Talk:Ballarat, Victoria

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Testing 123 - for the record Ballarat is too cold.

In response to earlier questions the battle site is where the current education center is now. It was left as a park for many years in honor of the fallen but eventually had the current center built on top of it. Bakery Hill was the site of the raising of the Eureka flag a few kilometers from the battlesite.


WRT the supposed J. Bruggeman, I've never heard of him either. --Robert Merkel


Should National Trust be disambiguated/clarified? jimfbleak

I really should do something to expand this poor little stub, seeing as I've lived here for ... er ... close on 20 years, and must have learned something about the place in that time. Instead, I'm planning to carry right on writing about an obscure rodent that I've never seen and which is found only in the USA - a place I've never been to and probably never will. Doubtless there is some sort of logic behind that. Somewhere. Tannin 15:47 26 May 2003 (UTC)

I just nuked the fuzzy thumbnail code (an obvious fix) but also fixed an older problem that I wasn't aware of till just now:

Someone, in all good faith, "corrected" the image by doing two things: twisting it to make it seem level, and changing the colour values. It's easy to see how these might have looked "wrong". They were, however, perfectly correct in the original image, which I have now restored. The skyline does slope from the lower ground at left up towards Mt Bunninyong, and the picture was taken on the sort of day that Ballarat is famous for: cold, wet, and bloody miserable. The gloomy grey cast is accurate in both senses: as a record of the scene that particular winter day, and as an indication of the essential Ballarat. Ballarat in July is not a Greek island in May!. Tannin 14:07, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

  • I'll give you the color difference (I was the person who made the changes), but the picture is in fact crooked. It may well be that the land slopes, but I'd guess that the buildings don't lean, as they do in this image. Denni☯ 16:15, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
    • They look straight to me! But I have a better idea. What say I go for a walk sometime and take a better picture of the town? This one is really just a picture of Lake Wendouree in the tourist precinct. Then we can delete this one and move on. Tannin 23:43, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • PS: maybe I could take a few shots of the area where Eureka took place (general area: the exact area remains unknown. There are two main theories, I believe: one says that it was more-or-less where today's park and memorial stands (between Victoria St and Eureka St), the other that it was on Bakery Hill, on a site now occupied by, of all things, a discount supermarket. Tannin
      • Excellent suggestion! I look forward to seeing what the Eureka site looks like today. Denni☯ 21:01, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

Hmm... should mention be made of the School of Mines, and the University of Ballarat? The sheer number of round-abouts we seem to have. The fact that we actually have a bus service, despite being outside of Melbourne and Sydney. The prisoners of war memorial? The arch? The saleyards? (anyone have statistics?) The begonia festival? Sovereign Hill? Kryal Castle? (well... it's kinda nearby) Martin Rudat(T|@|C) 13:36, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

The avenue of honor is longer than 15 kilometers, it is somthing like 29kms. seriously.


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[edit] Entertainment & Nightlife

This sentence "Hotels are popular meeting places for young people and more recently several speak easy's have opened around the city." makes no sense. Dance clubs are more popular meeting places for young people, and the term "speak easy" means nothing in Australian English.

[edit] Better Photos

This article seriously needs some better photos. The current ones mostly all have grey skies! I know that shows the true Ballarat, but it just looks plain dull. I have seen some pretty special photos of the city that would be really great here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 124.254.105.46 (talk) 12:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC).


Thanks for making all this info available. Now I can at least get an idea of the environment where my children live. 04.05.2007

[edit] Henry Anderson

Henry Anderson is mentioned in History of Ballarat as being as being the partner in Yuille's grazing property. The link to Henry Anderson brings-up a Henry James Anderson who, it seems, is a different person. Can anyone clarify this important point?

[edit] Etymology of placename

It is often said that the name Ballarat was derived from local Aboriginal dialect meaning 'resting place'. Is there any evidence for this? Celtic settlers from England might have named it Balla (the place of) Rat (the rat), especially if they were living under extreme pioneer conditions. Obviously I'd be very happy if there was evidence for 'resting place'. (Northernhenge (talk) 23:54, 9 February 2008 (UTC))