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‘Changing’ Cats pluck Hawks

GEELONG is the only unbeaten team on the AFL ladder after a 19-point victory against Hawthorn on Monday. Geelong’s 5-0 record followed the Cats scoring...

$50m Epworth hospital deal ‘stinks’, call in Ombudsman, says MP

By NOEL MURPHY CALL in the Ombudsman because "something stinks" about a secret $50 million Epworth Hospital deal at Waurn Ponds, says Bellarine MP Lisa...

Double take

DESPITE public admonitions of difficult council colleagues, Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons was still feeling the love last Friday. However, the object of his social media...

Drunken shame draws a new police focus

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN GEELONG’S history of public violence and drunkenness has earned the city inclusion in a national police operation for Easter. Victoria Police will...

In brief

Dragon funding Fundraising for a wind-powered tourism attraction proposed for Geelong’s waterfront will begin at a sustainability event in Eastern Park this weekend. Renew Geelong, from...

Trickey gets prison term

By Noel Murphy High-profile Geelong Facebook blogger Jason Trickey has been sentenced to six months jail for assaulting a woman. Two months of the six-month sentence...

E-slum fear as net speed ‘manipulated’

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN LEOPOLD broadband customers fear their internet speeds are being manipulated because of capacity restraints at local exchanges. Cameron Horne said his ADSL2...

Car thieves hit battlers

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN Three Geelong suburbs feature in a list of disadvantaged areas with four times the car theft rates of more affluent counterparts. Corio,...

Rider’s shock return from horror injuries

By NOEL MURPHY MAN versus electricity rarely has a happy outcome, as the scars on Brett Coleman can attest. The Geelong anaesthetist came to the pointy...

Far-left attacks union rally, Trades Hall boss

By NOEL MURPHY A UNION jobs rally in central Geelong last week was a “fraud”, according to socialists The far-left Socialist Equality Party (SEP) accused Geelong...

Awards add Impetus to youth work

A diverse range of people and organisations have earned recognition for their achievements across various endeavours affecting young people in the Geelong region and...

Roads targeted as police out in force over Easter

THREE major road safety campaigns will operate across the Geelong region during the “high risk” Easter and Anzac holiday period. Police will run operations Soteria...

From the Archives

16 years ago July 10, 2009 Residents and local politicians fear the “Leopold pong” emitting from Lake Connewarre could have a huge impact on the natural...

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