General Info

Welcome to the Ballarat Council’s Facebook page. We encourage your comments and input, but ask that you please behave in a responsible, respectful manner. If necessary, we will review and remove any comments that: • Contain obscene, indecent or profane language • Contain threats or defamatory statements • Contain hate speech directed at race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, religion or disability • Are spam-like in nature or clearly off-topic • Harass or bully • Are trolling or intend to deliberately disrupt a conversation • Are otherwise inappropriate or offensive • Break the law (including violation of copyright laws) or encourage others to do so • Breach the Facebook community standards: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards People who repeatedly breach these guidelines will be blocked. If the breach is considered to be serious, we may choose to block users immediately. Please note that due to staffing resources, reviewing, moderating and replying to posts will generally occur during our regular business hours of Monday-Friday, 8:15am-5pm. Any posts submitted outside these times will receive a response as soon as possible the following business day. Content shared on any Ballarat Council social network reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the official views of the Ballarat Council.