State funding warning at DisabilityCare launch
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
BARWON residents enlisting the help of the newly-developed national disability insurance scheme could fall victim to the scheme’s “teething problems”, according to...
Author ferrets out new book
By NOEL MURPHY
CHOCOLATE biscuits and bras - watch out for the household items pet ferrets take a liking to: you could lose some of...
Upcycling means business for local artists
TO most of us, recycling means heaving bottles and cans into a big yellow-topped bin - but to three creative Geelong women, it means...
Stage set for curse game’s theatrics
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
IN myths and legends, curses last a lifetime.
In football, streaks always come to an end, although Geelong’s winning streak against Hawthorn...
You Yangs go for a record
by NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG property continues to fetch some of the highest prices on the market - the art market that is.
The $2.287 million fetched...
Streets ahead in urban art
By NOEL MURPHY
STREET art has been controversial ever since Stone Age graffiti was daubed across cave walls.
Spray can and stencils characterise the...
Fight for your right to retire
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
OUR baby boomers are no longer babies nor boomers, but they still have some fight left in them.
As research, surveys and...
Marina encores her prior engagements
By MICHELLE HERBISON
MARINA Prior refuses to meet friends for coffee if they have even a hint of a cold.
Such is the rigorous health routine...
FINALLY FRIDAY: A rollocking romp
By MICHELLE HERBISON
CHEMISTRY came easily for Red Stitch Theatre’s Ella Caldwell and Ben Prendergast when they first worked together intimately in a romantic comedic...
Classic Cats centenarian
By NOEL MURPHY
CATS fans don’t come much more dedicated than diehard Alice Johnston.
At 103 years old, the great grandmother from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast makes...
Louie the fly aims to spread a cure
By NOEL MURPHY
LOUIE the Fly, that Aussie TV fixture of the 1960s, would be thrilled with the work going on at Deakin University right...
Northern breakthrough at new children’s centre
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
A NORLANE-based childcare and family centre set to open in 2015 will be “nothing like the north (of Geelong) has seen in...
Heartbreaking loss for Venom
Nicole Munger has stepped up in the UC Capitals' moment of need to steal victory in a thrilling 76-75 tussle against the Geelong Venom...
