Ballina Information Blog

While we are on the subject of the internet, I just received a very clever email from the Commonwealth Bank asking me to log in and upgrade my NetBank account details.
Apart from the fact that I am not a CBA customer, it could of fooled me quite easily.
I will just remind everyone that this is [...]

As part of the Federal Government National Broadband strategy, 10 councils [including Ballina Council] have developed a partnership to liaise with local communities to the determine the demand for Broadband Internet services through the Broadening Broadband project.
Fortunately, for both work and pleasure, I have been able to use broadband services for a number of years, [...]

Can the Parramatta Eels this year finally give outgoing coach Brian Smith the premiership that has eluded him in seven years at the club? Local rugby league fans will be given some indication when the Eels and Melbourne Storm meet in a pre-season NRL trial at Ballina Seagulls home ground, Kingsford Smith Park, on February [...]

January 26th begins in Ballina Shire with an Australia Day Breakfast, on both the beachfront at Lennox and the riverside at Ballina, and will end with a real bang at the Australia Day Fireworks Spectacular.
In between you can enjoy all the celebrations including live music, sausage sizzle, billy tea and damper, citizenship programme, Australia Day [...]

Ballina Shire Council development application approval figures for the period from November 30 until January 2 confirm that the shire is booming — and they also confirm the findings of the National Sea Change Taskforce.
Ballina Shire approved almost $12.4 million worth of applications for that period, including dwelling applications totalling almost $2 million.
The National Sea [...]

The Roads and Traffic Authority’s preferred route for the Woodburn to Ballina Pacific Highway upgrade is the most ecologically damaging of the options located in Ballina Shire, and intercepts the remants of the Big Scrub rainforest, a Ballina Shire report to the council says.
The preferred route, Route 2C, ‘traverses high-conservation value old-growth vegetation on the [...]

Ballina Shire will get an early taste of Commonwealth Games fever when the Queen’s Baton Relay arrives on January 30.
The baton will travel from Coffs Harbour through Casino, Lismore and Alstonville and then on to Ballina on day six of its journey around the nation.
Ballina Shire Council has organised an official ceremony, which will include [...]

A record number of Ballina Shire residents ‘lit up’ over Christmas, with 118 residential entrants and 16 business entrants in the 2005 Christmas Light Up promotion.
A report to Ballina Shire Council put the increase down to a review of the promotion following complaints that it had become too competitive, reducing the ‘true spirit’ of the [...]

Burns Point Ferry, the link to South Ballina, is under Ballina Shire Council review, with staff looking at ways to make the service break even or return a profit.
The decision followed a motion on notice to the January 19 council meeting by Cr Keith Johnson, who said the ferry averaged a loss of $100,000 a [...]

Here in Ballina Shire, we really are getting older.
Figures tabled at the January 19 Ballina Shire Council meeting discussion on the State Environmental Planning Policy (Seniors Living 2004) showed that:
* Ballina Shire has a higher proportion of people over 55 (29.7 per cent) compared with the New South Wales State average (21.5 per cent).
* The [...]