive brick home is positioned ideally on the edge of the Ballarat CBD with great schools,
Ballarat Train station, GovHub and cafes and restaurants all at your fingertips. It is difficult to find a
property in such a prized central location on a generous allotment with plenty of shedding. The solid
home has enjoyed both kitchen and bathroom renovations. The kitchen also has attached meals area.
The lounge is a great size and is bathed in natural light. All three bedrooms have built in robes while the
family bathroom has shower over bath and twin vanity. The large laundry incorporates a mudroom to
drop off the kids shoes and school bags. The house is serviced by gas heating and NBN connection.

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Tash Guinea 0439 831 058

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Sat 11:30 - 12:00pm

Dominic Morrison 0409 557 461

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4/49 Cromwell Street, Sebastopol

2A

Owner Occupy Or Invest In This Brilliantly Located Townhouse

$270,000 - $290,000

Ideally situated only a stone’s throw to primary and secondary schools and within walking distance
to supermarket, pharmacy, Aldi and takeaway outlets. Internally you will find two generous sized
bedrooms both with BIR’s and ceiling fans. A spacious living zone with Rinnai wall heater and open
plan kitchen/dining complete with new stove and an abundance of storage. A centrally located family
bathroom with separate bath and shower, as well as a good-sized laundry together with separate
toilet. Externally you will find an incredibly spacious rear yard with an established vegie patch, garden
shed, undercover area and low maintenance garden. The unit is complete with a single lock up remote
garage. This is a must to inspect as it won’t last long!

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11/209 Leith Street, Redan

2A

Renovated & Close To All Amenities

$300,000 - $330,000

Situated within a quiet complex, this lovely renovated 2 BR unit is nestled amongst other privately
owned units. The grounds are beautifully maintained including a central garden rotunda. Step inside
and be impressed by the updated features of this home. The sun-soaked open plan kitchen leads into
a spacious lounge room with split system air conditioner and an abundance of natural light, warmth
and sense of space. From the main hallway leads to 2 BR’s, both with WIR’s. There is a bathroom with
separate toilet and laundry with plenty of storage & external access. The private rear garden is low
maintenance and offers a quiet place to sit. There is also a garden shed and single undercover carport.
Conveniently located just a minute’s walk to public transport and shops.

Inspect

402 Sturt Street, Ballarat

1B 1C

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1B 1C

Sat 10:30 - 11:00am

Damian Larkin 0417 088 755

7/7 Cromwell Street, Sebastopol

2A

1B 1C

Beautifully Updated In Tightly Held Complex

$290,000 - $295,000

Positioned just meters from Morshead Park, close to schools, shops and public transport is this
fantastic opportunity. Thoughtfully updated to create a comfortable open plan living and dining area
along with the extended kitchen means a buy like this is truly unique. With two generous bedrooms
both with built in robes, separate bathroom, central heating, study nook and laundry, this property
suits all buyer categories. Whether you are a first home buyer, investor or looking to downsize. There
is enough room for two cars including the lock up garage as well as a private, spacious and secure
rear yard.

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2 Amana Drive, Alfredton

3A

Luxury Townhouse With Dual Living And Views

$400,000 - $430,000

This high quality townhouse sits perfectly opposite parklands, with a northerly aspect and enjoys views
all the way to Mount Buninyong. The quiet location is close to top schools, Lucas Town Centre and
plenty of sporting facilities. The low maintenance property offers all the comforts with many extras
that make for an envious lifestyle. The open plan kitchen, meals are open up to an enclosed courtyard
for outdoor entertaining. There is also a second living space the overlooks the parklands. There are
three generous bedrooms, master with walk in robe and ensuite. There is a main bathroom that has a
separate toilet while there is also a full laundry. Other features include a double remote garage, study
nook, walk in linen press an gas central heating.

Inspect

Sat 1:10 - 1:30pm

Dave Morrison 0438 342 227
Oscar Currell 0499 070 759

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6 Marxsen Parade, Lucas

4A

Stunning Four Bedroom Home in Lucas Platinum

$540,000 - $570,000

2B 2C

This stunning new JG king home is in a premium position in Lucas Platinum. There are high end
features throughout the home such as engineered high ceilings & stone bench tops in the kitchen,
doors & quality fixtures & fittings. The open plan kitchen, meals & living is spacious & bright with its
northerly aspect. The luxurious kitchen has 900mm oven & cooktop, WIP & stone benchtops. The main
living area has great space including study nook & storage. The room flows beautifully out to your north
facing yard with undercover alfresco. There is also a 2nd separate lounge, rumpus or theatre room.
The main BR has deluxe ensuite & WIR. Features include full laundry with access outside & drying
cupboard, gas central heating, evaporative cooling & DLUG with direct access into the home.

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6/420 Sherrard Street, Black Hill

3A

Modern, Stylish Living

$599,000 - $650,000

Elevated high up on Black Hill with spectacular views over the city, this stunning architectural home is
sure to impress. The home comprises 3 bedrooms plus a study, 2 living areas and 2 bathrooms. The
main hub includes the light and bright kitchen and open plan living area with views of grand proportions.
The spacious master bedroom is complete with BIR and ensuite. The remaining 2 bedrooms are of
a good size and all with built in robes. The home is finished to the highest quality and features walk
in pantry, stainless steel appliances, contemporary window and floor coverings, central heating plus
cooling and single lock up garage. Outside is a tranquil setting. The home has everything you could
want. Call Damian Larkin to book your inspection!

