Ballina Information Blog

Ballina Shire Council is undertaking a shire-wide community-based heritage study.
The council says the study, to be held this year and next, aims to identify and document buildings, places and moveable heritage items (relics and objects or records) in the shire considered to be significant to our community.
“A heritage study investigates the historical context of a local government [...]

Are you one of those people who detest telemarketing calls — the ones that always come when you’re in the shower, cooking dinner or settling into a good movie?
If so, there is somewhere to turn – the Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA). The Australian Government has introduced into Parliament the Do Not Call Register Bill 2006, [...]

Federal Nationals Member for Page Ian Causley is encouraging separated parents to visit the Child Support Agency’s local office in Tamar Street, Ballina.
“Separation can be a really tough time for families. There are more than 10,000 separated parents in my electorate and I would recommend they make use of the local CSA office,” Mr Causley [...]

Exercise can slow the rate of dementia and improve the day-to-day lives of dementia sufferers, a new study by Southern Cross University has found.
Dr John Stevens and Mark Killeen, from SCU’s Department of Nursing and Health Care Practices, conducted a randomised trial involving 75 residents of six aged care facilities on the North Coast of [...]

National Palliative Care Week (May 21-27) is a time to focus on the vital support role played by healthcare professionals, family members and carers in supporting local people in need of palliative care, according to the North Coast Area Health Service (NCAHS).
The NCAHS says more than 132,000 Australians die each year, about half from diseases [...]

Ballina Shire Council has prepared its draft Management Plan for the financial year 2006/07 and the plan includes a proposal to apply to the Minister for Local Government for an increase in rate income of 3.72 per cent above the NSW rate pegging limit.
The council says the draft Management Plan outlines items such as:

The proposed [...]

The NSW Labor Government had shown a lack of interest in the issues facing farmers in voting against a bill that would protect legitimate farming activities from complaints from neighbours, Member for Ballina Don Page said today.
Mr Page introduced the Protection of Agricultural Production (Right to Farm) Bill to Parliament.
He said the bill would have [...]

Former Tintenbar resident David Hollyoak, pictured, has scored another major win with his Redoak specialty beers. Now based in Sydney, David and his sister Janet run the Redoak Boutique Beer Cafe. On Thursday night it was announced that Redoak had won the Grand Champion award at the Australian International Beer Awards, held in Melbourne.
They won for their Redoak [...]

Commuting through Alstonville on a working day can be frustrating at the best of times, but it will be especially more so tomorrow as the Alstonville Bypass Action Group steps up its campaign.
The group will protest from 8am tomorrow and is calling on motorists to be sympathetic.
I’m certainly one of those who will be sympathetic. [...]

“Those low mongrels,” was Greg Hurford’s reply when informed by his neighbour Alison James that her unique and quirky Ned Kelly letter box that had been taking guard over the entrances of their two properties had been not so ceremoniously removed (stolen) from his place of residence just outside Alstonville.
Alison said that over the past [...]