Ballarat Heritage Festival

Join us for a talk by one of Australia’s leading historians, Professor Marilyn Lake AO as she delves into the achievements of radical colonial reform in Victoria culminating in the first compulsory minimum wage in the world in 1896.

Ballarat District Irish Association is launching a new project, funded by Public Records Office Victoria, to highlight the contribution of Irish women to Ballarat’s social, cultural, and industrial development. Join us for a panel discussion to find out more about the project and how you can get involved.

Join us for a panel discussion to learn more about a project underway to have the Victorian Goldfields declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, followed by afternoon tea with the panel members.

Join us for a conversation between writer and filmmaker John Safran and historian Dr Sue Silberberg. The conversation will draw on Sue’s deep family ties to Ballarat to explore the Jewish influence on our city’s social, political, and religious landscape in the nineteenth century. A Ballarat Heritage Festival event presented by the Eureka Centre.