Inspect

402 Sturt Street, Ballarat

2B 1C

Tues 5:15 - 5:45pm

Damian Larkin 0417 088 755

91 Simson Street, Carisbrook

4A

Executive Home In Excellent Location

$449,500

2B 2C

Have you been on the search for a family home inside but low maintenance and manageable yard? Well,
this could be the one you have been waiting for, and it is now available. Offering 4 spacious bedrooms,
main with ensuite and all having excellent built-in storage, open plan kitchen dining lounge with the
well-appointed kitchen as the heart. Stone waterfall benchtops, 900mm appliances, dishwasher and
walk-in pantry. Direct entry to double garage and a large designated dining room with a wood fire for
the winter months. Adjoining a stunning alfresco area with built-in BBQ and waiting for your friends and
family to join you to celebrate moving in.

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Sat 2:00 - 2:30pm

Kate Ashton 0418 521 346

74 Moonies Dam Road, Smythesdale

5A

“Richview” – An Impressive Lifestyle Opportunity Awaits

$870,000 - $950,000

2B 6C

Set on 20 acres and approx. 15mins from DTC. The home has been meticulously maintained &
comprises 5 BRs, each with BIRs, & generous master complete with WIR & ensuite. Offering plenty of
space with open plan kitchen, dining and living together with spacious 2nd living that includes built in
study space. Overlooking the stunning manicured gardens is a light filled north facing kitchen including
WIP. For year-round comfort, the home features a combustion wood heater and 2 s/systems, one
of which is air filtered. Externally you will find magnificent established & fully landscaped gardens,
undercover entertaining area with BBQ, large dam for irrigation, 44,000 litres of water tank storage,
double carport, shedding including workshop with power & concrete flooring & fenced paddocks.

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Sat 2:15 - 2:45pm

Jo Thornton 0409 356 478

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2A

4/45 Otway Street South, Canadian

1A

2 BR Renovator In Popular Soldiers Hill

$410,000 - $440,000

2B -C

1 BR Unit In A Quiet Complex

$199,000 - $218,000

If you’re looking for a renovator in the popular area of Soldiers
Hill or a place to build your dream home (STCA) in a great
location that is surrounded by well-maintained homes and a
position that is close to public transport and a short drive to
Ballarat CBD, Ballarat train station then this home is for you.
The home consists of two good sized bedrooms open plan
lounge/ dining and separate kitchen. The laundry, bathroom
and toilet are easy access from the kitchen.

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This unit is a great opportunity to either enter the rental market
or to purchase a home in a great location. The home is just a
short drive to Ballarat CBD, schools and walking distance to
public transport. The unit consists of open plan living, dining
and kitchen that overlooks the rear yard. One good sized
bedroom with built in robe and combined bathroom, laundry
with shower, vanity and separate toilet. The unit is kept warm
by a Rinni gas heater.

Inspect

Sat 12:15 - 12:45pm

Terry Richardson 0487 516 260

Sat 1:15 - 1:30pm

Terry Richardson 0487 516 260

175 Balaclava Road, Maryborough

7A

30 Napier Street, Maryborough

3A

Executive Home - Space For Family Living

$875,000 - $895,000

Spectacular Home In Central Position

$499,000

Renovated and extended home offering 7 BR’s, study, 2 bath,
on 1 1/2 acres (approx.). Open plan living, kitchen and dining.
Kitchen with WIP, stone benchtops, dishwasher, 900mm
electric wall oven, gas cooktop and breakfast bar. The master
BR with ensuite and a WIR. 6 BR’s with BIR’s. Ducted heating
and cooling, undercover entertaining area, front and rear
access, powered single garage with storage rooms, 4 car
carport and water tanks.

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Under 5 years young, set on a corner block of approx 550m2
the home offers 3 BR’s, main with ensuite and WIR, and
storage throughout. Main bathroom with large shower and
bath, and separate wc.. High-quality bamboo flooring in all
walkways and carpet in BR’s. The open plan kitchen has gas
and electric appliances. Large laundry and direct entry to the
garage. The property is fully fenced, space for entertaining
zone a short distance to local schools and shops.

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Kate Ashton 0418 521 346

15 Fernbanks Court, Ballarat North

4A

101 Canadian Lakes Boulevard, Canadian

4A

Impressive Home In Brilliant North Location

$500,000 - $550,000

2B 3C

High Quality 4 BR Home In Superb Location

$630,000 - $670,000

The first level features 3 BR’s all have BIR’s and the master
with an ensuite. Level one also consists of a main bathroom,
laundry and storage. The living wing features a formal lounge,
4th BR (or study), open kitchen with meals area and family
room. Externally, the home offers 3 car garage potential with
a large area available for storage, gardens, side access, water
tank and outdoor entertainment area. Other features include;
ceiling fans, gas central heating and wood fire.

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Impressive 4 BR home situated on approx 799m2.
Surrounded by lakes and walking tracks, close to schools,
public transport and shops. It features a formal lounge,
kitchen with adjoining meals area and family lounge. Four
BR’s including master with WIR and ensuite, while the other
3 BR’s have BIR’s. Other features include a direct access to
a DLUG and central heating throughout. Outside you have
space and undercover area.

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Sat 12:00 - 12:20pm

Lachlan Sylvia 0458 068 234

2B 2C

Sat 10:00 - 10:30am

Adam Vranesic 0432 788 733

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4A

11 Buchanan Drive, Lucas

4A

Four Bedroom Home In Popular Bonshaw

$550,000 - $565,000

2B 2C

Large 4 Bedroom 3 Living Family Home

$600,000 - $640,000

Buy of the plan and save. This beautiful Newcon four
bedroom home comes complete with fences, driveway and
front landscaped garden. The home boasts four generous
size bedrooms all with built in robes that are serviced by the
centrally located bathroom and the main having walk in robe
and ensuite with double vanity. The well-appointed kitchen
consists of stone bench tops, 900mm free standing oven and
cooktop, double sink and a 24 place DW.

