Silo ‘high-wire work’ recalled
By NOEL MURPHY
DANGLING aloft 120 metres above the hard ground of the old Fyansford cement works is hardly everyone’s cup of tea.
Nor is...
FBT hits Ford jobs: Sales carnage forces ‘down days’
By NOEL MURPHY
FRINGE benefits tax changes are set to cost Geelong Ford staff 12 days of work in the next six weeks, the company...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Recipe for a prequel to Desire
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
START with a "burlesquey" play, add copious amounts of slapstick comedy, mix acts until vaudevillian, top with a dash of darkness and...
Magnificent 7s for local voters
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG voters have a choice of seven candidates in each of the region’s two federal electorates at the 7 September election.
The...
Uni benches Koorie academic: Umpire to hear allegation against professor
By NOEL MURPHY
AN independent umpire will hear misconduct allegations against a Koorie academic before Deakin University decides whether to proceed with a further investigation.
Deakin...
Station hours fear: ‘Advertised to crims’
By NOEL MURPHY
ADVERTISING new police station opening hours across the Bellarine Peninsula is an open invitation to criminals, the Police Association has warned.
Victoria Police’s...
League licence bid: Soccer’s new Galaxy
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG could field a side in a new national premier soccer league next year if a local licence bid is successful.
Greater...
Burke and Wills on the fringe
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
ACCOMPLISHED composer and musician Ashley Davies is traversing the path of notable Australian explorers Burke and Wills - musically.
Davies contested the commonly-held...
Manager’s fury at spit ‘dumps’
By NOEL MURPHY
HIGH tip fees and op shop charges could be behind a rubbish dumping spate at environmentally-sensitive Ocean Grove Spit, coast managers fear.
Barwon...
Alarm sounds over ‘big data’
By NOEL MURPHY
PERSONAL online data previously thought confidential are a new $40 billion "oil boom" for business to sell and use, a Geelong academic...
GOR in call for ‘$25m’
THE Great Ocean Road needs an upgrade more than a World Heritage listing, according to regional council and tourism bodies.
Local municipal alliance body G21...
Corio kids champions of first-aid with pilot
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A PROGRAM training secondary students to be first-aid champions has been piloted at Corio’s Northern Bay College.
The initiative was part of...
From the archives
18 years ago
November 9, 2007
Thugs face life-time bans after Geelong nightclubs rollout permanent ID scanners next week, nightlife association chairman Darren Holroyd told the...
