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16 years ago

October 3, 2008

A Geelong design team yesterday unveiled a car that runs on air.

The Deakin University engineering students’ T2 car went on display in Detroit, USA, as a Ford Global Challenge winner.

11 years ago

October 4, 2013

Geelong’s first directly elected mayoral experiment was an “abject failure”, several councillors have told the Independent.

They said confected controversy over council’s ward funding system was a legacy of the 10-month tenure of Keith Fagg, who as mayor was open to “outside influences” from business leaders and “unelected” organisations.

6 years ago

October 5, 2018

Former mayor Darryn Lyons has announced he will run in the 2018 Victorian Election, amid months of speculation he would contest the seat of Geelong.

“I have unfinished business,” he told the Indy yesterday.

1 year ago

October 6, 2023

Geelong Miniature Railway (GMR) president Brian Gray has called on the council to not “shut the door” on the charitable initiative.

GMR is seeking a “peppercorn rental”, a site of 10 to 15 acres from the City of Greater Geelong with a favourable rental agreement.

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