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Category: Around the village

The Age: ‘Culture of bullying’: ‘Strapping’ scandal school banned from taking new boarders

November 1, 2025March 1, 2026 The Battler

The Age || The prestigious Anglican private school embroiled in a “strapping” abuse scandal is to be banned from accepting new boarding students until it can prove it complies with child safety standards. The move […]

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I Hate Ballarat Nazis

October 20, 2025March 1, 2026 The Battler
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Has Ballarat lost the shopping bug?

September 26, 2025September 26, 2025 The Battler

SUPER quiet around the makeshift shopping temple at the Eastern Oval today. Say it ain’t so papa

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Where’s Catherine King?

September 3, 2025September 3, 2025 The Battler

In there somewhere. Probably.

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My landed aristocracy milkshake brings all the browntongues and technocrats to the yard

August 27, 2025August 28, 2025 The Battler

https://bushsummitvic.splashthat.com Ooh Albo’s coming, and oooh Sussan Ley, and OUR JACINTA, and a bunch of other big knobs, of course our own Duncan Bentley, the Guiness Book of Records world record holder for the sheer […]

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Portrait of a Village On the Up and Up

August 17, 2025March 1, 2026 The Battler

All those new shopping temples springing up around the village and soaring rents really seem to be doing a number on small business. On one block alone, an indoor nursery and a picture framer have […]

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Did we consider the optics but

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025 The Battler

Can commies stop encouraging people to think for themselves and get multiple perspectives on shit and shit. Do you know how offensive that is ideologically? Do you??

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Film night: Turning the Ship, Wed 20 August 6pm

August 1, 2025August 3, 2025 The Battler

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Press release from Free Palestine Ballarat, re. weaponisation of antisemitism

July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 The Battler
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You haven’t lived in Ballarat until

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025 The Battler

And they’re even using the Zebra crossing, how about apples

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The Age: ‘Culture of bullying’: ‘Strapping’ scandal school banned from taking new boarders

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I Hate Ballarat Nazis

  • 20 Oct 2025

Has Ballarat lost the shopping bug?

  • 26 Sep 2025

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