City Hall and local health insurer GMHBA have joined forces to launch a new initiative to improve the fitness of Geelong office workers.
The 10-week program’s aimed at literally getting pen-pushers off their bums, noting the adverse health consequences from sitting at a desk all day.
Sounds great but there’s one obvious flaw: it’s an online program.
Which means most office staff will access it on their desktop PCs.
At their desks.
Sitting down.
The federal election has attracted a veritable dog’s breakfast of major and minor-party candidates, nowhere more so than our very own marginal seat of Corangamite.
But among the Liberals, Laborites, Family Firsts and other assorted special-interest candidates, one ballot box noggin truly stands out.
Particularly when the Drug Law Reform Party’s Courtney Dalton (pictured) chooses to wear his rather striking top hat on the campaign trail.
Intrigued by the somewhat incongruous fashion statement, Double Take sought an explanation from the candidate in question.
“Broke my leg, needed a walking stick,” Courtney explained.
“If you have a walking stick you need a top hat.”
Makes sense, unlike the rest of this election.
Interesting exchange on a popular Geelong Police Facebook page this week when the local constabulary sought public help to locate a young man wanted on an unspecified warrant.
His dad certainly helped in an angry kind of way, commenting that his son was in rehabilitation trying to clean up his act and that the police’s blaze of publicity could compromise his treatment.
Then the youngster himself chimed in, revealing he was in Thailand – presumably the location of his rehab facility.
“Got your back son,” his father replied.
Either the police had the information they wanted or saw the point of dad’s argument because the post had been deleted the following day.
It’s been Simonds for a while but people keep tripping up over the name.
All too often people – even coach Chris Scott – refer to the home ground of the Cats as Skilled Stadium, a name that hasn’t adorned the ground for five years.
The latest to fall into the trap was Corangamite MP Sarah Henderson at a Geelong Business Network breakfast election debate this week.
Maybe it’s a tribute to how people view the Cats – as skilled.
