15 years ago
January 8, 2010
Geelong’s council is anticipating raising $4.37 million from parking fines – or $11,972 a day – from offending motorists this financial year.
Fines in previous years have averaged a rise of $376,000 since 2002, but council’s predicting almost an extra $600,000 on last year.
12 years ago
January 11, 2013
New state government problems building rail links to Melbourne Airport have bolstered Avalon Airport’s timeline to develop an international terminal.
A corridor set aside for the airport link to Tullamarine is now to host a new regional rail link, leaving Spring St with an expensive, politically awkward problem finding an alternative route.
6 years ago
January 11, 2019
Union officials are set to take industrial action amid fears several dozen Geelong pathology workers could lose their jobs in impending cuts.
Medical Scientists Association of Victoria secretary Paul Elliott threatened to take Australian Clinical Labs to the Fair Work Commission following a meeting with company management yesterday.
1 year ago
January 12, 2024
The southern hemisphere’s largest tennis academy is set to be built 25km southwest of Geelong.
This world-first partnership will see CORA effectively replicate French tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou’s flagship facility in Nice on the French Riviera.