Tech Savvy tips on tap for seniors
SENIORS across Geelong are being encouraged to embrace and become more comfortable with technology following the introduction of a new, free training program.
The Tech...
Drones taking to new heights
By NOEL MURPHY
DRONES, increasingly popular with photographers, are finding new applications among everyone from real estate agents to the mining sector - not to...
Dazza does it in a dress
GEELONG mayor Darryn Lyons has thrown his support behind the Do It In A Dress campaign to help raise awareness to educate girls in...
Buckets and bouquets
BUCKETS to the fellow marcher at the Climate Action rally last weekend who glared at me for chanting too loudly. Newsflash: Protest is meant...
Rosella a key to fatal bird virus: Deakin
By NOEL MURPHY
DEAKIN researchers hope to stave off an extinction threat to Aussie parrots and potentially up to one in four birds worldwide.
Key to...
Plastic bags should be banned, says Surf Coast
SINGLE-USE plastic bags would be banned under a Surf Coast campaign to have the State Government outlaw them.
Led by Cr Eve Fisher, Surf Coast...
Teen dies in Newcomb house fire
By PAUL MILLAR
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy has died in a house fire in Greenwood Street, Newcomb.
Pat Geary, operations officer at the CFA, said the teenager’s...
Time re-tune your TV channels
TV VIEWERS need to retune their free-to-air digital TV channels will change frequencies today.
Areas affected by the retune will include Geelong, East Geelong, South Geelong,...
Ann Nichol House buyer Arcare in death cause cover-up
By PAUL MILLAR
The aged-care provider taking over a Portarlington nursing home previously covered up the cause of death of an elderly woman.
Bellarine Community Health...
Sweethearts deal on offer for soul groovers
By NOEL MURPHY
FANCY touring the world, playing concerts at major festivals, writing and recording your own songs and music?
Sure, it’s great gig if you...
Don’t change after-hours doctors system, say local GPs
By NOEL MURPHY
FINDING a doctor after hours could become tougher in Geelong if the Australian Medical Association has its way, say local GPs.
Barwon Medicare...
Barry’s shoe biz reunion is in Vogue
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
IT WAS one of Geelong’s best known and loved retail chains back when the footwear and textile industry was still a...
Two dead in Geelong house fire
Police will prepare a report for the coroner following the death of two people in a house fire in Herne Hill on 27 December.
There...
