Councillors vote for return of Melbourne Cup holiday to Ballarat

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Updated April 29 2021 - 8:29am, first published 5:00am
ON WITH THE SHOW: The public holiday will not coincide with the Ballarat Show but local businesses have been urged to give it their backing.
ON WITH THE SHOW: The public holiday will not coincide with the Ballarat Show but local businesses have been urged to give it their backing.

There will be no Ballarat Show Day public holiday in the city for the next few years at least.

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Jolyon Attwooll

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Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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