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15 years ago - January 8, 2010

15 years ago

January 8, 2010

Geelong’s council is anticipating raising $4.37 million from parking fines – or $11,972 a day – from offending motorists this financial year.

Fines in previous years have averaged a rise of $376,000 since 2002, but council’s predicting almost an extra $600,000 on last year.

12 years ago

January 11, 2013

New state government problems building rail links to Melbourne Airport have bolstered Avalon Airport’s timeline to develop an international terminal.

A corridor set aside for the airport link to Tullamarine is now to host a new regional rail link, leaving Spring St with an expensive, politically awkward problem finding an alternative route.

6 years ago

January 11, 2019

Union officials are set to take industrial action amid fears several dozen Geelong pathology workers could lose their jobs in impending cuts.

Medical Scientists Association of Victoria secretary Paul Elliott threatened to take Australian Clinical Labs to the Fair Work Commission following a meeting with company management yesterday.

1 year ago

January 12, 2024

The southern hemisphere’s largest tennis academy is set to be built 25km southwest of Geelong.

This world-first partnership will see CORA effectively replicate French tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou’s flagship facility in Nice on the French Riviera.