Drunken shame draws a new police focus
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG’S history of public violence and drunkenness has earned the city inclusion in a national police operation for Easter.
Victoria Police will...
In brief
Dragon funding
Fundraising for a wind-powered tourism attraction proposed for Geelong’s waterfront will begin at a sustainability event in Eastern Park this weekend.
Renew Geelong, from...
Trickey gets prison term
By Noel Murphy
High-profile Geelong Facebook blogger Jason Trickey has been sentenced to six months jail for assaulting a woman.
Two months of the six-month sentence...
E-slum fear as net speed ‘manipulated’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
LEOPOLD broadband customers fear their internet speeds are being manipulated because of capacity restraints at local exchanges.
Cameron Horne said his ADSL2...
Car thieves hit battlers
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Three Geelong suburbs feature in a list of disadvantaged areas with four times the car theft rates of more affluent counterparts.
Corio,...
Rider’s shock return from horror injuries
By NOEL MURPHY
MAN versus electricity rarely has a happy outcome, as the scars on Brett Coleman can attest.
The Geelong anaesthetist came to the pointy...
Far-left attacks union rally, Trades Hall boss
By NOEL MURPHY
A UNION jobs rally in central Geelong last week was a “fraud”, according to socialists
The far-left Socialist Equality Party (SEP) accused Geelong...
Awards add Impetus to youth work
A diverse range of people and organisations have earned recognition for their achievements across various endeavours affecting young people in the Geelong region and...
Roads targeted as police out in force over Easter
THREE major road safety campaigns will operate across the Geelong region during the “high risk” Easter and Anzac holiday period.
Police will run operations Soteria...
Buckets and bouquets
Buckets to the person who stole roses and other plants from my garden. They were gifts to me from my daughter over many years....
Beds ‘failure’ to keep cells crowded
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A "massive failure of policy and imagination" will deliver Geelong only 27 of 80 new temporary prison beds for regional Victoria,...
Science teacher backs legend: I saw a ‘big cat’
By NOEL MURPHY
A FRESH report of a big cat sighting by a Geelong science teacher has lent further weight to the Otways panther legend.
Jamie...
Travelling to the land of penguins
The weather is getting warmer by the day and thoughts are turning to getting away from it all to somewhere cooler, somewhere different and...
