Employing disabled, a great Endeavour
The boss of one of Australia’s biggest agriculture industry groups has praised a foundation putting disabled people to work packing his sector’s products in...
App-y days for wi-fi world
An event challenging IT experts to produce new apps with data supplied from government agencies has produced a map of free wi-fi around Geelong.
Deakin...
Claims of cruelty get farmer’s goat
By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS
A company’s controversial plans for a goat farm and milk processing plant near Geelong has hit back at allegations of animal cruelty...
Sailing festival in date, cycle move
Geelong’s Festival of Sails has changed dates and incorporated a cycling event to become “bigger and better”, Royal Geelong Yacht Club has announced.
The change...
‘Can-do’ approach to diabetes
He recently travelled to Morocco, could turn into a footy star and dreams of leading Australia.
So learning that Point Lonsdale teen Fraser Richards also...
Things looking up for learners at all levels
A “win-win” Geelong program encouraging secondary students into tertiary studies has celebrated its sixth anniversary with around 180 supporters.
Representatives from Deakin University and partner...
Council dumps quarry bid
Geelong’s council administrators have knocked back controversial plans for a quarry near Lara that could create 65 jobs.
The administrators decision contrasted the opinion of...
Defence move for Corio MP
Geelong’s Federal Labor MP has achieved what his Liberal counterpart could not: a post-election promotion.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten this week unveiled his shadow ministry...
Warrants for arrest
Police are urging the public to help locate 50-year-old James Joseph Foley, who is known as a regular in the Geelong and Warrnambool areas....
Double take
The saying, ‘A face only a mother could love’, has been applied somewhat artfully, if unpleasantly, in the latest road safety initiative out of...
Pregnant woman in highway car-jacking
Four men allegedly car-jacked a pregnant woman before a police chase across the Bellarine Peninsula on Wednesday night.
The 30-year-old woman was left unwilling to...
100 on streets as winter cold blankets fundraiser
By EMILY ROBINSON
An estimated 100 people sleeping rough on Geelong’s streets will benefit from a community fundraiser as cold winter weather blasts the region...
Christine takes on the Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road will host this year’s TAC Great Vic Bike Ride, with a Geelong woman participating in the five-day cycling event. ...
