Jolyon Attwooll
The Courier
Ballarat, VIC, Australia
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Profile: Jeff Rootes, the quiet achieving community champion
Profile of Jeff Rootes, the collaborative campaigner with an ability to see the big picture. → Read More
The devastating decline in our own backyards
Roger Thomas, a nature writer for The Courier for almost 40 years, does not make wild, clarion calls to action. But in a lifetime of observation he has made some worrying discoveries. → Read More
Work quest: Can Ballarat keep up?
RECOVERING: More people are getting back to work, but employment levels have not got back to pre-pandemic levels - unlike in Bendigo and Geelong. → Read More
'Rather unfortunate' flaw in new fernery
The new mock Gothic fernery entrance in Ballarat's Botanical Gardens is an eye-catching building without a doubt. → Read More
City of Ballarat draft budget 2021/22: speakers put tram tracks, LED lighting housing and energy in spotlight
Councillors listened to a series of thoughts about one of the most ambitious budgets in recent years - and the first to be shaped by the new council elected last year. → Read More
Bowls club backs 'sports rort' petition
A petition for the federal government to pay for grants originally approved in a controversial sports grants scheme has got the backing of a Ballarat bowling club. → Read More
VCAT rejects Hepburn glamping project
A controversial "glamping" project in Hepburn Shire has been refused by the state planning tribunal due to concerns over the bushfire risk. → Read More
Medical centre planned for Armstrong Street
A piano store was on the site in the 1870s, but had been demolished by the 1920s. → Read More
New cafe takes shape at old Sturt Street florist's
A new cafe is taking shape at the high profile Sturt Street corner site where Whites Florist used to be. → Read More
Call goes out to run new Post Office license in Brown Hill
A new post office could be just around the corner for Brown Hill, with Australia Post calling out for people to run a franchise in the Ballarat suburb. → Read More
Nightingale Ballarat project's highs and lows
A behind-the-scenes stoush involving the group behind one of Ballarat's most high-profile building projects has now gone public - but the organisers say it will not have an impact here. → Read More
Miners Rest Township Plan put on ice
A Miners Rest Township Plan signed off by councillors at the end of 2019 remains on hold. → Read More
Coronavirus in Victoria: Ballarat businesses welcome COVID lockdown financial help
Ballarat businesses are trying their best so stay positive mid-way through another COVID lockdown, welcoming news they will be among 90,000 businesses across the state to share in more than $250 million of new state government funding. → Read More
Jobs recovery sluggish in Ballarat
Jobs are slowly returning to Ballarat - but the city is still tracking well below where it was in early 2020. → Read More
Jobs recovery sluggish in Ballarat
Jobs are slowly returning to Ballarat - but the city is still tracking well below where it was in early 2020. → Read More
Koala group back on radar
Plans to protect the declining koala population around Ballarat could soon be given a boost. → Read More
Koala group back on radar
Plans to protect the declining koala population around Ballarat could soon be given a boost. → Read More
Buninyong 'skybarrels' battle to continue
The stoush over the so-called "sky barrels" project in Buninyong is set to go on for several more months. → Read More
Buninyong 'skybarrels' battle to continue
The stoush over the so-called "sky barrels" project in Buninyong is set to go on for several more months. → Read More
Concerns over Ballarat Town Common
A group of academics have signed an open letter expressing concerns over the future of an historic piece of public land. → Read More