MP’s abalone option for Ford staff
SACKED Ford workers could end up processing abalone for Asian markets, according to a Liberal MP.
David Koch said the region’s first aquaculture processing facility...
MP slams City on trucks trial
By NOEL MURPHY
CITY Hall’s contentious central city truck re-routing is dangerous, according to Geelong MP Ian Trezise.
Up to 1000 extra trucks had moved from...
Buckets & Bouquets
BUCKETS to a young girl who left her wallet on the roof of her car at Bell Post Shopping Centre. I picked up the...
Candidates murmur Tweet nothings
By NOEL MURPHY
THE twitterverse is slowly moving into the consciousness of Geelong’s state politicians and candidates.
Mayor Darryn Lyons romped into office on the back...
Watchdog bites employers
Staff ripped off
By NOEL MURPHY
A PHARMACIST underpaid almost $14,000 was among 84 Geelong complaints to the Fair Work Ombudsman over the past six months,...
PM’s artefacts booked in for show
By NOEL MURPHY
ANY BOOK 440 years old will take on a weather-beaten appearance but the tome Kristen Thornton produced this week at Deakin University...
Changing core
By MICHELLE HERBISON
GEELONG musician Sam Burtt might have surprised his hard-core bandmates when he revealed he’d been tinkering with indie rock but they were...
Daylight saving ends
Daylight saving ends this Sunday at 3am.
People should turn their clocks back by one hour when they go to bed on Saturday night.
Daylight saving...
Double-barrel shotgun terror strikes family at Corio
UPDATE:
A CORIO family was left “extremely traumatised” when a shotgun-wielding bandit jumped the counter of a Goldsworthy Rd milk bar to menace them in...
Egg warning lifted after Torquay’s Bottle of Milk salmonella outbreak
THE Department of Health has lifted its warning on Green Eggs after more than 200 people became ill eating food with raw egg at...
Buckets & Bouquets
BOUQUETS to a kind lady who handed in my handbag at a bottle shop in Geelong West after I left it in a toilet.
Grateful...
Enright injury concerns Cats
AN ANKLE injury to Cats star Corey Enright is “a bit more serious than we’d like”, according to coach Chris Scott.
Enright was subbed off...
Guthrie lends Stewart support
Zach Guthrie has backed Geelong's tight defensive unit to cover Tom Stewart's absence in the AFL grand final as he wraps his arms around...
