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The City of Ballarat is lobbying for state and federal funding to deliver a wide range of priority projects ahead of elections scheduled in 2022.

In 2022 our city is ready for more of Ballarat’s Best Ideas.  The City of Ballarat is proud to join forces with local company Suggest it for the second year to capture great ideas for the business community by harnessing local, crowd‐sourced innovation.  A six‐week competition from 8 March – 19 April 2022 will see customers use a digital suggestion box to leave ideas for participating businesses.  At the end of the competi...

Wadawurrung artist makes a splash around Lake Wendouree

The City of Ballarat is delighted to confirm it will host the Australian Regional Tourism Convention in October 2022.

Finding Ballarat’s Ceramic Heart

The new Ballarat Botanical Gardens Fernery building will be opened for the first time to residents and visitors as part of the 70th Ballarat Begonia Festival being held from 11-20 March.  The community will be able to view the structure up close and appreciate the recreation of the original gothic style fernery that existed in the mid-1880s. With landscaping works yet to be completed, the building will include minimal temporary pla...

In 2022, there will be both a federal and state election, which offer critical opportunities for Ballarat to attract key project funding to drive future economic growth and support the city’s pandemic recovery.   City of Ballarat CEO Evan King and I have had numerous in person or online meetings with members of parliament and with ministers, written letters and briefings, and have made the case for several of our key projects through the ...

Tenders to be Advertised – 3/03/2022  Tender documents can be obtained from www.eprocure.com.au/ballarat   Tender No  Tender Description  Closes   12 noon   2021/22-619  Construction of Shared Footpath in Water Street, Brown Hill  30/03/2022    The Ballarat Begonia...

A World Heritage listing for the Central Victorian Goldfields will catapult the region’s tourism profile to the global stage and bolster its recovery from the devastating economic impacts of the pandemic.  An online forum of 90 local government Mayors, Councillors, Chief Executive Officers, key staff, Co-Patrons The Hon Denis Napthine AO and The Hon John Brumby AO, as well as representatives from regional tourism bodies and Heritage Victo...