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This beautifully appointed large family home built by renowned
local builders Hotondo Homes features four bedrooms
with all the upgrades and a great floorplan. The kitchen is
uniquely tucked away for more spacious meals and living
areas. The kitchen includes plenty of cupboard space with
stone benches and quality Omega appliances. The master
bedroom has large walk in robe and quality ensuite while all of
the other well sized bedrooms have built in robes.

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46 THE COURIER

Saturday May 15, 2021

AGENT’S CHOICE

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AGENT’S CHOICE

LUCAS
34 TREMAIN DRIVE

BALLARAT CENTRAL

A 4 | B 3 | C 2 | D 680m2

9 CRESWICK ROAD

PRICE / $775,000 - $815,000
AGENT / Buxton - Peter Burley: 0402 220 356

PRICE / $110,000 + GST + outgoings
AGENT / Colliers International - Andrew Lewis: 0419 508 908

Open for inspection: Saturday 11.00AM - 11.30AM
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Open for inspection: Please contact agent to arrange a private inspection
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Lifestyle: This home has been executed to perfection and is a fantastic place to
call home. Features: Upon entry you will be blown away by the quality and space
this property has to offer. There is a formal sitting area positioned at the front the
home with a study held across the hall. Flowing down the wide hallway leads you
to a huge open plan kitchen, living and dining space opening out onto the beautiful
undercover alfresco area. Positioned down a separate hall way leads to four bedrooms.
Master is of king-sized proportions with full ensuite, Three additional queen-sized
bedrooms all with built-in robes and the central bathroom. From the dining area, step
outside onto the outdoor entertaining area, the perfect spot to entertain family and
friends. Location: A magnificent home of grand proportions positioned to perfection
in Lucas Platinum, just a short stroll from major shopping facilities, schools, public
transport and a short drive to the Ballarat CBD sits this impressive home.

Features: 9 Creswick Road consists of a net lettable area of approximately 546
square metres over three levels which is connected by a staircase and is well suited to
office usage. There is a mixture of open plan and private office spaces, a board room,
reception area, kitchen and bathroom amenities and two balconies. Externally there is
20 on-site car parks and a rear courtyard.
Location: The property is well located on Creswick Road with high exposure to
passing traffic and proximity to the currently under construction GovHub, Sturt Street,
Armstrong Street food precinct and the Ballarat Library. Other major businesses in
proximity include Toyota, Ballarat Courier and Aldi so your business will be in an
excellent location to maximise the potential of the property.

AGENT’S CHOICE

AGENT’S CHOICE

CARNGHAM

NEWINGTON

2436 BEAUFORT-CARNGHAM ROAD

1135 EYRE STREET

A 10 | B 3 | C 2 | D

A 3 | B 1 | C 2 | D 535m2

PRICE / $1,150,000 - $1,250,000
AGENT / Ballarat Real Estate - Dominic Morrison: 0409 557 461

PRICE / $875,000 - $895,000
AGENT / Harcourts Ballarat - Jarrod Cloke: 0407 550 103

Open for inspection: Sat 2:00 - 2:30pm
realestateview ID: www.realestateview.com.au/

Open for inspection: Sat. 11.00am - 11.30am
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Lifestyle: This unique lifestyle property is positioned ideally within only 22 minutes
of Ballarat CBD and even closer to the townships of Beaufort and Snake Valley. The
stunning home sits elevated on approximately 4 acres of land. The home has been
cleverly designed to embrace the surrounding environment resulting in beautiful
views and energy efficiency. The house has 5 k/w of solar power, double glazing
and plenty of tank water. The original home is a testament to a true craftsman, who
milled timber on site and used traditional methods to build every step, stair rail and
floorboard making it a home the truly is at one with its environment. The property
presents an opportunity for a large family to use the whole property or for a number
of family’s to live together under the one roof while maintaining some privacy. With
the separation of the two properties a family could have older parents live with them
while still maintaining some independence. The main residence consists of three
living areas, chefs kitchen and meals area that flows perfectly out to a large deck for

Lifestyle: This stunning grand Victorian family residence is set on approximately
535m2 of prime land. Outside you will find fully landscaped gardens, double carport,
garden shed and additional bungalow, ideal for the teenager or for those who work
from home. Features: Offering three large bedrooms, this beautifully presented home
has kept many original features throughout with 12 foot ceilings, lead light windows,
beautiful mantles above 4 open fireplaces and custom cornicing and ceiling roses.
The home has two separate living areas with a grand north facing formal lounge
and equally impressive family room. The bathroom has been fully renovated with
free standing bath while the large timber kitchen has been upgraded with stainless
steel appliances. Location: Positioned in one of Ballarat’s most sought-after locations
moments to many of the city’s finest private schools, shops and transport.

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INVERMAY PARK

BALLARAT EAST

2 LINKS COURT

308 EUREKA STREET

A 3 | B 2 | C 4 | D 840

| D 596

PRICE / $640,000 - $660,000
AGENT / Ray White - Paul McGourlay: 0423 508 070

PRICE / $220,000-$230,000
AGENT / Doepel Lilley & Taylor - John Morris: 0418 543 637

Open for inspection: Sat 15/05 12:00 - 12:30pm
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Lifestyle: Living just 100m to the 1st tee of Midlands Golf Club this is the lifestyle
people dream of, perfect for those looking to retire and live the easy life with Northway
Shopping Centre not far and the Ballarat CBD a short drive away you will feel relaxed
and comfortable knowing everything is at your doorstep. Features: Three great
sized bedrooms, master with walk in robe, and ensuite at the front of the home. A
formal living area complemented by the log fire ideal for those winter nights upon
us. Fully renovated kitchen with high end appliances and stone benches. Ample
car parking with the double lock up garage and double carport, zoned gas central
heating, ceiling fans in all bedrooms and an undercover alfresco area perfect
for entertaining. Location: Located just a stone’s throw to the Midlands Golf Club,
Northway Shopping Centre just over 1km away and the Ballarat CBD a short 5minute
drive to every Ballarat has to offer. Located in a highly sought after and tightly held
area you will not be disappointed by securing yourself in this quite court bowl.

