Shire ‘spends 85% of your rates on wages’
‘Lone wolf’: Joe Remenyi addresses Tuesday night’s forum. By Cherie DonnellanSURF Coast Shire spends equivalent to 85 per cent of its rates revenue on...
‘Claws out’ at GAWS
By Noel MurphyGEELONG animal welfare campaigners are being put down, sacked for failing to follow rules but without being told their offences.
Geelong Animal Welfare...
Bingo ‘bogans’ are doing it for charity
Mullet madness: Simone Muschalla, Claire Grace, Simon MacDonald and Jess Gava show their “inner-bogan”.By John Van KlaverenTHERE'S a bit of bogan in us all...
Health care hopes: 24-hour clinic in pipeline
By Michelle HerbisonBELLARINE Community Health is investigating locations for a 24-hour emergency clinic on the Bellarine Peninsula.
Chief executive officer John Fendyk said he...
Never too old for Port festival activities
Festival fun: Judy Margolis, Hazel Ingram, Jenny Wills and Harold Waldron get into the spirit of the ageing well festival. By Michelle HerbisonA PORTARLINGTON...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Band feels city’s heat
Irritating: Oh Mercy’s Alexander Gow likes to pen lyrics that get up listeners’ noses.By Cherie DonnellanCREATING fictional characters inspired Oh Mercy frontman Alexander Gow...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Stripping at festival
Stripped: Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson play Bellbrae’s Harvester Moon Festival next week.By Cherie DonnellanCOUNTRY-BLUES duo Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson wanted to “strip”...
JOIN THE CLUB: Club’s swimmers ‘making a splash’
In the swim: Geelong Swimming Club state short-course championships competitors, at top, Fraser Mahony, Molly Parkinson, Aaron Ford, Patrick Bartlett and Lance Ahmling and,...
Sell port ‘harder’, says MP
By Noel MurphyCORIO Bay and Geelong’s port need to be higher on the mayoral agenda as critical to Geelong’s future, according to federal MP...
Deakin founder ‘inspiration’
By Noel MurphyDEAKIN University’s founding vice-chancellor, Professor Fred Jevons, has died in Melbourne after a long battle with illness.
He was aged in his 80s.
The...
City research could save thousands: Mozzies virus breakthrough
Breakthrough: Dr Prasad Pradkar at work in his Moolap laboratory. By John Van KlaverenA GEELONG breakthrough in preventing mosquito-borne viruses could save thousands of...
Rugby ‘love’ wins state award
Top sport: Richard Haugh, rugby volunteer of the year.By Noel MurphyGEELONG rugby mainstay Richard Haugh is the kind of community fixture who typifies the...
Grubbers reinforced
Not content with three consecutive Bellarine Netball Association A Grade premierships, Ocean Grove has moved to strengthen its squad for the 2026 season with...
