17 years ago
October 31, 2008
A Geelong community organisation is battling red tape and financial hurdles to rescue five African orphans from war-torn Sierra Leone.
Multicultural services provider Diversitat wants to reunite the five children aged 12 to 16 with their aunt, Kaddie Perry, who lives in Geelong.
12 years ago
November 1, 2013
A mayoral candidate has attacked former premier Jeff Kennett after a consultancy he chairs suggested City Hall could sell off assets worth $56 million.
Anthony Aitken questioned how council commissioned Mr Kennett’s CT Management Group to undertake a review of its finances without the job going to compulsory competitive tendering, which the Kennett Government implemented at Victorian councils.
7 years ago
November 2, 2018
State Government has refused to step in over a $3.1 million cost blowout that has short-changed Chilwell Primary School of a planned two-storey redevelopment.
The refusal comes as Labor moves to protect the seat of Geelong, where the school is located, against an election challenge from high-profile ex-mayor Darryn Lyons.
2 years ago
November 3, 2023
Five people have been arrested in Geelong after protesters swarmed the Defence Minister Richard Marles’ office, calling for Australia’s withdrawal of support for Israel.
Close to 50 anti-Zionist activists took to the Broughman Street office on Wednesday, November 1, demanding a withdrawal of support for Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestine.
