News briefs: assault, death, chemicals, union action
Officer assaulted
Assaulting a fisheries officer at Airey’s Inlet has led to $3000 in fines and one-year bans from recreational fishing for a Melbourne father...
Fuel boss ‘gagged’ on fracking
By John Van Klaveren
STATE government is gagging debate on fracking, Frack Free Geelong claims.
Spokesperson Chris Johnson said the group invited Lakes Oil chief Rob...
Trumpeting message on violence
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
UP TO 100,000 purple elephants will appear in the room of most of Geelong’s pubs, clubs and cafes during November.
But they...
Henderson blasts port option
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
STATE Labor's Bay West port option would cause “massive” environmental damage to Bellarine Peninsula, federal MP Sarah Henderson has claimed.
The Member...
Blowout risk in disabled taxis
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE disabled face “huge” cost blowouts for taxi travel under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) trial in Geelong, a parliamentary...
Buckets and bouquets
BUCKETS to a car driver who hit and killed a cat on Boundary Rd, Newcomb, on Fathers Day. You did not stop. You left...
Juc local’s double-barrel wave wins clip contest
A JAN JUC surfer's double-barrel wave has won a Victorian surfing film clip prize.
Todd Rosewall and cameraman Ron Hurst have shared the $1000 prize...
Wanted regarding alleged chemist shop deception
DO YOU know this couple?
Police wanted to speak with them about an alleged deception at the Chemist Warehouse in Corio on August 9 about...
Policeman charged with drug, drink-driving
A POLICE senior constable from a western region station has been charged following a professional standards command investigation into a traffic collision in Geelong...
Clifton Springs death no longer suspicious: police
UPDATE:
The investigation into the death of a man in Clifton Springs on Monday will now be conducted by local police after findings during a...
Barwon Health’s unkind cut for Third World humanitarian Paddy Dewan
By NOEL MURPHY
HE MIGHT have undertaken 3000 operations on sick children in Third World countries, teaching doctors along the way, but Barwon Health doesn’t...
Housework drudgery and little more: Deakin
SO YOU ALWAYS knew housework was boring you half to death?
Well, now it’s official, according to no less than two university studies by Deakin.
"Running,...
Around the grounds
We go around the grounds from matches played in Geelong Cricket Association senior women's on Sunday 16 November.
WOMEN’S SENIOR CRICKET
Sunday 16 November
A Grade
Barwon...
