FINALLY FRIDAY: Living for a gig at QMF
By MICHELLE HERBISON
RE-LEARNING all 90-odd songs seemed like a good idea at the time but The Living End’s ambitious plan last year proved a...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Joel’s art shore bet
By MICHELLE HERBISON
LOCAL artist Joel Wolter is enjoying his down-time after a year of hard work preparing 26 artworks for a Geelong Gallery exhibition....
Council funds young leaders’ diversity trip to Nepal
By KATE VALLENCE
GEELONG’S council will provide $6000 for seven “young community leaders” to film in Nepal a documentary about diversity.
Councillors voted last week to...
Daryl’s jacket a true blue witness of life and times
By NOEL MURPHY
CLOTHES make the man, so say commentators from Shakespeare to Mark Twain, and Geelong Ford worker Daryl O’Connor is hardly one to...
NDIS office work ‘begins in weeks’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
WORK on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Geelong head office will begin “in the next few weeks”, according to the organisation.
NDIS...
Home repossessions rise 50%
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
HOME repossessions in Geelong’s northern suburbs have risen significantly despite historically low interest rates.
Sherrif’s Office figures show delinquencies on mortgages in...
Jeff behind call for City asset sales
By NOEL MURPHY
A MAYORAL candidate has attacked former premier Jeff Kennett after a consultancy he chairs recommended that City Hall sell off assets worth...
Houses, schools in gas ‘heat flux zone’
By KATE VALLENCE
HOMES, schools and community facilities will be within a high-pressure gas pipeline’s "heat flux zone" in a new development at Lara.
An independent...
Retail boost for north: Woolies, Masters on way
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
LARA and Geelong’s northern suburbs are in for a massive retail boost with the approval this week of a new Woolworths...
ACCC probing News’ ad rates
By NOEL MURPHY
AUSTRALIAN Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating allegations the Geelong Advertiser has engaged in predatory pricing activities since the arrival of...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Morning glory
By MICHELLE HERBISON
SINGER Rhonda Burchmore responded in valiant style to an online impersonator with a "wicked tongue" posing under her name.
The Aussie diva...
New plan targets Avalon corridor
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A NEW Melbourne Plan has renewed hopes a major logistics facility will be located close to Geelong.
The State Government plan recommended...
Find your new best friend at GAWS
Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS) has reminded potential cat buyers that kittens are not just for Christmas.
The not-for-profit organisation, which received nearly 60 kittens...
