Ballina Information Blog

Ballina will be the venue for a Village Showcase Information Workshop organised by the Northern Rivers Food Links Project. The workshop will be at the Ballina Community Services Centre (corner of Moon Street and Bangalow Road) on Tuesday, June 8, from 5.30pm until 7.30pm. Across the region people are sharing their passion for fresh, local, [...]

Individuals, organisations and business networks in the Ballina Shire community have the chance to be recognised with the NSW/ACT Regional Achievement & Community Awards. “The awards having been running for many years in NSW and the ACT and we have seen many fine achievers recognised,” Ballina Shire Mayor Phillip Silver said. “We want to see [...]

Ballina Shire Council says it is revolutionising the way it seeks community input on important issues. ‘Deliberative democracy’ is being introduced to the Ballina community as part of the council’s aim of making sure its upcoming Climate Action Plan represents the views of the broader population. Climate change will have enormous implications for Ballina, with [...]

An integrated feral pig control program is being implemented in an effort to make a significant impact on feral pigs in the Newrybar Swamp near Ballina. National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Pest Management Officer Lisa Wellman said feral pigs are causing considerable environmental damage in Newrybar Swamp which is partially located within Ballina Nature [...]

Ballina’s inaugural Fine Food and Wine Festival will be held this Sunday, May 30, and organisers say that with 35 exhibitors now committed, all is set for a fantastic event. “I’m confident that on the day we’ll be putting our best foot forward,” says event chair Milton Colburt. “Running an event like this requires total [...]

Have you created a work of art with love, and dreamed of it hanging in a public art gallery for all to see? There is still time to enter your work in the inaugural Artfelt Art Prize and Exhibition to be held at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina in July 2010. The exhibition will [...]

A new community education campaign kicks off with a field day this month to raise awareness about key threats to breeding shorebirds in the South Ballina to Evans Head area. The education program is being funded by the Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (NRCMA) as part of the ‘Engaging NSW Communities in Shoreline Conservation’ project. [...]

Member for Ballina Don Page has called on the Minister for Primary Industries to confirm that the Alstonville Centre for Tropical Horticulture will be retained. The threat of closure was first made in NSW Labor Government’s 2008 mini budget. “In the follow-up to that devastating announcement I lodged a petition containing over 1000 signatures supporting [...]

Plans to create a museum at Ballina to recognise the contribution women jockeys have made to the racing industry in Australia could result in a new tourist attraction on the Far North Coast, the Member for Ballina, Don Page, told Parliament this week. The Ballina Jockey Club says the official story of lady riders in [...]

The Northern Rivers Community Gallery will host the 2009 Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize. The exhibition begins on Wednesday 26 May, with the official launch on Friday 28 May at 6.00pm. The Parliament of New South Wales Aboriginal Art Prize is a $20,000 acquisitive prize awarded annually to one of the many outstanding New [...]