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The Ballarat Minerdome (also known as MARS Minerdome under a naming rights agreement with Mars Chocolate Australia [1]) is a sports stadium located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It hosts the South East Australian Basketball League teams Ballarat Miners and Ballarat Rush , and can hold up to 2,000 spectators.
The facility was established in 1986 as a two-court indoor community netball stadium known as the Wendouree Netball Centre. During the early 2000s the popularity of Basketball, Netball and Badminton in the Ballarat region had significantly outgrown the capacity of existing stadia built during the 1970s at the nearby Hollioake Park sports complex.
Ballarat Miners is a NBL1 South club based in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 South. The club is a division of Ballarat Basketball Association, the major administrative basketball organisation in the region. The Miners play their home games at Ballarat Sports Events Centre.
Lake Wendouree is a suburb with a high proportion of large homes and mansions exploiting the views and proximity to the lake. Tree-lined Webster Street, in particular, is frequently proclaimed by estate agents to be Ballarat's most prestigious and most expensive address and properties in nearby streets will often be advertised based on their proximity to Webster Street in order to boost their ...
Eastern Oval (formerly known as the Ballarat Cricket Ground) is a cricket and Australian rules football ground in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The first recorded match on the ground in 1862 when Ballarat played HH Stephenson's XI .
The Ballarat Reform League came into being in October 1853 [1] and was officially constituted on 11 November 1854 at a mass meeting of miners in Ballarat, Victoria to protest against the Victorian government's mining policy and administration of the goldfields.
Usage note: In Australia, "suburbs" are the official postal subdivisions of a city.Inner suburbs are subdivisions within the denser urban areas of the cities and outer suburbs are the postal divisions found in the outer rings of the metropolitan areas, and usually lying within the boundaries of a separate municipality.
Bonshaw is a locality on the southern rural fringe of the City of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia.At the 2021 census, Bonshaw had a population of 949. [1] This is an increase from a population of 210 at the 2016 census [2] and 188 at the 2011 census.