Lifestyle: Ideally sited to allow downstairs garages, theatre room etc with ample footprint
for bedrooms and family living upstairs but all on the one level. Features: 596sqm
allotment with almost 17m frontage to Eureka street, and a 4m access to Dodds Lane
at the rear for easy quiet egress. Location: Well located close to city centre, Eureka
Stockade complex, easy Freeway access and a great outlook toward Sovereign Hill.
Well located to nearby schools, bus stop, and corner store.

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Camperdown-Lismore Rd, Larralea
Prime Cropping and Grazing Land

Featuring:
• Larra Spring – fresh running water from the renowned
“Larra Spring” to all paddocks, plus dam and town
water connected
• Predominantly arable, gently rolling fertile country
highly suitable for cropping, grazing and fodder
production
• Excellent fencing throughout. 4 separate paddocks
• All weather B-double access to new steel cattle yards
• Reliable 26-28 inch annual rainfall
• Extensive bitumen road frontage on 2 sides
• Outstanding location – approximately 1 hour to
Ballarat, Geelong and Warrnambool

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Expressions of Interest

RE143

Closing Thursday 10th June, 5:00pm
Settlement October 2021 or earlier by mutual agreement
Inspections strictly by appointment
Rob Rickard 0407 354 027
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Elders Camperdown
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Lake Gardens
10 Taunton Place

3B

2C

2D

1I

For Sale $485,000 - $495,000
View Sat. 12.00pm - 12.30pm
harcourts.com.au/VBT45967 for Statement of Information

Sought After Lake Gardens Location
Located in sought after Lake Gardens & being so close to the Train Station, Stockland Wendouree &
only minutes away from Lake Wendouree. This home offers low-maintenance & convenient living
and is set on two levels in a quiet street. The property features an open living area, separate lounge
room, 3 bedrooms all with built-in robes & master with a full ensuite. The other two bedrooms are
serviced by the family-sized bathroom. Other features of the home include central heating, great
sized yard & a single auto garage with internal access. This home is perfect for the astute investor,
first home buyer or a young family wanting to live in a popular location near Lake Wendouree.
Harcourts Ballarat / 22 Peel Street North, Ballarat / 5333 1144

Jarrod Cloke
M 0407 550 103
jarrod.cloke@harcourtsballarat.com.au
Samantha Prince
M 0408 824 697
samantha.prince@harcourtsballarat.com.au

NEW
PRICE

Alfredton
1758A Sturt Street
Breathtaking Design & Bespoke Luxury
The free-flowing floor plan showcases 4 huge bedrooms with the master treated to an ensuite &
WIR. The open plan living/dining area is complimented by a custom kitchen with stone benchtops,
island bench, butler’s pantry & stainless-steel appliances. Featuring high ceilings, ducted heating,
refrigerated cooling, gas-log fireplace, 2 additional living zones & more. Fully landscaped, low
maintenance yards, outdoor entertainment area with kitchen & inground swimming pool.
Harcourts Ballarat / 22 Peel Street North, Ballarat / 5333 1144

4B

2C

3D

2I

For Sale $1,395,000 - $1,495,000
View Sat. 1.00pm - 1.30pm
harcourts.com.au/VBT45787 for Statement of Information
Jarrod Cloke
M 0407 550 103
jarrod.cloke@harcourtsballarat.com.au
Samantha Prince
M 0408 824 697
samantha.prince@harcourtsballarat.com.au

NEW
LISTING

Golden Point
306 Grant Street

3B

2C

1D

1I

For Sale $599,000 - $640,000
View Sat. 12.30pm - 1.00pm
harcourts.com.au/VBT45968 for Statement of Information

Renovated Inner City Living!
Ideally located in the tightly held suburb of Golden Point is this renovated 3 bedroom home just a
short stroll to cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, Fed Uni Central Ballarat campus & CBD shopping
precinct. Renovated kitchen with 900mm stainless steel oven & plenty of bench space which
opens to the lush gardens of your own private courtyard. With 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite,
family bathroom, open plan living & smart laundry. Gas heating & split system cooling.
Harcourts Ballarat / 22 Peel Street North, Ballarat / 5333 1144

Dean Parish
M 0490 382 264
dean.parish@harcourtsballarat.com.au

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Brown Hill
262 Humffray Street North
A Charming Surprise in a Popular Locale
Conveniently located just 3 mins back into the hub of town, while also being 3 mins onto the bipass off to Melbourne. The dwelling has had cosmetic work internally. The highlight of the home is
the stunning new kitchen with great bench space, pantry, upright stove & dishwasher. Boasting 3
bedrooms, each with BIRs. Pretty as is, there is still scope to enhance the value with a little external
TLC & landscaping. The home is currently tenanted & returns $320 p/w.
Harcourts Ballarat / 22 Peel Street North, Ballarat / 5333 1144

3B

1C

1D

2I

For Sale $450,000 - $470,000
View Sat. 11.00am - 11.30am
harcourts.com.au/VBT45798 for Statement of Information
Jason Gigliotti
M 0407 100 744
jason.gigliotti@harcourtsballarat.com.au
Zac Boland
M 0439 442 286
zac.boland@harcourtsballarat.com.au

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Soldiers Hill
206 Neill Street

2B

1C

1D

For Sale $499,000 - $525,000
View Sat. 11.00am - 11.30am
harcourts.com.au/VBT45889 for Statement of Information

