FINALLY FRIDAY: Waters finds new layers
By MICHELLE HERBISON
DELVING into the song lyrics of Beatles legend John Lennon helped Australian stage star John Waters represent the man and his life...
Keep on truckin’
By NOEL MURPHY
TRUCKS and tractors, tools and toys - a vintage mechanical frenzy is set for Geelong Showgrounds this weekend.
Steam engines, internal combustion donks,...
Search for invisibility: Deakin helps US Air Force
By NOEL MURPHY
INVISIBILITY cloaks might make for magic Harry Potter entertainment but for Deakin University’s Tiffany Walsh and the US Air Force they’re deadly...
Shooter fears curb big cat reports
By NOEL MURPHY
A FEAR of luring cowboy shooters into the local bushland keeps farmers from reporting more sightings of big cats and Tasmanian tigers,...
Port tones for festival
By PAUL MILLAR
SEA farmers are toning up their mussels for Portarlington’s annual festival, to ensure they can meet the growing demand for the molluscs.
Organisers...
Candidates’ battlelines are drawn for local seats
By PAUL MILLAR
THE Liberal Party will make a concentrated attack on Lisa Neville’s seat of Bellarine at the next election.
Liberal stalwart Angelo Kakouros expected...
Alcoa closure to slam economy
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG’S economy could lose up to a quarter of a billion dollars if Alcoa is to close its Point Henry plant as...
Family fears for escapee’s safety
By PAUL MILLAR
POLICE have launched a manhunt for a troubled Geelong man - who fled a minimum security jail - fearing that he could...
Bio-tech cure for Geelong loss: Drug maker in Ford plan
By NOEL MURPHY
FORD’S North Geelong plant could be converted to a multi-million dollar pharmaceutical manufacturing site if a Sydney cell biologist has his way.
Managing...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Mi-Sex playing computer games
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
EIGHTIES rock icons Mi-Sex made a pact a couple of years ago.
"We will get together and perform at least a few...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Hugo’s local live music boost
By MICHELLE HERBISON
GEELONG'S music scene may have changed a lot over the 20 years since Hugo T Armstrong founded Queenscliff’s The Blues Train but...
Bird flu hits egg supply
By PAUL MILLAR
LOCAL egg producers are being inundated with calls to help make up a shortfall in supplies, following an outbreak of bird flu...
Shire gets greener
Winchelsea and Deans Marsh are receiving green and leafy makeovers following the planting of new trees along key roads.
Trees have been...
