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The Lucas Girls' and Melbourne Khaki Girls' Football Teams

The First Women’s Australian Rules Football Match

Ballarat has the unique distinction of being the place where the first recorded Australian Rules Football match played by women was held.

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Samuel Calvert (artist), Robert Stewart, Melbourne (publisher), ‘Ball given to the officers of the Confederate Steamer Shenandoah at Ballaarat’, wood engraving published in The Illustrated Melbourne Post, 25 May 1865, State Library of Victoria, IMP25/05/65/68

Ballarat and the American Civil War

In 1865 that the people of Ballarat were to have their most notable encounter with the American Civil War when officers from the Confederate warship CSS Shenandoah visited the city.

 

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William Collard Smith photograph portrait in Mayoral attire

William Collard Smith

William Collard Smith was one of Ballarat’s prominent early citizens. He was a land agent, mining speculator, Mayor of Ballarat and a Member of State Parliament.

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Alice Cornwall

Alice Cornwell (1852-1932)

Alice Ann Cornwell was an English industrialist, mine speculator, entrepreneur and newspaper owner.

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Theatre Royal - Saturday February 15h 1886

Ballarat Punch

Ballarat Punch was a satirical publication which contained funny cartoons and drawings, satirical articles which made fun of local public figures, and provided a chiding moral commentary on everyday life.

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‘The Youth Operatic Society: Princess Ida’, photograph, 1951, Boroondara Libraries, 9671868.

MARIE COLLIER (1927 – 1971)

Marie Collier (1927-1971) was a Ballarat-born opera soprano. She was born on 16 April 1927 to Thomas Robinson Collier, a railway employee, and Anne Marie (nee Bechaz).

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Sepia photograph of Ballarat Gaol in distance

The Old Ballarat Gaol

This week I wanted to look at the old Ballarat Gaol. I am sure many people have driven past this intriguing building that is part of the School of Mines campus of Federation University Australia.

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Corn Stalk, Ballarat, 1858.

The Father of Ballarat: James Oddie (1824-1911)

While James Oddie is a name that will be familiar to many people due to his involvement in the founding of many of Ballarat’s charitable and cultural institutions, I wanted to focus on an aspect of his life that maybe not so well known, the creation of his newspaper, ‘The Corn Stalk’.

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Percy Beames in his Melbourne Football Club Jumper. ca.1930-ca.1940.

Football and Ballarat

Football has a rich history in Ballarat. Many players have developed their skills at local football clubs and then drafted to play at an elite level, including the VFL/AFL.

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The City of Ballarat acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land we live and work on, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past, prese​nt and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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