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NearSpace Storage & Parking Marketplace
NearSpace is an Australian marketplace designed to connect people who have unused space with people looking for affordable local parking and storage.
If you have an empty driveway, unused garage, spare parking spot, shed, storage room or similar space, you can list it on NearSpace and potentially turn that unused space into extra income.
NearSpace makes it simple to showcase your available space, add photos and details, set your price and reach people searching for parking and storage in their local area.
Whether you have space available for a few weeks, several months or longer, NearSpace provides a simple way to make better use of it.
Listing your space is currently free, so there is nothing to lose by giving your unused space a chance to earn.
NearSpace is starting in Melbourne and expanding across Australia, helping local property owners make the most of their available space while giving customers more affordable and convenient options.
If you have unused space, consider listing it on NearSpace and turn space you are not using into an opportunity for extra income.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Ararat
Ararat has connections with international sport and an unusually well-travelled body of botanical art. These two careers began locally but found audiences in Olympic velodromes and, rather unexpectedly, in passport queues.
🎨 Stan Kelly
Ararat railwayman Stan Kelly became a respected botanical illustrator through meticulous paintings of Australian plants, particularly eucalypts. He worked at a small table at home and shared his skills through local teaching. His books became reference works for students of botany, while the National Herbarium of Victoria acquired more than 500 watercolours. In 2009, selected illustrations were adapted for the Australian passport. The Langi Morgala Museum in Ararat also preserves his work and story.
🚴 Shane Kelly
Born in Ararat, Shane Kelly represented Australia at five successive Olympic Games between 1992 and 2008. He won kilometre time-trial silver in Barcelona and bronze in Sydney, then added a keirin bronze in Athens. Commonwealth Games success included kilometre time-trial gold in 1994 and 1998. Those results span different sprint disciplines and more than a decade at the highest level, making the Ararat-born rider a substantial figure in Australian track cycling.
🏉 Tom Wills
Tom Wills grew up around Ararat before education at Rugby School in England and a prominent career in cricket and the organisation of Australian football. The book describes childhood friendships with local Aboriginal children and his knowledge of their language. Back in Australia, he encouraged cricketers to play football during winter and helped develop written rules in 1859. His sporting life crossed codes and communities, with cricket and football closely linked from the beginning. The local connection is a childhood in the district.
