NDIS left me helpless
MS victim's nightmare of red tape
By NOEL MURPHY
GROVEDALE MS sufferer Rob Goodman thought the new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) would at least preserve...
$10m city student housing plan
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A THIRD student housing project has ramped up Geelong's push for inner-city living.
The eight-storey building, with 118 single-bedroom apartments, a retail...
More police here as drug crimes surge
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Extra police have been assigned to Geelong after a protest rally over staff shortages.
The reinforcements come as latest crime statistics show...
In Brief
Signs approved
Three electronic signs will shine advertising messages from the top of a building over one of Geelong’s busiest corners.
Councillors this week approved the...
Indy readers send Rosy to peak Kilimanjaro challenge
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
MT KILIMANJARO trekker Rosy Borland is off this weekend on her “moment of madness”, climbing Africa’s highest peak.
The Hamlyn Heights mother...
Double Take
The worlds of politics and fantasy collided as a Torquay dad drove a carload of little boys to a laser tag birthday celebration on...
Residents fight plans for $100m pesticide plant at Lara
By NOEL MURPHY
TWO hundred anxious Lara residents have petitioned City Hall over a new pesticide plant expected to generate 45 jobs and $100 million...
Dole work ‘failure’ for Geelong
By NOEL MURPHY
NEW WORK for the dole plans targeting Geelong are a proven failure, according to union and Labor figures.
Trades Hall secretary Tim Gooden...
Union slams group for threatening Alcoa jobs
By NOEL MURPHY
ANTI-ALCOA protesters have been slammed for trying to undermine the livelihood of 83 workers facing the scrapheap at Anglesea's power station.
Australian Workers...
Lyons uncovers historic mayoral robes at heritage centre
By NOEL MURPHY
SARTORIAL splendour at City Hall’s taken a turn for the, er, louder since Darryn Lyons took up the mayoralty - and here’s...
Shoe must go on for charity
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Runners, walkers, indoor and outdoor court shoes, cross trainers - soon they're a closet full of half-worn sports footwear.
They can’t all...
Volunteers get prison time
By NOEL MURPHY
A day in jail each month might do the average citizen a bit of good, according to Geelong’s Frank Covill.
For years he’s...
Geelong bus stop attack
A man is fighting for his life after he was attacked at a Geelong bus stop yesterday afternoon.
Emergency services were called to Moorabool...