Blue Chip Location to Develop (STCA) or Renovate
Located in a highly sought-after suburb just 50m from the Train Station this Victorian era home
is perfectly located for your next renovation or development (STCA). Locally you have cafes, bars,
restaurants, cinemas, speciality shops & all that is offered by the CBD within 100m. Traditional
open fireplace, stained glass windows & veranda with lacework. Two bedrooms & open plan
lounge/dining. Consisting mostly of solid brick with weatherboard façade, sitting on 458m2.
Harcourts Ballarat / 22 Peel Street North, Ballarat / 5333 1144

Dean Parish
M 0490 382 264
dean.parish@harcourtsballarat.com.au

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REAL ESTATE
YOUR HOME

Global design trends that
Aussies will positively live for
AUSTRALIANS often look abroad for cues on
the styles and designs that'll be influencing
our choices in the near future.
Beaumont Tiles recently gathered with
industry experts to reveal the new trends that
have infiltrated the world of tiles and indeed,
interior design in general.
Tactile stone. After the sharp digital shift
of 2020, many found themselves in search of
balance and longing to be more connected to
nature.
Natural stone and marble have an enduring, timeless appeal. It also gives us a
grounded connection to the environment.
Biophilic existence. Biophilia talks to a
genuine connection with nature. Bringing
the natural world into our home through botanical prints is known to promote happiness
and healing. Tropical leaf designs on tiles is
a playful way of bringing the power of plants
into your home.
Mediterranean. The Mediterranean trend
has been sweeping the design world and
Australia is in love with its light, warm and
tonal palette right now.
Patterned decors and stone look in shades
of the earth and sun, such as sandy beige,
taupe and terracotta are at the heart of
this trend.
Neutral foundations. Neutral floors are all
about setting the scene for uplifting-coloured accessories. Creamy whites are gaining
momentum with the desire to calm, cleanse

and purify our homes.
Terrazzo revival. A look into the crystal
ball of upcoming design trends for 2022
proves that this look is not going anywhere.
Terrazzo has captured our hearts and imaginations, and it's here to stay.
Going linear. Fluting and all things lineal are bringing a modern, unique point of
interest to interiors whilst paying tribute to
classical architecture.
Keep an eye out for sleek vertical forms
taking over interior design and architectural
facades this year (see main image).
Beaumont Tiles also reported the following trends as being ones to watch:
Wanderlust. The next step beyond boho
style that leans more towards true adventure
and global travel traits.
Have fun and be unique; explore exotic
cultures. What's on your travel wish list?
Let this be your guide. It could be souvenirs
from your travels, textiles, or even beautifully framed prints arranged to illustrate
your story.
This style is playful and bohemian at heart
with exotic handcrafted pieces, metallic embellishments and natural elements such as
hides and timber.
Vintage. Everything old is made new
again, or using new technologies to give new
pieces a vintage look.
Don't ever feel like everything has to
match; that's the fun of the vintage styling.

Though how to style this with professional
prowess is to use colour to unite the look.
Using trending tones from your era of
choice allows you to personalise this look in
a simple yet striking way. The secret to good
vintage styling is to mix new and old together, though the main thing is to make sure it's
not overdone.
Farmhouse. Sitting close to country chic,
it's cosy, warm-hearted, but a little worn
around the edges.
Don't be shy about bringing in interesting
objects and market finds, as these personal
rustic touches and imperfections when you
re-purpose and up-cycle is perfect.
Your colour scheme is about making contrasts, with classic blue, whites, neutrals, and
greys, framed with black. They all work well
with light or dark rustic furniture.

STYLE 2021: Keep an eye out for vintage
and linear tile trends. Photos: Beaumont Tiles.

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MARYBOROUGH
BALLARAT CENTRAL

25 MARGARET AVENUE

REAR - 4 PEEL STREET STH

D 4,257m2

PRICE / $250 pw + GST & O/G’s
AGENT / Bartrop Real Estate - Tim Etchells: 0407 421 567

PRICE / Expressions of Interest Closes Thursday 14th May at 5.00PM
AGENT / PRD Nationwide - Catharina Hartzheim: 0429 880 290

Open for inspection: By Appointment
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Open for inspection: By Appointment
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Features:
Central premises offering a great opportunity for office, retail, café and the like.
Consisting open plan of approx 100m2 with heating, air conditioning and staff facilities.

Lifestyle: A fantastic opportunity to secure a large development site of approx 4,257m2
virtually in the middle of town. An approved permit for a five lot subdivision has been
developed being one allotment at 803m2, a larger allotment at 1,430m2 plus three
further allotments at 675m2. Lot 2 is larger so it could accommodate up to 4 units
(STCA) which could potentially give the entire site up to 8 dwellings (STCA). Close to the
heart of Maryborough (approx 1.7km away from the township), this approximate acre
allotment is also less than one hour from Ballarat. Features: Offering tranquility, privacy
& perfect dimensions, buyers will have the flexibility to engage their own builder and
architect to construct a dream home that suits their needs, wants & lifestyle (subject
to council approval). Location: A fantastic opportunity to secure a large development
site of approx 4,257m2 virtually in the middle of town. Call our agent for full details of
this amazing opportunity.

Location:
Superbly located building adjoining Coles in one of Ballarat busiest locales.
Double front display windows ensure great exposure to both pedestrian and vehicle
traffic. Take advantage of the location and major free car park.
Available now.

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GOLDEN POINT

CRESWICK

306 GRANT STREET

337 / 1500 MIDLAND HIGHWAY

A 3 | B 2 | C 1 | D 363m2

A1| B1| C-| D-

PRICE / $599,000 - $640,000
AGENT / Harcourts Ballarat - Dean Parish: 0490 382 264

PRICE / $240,000
AGENT / Barry Plant - Michael Golding: 0408 127 632

Open for inspection: Sat. 12.30pm - 1.00pm
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Open for inspection: By appointment.
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Lifestyle: Spend lazy Sunday mornings in your private oasis before strolling to the local
cafés and bars for lunch. From the moment you enter this gorgeous property you can
feel the warmth, charm and tranquility of the period features which blend seamlessly
with the modern conveniences you expect in a property of this quality. Features: The
chef of the family will love the renovated kitchen with 900mm stainless steel oven and
plenty of bench space. With 3 generous bedrooms the master with ensuite, family
bathroom, open plan living area and smart laundry with an abundance of storage
this property has everything you need. Location: Ideally located in the tightly held
inner city Ballarat suburb of Golden Point is this gorgeous renovated 3 bedroom home
situated just a short stroll to cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, Federation University
Central Ballarat campus, Ballarat Central Train Station and the Central Business District
shopping precinct.

