Kicking back to help fire victims
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
FIRE has forged an unlikely bond between refugee students and Corio Fire Station officers.
Fire ripped through a refugee camp on the...
Wi-Fi on Road: Tourism icon goes hi-tech
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A STRING of Wi-Fi hotspots giving visitors an innovative online tourism experience will operate along the Great Ocean Road this summer.
Member for...
‘I’m not a smuggler’: Offshore gem hunter fined over dinosaur eggs
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A MAN behind plans to mine vivianite offshore near Anglesea was fined US $20,000 for smuggling fossilised dinosaur eggs from China...
$10m sales hit to Torquay surf firm
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
ICONIC Torquay surfwear brand Quiksilver has suffered a second quarter loss after its Australia-Pacific operations dropped 14 per cent.
Australia Pacific sales...
City set to host disease centre
By NOEL MURPHY
BIOTERROR agents and new infectious diseases will be the focus of a new fully-fledged Geelong research centre, sources have told the Independent.
They...
Mum’s collection gives show a full Quota of dolls
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
WHEN Bryan Humphrey’s mum Leah lost her battle with pancreatic cancer she left an amazing legacy of a houseful of hand-painted...
Hospital seeks ‘shortfall’ help
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A $1.5 MILLION cost blowout for St John of God Hospital’s $65 million redevelopment has forced the launch of a community appeal.
Hospital...
The super men
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Old football players never die, they just join the local super rules team - well, at least that’s what club secretary...
Katie sings on Instinct
By MICHELLE HERBISON
“Purely instinct” directs ARIA-award-winning singer Katie Noonan to each of her musical projects.
Dabbling in different musical styles from rock to jazz to...
Region a ‘fracking’ target
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE controversial practice of “fracking” could come to Geelong after oil and gas explorer Lakes Oil revealed it was conducting geological...
New $140m funding push for stadium begins
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG Football Club has ramped up lobbying for $140 million in the lead-up to the federal election to complete the club’s redevelopment...
Target adds more jobs pain to struggling city
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
TARGET will shed 260 jobs from its Geelong headquarters and regional support locations, the company announced on Wednesday.
The redundancies followed a...
Shandelle seeks new musical horizons
Shandelle Cooke is one of Geelong’s best-loved performers, but the chanteuse is not content to rest on her laurels.
This month Cooke launches two new...
