Ballina Information Blog

  Almost half of Lennox Head residents who are renting are under ‘rental stress’, according to the Housing Industry Association (HIA). Based on information gleaned from the 2006 Census, the HIA says the median rent in Lennox is $280 per week, and 49 per cent of households are under rental stress (where 30 per cent [...]

Ballina Seagulls may have lost the ‘big one’, but the senior and junior rugby league clubs still managed to pick up four major premierships last weekend. Ballina’s reserve grade had a convincing 46-6 win over Murwillumbah Mustangs in the Retravision Northern League grand final at Kingsford Smith Park, Ballina, on Sunday. On Saturday, Ballina teams [...]

The Ballina Seagulls fans are in shock. The Mullumbimby Giants fans are getting ready to party big-time. That’s the upshot of today’s Retravision Northern League grand final at Kingsford Smith Park, Ballina, which Mullum won 34-30. In an amazing finish, Ballina looked to have to the major premiership in their keeping after a superb solo [...]

NSW Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann’s weekly fishing report … The sea is settling and it looks like boats will get offshore over the weekend. Some nice bream off the Richmond River walls with the odd small squire when it was rough. A few flathead in the lower reaches with the size generally increasing. Blackfish [...]

Ballina Shire Council, the RTA and the local cycling community will host a series of bike rides on Sunday, September 30, to mark NSW Bike Week. Pop Denison Park near Shaws Bay will be the central point for the day’s activities, which will include a 20km leisurely ride around town from 8.30am. There also will [...]

On Sunday 16th September the East Ballina Lions Club will be hoping for better weather than the rain that forced the cancellation of the markets last month. Despite the rain the Lions still did a great trade, with their bacon and eggs providing breakfast to the stall holders and those brave souls that battled the [...]

Thursday’s northerly has flattened out the swell — just in time for the weekend! Today there’s barely a foot of swell in Ballina and the wind is from the north. A westerly change is predicted for Saturday, so it looks like being a flat weekend. Hopefully there’ll be a beach break somewhere.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has initiated criminal proceedings in the Federal Court alleging that Dojoo Pty Ltd trading as Ballina Petroleum Distributors, and its managing director, Mr Santo Pennisi, made false representations about the quality and composition of petrol sold at 12 BP branded service stations in Northern New South Wales. The ACCC [...]

“Give me the job for three years and I’ll give you a grand final within three years.” That was the promise Chris Binge, pictured, made to the Ballina Seagulls Rugby League Club when he applied for the first grade coaching position in 2005. This Sunday Binge will deliver on that promise when the Seagulls take on [...]

Ballina Seagulls Junior Rugby League will field six teams in the seven Group One Juniors grand finals at Byron Bay on Saturday, September 15. And Lennox Head also will be represented, meeting Ballina White in the Under-10s. The draw for grand finals : Under-10s 9am Lennox Head v Ballina White. Under-11s 9.55am Ballina v Kyogle. [...]