On the Bite: Persistence pays off with gummy
JASON Andrew was about to call it quits at the back of Mud Island on Saturday but daughter Chloe, 8, insisted they stay a...
Flying circus cabaret all set for Lyons’ 50th bash
Noel Murphy
IT’S SHAPING up as Geelong’s biggest party in years - a Gatsby-like circus-cabaret-burlesque show complete with pythons, fire-eaters, contortionists and acrobats.
The guest list...
Land400 bidder eyes Geelong: MP
AT LEAST one manufacturing consortium will come to Geelong if it wins the lucrative Land400 defence tender, MP Sarah Henderson told parliament today.
“It is...
Geelong Star returns to Corio Bay after latest killing
Noel Murphy
THE CONTROVERSIAL trawler Geelong Star has returned to Corio Bay after its latest dolphin killing has infuriated animal lovers and environmentalists.
The 95-metre ship...
Deakin criminologist snaffles OS study gong
DEAKIN University criminology lecturer Kate Fitz-Gibbon will visit the UK, US and Canada to examine innovative legal responses to the prevention of intimate homicide...
Sanity, identity, David Bowie and Deakin …
ROCK superstar David Bowie has challenged social conventions from his first hit “Space Oddity” to his long-haired “Labyrinth” phase – raising issues of ...
Dogged response by police at Lara
A POLICE dog handler has received treatment in hospital after an incident in Lara.
Police were called to a two-storey house where a man,...
They’re all going on an Aussie holiday
Children from refugee families in Geelong will experience a good old fashioned Aussie holiday thanks to an $8000 grant from Geelong Community Foundation.
The foundation...
Leura Park vintners buy Curlewis Golf Club
LEURA Park winery’s David and Lyndsay Sharp have bought the Curlewis Golf Club on the Bellarine Peninsula.
Club members voted 78 per cent in...
India curries $300 million favour with Geelong
By NOEL MURPHY
INDIAN business interests could invest up to $300 million in the Geelong region under an India Australia Strategic Alliance initiative.
Delegations to Geelong...
Call to unearth Johnstone Park’s marble steps
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG'S Johnstone Park has a colourful history as a dam, a swamp full of reeking animal carcasses, the site of ferneries and...
Hospital fears asthma ‘spike’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG hospital is bracing for an influx of children’s asthma admissions as winter viruses attack.
The hospital’s director of paediatrics, Dr Dave...
New nets a reality for Suns
Surf Coast Suns Cricket Club will be able to prepare for games properly thanks to new cricket nets at Torquay’s Banyul Warri Fields.
The club...
