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Amardeep Singh Gadhoke and Shikha Agrawal celebrate Holi Festival at Lake Wendouree Fairyland. Picture: Kate Healy.

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LEADER: Next Address founder and chief executive Julie O'Donohue is disrupting the way Australians buy and sell houses. Picture: Kate Healy

How this Ballarat business is disrupting real estate as we know it

Helen Watson proudly holds one of her favourite pictures of her son Peter

My relentless 20-year fight for justice for my son

Dean Forrester are waving goodbye to the Green Parrot in Sebastopol. Photo: Kate Healy.

End of an era for another fish and chip shop

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Rebels girls fall to Stingrays for second straight loss | details

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Rebels on-baller Matt Llyod. Picture: Dylan Burns.

Rebels boys handed close loss to open season | details

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TOUGH LOSS: Renee Saulitis runs with the ball in the GWV Rebels 37-point loss to the Dandenong Stingrays. Picture: Lachlan Bence.

Rebels girls fall to Stingrays for second straight loss | details

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GWV REBELS GIRLS vs DANDENONG STINGRAYS.

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Rebels on-baller Matt Llyod. Picture: Dylan Burns.

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SWIM TO THE RINGS: 15-year-old Darcy Williams will be competeing in Sunday's Swim to the Rings event at Lake Wendouree. Picture: Adam Trafford.

Young tri-athlete up for Swim to the Rings

Ben Hopkins

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Amardeep Singh Gadhoke and Shikha Agrawal celebrate Holi Festival at Lake Wendouree Fairyland. Picture: Kate Healy.

Ballarat embraces all the colours of the Holi Festival

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Insights into mental health system, support for Ballarat

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Nash, David "Woody" Gulbin and Cheyenne from Bendigo take part in the Walking Off the War Within Ballarat challenge in 2017. Picture: Kate Healy

Community united in stepping out to Walking Off the War Within

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The top 15 items you need to get baby ready

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How the Royal South Street Eisteddfod inspires your inner performing artist

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The top 15 items you need to get baby ready

The beautiful Maldives: In the Maldives the group will cruise some of the region's most spectacular islands, taking in pristine beaches and abundant wildlife. This is sponsored content from Travelrite.

Seychelles, Maldives and Andaman Islands make for the holiday of a lifetime

‘Our Babies 2018’ | Meet Ballarat's latest bundles of joy

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This weekend's property sales from across the region

Tempting fete: Buninyong Primary School students Astrid Forsyth, 11, Zahra Taylor, 11, and Imogen Beck, 10 prepare for Friday's celebrations. Picture: Adam Trafford

Buninyong Primary School fete cooking up a treat

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Tempting fete: Buninyong Primary School students Astrid Forsyth, 11, Zahra Taylor, 11, and Imogen Beck, 10 prepare for Friday's celebrations. Picture: Adam Trafford

Buninyong Primary School fete cooking up a treat

BIG SHOW: Karova Lounge will welcome Auntie Leo & The Backstabbers and support acts on Saturday night. Entry is $10.

Ballarat's gigs of the week

DIFFERENT: Unlike a lot of birds, male blue wrens moult twice each year.

Blue wrens that turn brown

Amardeep Singh Gadhoke and Shikha Agrawal celebrate Holi Festival at Lake Wendouree Fairyland. Picture: Kate Healy.

Ballarat embraces all the colours of the Holi Festival

GWV REBELS GIRLS vs DANDENONG STINGRAYS.

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Flow: A VicRoads video extols the virtue of traffic lights replacing roundabouts at Grenville Street and Dawson Street.

Four lanes for Mair St as traffic set to 'treble'

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Ballan Station is getting a new pedestrian overpass in the next week.

More train pain for longterm gain, and don't forget about road works too

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Grampians Integrated Cancer Service's Jo Gell says there is a role for local governments to promote markets across the region. Picture: Kate Healy

How markets might help our regional towns prevent some cancers

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Why they burn; arson expert explains motives

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Good leaders are everywhere in Ballarat

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Flowers and messages left at the Ballarat mosque

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End-of-life doula Helen Callanan

Doulas provide support for the dying

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ON REFLECTION: Simon Cullen with the Lookinglass artifical intelligence mirror.

AI mirror monitors Parkinson’s signs

BE SAFE: If you find it is too tricky or unsafe to fit a smoke alarm yourself, contact your nearest Fire and Rescue NSW station for advice.

Be alarmed about fire risk

The polls have closed in NSW after a three-week election campaign.

Counting starts with close of NSW polls

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An unauthorised person has handed out ballot papers in one Sydney electorate.

NSW votes 'isolated' after booth mishap

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison voted in the NSW electorate in Sylvania Waters in Sydney.

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is likely to form a minority government.

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Borroloola, Numbulwar and Groote Eylandt have been evacuated because of Cyclone Trevor.

Intense Cyclone Trevor crosses NT coast

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was accompanied by a scrum of media as she voted on Saturday morning.

Berejiklian votes, then chooses cupcakes

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison helped cook sausages at his local polling booth in Sylvania.

Gladys to have 'great day': PM declares

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Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Labor rival Michael Daley have cast their votes in the NSW election.

Berejiklian, Daley predict tight NSW vote

Garvoc sheep farmer Angus McGillivery is still waiting to rebuild after last year's St Patrick's Day fires. Photo by Rob Gunstone.

Rebuilding plans ahead after South-West fires

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Top price bull: Phil and Kerrie Geehman, Ensay, purchased Lot 2, Nunniong Kenya N076 (H) Wednesday.

Nunniong Hereford Bull Sale

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Stud Manager: Newcomen Hereford's stud manager, Matt Marshall, presents Newcomen Nambucca N015 (H), the top price bull at their recent sale at Ensay.

Newcomen Hereford Bull Sale

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Business as usual: Peppers Blue on Blue.

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Many hands: If you plan ahead, stay organised and have many helping hands, then moving day will be somewhat stress-free.

How to move house stress-free

COMPACT HOMES: Tony Skinner builds tiny houses out of shipping containers. Picture: DARREN HOWE

Big dreams of tiny living for Tiny House Festival

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