Ballarat

Dominic Brine is a broadcaster who presents ABC Ballarat’s breakfast program. Dominic was born in 1960 in Canberra and has tried his hand at many jobs. He has worked as a deckhand, bank clerk, nurse and gardener, but life changed when he joined a Canberra Amateur Theatre Group, where he discovered... Read more

Derek Guille is broadcaster heard weeknights on ABC 774. Derek fulfilled his childhood ambition when he began his radio career with 3HA in Hamilton in the early eighties. In 1987 he joined the ABC at the Horsham studios of 3WV/WL, presenting the local current affairs Morning program, before moving o... Read more

Born in Hamilton in western Victoria in 1953, Shane Maloney is one of Australia’s most popular novelists. His award-winning and much-loved Murray Whelan series – Stiff, The Brush-Off, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Fishy and Sucked In – has been published around the world.  In 1996, The B... Read more

Toni Jordan is the author of six novels including the international best-seller Addition, Nine Days, which was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards, and Our Tiny, Useless Hearts (2016), which was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and for the Voss Literary Award. Toni ho... Read more

Alice Pung OAM is the author of the bestselling memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, as well as the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her debut novel Laurinda won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW ... Read more

Ben Taylor was elected to the Ballarat City Council’s South Ward in December 2008. Councillor Taylor sees his role as Councillor as a great opportunity to be part of the decisions that will shape the city now and in the future. He is dedicated to being actively involved with events and issues in t... Read more