Ballina Information Blog

Holidays are over and for returning high school students it will be their new School Liaison Police Officer who will greet them in 2007.
In 2006, the NSW Government announced the creation of 40 School Liaison Police, which has led to their launch at local high schools as of tomorrow.
NSW Police says that SLP will work [...]

Parents are being reminded to ensure their children are fully vaccinated before they start school next week.
“Pre-schoolers are at particular risk because their four-year-old vaccinations are the ones that are most commonly forgotten,” said Dr Sue Page, GP, manager of the Northern Rivers Division of General Practice’s immunisation project.
“These vaccines protect children from diphtheria, tetanus, [...]

Assistants in Nursing and Enrolled Nurses considering a career as a registered nurse are being offered a unique opportunity to enrol directly in a Bachelor of Nursing degree at Southern Cross University this year.
Dr John Stevens, head of the Department of Nursing and Health Care Practices, said not many Assistant in Nursing (AIN) graduates knew [...]

After 12 years of Labor, NSW apprenticeship completion rates have dropped to the second worst of any Australian State or Territory, Member for Ballina and Shadow Minister for Skills Development and Training Don Page said today.
Mr Page said figures released by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research showed apprenticeship completion rates in NSW had [...]

More than 500 high school students from Maclean to the Gold Coast and west to Bonalbo and Woodenbong will head to Southern Cross University’s Lismore campus for Senior Schools Day on Thursday, November 30.
The annual Senior Schools Day provides students going into Year 12 with first-hand information about the university experience, courses on offer and [...]

Eight graduating student teachers returned home to Canada last weekend after spending the past year in a teacher training program at Southern Cross University’s Tweed Gold Coast campus.
The student teachers, who specialised in history, geography, business studies and English, each completed a Graduate Diploma of Education during the year.
They flew out of a northern winter [...]

Recent tragic events on the North Coast and across NSW have galvanised community concern about the safety of young people on our roads, according to the North Coast Area Health Service.
It says that 17-year-old P1 Licence holders are four times more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than drivers over the age of [...]

As more than 10,000 people converge on the Gold Coast for the Pan Pacific Masters Games, being held this week (November 4 to 12), a Southern Cross University student is asking the question: why?
Pat Gillett, a PhD student, is looking at the different motives that influence people to travel to other parts of the country [...]

The nation’s best school surfers will converge on Ballina later this month for the 2006 Australian School Surfing Championships.
It will be first time the event is held in Ballina and it’s sure to be a huge financial boost for the town, as well as providing top surfing action.
The event begins with an opening ceremony at [...]

Southern Cross K-12 teacher Steve Watts, pictured, has been surfing for almost 40 years and has been instrumental in surfing becoming established as a legitimate school sport. He will be a key organiser of the Australian national schools championships to be held at Ballina later this month. Here he tells of his surfing life …
In the [...]