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4 years ago - September 20, 2019

2 years ago

September 24, 2021

Geelong appears on track to exit lockdown on schedule this Sunday with no new cases reported in the city yesterday.

The Surf Coast, also scheduled to exit lockdown at midnight on Sunday, recorded just one new case in a Torquay household on Wednesday, health authorities confirmed.

4 years ago

September 20, 2019

Geelong could become home to an incinerator turning rubbish into electricity, which a local MP says might solve the city’s recycling crisis.

Council had been investigating a combined waste-to-energy plant with Ballarat and Wyndham for a year now, Mayor Bruce Harwoodsaid.

6 years ago

September 22, 2017

Bill Shorten has turned up the pressure on Victorian gas bans a week after the Indy reported a local MP’s push to tap onshore reserves.

The Federal Labor leader visited a North Shore factory yesterday, calling on the Andrew’s Government to lift its moratorium on onshore gas.

8 years ago

September 25, 2015

Angry residents aim to topple plans to erect a telecommunications tower in an historic Geelong cemetery, telling the provider: not near our backyard.

The Geelong Cemeteries Trust has signed an agreement with Telstra to lease a section of the Western Cemetery to install a 37.5m pole at the rear of the graveyard. The City of Greater Geelong is considering a planning application.