Lifestyle: Style, comfort and convenience all come together in a popular position
at the RACV Goldfields Resort. With private facilities all at hand, including the Tony
Cashmore designed golf course, a tennis court, a 4.5km mountain bike track, gym, a
pool with spa and a fabulous playground for the kids. Features: This studio apartment
contains an open design with a kitchenette and contemporary full bathroom with a
large shower and spa bath. Step outside the apartment onto the balcony and discover
the beautiful forest views over the fairway and surrounding grounds. Location: Head
downstairs to the first floor and unwind with a drink at the Springs Bar and Terrace or
enjoy a gourmet meal at Harvest Restaurant. The resort is positioned within 3 minutes
drive from the Creswick town centre and a short 10-minute drive to Ballarat, this would
make a great investment or idyllic private holiday apartment.

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AN ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY WITH EMPHASIS ON AN ALFRESCO LIVING STYLE

Luxury Byron Bay hinterland retreat
HOUSE DESIGN
BYRON Bay New South
Wales has a laid back ambience with ocean breezes and
coastal chic at its heart.
The client's brief to Mac
Design Studio was to create
a retreat, a place to relax
and enjoy the beauty of the
chilled environment, which
essentially became key to the
overall project.
The property is a north
facing 472m2 home, set on
a .607 hectare block of land
overlooking Coopers Shoot
at Byron. High up in the hinterland, it reaps the benefit
of stunning views across the
district towards the ocean.
Redefining the entry space
was key to the overall project,
with the goal being to create
a real sense of arrival to the
property. A new sandstone
walkway leads you down a
curved pathway to the front
entrance of the property
where you are greeted by
large glazed doors connecting the exterior with the
foyer.
The entrance area wall
panelling follows on from
the exterior and leads up
the stairs to the first floor.
The white panelling, rich in
texture, is offset by bleached
herringbone floors. Creative
lighting and the client's artwork are welcoming features.
The upper floor takes full
advantage of the beautiful
views with a large open plan
lounge and entertaining
space, kitchen and dining
areas, which create a natural
hub for the home. The colour
selection was instrumental
to grounding the central
kitchen area, with natural
stone complementing the
colour selection.
The main living area has a
new joinery element housing
a fire place for the winter
months. This element also
conceals the entertainment
system for this space while

COASTAL RETREAT: A refined, timeless palette and
high-quality materials were selected and approved at
the outset of the project, cementing a strong sense of
cohesion throughout the home. Photos: Lynden Foss

creating a ledge for housing
some special artefacts.
The layout of this area was
designed to be completely
flexible, ranging from entertaining mode to cosy nights
in with the family. This
space was zoned with two
large plush rugs offset from
each other.
The entire upper floor

interior and exterior are
connected via large sliding
doors, maximising natural
light.
These external areas encompass entertaining and
relaxation zones alongside
an outdoor pool area which
is complemented by a
curved dusty pink wall, adding an element of surprise to

the project. This wall can be
seen from different vantage
points within the interior of
the property.
The large outdoor dining
area and bar enhances the
alfresco aspect of living. A
bespoke timber-clad ceiling
was designed, complemented by external outdoor pendants.

In addition, multiple
lounging areas were created
on the balcony to take advantage of the vista.
The master suite on the
west side of the property was
conceived to feel like a hotel
suite. The bed is positioned
against a flanking wall, anchored by a structure housing a luxurious powder room
and dressing area.
A combination of coloured wall panelling and timber
joinery line the dressing area
for a touch of luxury. Adjacent to this area is a walk-in
wardrobe and master ensuite. The vanity and bath
surroundings feature New
York marble and refined
joinery which conceals ample storage.

The ground floor house
additional bedrooms, each
with full ensuites and walkin wardrobes.
Bleached ash flooring is
offset by coloured wall panelling in tones of blue and
teal. The bespoke kitchen
joinery boasts the boldest
colour scheme in the design
and is complemented with
honed elba stone counter
tops and splashback. Bespoke joinery throughout the
property consists of treated
timbers and natural stone in
neutral grey tones.
The materials are complemented by a refined selection of contemporary furniture and fittings to enhance
the interior architecture.
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Rosemary: a herb of remembrance that thrives on neglect
GARDENING
John Gabriele

ROSEMARY is renowned as the herb of remembrance and Anzac Day is a fitting time
to consider a place for it in your garden.
Rosemary is also symbolic of friendship
and love and has been the subject of myth.
One interesting Turkish myth surrounding
rosemary, is that it grows vigorously in the
garden where the woman is the head of the
household. In the 16th century many Turkish
men ripped rosemary from the garden in effort to demonstrate their status.
The ancient Greeks and Romans were
aware of the benefits of rosemary not just as
a culinary herb but for its medicinal benefits.
Greek scholars wore garlands of rosemary

Easy to grow, hardy and water-wise.

during examinations for the reputed benefit
of improving memory.
It is for this reason that we embrace rosemary as the herb of remembrance and wear

sprigs on the lapel on Anzac day in remembrance of our fallen service men and women.
Of the many different varieties available,
one that stands out is the Gallipoli rosemary.
In 1915 a wounded digger repatriated to
Adelaide Army hospital, brought back with
him a rosemary plant from the slopes of
Anzac cove, where rosemary grows wild on
the peninsula. This bush was planted out in
the hospital grounds and has since provided
propagation material for the distribution of
rosemary sprigs on Anzac Day.
Originating from the Mediterranean, rosemary can be easily grown in most gardens
and tends to thrive on neglect. This hardy,
water-wise plant is well-suited to a range of
soils and requires little maintenance other
than some regular pruning.

