A man who bludgeoned his own grandmother to death in the family’s garage has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a Ballarat court.
The busiest Clunes typically gets is during its annual Booktown festival in March. Now tragedy has left it swarming with journalists.
About 1000 people gathered in Ballarat on Friday evening to protest over violence against women after the deaths of three women this year – all allegedly killed by men.
Nestled into flowers in a scorched patch of bushland is a note from Hannah McGuire’s family containing two words the women of Ballarat desperately need to hear.
Cadaver dogs were used to scour Enfield State Park and its surrounds for the remains of the mother of three,with searching due to resume on Friday.
At 23,her life was only just starting to bloom. Now,she’s allegedly the 18th woman to be violently killed in Australia this year – and the third in Ballarat alone.
Lachlan Young,21,has faced McGuire’s devastated family in court after her body was found in a burnt-out car in bushland near Ballarat on Friday.
The miner who died in Ballarat was a contractor brought in to carry out a mining technique the company had been warned was dangerous.
Police will move their search for the missing Ballarat mother to a targeted area outside Ballarat on Thursday,with help from Australian Federal Police dogs.
Brant Webb is one of two men saved from the Beaconsfield goldmine disaster of 2006 and urged Ballarat mine survivors to share their deepest fears and feelings with loved ones.
Rick Walker savaged the Ballarat Gold Mine’s owner,saying repeated safety concerns were raised before the rock collapse that killed one worker and left another with life-threatening injuries.