17 years ago
August 24, 2007
Geelong is set to receive a new riverfront living and cafe precinct, with developers lining up in anticipation of City Hall relaxing planning restrictions along Newtown’s Barwon River frontage.
Architect Mark Sanders said his firm, Third Ecology, was working with a Geelong developer on plans to develop a one-hectare riverfront site beside Pegasus Antiques on Latrobe Boulevarde.
11 years ago
August 23, 2013
He’s 15 kg lighter, “just about dangerous” and thinking seriously about making a comeback at City Hall.
John Mitchell told the Independent he’d been approached to run for mayor again in the wake of Keith Fagg’s sudden departure due to health issues last week, and would decide in the next fortnight.
5 years ago
August 23, 2019
Geelong acute health services face a $22 million government funding cut this financial year, according to the state’s opposition.
Shadow health minister Georgie Crozier yesterday accused State Government of cutting funding after Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) published its 2019/2020 policy and funding guidelines.
1 year ago
August 25, 2023
Geelong medical clinics could be hit for up to five years of unexpected payroll taxes for their independently contracted GPs without intervention from the state government.
A recent ruling in NSW, which will affect clinics across the country, deemed GPs employees of medical centres, meaning clinics needed to pay a 4.85 per cent payroll tax on doctors’ income.