Full sun positions with good drainage are
ideal and the addition of a little lime to the
soil to raise pH will help rosemary flourish.
Growing to around 1.5 metres, it is ideal in
the herb garden or grown in a container and
can be trained as topiary.
Rosemary also makes an ideal hedging
plant. Prostrate forms are also available and
make excellent groundcovers, trailing over
rocks or retaining walls and spilling from
containers. The dense carpet of foliage is virtually impenetrable to weeds.
The aromatic needle-like leaves can be
used fresh or dried and the stems of varieties
such as Tuscan blue or goriza, once stripped
of leaves, make great barbecue skewers.
This beautiful and versatile herb is worthy
of a place in any garden.

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BROWN HILL

BALLARAT NORTH

92A WATER STREET

914 LYDIARD STREET NORTH

A 3 | B 1 | C 3 | D 824

A 3 | B 1 | C 1 | D 612m2

PRICE / $450,000 - $475,000
AGENT / Ray White - Paul McGourlay: 0423 508 070

PRICE / $525,000 - $550,000
AGENT / Harcourts Ballarat - Dean Parish: 0490 382 264

Open for inspection: {doc.OpenHomeDate} Anytime
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Open for inspection: Sat. 1.30pm - 2.00pm
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Lifestyle: Set on a large block with huge shedding those looking to work from
home have the perfect set up ready to have your workshop up and running in no
time, meaning more time at home to spend with the family and easy access to the
Melbourne Freeway making life easy for those looking to commute. Features: Offering
three bedrooms, master with built in robe a nice open plan kitchen/dining/living area
with split system air conditioning, and a recently renovated bathroom with floor to
ceiling tiles this home is ready to move in and make your own. Situated on a huge
824sqm block with triple car garage and workshop ideal for those looking to work
from home. Location: Located 280m to the freeway access to Melbourne, a short drive
to the Ballarat CBD and walking distance to Caledonian Primary School you are set to
start your own family or perfect for the growing family wanting to be close to shops
and schools.

Lifestyle: This is the perfect home and location for the young family looking to enter
the real estate market. Surrounded by primary schools and kindergartens you can walk
the kids to school. Spend Sunday mornings playing in the large private backyard with
the kids and then walk to the local cafés, restaurants and bars for lunch. Features: This
well maintained, original condition property offers 3 bedrooms, bathroom, laundry,
open plan lounge/dining room, wide driveway and single car lock up garage. Outside
the generous 612 sqm parcel of land leaves plenty of room in the back yard for the
kids to play. Location: Located in the highly sought-after suburb of North Ballarat
just a 4 minute drive to the Ballarat Train Station and Central Business District this
beautiful period home is perfectly located for your next renovation or development
project (STCA) with cafes, bars, restaurants, kindergartens and schools all within
walking distance.

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WENDOUREE
BALLARAT CENTRAL

11 PICKFORD STREET

200 STURT STREET

A 3 | B 2 | C 4 | D 625m2

PRICE / $96,000 + GST + outgoings
AGENT / Colliers International - Andrew Lewis: 0418 508 908

PRICE / $415,000 - $450,000
AGENT / Ballarat Real Estate - Blaise Newnham: 0423 175 643

Open for inspection: Please contact agent to arrange a private inspection
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area and excellent amenities throughout all levels the property has numerous private
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first-floor area.
Location: Situated on the corner of Sturt and Lydiard Street, the building is in a
prime CBD location, across from the Ballarat Town Hall, Myer, close to the train station,
GovHub and the thriving food and retail precinct. This is an opportunity not be missed
on one of the most prominent corner locations in Ballarat.For more information or to
arrange a private inspection, please contact the exclusive leasing agent above.

Lifestyle: Situated in one of Ballarat’s fastest growing suburbs, with shops and schools
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A tasty opportunity
LAKE WENDOUREE
917 Macarthur Street
$46,000 + stock at value
50 square metres

HAVE you been looking for a café with
style and atmosphere in a prime position
just off Lake Wendouree's walking track? If
so, your search is over.
This business would make a great
add-on for someone who bakes or makes
provedore items from home, or for a
couple to run as a family business.
Inside has a delightful European-inspired decor, while the huge exposure on
Macarthur Street showcases the charming
shop front.The street seating tops it all off,
creating a terrific alfresco-style café.

Solid turnover is achieved using an easy
and flexible seasonable menu, with all-day
breakfast, the best coffee in town, and the
house specialty of cakes and cookies.
The commercial kitchen has recently
been updated by the current owners to
ensure it operates efficiently.There is also
excellent refrigerator space that caters
for the storage of take-home pre-prepared meals.
Terrific add-on sales include a great
range of chocolates, including popular
hard-to-find overseas brands.
The future potential of this terrific business is limited only by your imagination.

