Animals’ fire plight inspires fund-raiser
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE enduring image of a fire-fighter offering bottled water to a bushfire-ravaged koala is part of the inspiration behind a local...
Launch for Golden Plate Awards
REGIONAL Victoria’s most acclaimed culinary awards will celebrate its 10th anniversary in Geelong this year.
General manager Pamela Jewson said the Golden Plate Awards were...
Council’s advice to shire revealed: Use media against ’eyesore’ buildings
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
PUBLIC embarrassment through the media is the most effective way of convincing “recalcitrant” owners of neglected buildings to take action, a...
Australasia’s ‘best chef’ Ben dreams of local restaurant
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
AUSRALASIA'S best chef could open a restaurant closer to his Ocean Grove home, he has told the Independent.
Ben Shewry said the Geelong...
Fees jump ‘to limit rates hike’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG'S council has increased user-pays fees and charges to minimise its rates increase, according to Mayor Keith Fagg.
Council’s lower-than-anticipated incease of...
MPs spruik roads, Libs slam taxes
THE region’s federal Labor MPs have talked up spending on local roads in the Gillard Government’s budget this week.
Corangamite’s Darren Cheeseman highlighted $7 million...
’Priorities list’ boost for Port harbour, peninsua bypass link
By MICHELLE HERBISON
PROPOSALS to redevelop Portarlington’s harbour and extend Geelong’s ring road to the Bellarine Peninsula have earned places on a new list of...
Corio’s ’risk’ of fatality alarms Trezise
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
AN application for a dangerous goods facility in Roseneath St, North Geelong, creates an off-site risk of fatality, council documents reveal.
The...
Overdue honour for our angel of World War I
By NOEL MURPHY
A DAUGHTER of Mars will be honoured as namesake of Bell Post Hill’s McNaughton St.
Nursing sister Kit McNaughton’s surname will be assumed...
Teachers’ sex-ed ‘a world-first’ for uni
By NOEL MURPHY
SEX school is in for teachers under a new Deakin University initiative cited as a world-first.
Aussie teachers, lacking qualifications and confidence about...
Exhibition to reveal our tall tales and true
By NOEL MURPHY
PIRATES, bunyips, secret discoveries and wartime landings - mystery and legend abound in Geelong for anyone curious enough to dig.
Even a cursory...
Grovedale couple fear for family ‘persecuted’ in Iran
By MICHELLE HERBISON
GROVEDALE'S Aflatoon and Mahdokt Khavari are safe in Australia but the Iranian Government has imprisoned relatives for trying to educate their children.
Terry...
Bans handed out for junior footy altercation
AFL Barwon has handed down match suspensions, reprimands and bans after an investigation into a brawl at a junior footy match in July that...
