Portrait of a Village On the Up and Up
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 […]
Category: Features
Fed Uni fails neurodiverse students and bleeds enrolments like a stuck pig #winning
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 […]
Ballarat’s male suicide rate is 30 per cent above the state average
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 […]
Open letter to the Ballarat Village Council
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. […]
Ballarat: Massive brawl erupts over shortage of rejects and freakshows to backstab
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 […]
Questions for Zionists
• Hamas were taking hostages to swap for the 7000 Palestinian hostages everyone’s favorite perpetrator of state terrorism Israel was holding without charge, weren’t they? Israel has been doing this illegally for many years according […]