Ripping up my son’s roadside grave but sex signs are fine: TAC campaigner
By NOEL MURPHY
GIANT billboards advertising sex are allowed to distract drivers but not roadside memorials to crash victims, according to Bannockburn road safety advocate...
Winter swell for surf
LOCAL surfers have enjoyed a hot start to a cold winter, with quality waves pounding the region's coastline.
Wave faces peaked around five metres earlier...
Marles brings Albo to town, snubs media, Lyons, as mate Shorten faces down critics
By NOEL MURPHY
CORIO MP Richard Marles brought alternative Labor leader Anthony Albanese to Geelong yesterday as long-time political running mate and would-be prime minister...
Port peak fear for Cats
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE MARGINS between them are perhaps the closest of any two sides to meet so far this season.
Port Adelaide is ninth,...
Flood rules hit $4b saltworks plan
A FLOODING overlay could provide another headache for developers proposing a $4 billion residential estate on Geelong's disused saltworks.
A report to Geelong's council this...
Bishop tries to arrest Henderson poll slide
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
MP Sarah Henderson has enjoyed senior Liberal support from visiting Foreign Minister Julie Bishop after polling detected a four per cent...
Costa offering targets $500m plus
by Noel Murphy
GEELONG-based Costa Group is poised to launch an initial public offering (IPO) of shares to raise half a billion dollars or more...
Double Take: What’s Keith thinking?
WHATEVER is behind ex-mayor Keith Fagg’s call to replace Geelong’s democratically elected councillors with commissioners?
Double Take asks only because his vague explanation in a...
Council poo cure ‘a health threat’
by Noel Murphy
CITY HALL Hall advice for outdoor staff to rub dog faeces on itchy insect bites is a health risk, according to a...
Fresh start aids battered charity
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
IT WAS forced out of its long-time home, saw donations dwindle and had its food distribution van stolen - but UnitingCare...
News in brief
Drug busts
POLICE have charged 13 people with drug and weapons offences on the Bellarine Peninsula this month.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said all were bailed...
Save this sewer, Corio MP urges parliament
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
CORIO MP Richard Marles wants a historic sewer aqueduct preserved through improved public access.
Mr Marles told federal parliament the “remarkable” ovoid...
From the archives
16 years ago
27 November, 2009
A Geelong councillor has been convicted, ordered to pay $18,000 and kicked off council for failing to declare a conflict...
