Double Take
He may represent one of Australia’s battler electorates but Corio MP Richard Marles apparently still has time for a TV career as well.
The well-travelled...
$3.6 billion is building city’s future
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Investment projects worth more than $3.6 billion are in various stages across Geelong, according to Enterprise Geelong’s latest figures.
More than $1.3...
Geelong reacts to flash flooding
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Bellarine bus users rally to their cause
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Northern Bellarine residents have stepped up their campaign seeking reinstatement of the hourly bus service to Portarlington, St Leonards and Indented...
Officers catch ‘poachers’ with big haul of abalone at Portarlington
Fisheries officers have seized 94 illegally-taken abalone from a Deer Park trio at Portarlington, according to authorities
Seventy-nine of the shellfish were undersize, Fisheries Victoria...
Floating tree leads $15.6m Christmas windfall for Geelong
Booming retial trade figures show Geelong has cemented its position as the “Christmas capital of Australia”, according to Mayor Darryn Lyons.
The city’s expanded 2015...
School cost’s record hit
By ALANA MITCHELSON
A record number of Geelong families are struggling to meet school costs this year, according to support services.
UnitingCare said it would help...
Relief plea for cancer patients’ car parking pain
By ALANA MITCHELSON
Car parking problems for cancer patients are under review after a Barwon Health submission to City Hall.
The submission proposed parking fine exemptions...
Struggling hotel calls last orders
By EMILY ROBINSON
Geelong icon The Carlton Hotel struggled for 12 months.
Then in early December the hotel’s three operators made the ultimate decision to...
Aid helps Jett on life’s next big step
Watching five-year-old son Jett prepare to start school next week was similar to the experience of most mums for Clifton Springs’s Samara Bondin.
But the...
12 to four wards ‘preferred option’
Geelong’s council could be slashed from 12 wards to four under options put out for public comment.
Four options for fewer but larger wards and...
Double Take
The subject line of an emailed media release might have briefly raised eyebrows - and temperatures - in local newsrooms working last Sunday.
‘Warmer weather...
Saints battle adversity in stirring win
St Leonards had the worst of the conditions - and the rules - but stayed calm and worked hard to defeat Newcomb in a...
