Ballina Information Blog

NSW Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann’s weekly fishing report for Ballina and Evans Head …
Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop in Ballina says the blackfish are going great guns, biting on yabbies around the walls and on green weed and black weed at all the usual haunts like the ferry, Porpoise Wall and Prospect Bridge.
A few […]

Ballina MP Don Page has ‘gone into bat’ for George The Snakeman.
Mr Page says the State Government’s failure to provide financial support for George Ellis, ‘The Snakeman’, after he has caught 5050 snakes in the past decade, is scandalous.
“Almost half of these snakes have been the deadly eastern brown snake, pictured, prevalent in this Northern […]

Traditionally the approaching spring puts a welcome spring in the step, and relief from winter colds. But for Australia’s two million asthmatics, spring can be a time of continued risk of an asthmatic attack, according to the Northern Rivers General Practice Network.
“Apart from sunshine and flowers, spring brings with it some real risks for asthmatics. […]

Conditions mid-week were good, but that’s not the case today for surfing conditions in the Ballina area.
Yesterday’s clean 1m north-east swell has been flattened out by a northerly, and the wind is forecast to blow from the north-east today.
The only ray of hope is that a weak southerly change is forecast for tomorrow.
Your best bet […]

The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) and Ballina Shire Council will hold a free workshop for parents and supervisors of learner drivers at the Ballina RSL Club on Monday 3 September from 7pm-9pm.
Natalie Chapman, Road Safety Officer with Ballina Shire Council, said the two-hour Helping Learner Drivers Become Safer Drivers course offers parents and supervisors […]

Ballina Shire Council employees are benefitting from Southern Cross University’s Graduate College of Management (GCM), which has been taking its leadership training out of the lecture theatre and into the community.
They are among 16 council employees from Richmond Valley Council, Tweed, Lismore and Ballina Shire councils who are just about to complete the year-long Northern […]

The formation of a new community-based road safety organisation will aim to research ways to improve driver education and awareness — a subject long mooted as probably the biggest problem road users face as they drive into the 21st century, according to the founder of the Coast to Coast 100 truck safety campaign, Lyndal Denny.
Ms […]

Father Chris Riley, pictured, founder of the Youth Off The Streets Program for disadvantaged young people, is one of the keynote speakers at the Northern Rivers Social Development Council’s Youth Conference at the Ballina Beach Resort on September 12 and 13.
The conference, From Rhetoric to Reality, will focus on rural and regional young people.
Joining Father […]

A meeting in Ballina on Thursday night (August 30) will discuss ways to fast-track the building of a cancer/radiotherapy unit in Lismore.
Meeting organisers say the unit was promised for 2004 but this has been put back to 2011.
“This is not acceptable,” they said.
Guest speakers at the meeting will include Lismore Base Hospital medical officers, Member for […]

Ballina Shire residents have been urged to support the Ovarian Cancer Silver Ribbon campaign to help find an early detection test to save lives.
One Australian woman dies of ovarian cancer every 10 hours. The disease affects women — mothers, sisters, daughters — of all ages and has a higher mortality rate among women diagnosed than […]