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...
Arthritis means more spinal fractures: Deakin study
WOMEN with rheumatoid arthritis as twice as likely to sustain spinal fractures, a Geelong region study by Deakin University has found.
The eight-year study investigated...
Gallery funded after plan to crash new library
STATE Government has announced an expansion of Geelong Gallery three months after the Independent revealed the gallery's plan to gate-crash a new library and...
Coalition promises $20 million to rebuild Geelong High School
GEELONG High School's long-awaited redevelopment is guaranteed after the state coalition promised $20 million to overhaul the entire campus.
The pledge follows a similar promise...
Cats add three to squad for Lions match
GEELONG Cats has added three players to its squad to take on Brisbane at the Gabba on Sunday.
Jackson Sheringham, Josh Walker and George Horlin-Smith...
Free travel for young Vics
More than one million young Victorians will benefit from free public transport from 1 January with the new youth myki now available to purchase...