AGENCY: Ballarat Real Estate
AGENT: John Stevenson on 0422 659 385
INSECT: By appointment

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Investment Sales

CBD Warehouse Conversion

Lauchlan Waddell
0407 520 725

$XFWLRQ Friday 21 May 2021 at 12pm (on-site)
206 Dana Street, Ballarat Central

Two storey building
of 654m²*

Vacant
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Charles Kennedy
0431 914 778

Period features
internally and
externally

James Lawson
0488 167 173

$XFWLRQ Forthcoming Auction
56 Lydiard Street South, Ballarat Central

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premises in CBD
period building

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light throughout

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New lease to 2030
retuning $78,000
net pa*

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brick building of
325m²*

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Heritage Listed Multi Level Office
Andrew Lewis
0418 508 908

$XFWLRQ Friday 18 June 2021 at 12pm (on-site)
48 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central

Office area of
840m²*

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James Lawson
0488 167 173

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YOUR HOME

Living with pets inside can be
messy but it's worth every wipe
ANYONE who owns a pet can vouch for their
pet's ability to make them laugh or comfort
them in times of stress.
A recent study conducted by the University of South Australia revealed that 90 per cent
of pet owners surveyed said that touching
their pets both comforted and relaxed them
and the pets seemed to need it as well.
Pets provide us with comfort, companionship and a sense of self-worth.
In a survey by Animal Medicines Australia
it was revealed there is an estimated 29 million pets in Australia, outnumbering humans
which is an estimated 25 million.
The most popular pet is a dog, with 40 per
cent of households owning at least one, followed by cats at 27 per cent.
However, despite this love and dedication
they show us they aren't able to offer the
same level of dedication to the housework.
Cat and dog hair, general odour and bad
breath, kitty litter, dropped food and water
plus walking dirt, mud or leaves inside are
just some of the messes that come along with
the fun of owning a pet.
Luckily there are plenty of easy ways to
combat these issues.
Hair
Prevention is better than cure. Put a blanket or sheet over furniture if your pet sits on
the lounge or buy them their own bed and
teach them to sit on it. This might be hard for
some, especially if your pet is already accus-

tomed to sitting next to you on the lounge.
When hair does end up on furniture the best
way to combat it is lint roller, rubber brush
and vacuum. Vacuuming or sweeping regularly around the house will prevent any hair
gathering in corners. If you can afford one a
robot vacuum is perfect for this job.
Odour
Again stop it before it starts. Wash your
pet regularly when needed or use pet wipes
when they just have some spots of dirt. A wet
cloth works fine. Don't wash your pet too often as overwashing can cause irritation and
make sure you're using a gentle shampoo.
While any store-bought air fresheners will
work fine a cheap and effective alternative is
white vinegar and water. Spray this on your
pet's bed and anywhere an odour might be
lurking. The vinegar will kill the bacteria
causing the smell and the smell of the vinegar will dissipate after a few minutes. Use less
water for a more effective spray.
Kitty litter
Ensure you are using a good quality kitty
litter and empty it regularly. There are also
kitty litter trays you can get with covers to
help prevent the smell spreading and also
prevent your cat from flicking litter across the
room.
Food and water
Feeding your pet outside will prevent any
food mess inside but if this isn't an option
using a placemat for your pet is the next best

option. There are plenty of different sizes on
the market, many offering a rubber surface
so bowls will grip and not tip over so easily.
Placing the water bowl on a similar mat will at
least prevent water from spilling on the floor.
Muddy paws
You can actually train your dog to wipe
their paws before they come inside. If you're
not this savvy with training a quick wipe with
a towel will suffice. Just get your dog used to
waiting before they run straight inside.
From the Animal Medicines Australia survey 90 per cent of pet owners said pets had
a very positive impact on their lives while
only three per cent said pets impacted them
negatively.
The main perceived downside of pet ownership is organising care while away from
home.

SUPPORT: Pets offer comfort but they do
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Commercial Sale

Industrial Sales

Hidden Gem On Ballarat CBD Fringe

Charles Kennedy
0431 914 778

$XFWLRQ Friday 18 June 2021 at 2pm (on-site)
115 Doveton Street South, Ballarat Central

Building of 400m²*,
land of 913m²*

Exposure to
Midland Highway

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Period 3 bedroom
residence

Modern Secure Warehouses

Lauchlan Waddell
0407 520 725

David Wright
0418 518 353
James Lawson
0488 167 173

)RU 6DOH $420,000 + GST (per unit)
Units 1-12, 18 Gregory Street West, Lake Gardens

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Area of 201m²* to
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High Clearance
roller doors of
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Disabled toilet and
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BUSINESS - FOR SALE

COMMERCIAL - FOR LEASE

601 Urquhart Street, Ballarat Central

$45,000 + SAV

Well Established Hairdressing Salon With
Loyal Following Over Many Years

Inspect

* Amazing opportunity for first time owner or business
wanting to expand * Renowned for cutting & colouring * Fully
furnished ready to go * Great set up - 7 cutting stations - 2
wash basins * Terrific location - NO parking issues here ! *
Beautiful charming heritage facade * Delightful happy working
environment * Long term lease with affordable rent.

Prime Location, Range Of Options

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BUSINESS - FOR SALE

21 Violet Grove, Wendouree
Chish & Fips
Retail seafood Shop, Room for eat-in, Large walk-in
Coolroom, Excellent well maintained equipment, Consistent
weekly turnover and growing, Genuine room to improve,
Attractive lease terms, Ample customer parking out front,
Fabulous reputation. Terrific Value.

97 Mair Street East, Ballarat Central
Set on one of Ballarat’s major traffic gateways and joined by
major retail operations and offices is this period property with
great street presence. This property offers open plan space at
the front. There are additional separate offices/rooms as you
move through the property. A large open plan kitchen, staff
meals area and the bathroom that has been fully renovated.
There is a private courtyard at the rear as well as off street
parking. There is s/s heating and cooling. A great location.

$450 per week + GST and
Outgoings
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John Stevenson 0422 659 385

COMMERCIAL – FOR LEASE

Offers Invited

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* WHOLESALE / FACTORY OUTLET / STORAGE, FOR LEASE
* Cottage $230 weekly, Unit 8 shed $140 weekly * Industrial
1 zone * CHEAP rent includes outgoings * Good Off Street
Parking * Just 5 mins out of Town and 2 mins to train station
* AVAILABLE NOW - long or short term considered * Call for
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