Health shake-up to cost jobs: Medicare Local
By John Van Klaveren
MEDICARE Locals in Geelong, Ballarat and Warrnambool plan a merger to tender for Federal Government’s new Primary Health Network.
Geelong Medicare Local...
Flasher attracts police attention
A FLASHER has performed lewd acts at a Bell Post Hill public toilet, according to police.
Detectives from a sexual offences and child abuse investigation...
Single parents left homeless, says PWP
By John Van Klaveren
GEELONG desperately needs emergency accommodation for single parents escaping dangerous or stressful domestic situations, according to Parents without Partners Community Services...
Local ALP luminaries celebrate 50 not out
By NOEL MURPHY
ALP HEROES John Cain and Steve Bracks will be among Labor Party faithful celebrating 50 years of continuous state representation in Geelong...
Quiet achievers for women’s issues
By John Van Klaveren
Quiet persistence behind the scenes has enabled the Geelong branch of the national council of women to wield its influence.
But its...
Geelong to be driving jobless
By John Van Klaveren
GEELONG faces job losses of five per cent with the closure of the automotive industry, according to a State of the...
Double Take
Do we really have such trouble recognising celebrities in Geelong?
On rock quiz TV show Spicks and Specks last week, Scared Weird Little Guys' Rusty...
In Brief
Christmas spending
A $2 million spending spree on Christmas decorations will go ahead after Geelong’s council approved the initiative this week.
Mayor Darryn Lyons used his...
Buckets & Bouquets
Buckets to the owner of a blue car for doing a runner after reversing into our back gate in a lane off Percy St....
Brass off to WWI festival in France
By LINDSAY TOULMIN
Dedication to their instruments has paid dividends for two Geelong Memorial Brass Band members.
Christina Bowden and Belinda Whitehand have been invited to...
Let public judge, circus asks Surf Coast
By NOEL MURPHY
ERONI’S Circus has asked Surf Coast Shire Council to let it perform as a case study of how circuses treat animals.
The circus’s...
Experts in the Blak arts here
By Emily Iannello
Leading Aboriginal artists will perform at Drysdale on Sunday. They will appear in Blak Cabaret, featuring a range of comedy, poetry, musical and...
Australia Day fun in Geelong
Community members gathered at Geelong's Steampacket Garden on 26 January for the Australia Day Family Day. Independent photographer Ivan Kemp went along to the...
