17 years ago
March 7, 2008
Motorists have labelled the roundabout at Portarlington, Jetty and Grubb roads as “chaos”, “mayhem” and a “nightmare” at morning peak hour.
Between 8am and 9am cars, trucks, school buses and bikes congest the roads, with motorists often banked for kilometres.
12 years ago
March 8, 2013
A group of players from a northern Geelong football club assaulted three people “without provocation” early Sunday morning, according to police.
Sergeant Aaron Riches told the Independent a 20-year-old victim received serious injuries requiring hospital treatment after being punched in the face “without rhyme or reason”.
8 years ago
March 3, 2017
More than 200 jobs might be up for grabs at WorkSafe’s new Geelong headquarters as some staff decline to leave Melbourne, a state minister told the Indy yesterday (Thursday).
About 70 per cent of the authority’s Melbourne staff who were asked to relocate under stage one of the transition had made the move, Finance Minister Robin Scott said.
2 years ago
March 3, 2023
Central Geelong would be home to 16,000 people and 60,000 jobs in 2050, according to a 30-year framework plan for the city.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, central Geelong had a resident population of 2518 in 2021 and 22,906 jobs in 2016.
