Ballina Information Blog

Swimmers from across NSW will compete from Friday until Sunday in the annual State Age Short Course Championships at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, Homebush.
The State Age Short Course Championships is one of the biggest events on the Swimming NSW calendar for underage competitors, and provides the up-and-coming athletes with the opportunity to compete [...]

Ballina will host the Group One Junior Rugby League grand finals on Saturday, following the finals held at Evans Head.
Games on Saturday start at 9am.
Group One Juniors publicity officer Brian Rix provided this rundown:
Under-10s: Ballina defeated Lennox Head 20-10. Ballina now play Kyogle for the title. This is shaping up to be a very even [...]

The only fossilised human footprints ever found in Australia, dating back to about 20,000 BC, will be the focus of a public lecture at Southern Cross University this Friday (September 15).
The footprints were discovered in Mungo National Park in western NSW three years ago and are the largest collection of their kind in the world.
They [...]

The New South Wales Government’s announcement that September 7 next year would be a public holiday no doubt is welcomed by workers eligible for the day off, but it has met opposition from a leading business group.
The Government announced that the holiday would help with security in Sydney for the APEC Conference, to be attended [...]

Oil companies are holding hard working Australian country families over a barrel by increasing petrol prices in the country by 10 to 20 cents more than motorists pay in the city areas, according to the NRMA.
“It is outrageous that country motorists are currently paying 10 to 20 cents more than people pay in the city,” [...]

The NSW Food Authority has warned consumers not to buy or consume black market oysters following an oyster theft from Richmond River in Ballina.
Food Authority Director-General George Davey said the oysters had not been depurated, or filtered, and therefore posed a potential health risk if consumed.
“Only 15 dozen oysters were stolen after the culprits were [...]

A public half-day holiday has been gazetted for Thursday, September 14, for the running of the Ballina Cup.
Most businesses will close at noon.
Ballina Shire Council has advised that a free bus service will run to the Cup meeting. Departure times are:
Lennox Head: 11.30am, 12.15pm, 1pm.
East Ballina Shopping Centre: Noon, 12.45pm.
West Ballina Shopping Centre: 11.45am, 12.30pm.
Tamar [...]

Northern Rivers police say they have arrested a Queensland woman over an attack on a policeman at Nimbin more than two years ago.
The officer was part of a covert operation at a local pub on Friday, 19 March 2004. During the evening, patrons identified the plainclothes sergeant and a number of other undercover officers as [...]

Australia’s response to the attacks on September 11, 2001, and the impact on civil liberties and human rights will be the focus of a commemorative seminar in Bellingen next week.
The seminar, hosted by the Bellingen Institute and Southern Cross University’s Centre for Peace and Social Justice, will be held from 6pm, on September 11 at [...]

This week’s wild weather down south has brought a big jump in the swell, with waves to 2m at Lennox Point this morning.
The quality was not that good, with the good bank that was there a month ago seemingly gone. It was ‘fat’, with a strong southerly push, but things may improve on a low [...]