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Bonshaw is a locality on the southern rural fringe of the City of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia.At the 2021 census, Bonshaw had a population of 949. [1] This is an increase from a population of 210 at the 2016 census [2] and 188 at the 2011 census.
Mount Pleasant is the oldest residential suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. It is located on the southern extremity of the city between the Yarrowee Creek and the White Horse Range. Physically it is largely cut off from the rest of Ballarat which contributes to a sense of a suburb apart.
Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. [1] It is one of Victoria's most popular attractions and Ballarat's most famous. [2]
Ballarat has two local newspapers, one owned by Australian Community Media and one a private equity. The Courier is a daily and The Ballarat Times News Group is a free weekly. The latter is distributed across most of the city on Thursday and contains news of community events, advertisements for local businesses, and a classifieds section.
The Grampians is an economic rural region [1] located in the western part of Victoria, Australia.The 48,646-square-kilometre (18,782 sq mi) region lies to the northwest of the western suburbs of Greater Melbourne, to the state's western border with South Australia and includes the Grampians National Park and significant gold mining heritage assets.
The City of Ballaarat was a local government area covering the inner suburbs of the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 34.52 square kilometres (13.3 sq mi), and existed from 1855 until 1994.
Bald Hills is a locality in central Victoria, Australia, in the City of Ballarat and Hepburn Shire local government areas, 107 kilometres (66 mi) west of the state capital, Melbourne, and 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) north of Ballarat. [2] The area is about 442 metres (1,450 ft) above sea level. [3]
Clunes is a town in Victoria, Australia, 36 kilometres north of Ballarat, in the Shire of Hepburn.At the 2016 census it had a population of 1,728. [1]Clunes is best known as the site of Victoria's first registered gold discovery in 1850 and its first gold strike in 1873, which lasted three months.