State ‘putting girls’ regatta at risk’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
STATE Government "stalling" on a $250,000 funding commitment is putting at risk Geelong Head of the Schoolgirls regatta, according to Member...
Buckets & Bouquets
BOUQUETS to Geelong Blinds Company’s Shane for fantastic customer service. I visited a few times with enquiries and he was always a pleasure to...
ON THE BITE: Snapper start annual run
By BRIAN LONG
Mid-September is generally when the run of bay snapper begins, with numbers increasing over the past week.
John Pierce landed his first red...
Author ‘feels like Nostradamus’ over fixing
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG author Neil Humphreys feels “a bit like Nostradamus” over Victoria’s A-league soccer scandal.
The central character in his 2010 best-selling novel, Match...
Geelong pilot to formulate national policy: City to set well-being standard
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG is serving as a pilot community for a new measure of Australian wellbeing and progress that will play a key...
‘Mega board’ to fund city tourism
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A PROPOSED Geelong-Bellarine Peninsula tourism board will have to apply for funding from a new industry authority it refused to join.
Tourism...
Reading cinema in systems ’first’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE curtains will open on Australian cinematic first when Reading Waurn Ponds unveils a state-of-the-art digital projection and sound system.
Reading manager...
Roomster lives up to name
By ERIC BLAIR
WHEN Skoda returned to Australia in 2007 it did so with two models, the mainstream Octavia sedan and a quirky, boxy little...
Corio MP backing Shorten
By NOEL MURPHY
CORIO MP Richard Marles has made an impassioned plea for the ALP to drop its previous leadership baggage and back Bill Shorten...
Mum told to apologise over foul abuse of cop
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
A 27-YEAR-OLD mother must write a letter of apology to a police officer for verbally abusing him, a Geelong magistrate ordered on...
Portuguese ‘discovery’ explained
By NOEL MURPHY
IT’S one of Geelong’s most persistent legends and, like most legends, might be based to some degree in fact.
But whether the Portuguese...
Polls headache as election, footy finals clash in city: Vote 1: Geelong Cats
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG’S first finals football-flavoured federal election could delay results in the tightest seat in the nation, Corangamite.
The clash of the two...
Resurgent Cats pile on Tiger pain
Geelong cruised to a 30-point win over Richmond for its second win on the bounce, leaving the battling Tigers 0-5 as the only winless...
