Losing Our Heritage: History Groups Unite to Save Ballina’s Past
Few of the hundreds who drive daily across Ballina’s Missingham Bridge would realise that, just a stone’s throw away, lies one of the shire’s most...
History
Ballina’s Big Lift: 20 Years of Jetstar, 30 Years of Jet Services
Jetstar and Ballina Byron Gateway Airport are this week marking 20 years since the first Jetstar flight touched down in Ballina. The partnership...
Nowhere to Change – And a Little Piece of Old Ballina Lost
Regular users of Lighthouse Beach are mourning the quiet removal of something Ballina Shire Council may have considered insignificant - but to...
A Flight Through Time: 97-Year-Old Returns to Skies with Kingsford Smith Legacy
A remarkable moment in aviation history has played out in Ballina, as 97-year-old Peter Budd — one of the last living people to have flown with Sir...
Ballina’s Own Aircraft May Finally Get a Street Name
Ballina has at least seven streets named after foreign aircraft—including Boeing, Cessna and De Havilland. The most recent, Hercules Avenue, was...
We Will Remember Them. ANZAC Day in Ballina Shire.
It has been 110 years since Anzac Day was first commemorated, and the feeling in Alstonville was that it is as important in 2025 as it has ever...
Diving Deep into Ballina’s History of Shipping
Ballina’s rugged maritime history — filled with shipwrecks, storms, and swashbuckling coastal ventures — is being brought to life in a new book by...
Losing Our Heritage: History Groups Unite to Save Ballina’s Past
Few of the hundreds who drive daily across Ballina’s Missingham Bridge would realise that, just a stone’s throw away, lies one of the shire’s most...
Ballina’s Big Lift: 20 Years of Jetstar, 30 Years of Jet Services
Jetstar and Ballina Byron Gateway Airport are this week marking 20 years since the first Jetstar flight touched down in Ballina. The partnership...
Nowhere to Change – And a Little Piece of Old Ballina Lost
Regular users of Lighthouse Beach are mourning the quiet removal of something Ballina Shire Council may have considered insignificant - but to...
A Flight Through Time: 97-Year-Old Returns to Skies with Kingsford Smith Legacy
A remarkable moment in aviation history has played out in Ballina, as 97-year-old Peter Budd — one of the last living people to have flown with Sir...
Ballina’s Own Aircraft May Finally Get a Street Name
Ballina has at least seven streets named after foreign aircraft—including Boeing, Cessna and De Havilland. The most recent, Hercules Avenue, was...
We Will Remember Them. ANZAC Day in Ballina Shire.
It has been 110 years since Anzac Day was first commemorated, and the feeling in Alstonville was that it is as important in 2025 as it has ever...
Diving Deep into Ballina’s History of Shipping
Ballina’s rugged maritime history — filled with shipwrecks, storms, and swashbuckling coastal ventures — is being brought to life in a new book by...
