Shell to sell refinery
Shell Australia has announced its Geelong Refinery is for sale.
Shell Australia’s downstream vice-president Andrew Smith acknowledged the process will create a period of uncertainty...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Our Manfred’s making Merry
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A QUICK scan of the audience while taking bows at a recent Melbourne opera show delighted singer and school music director Manfred...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Joe’s travelling Van
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
SINGER Joe Creighton might have created a Van Morrison tribute show but the Irish-born Melbournian said he has no interest in meeting...
Survivor helps north’s revival
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
JOSEPH Brown is a remarkably happy bloke for someone who has survived two of the world’s bloodiest civil wars.
The Liberian refugee...
JOIN THE CLUB: Girls get kicks
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
BOYS will always be boys, but out at North Geelong Football Club, a bunch of girls are also on the ball...
They Kennett beat ‘hungry’ Cats side
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE most intriguing question of round one is whether Hawthorn can finally break the Kennett curse and defeat Geelong for the...
Rare moth standing in way of Lara expansion
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A CRITICALLY endangered moth that has already stalled several housing developments could stand in the way of Lara’s westward expansion.
Developer Dacland...
Growers cheer dream harvest
By NOEL MURPHY
MILD, dry conditions have driven a “dream harvest” that has Geelong winegrowers saluting their 2013 vintage as one of the best on...
Tavern project off to tribunal
By MICHELLE HERBISON
PLANS to refurbish Queenscliff’s Victoria Tavern and add eight apartments to the site are headed to a tribunal after council failed to...
Millions more to tour region
By MICHELLE HERBISON
GEELONG and the Great Ocean Road region need 3400 more guest rooms to cope with a projected 10 million annual visitors by...
Sanctuary ‘just drying, not dying’
By NOEL MURPHY
NEWTOWN’S Balyang Sanctuary, half its lake reduced to dried and cracked mud, looks like the worst of the drought has returned to...
Chief right man for plan, says group
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
TORQUAY'S residents' association is “confident” Surf Coast Shire’s new chief executive will successfully lead council in its next four-year plan.
President of 3228...
Helping hand for Cottage
Darren Allbutt’s Sea & Wood exhibition at Cottage by the Sea late last year was so well received that the fifth-generation Queenscliff resident is...
