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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented global crisis to Ballarat’s doorstep. Amid Stage 3 restrictions, the City of Ballarat has continued to deliver essential services to the community, including some of our most vulnerable residents, while also spreading some much-needed joy through our heartwarming Be Kind Ballarat campaign.

Never before will Ballarat’s ‘visiting friends and relatives travel market’ be more relevant than when Victoria comes out of restrictions. That’s when our local residents will be encouraged to extend a lifeline to our tourism attractions in a show of solidarity and support.

In 2019, Ballarat residents heeded the call to ‘pass on glass’ and leave glass bottles and jars out of their yellow-lidded recycling bins. Now it’s time to ‘leave the bag out’.

Response and Recovery Pandemic 2020 Plan To protect the health of residents and staff, the City of Ballarat instigated its Response and Recovery Pandemic 2020 Plan for its staff, ratepayers, residents and the broader community to help combat COVID-19. Our primary focus is to ensure we have the best chance of avoiding the major impacts of COVID-19. Our key objectives: Contain the impact of the...

Ballarat is home to some wonderful natural assets. To make sure these are well looked after now and into the future, a dedicated group of residents is working with the City of Ballarat to shape the regeneration and improvement of biodiversity and habitat links across the east of the city.

Behind the red brick facade of Dinah McCance and Terry Baker’s Ballarat East home lie thousands of stories from Ballarat’s past.

We provide services through the Commonwealth Home Support Program to residents 65 years and over. Eligibility is determined by My Aged Care. Commonwealth Home Support Program provides the following services: In-home services Social connections programs which provide activities and opportunities to get involved in your community, be active and social with people who share similar interests Delivered Meals - often referr...

Ballarat is known as a creative and innovative city. Those attributes have come to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic with our business and tourism sectors finding ways to reinvent themselves and finding new ways to deliver their products and services.

Glass was one of the first materials many of us remember separating for recycling – whether through the return systems (milk bottles, soft drinks) or in crates for recycling as kerbside collection came into practice. With the way we recycle continuing to change, the City of Ballarat is leading the way in glass recycling with its Pass on Glass initiative.

Submit an eServices request to determine ownership of adjoining property assumed to be City of Ballarat-owned. We will consider sharing costs where the City of Ballarat is the freehold owner of adjoining land that is not a public park or public reserve. Want more details? Call our Property team on 5320 5500.