‘120 jobs’ in new service
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE Barwon launch of DisabilityCare Australia under the national disability insurance scheme will create 120 jobs, Federal Government has announced.
Minister for...
Buckets&Bouquets
BOUQUETS to the girls at OPSM Corio. They were so helpful and friendly when I attended the store the day before Easter. They couldn’t...
Barwon Health millions return
By NOEL MURPHY
BARWON Health’s missing millions have been belatedly restored after a Gillard Government about-face on its health cuts and the launch of a...
Alcoa seeks to turn off power
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
ALCOA is using hardship provisions to terminate a long-term multi-million dollar deal to buy electricity for its Pt Henry smelter from...
Call to reveal full threat to $2b tourism icon: Ocean road to ruin
By NOEL MURPHY
STATE Government must release a report detailing the full extent of damage to the Great Ocean Road from tidal surges, storms, rock-falls,...
Judge jailed over ‘pretty ordinary’ history in city
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A FORMER Breakwater man with a “pretty ordinary” criminal history has been jailed for a string of offences including a high-speed police...
‘Scammer’ cuts up city suburbs
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
GEELONG Facebook users have posted warnings about a man allegedly scamming vulnerable residents for money after offering tree-lopping services.
A used named Betty-Lou...
Tiger tale tall but true, says puzzled farmer
By NOEL MUPRHY
A TASMANIAN tiger could be marauding farms from Freshwater Creek through to the Otways, big cat watchers say after a fresh round...
Tayla’s made for her place among stars
A BACKGROUND in Geelong theatre has set Tayla Johnston on course to stardom.
Now studying at Victorian College of the Arts, the Newtown beauty leads...
JOIN THE CLUB: Flower’s power
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG has a couple of world-renowned clubs - think the Cats and Geelong Pelargonium Club.
A local flower club? World famous?
Indeed, the...
Surfers ID board, return to owner
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
OCEAN Grove’s Jon Willard is “indebted” to a pair of surfers who returned his unique surfboard after confronting an alleged thief.
Mr Willard...
Enid’s art illustrates plant diversity
By NOEL MURPHY
KIDNEY weed, skullcap, swamp-mat, bladderwort, hound’s-tongue…Enid Mayfield’s latest book reads like a witch’s shopping list.
Many of the species would probably go very...
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...
