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Right to Night Shines Spotlight on Ballarat’s Health and Medical Precinct
The City of Ballarat’s award-winning Right to the Night project has been extended in 2021 to Ballarat’s health and medical precinct.
In 2018, the Ballarat project asked women and girls to drop pins on a web-based interactive map to identify where they felt safe or unsafe.
This time participants of all genders can use their mobile phones to visit https://mysay.ballarat.vic.gov.au/ where they can map the locations that make them feel safe or unsafe and explain the reasons why.
The project is focussing on residents and visitors in and around the health and medical precinct, including staff, volunteers, students, patients, carers, visitors, contractors, public transport and taxi users.
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Freo’s Household Hazardous Waste facility officially open
Fremantle’s Deputy Mayor Andrew Sullivan and local MP Simone McGurk have cut the ribbon to officially open Fremantle’s new Household Hazardous Waste facility.
The facility allows for the safe disposal of unwanted household chemicals and other hazardous material like aerosols, batteries and paint that can’t be disposed of in household bins.
The Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) program is supported by the Government of Western Australia and administered by the Waste Authority. The Western Australian Local Government Association (WALGA) delivers the program.
The City of Fremantle’s HHW facility at the Fremantle Recycling Centre was funded by the HHW Program.
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Subscriber only New regulations to wedding venues and semirural areas may restrict the number of days a year the events can go ahead in the Ballina Shire. The proposed new set of rules will be exhibited publicly by the council shortly. This is one of five topics approved by council in their last meeting:
1. Planning Proposal - Rural Function Centres New proposed regulations for wedding and function centres in the Ballina Shire will go on public exhibition soon. The changes to the Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012 will try to minimise adverse impacts associated with function centres in the area.
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From divesting from fossil fuel-related projects to a housing affordability strategy, here are five motions that will be presented to Ballina Shire Council in this week’s meeting:
1. Divestment from fossil fuel:
Councillor Jeff Johnson has moved a motion for Ballina Council to stop investing in financial institutions that support the fossil fuel industry.
A similar motion was approved by council in November 2015, also by Cr Johnson.
In December 2015, 57 per cent of council’s investments were with institutions that were considered to be fossil fuel aligned.
In November 2020, five years after the Ballina Council formally resolved to divest, it had 64 per cent of its investments with fossil fuel aligned institutions.