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Fed Uni fails neurodiverse students and bleeds enrolments like a stuck pig #winning

July 18, 2025March 2, 2026 The Battler

Here are the numbers for registrations with the Disability Liason Access Unit for support under ‘reasonable adjustments’ legistation by year; estimates based on ABS statistics for people who are neurodiverse suggests Fed has anywhere between […]

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Soapbox Darby Podcast

July 18, 2025July 18, 2025 The Battler
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The Narcissistic Conspiracy: Scapegoating, Smear Campaigns And Black Sheep

July 8, 2025March 1, 2026 The Battler

When we speak about narcissism, we often focus on the individual. He or she is narcissistic. He or she is a victim of a narcissist. Yet what about those victims who are bullied and targeted […]

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Ballarat’s male suicide rate is 30 per cent above the state average

July 2, 2025March 1, 2026 The Battler

Grim toll as Ballarat’s suicide figures are laid bare New figures have revealed the suicide rate for Ballarat men is almost 30 per cent higher than for men across Victoria. The figures, revealed in the […]

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Open letter to the Ballarat Village Council

June 24, 2025March 1, 2026 The Battler

Dear Ballarat City Council, The Battler has been reading with increasing concern about the conduct and apparent mentality of Cr Ted Lapkin. This in particular is disturbing: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-04/ballarat-environmental-breaze-funding-cut-alleged-antisemitism/104973914 BREAZE is a well-established community environmental organisation. […]

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Ballarat: Massive brawl erupts over shortage of rejects and freakshows to backstab

June 12, 2025March 1, 2026 The Battler

Horrific scenes at the local Adulting™ Club meeting in Brown Hill last night when attendees ran out of freakshows and reject to backstab, and started attacking each other instead. ‘Maybe it’s our alienation from the […]

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Free Palestine Ballarat Fundraiser

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 The Battler
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Foodie corner

May 29, 2025May 29, 2025 The Battler

Best goddamn spring rolls I’ve ever had, personally. These are better than anything you’ll find on Smith St or Victoria St in the big city. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

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The Village Council has fans everywhere

May 29, 2025May 29, 2025 The Battler
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Free Palestine monthly rally – 7 June

May 27, 2025May 27, 2025 The Battler

https://www.facebook.com/p/Free-Palestine-Ballarat-61553730687586

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Stop saying bad things about the knowledge production line

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The perils of usually idiots

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George Carlin: Who Really Controls America?

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Just following orders

July 13, 2025

Every threat is existential, every enemy is Hitler

July 8, 2025

It’s better to be thought of as incompetent than evil

July 8, 2025

Friday fanmail

June 27, 2025

Blacklisting and censoring of village residents? Say it ain’t so

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When you fuck people over for upward social mobility

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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

Where’s Catherine King?

  • 3 Sep 2025

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

  • 27 Aug 2025

Portrait of a Village On the Up and Up

  • 17 Aug 2025

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