‘Outsource’ plan stirs anger at uni
Andrew MathiesonDEAKIN University’s multi-purpose gymnasium is at risk of falling into the hands of a commercial provider, a student association has warned.
Students fear that...
Surfers slam call to close 13th road
Andrew MathiesonBARWON HEADS surfers fear a proposal to close 13th Beach Road to cars could shut them out of their favourite breaks.
They have called...
Bid to remove Lorne’s meters
Jane EmerickLorne’s parking meters are in the sights of a Surf Coast councillor after the success of a campaign against paid parking for beaches...
Police charge youths for DVD sex attack
Hamish HeardPolice yesterday charged eight youths accused of producing and distributing a sexually-explicit DVD of an attack on a Jan Juc schoolgirl.
Sexual Crimes Squad...
Call for ‘damaging’ findings to go public
Hamish HeardState Government has swept damaging allegations in an Ombudsman’s report on Geelong’s cash-for-councillors scandal under the carpet until after next week’s elections, local...
Bid for $30m games rights
Hamish HeardGeelong is bidding to host Australia’s largest multi-sport festival for eight years from 2009.
Organisers of the Australian Masters Games said the 10-day event’s...
Govt baulks at meeting Bypass ‘snub’
Andrew MathiesonVICROADS snubbed a public meeting on plans for the third stage of the Geelong’s bypass.
Organiser John Lambert accused the road authority of failing...
Bikinis from Israel online
Karen HartSWIMWEAR designer Ben Israel gives new meaning to the itsy bitsy, teenie weenie, yellow polka dot bikini
The selfconfessed beachcomber said he had hit...
Cashed-up council brews new scandal
By Geelong Story UpdatesSOME Geelong councillors are gluttons for punishment.
Not satisfied with the public flogging they received over the cashforcouncillors scandal, this week...
Footy could go. Water crisis sports threat
Hamish HeardTorquay footballers are facing a 2007 season without home games after a council decision to replace Spring Creek Reserve’s playing surface left it...
Shamed Grubbers to take holocaust lesson
Alex de VosOcean Grove footballers have agreed to visit Melbourne’s Holocaust Museum after allegedly attacking a Jewish man while on their way home from...
Badminton to the bone
Andrew MathiesonTHERE’S no hint of a giggle in the Sapwell household at the mention of shuttlecocks.
Badminton, to both Stan and Betty Sapwell, is serious...
Hunter wants to prove he is his own man
Geelong draftee Hunter Holmes is relishing being reunited with new assistant coach Nathan Buckley as he sets out to prove he's his own man...
