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Coalition costings blunder gives Gillard an easy free kick

12:58 AM AEST | OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott will be ruing his early refusal to hand over his party's election-promise costings to Treasury.

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Earlier intervention would have avoided water torture

01 Sep 10 | WINTER has come and gone and the benefits of drought-breaking rains can be seen across the Ballarat region. Importantly, the region's lakes are looking more healthy by the day _ Lake Learmonth and Lake Burrumbeet hold significant water for the first time in years and the level of Ballarat's pride and joy Lake Wendouree is inching higher by the day.

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Preserve our game - get rid of the cheats for life

30 Aug 10 | THERE are two scourges in sport that make fair-dinkum fans mad.

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Aussie republic well and truly off the political landscape

30 Aug 10 | TWO weeks ago, committed republicans saw the possibility of Australia moving to establish its own head of state as high. |

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Yes, a hung parliament, but life has to go on

27 Aug 10 | IT HAS been said more than once this week that the system of democracy that has delivered Australia's future into the hands of just four men is a flawed one. While it is true that the current state of political limbo we find ourselves in is a nuisance, we shouldn't blame the system for that _ for fear that we're all going to hell in a handcart. |

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Motorists will welcome new roadwork speed guidelines

27 Aug 10 | SPEED limits may be annoying for motorists in a hurry, but it is obvious they are in place for a good reason. Whether on the open road or in suburban streets, limits exist for the safety of road users and pedestrians.

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Hacking incident a warning for City's administrators

25 Aug 10 | IT IS disturbing to think that someone has been able to hack into the City of Ballarat's computer system and access important and sensitive information. |

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The hazards of our past sometimes come back to haunt us

24 Aug 10 | WELCOME to Ballarat - a once-thriving goldfields town where visible signs of its rich history still abound today. And sometimes where you least expect to find them.

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Rookie police a welcome addition to the local ranks

23 Aug 10 | IT IS pleasing to hear that recruits graduating from the Victoria Police Academy are making their way to Ballarat as part of their on-the-job training programs.

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Ballarat Liberals face a hard task before next election

22 Aug 10 | THE Liberal Party in Ballarat has some soul searching to do after a disappointing defeat in the weekend's federal poll.

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A lack of substance might be costly for the big parties

20 Aug 10 | WITH less than 24 hours to go before we head to the polls, politicians across the country are making a last-minute scramble to woo voters. |

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A lack of substance might be costly for the big parties

20 Aug 10 | WITH less than 24 hours to go before we head to the polls, politicians across the country are making a last-minute scramble to woo voters.

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Our flag will be missed, but conservation is important

19 Aug 10 | BALLARAT'S Eureka Flag is a symbol of Australian democracy, a tangible link to a time when new Australians were fighting for a fair go in their new country. For many years, the flag has been proudly on display at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, admired by thousands of visitors who stand in awe of its size and symbolism.

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Apologies will help, but the CFA needs real changes

17 Aug 10 | MORE THAN two weeks after the Teague Royal Commission handed down its report into the Black Saturday bushfires, former CFA chief Russell Rees has made his first public response. |

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V/Line is failing to meet the standards that it has set

17 Aug 10 | IT IS not unreasonable that those who make the regular commute - or even an irregular one - to Melbourne and back should have their trains arrive on time most of the time. As we reveal today, most of the trains that run between Ballarat and Melbourne do get in on time. But a significant proportion of them don't and commuters have a right to feel frustrated.

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A new gangland war must not be allowed to develop

16 Aug 10 | THE DEATH of the patriarch of one of Melbourne's notorious crime families in a cold-blooded execution on Friday morning could spark another deadly chapter in Victoria's gangland wars. |

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AFL in danger of alienation from its traditional roots

13 Aug 10 | The Australian Football League is again proposing a number of major rule changes, which stand to radically transform the modern game. A proposal to alter the scoring system, which has remained fundamentally the same since the former Victorian Football League was formed in 1897, is the most extreme of the measures.

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A wet and (mostly) welcome sight across the district

12 Aug 10 | TODAY we publish photographs the likes of which we haven't seen for some time at this newspaper. Some of our most attractive waterways are flowing at a pace again, in some instances for the first time in many years. |

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Gaming machine proposal part of wider package

11 Aug 10 | THE city council's draft proposal to distribute revenue from gaming machines to community and sporting groups via an independent body deserves more than passing consideration. The plan is but one of a number of items on the council's gaming machine community draft policy, but it is one which could provide a much-needed cash boost to some of these often unheralded groups which quietly perform valuable work all year round.

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If you aren't wearing a seatbelt, what's stopping you?

10 Aug 10 | THE NUMBER of people across Victoria who do not wear seatbelts as a matter of course continues to confound police. Forty years after seatbelt laws were first introduced in Victoria, people still continue to be killed or injured on our roads unnecessarily through their lack of use.

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