Horror hole in repairs
By NOEL MURPHY
BRENDA Hoad’s days of feeling like a “sideshow freak” are over after a Belmont surgeon repaired a gaping face wound that Barwon...
20 years on, ex-mayors say: Mergers ’good’ for city growth
By NOEL MURPHY
DISASTER, frustrating, secretive but positive.
That’s the assessment of Geelong’s former mayors 20 years after their councils were controversially merged to form City...
Policing sports drug use ‘futile’
By NOEL MURPHY
POLICING drug use in the AFL is probably futile, according to a Geelong academic.
Deakin University law lecturer Martin Hardie also believes existing...
Jobs ‘drive tariffs call’
By NOEL MURPHY
TARIFFS must rise to safeguard jobs at Ford and other car-makers, according to Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.
National secretary Dave Smith said Australian...
Bailed despite three heroin convictions: Dealer on ‘last chance’
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A CONVICTED heroin trafficker caught with three others at Geelong’s Chifley Hotel in January has won bail.
Magistrate Ann McGarvie gave “one more...
Peninsula link backed: ’Benefits for tourism, traffic’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
COMMUNITY groups will lobby politicians to support an extension of Geelong’s ring road to the Bellarine Peninsula.
Drysdale/Clifton Springs Community Association spokesperson...
Ambos miss nearly 200 shifts in region
By NOEL MURPHY
ALMOST 200 paramedics shifts went unfilled in the region last year, mostly due to bad rostering organised outside Geelong, according to the...
Fathering, bar violence linked: Dads to blame
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A YOUNG man who drinks and turns to violence might actually be reacting to an abusive father-son relationship, according to a...
Police appeal for help
Victoria Police are appealing for public assistance following a non-fatal shooting in North Shore in January this year.
Police were called to a residential address...
Breaker to roll in over coast stage
By MICHELLE HERBISON
BREAKER Morant is “just as relevant today” as when Kenneth Ross wrote his famous play about the Australian’s tragic fate in the...
Abbott in export Territory
Opposition leader Tony Abbott lauded the locally-made Ford Territory as he committed to increasing exports of Australian cars.
During a visit to Geelong Mr Abbott...
Abbott slams NBN no go zone
Getting fast broadband to the Geelong’s southern suburbs was used by opposition leader Tony Abbott to sell the coalition’s version of the NBN this week.
Mr Abbott...
Get spooked at Spookfest
Drysdale’s Potato Shed will transform into a Halloween wonderland for a day full of family-friendly activities and entertainment.
Spookfest Family Fun Day...
