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The city is governed and administered by the Ballarat City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ballarat, it also has a service centre located in Buninyong. The city is named after the main urban settlement lying in the centre-south of the LGA, Ballarat, which is also the LGA ...
Ballarat East Town Hall in 1862 (demolished in the 1960s) After the creation of the Ballarat Municipality in 1855 and the Ballarat Road District (covering the surrounding rural area) in 1856, Ballarat East gained municipal government with the creation of the Ballarat East Municipality in 1857 (note that until 1994, local government names were spelled "Ballaarat", whereas the urban settlement ...
Ballarat (/ ˌ b æ l ə ˈ r æ t / BAL-ə-RAT) [3] (Wathawurrung: balla arat) [4] is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.At the 2021 census, Ballarat had a population of 111,973, making it the third-largest urban inland city in Australia and the third-largest city in Victoria.
During the first years of the Victorian gold rush, Canadian Gully [a] became one of the most prominent diggings on the Ballarat goldfields. January 1853 marked the discoveries of three gold nuggets each weighing over 1,000 ounces (28 kg) — including the Canadian, then the largest recorded nugget ever — and brought a gold rush to Ballarat greater than the original rush at Golden Point in 1851.
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.
VicRoads is a government joint venture in the state of Victoria, Australia.In the state, it is responsible for driver licensing and vehicle registration.It is owned and operated through a joint venture between the Victorian government and a consortium made up of Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust and Macquarie Asset Management.
Lucas was created on 23 June 2011 from a former part of Cardigan. [2] It is named after Eleanor Lucas and the staff of her local textile company, dubbed the "Lucas Girls", who planted Ballarat's Avenue of Honour after World War I. [3] Former to development, Lucas was a majority agricultural & livestock area.
Eureka Centre Ballarat is an interpretive centre in the Eureka Stockade Memorial Park. It features a small permanent exhibition on the Eureka Rebellion and houses the Eureka Flag, which has been on loan from the Art Gallery of Ballarat since 2013. [1] It also hosts lectures and a café, Lilly’s at Eureka.