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Battlers going hungry to pay power bills: Salvos

By PAUL MILLAR STRUGGLING Geelong families are going without food so they can scrape together enough money to prevent utility suppliers from disconnecting services, according...

Geelong will get all 550 WorkSafe jobs: Couzens

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN THE FULL relocation of WorkSafe to Geelong is safe, according to Labor MP Christine Couzens. The Member for Geelong said all 550...

Sea high before C02

Ray Black wrote that Geelong’s seawater level was seven metres above present levels in the last interglacial warm period (Letters, 13 February). It must have...

Blundell brings country back

By NOEL MURPHY HE’S ONE of Oz country’s biggest stars and just a little mysterious. A household name with a string of awards and platinum albums,...
Double Take

Double Take: Trumpets, automation, global thickening …

A 27-year-old Portarlington man hit a flat note with police after he was intercepted on the Westgate Bridge playing a trumpet - while driving. Hobson’s...

Mild weather allows summer burn-off at Ocean Grove

MILD weather and low humidity have allowed a summertime burn-off to protect homes at Ocean Grove. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning’s David Rourke...

Parents raising smarter kids with iPad help

In reply to Mary Bicanic (Letters, 13 February), as a parent of a three-year-old who uses an iPad I qualify to comment on what...

Alarm before the revolt

What great cause could unite Prince Charles, President Obama, the Pope, Arab oil sheiks, the United Nations, the European Union, the Russians, the Chinese,...

It’s the spike, stupid

The discussion around human-induced climate change would be far more edifying if Dr Ray Black and others referred to their opponents as deniers, not...

Zero chance I’m wrong

I must protest Alan Barron’s letter in the 13 February Independent. He said that my claims “need to be challenged”. Fair enough, but the only claim...

Make room for cyclists

What I really hate are cyclists who share our roads not being given a fair go. Let's face it, it's cars that contribute to polluting...

A proven waste of space

The Independent is spending far too much space allowing debates on anthropogenic climate change. Topics such as whether cigarettes cause cancer, evolution of the species,...

Holmes stars as Venom beat Flyers

Mackenzie Holmes edged Cayla George in a battle between two of the WNBL's biggest stars to help deliver the Geelong Venom a second consecutive...