‘Ease’ into a carer career with training
There’s never been a better time to get an appropriate qualification in caring for the aged, says EmployEase sales manager Rick Charlton.
“There are strong...
Kids chase music glory for 30 years
By Luke Voogt
Lara’s Tess McBurney “wasn’t nervous at all” when she made her solo singing debut – at age four.
Her mates at the Geelong...
Roguish cabaret
Cabaret diva Anya Anastasia returns to Drysdale on Friday to bring original music, double entendres and cheeky antics right onto the lap of her...
Pinkies hit baits, lures
On the Bite, by Chris Pitman
Pinkie snapper hit baits and lures in Corio Bay’s inner-harbour over the past week.
The spoil grounds...
Not all hope Gawn
By Justin Flynn
If not for a Max Gawn blunder in front of goal Geelong would have started the season winless going into...
DNA IDs lost WWI soldier
By Luke Voogt
A DNA test has identified missing Geelong-born soldier Alfred Thompson almost 102 years after he died in the Battle of...
Police mount city initiative
Mounted police have trotted through central Geelong as part of a crackdown on school holiday hooligans.
Operation City-Safe ran across both weeks of the holidays...
In Brief
Men overboard
Three men are recovering from injuries after they fell out of a boat as a vehicle towed it along a Moolap road on...
Double Take
Double Take was disgusted, absolutely disgusted, at this week’s childish reaction to the proposed renaming of the federal seat of Corangamite.
The pathetic double entendres...
‘Visit our mosque’, says region’s imam
By Luke Voogt
Geelong’s newly-restored mosque will hold its first public open day since a deliberately-lit fire destroyed it two years ago.
“This is...
Geelong projects ‘off list’
Liberal MPs have slammed the Andrews Government for failing to submit Geelong projects for a national infrastructure priority list.
Geelong missed out after Victoria became...
$2m tourism boost
Geelong’s tourism board is awaiting confirmation of state funding after council this week agreed to chip in $2 million next financial year.
Council’s renewed three-year...
Eagles in the box seat after day one
Waurn Ponds Deakin holds the upper hand going into day two of its Geelong Cricket Association Division 3 clash against Corio.
With Manifold Heights (5th)...
