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5320 5500

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The Phoenix

25 Armstrong Street South
Ballarat, Vic, Australia

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Mon - Fri 8:30am – 5:00pm

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info@ballarat.vic.gov.au

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The City of Ballarat acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land we live and work on, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past, prese​nt and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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