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Anzac: Our angel Kitty defied risks of wartime

By NOEL MURPHY COLD, hunger, disease, even discrimination by senior officers – the foes faced in war can be much more than deadly shells and...

Kasey Chambers: Made for all styles

By NOEL MURPHY EVER wonder why music can be fun, moving, emotional, driving, soaring? Well, go see Kasey Chambers playing -- or maybe just listen...

DOUBLE TAKE: Cops, Cats, live take …

GEELONG police are under investigation - but of a very different kind to their ethical standards department. Controversial US artist Spy Emerson, pictured, is in...

Geelong Anzacs: The Storrers

By BARRY ABLEY EAST Geelong’s Storrer St is only a short throughfare, situated between Bourke Cres and Fitzroy St, but it represents a significant part...

Anzac legend Roy Longmore, an underground survivor

By NOEL MURPHY THEY bred them tough a century ago when Aussies threw themselves into the shocking conflagration that was Gallipoli. The last Victorian veteran –...

Glenn Shorrock back for the Good Times

By NOEL MURPHY NOT too many Aussie rock stars can lay claim to 10 major hits in the US, a couple of ARIA Hall of...

Anzac Day services guide

ANZAC Day services across Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula and Surf Coast include: Geelong Johnstone Park commemorative service and wreath-laying ceremony, Geelong Peace Memorial, 4:15am Lara RSL,...

Book to restore WWI vets’ memories

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN WITH the passing of Australia's World War I veterans, keeping their service records straight is more important than ever. That’s the opinion...

New trawler to ‘minimise’ deaths of dolphins, seals

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN KILLING dolphins and seals was unavoidable but would be minimised, proponents of controversial freezer trawler Geelong Star said yesterday. Speaking as the...

Geelong artist Streeton and the hidden beauty of Great War battlefields

By NOEL MURPHY IMAGES of war often focus on the brutal, the horrifying and shocking carnage of ripped and shattered humanity -- mangled bodies, surreal...

Barwon Health faces $640 million ‘cut’, claims Labor

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN BARWON Health would lose $642 million over the next 10 years from federal cuts, Premier Daniel Andrews warned yesterday. But Federal Liberal...

More Geelong charities axed in crackdown

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN A CRACKDOWN on local charities has continued with another five having their charitable status revoked and a further 48 facing the...

Mussel Festival delights large crowd

Independent photographer Ivan Kemp went to Portarlington Mussel Festival on Saturday 10 January to capture these images.