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RSL backs call for more Jacka Victoria Crosses

By NOEL MURPHY TORQUAY RSL has backed the bid for Geelong’s World War I hero Albert Jacka to be awarded two more Victoria Crosses. Jacka, who...

Call to give Albert Jacka two extra Victoria Cross medals

AUSTRALIA’S first Victoria Cross winner deserves two more, according to the family of Albert Jacka. But the Winchelsea hero was a victim of “injustice” for...

City Hall to light up for Anzac centenary

A SPECIAL lighting projection will transform City Hall tribute to the men and women who served during World War I. Designed for City Hall as...

WWI warbirds headed for Avalon airshow

A SQUADRON of World War I fighters will attack Avalon’s airshow next month. The New Zealand-based warbird collection -- including five German aircraft and five...

Our Darwin Defenders live on in college collection

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN MEMORIES of Australia’s Pearl Harbour - the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 - were entrusted to a Geelong school in...

Forgotten hero memorial plan

By Paul Millar GEELONG'S Norm Lane paid the ultimate price in the service of his country. But even residents of the suburb named after him, Norlane,...

Closter kicked on in Vietnam

By Paul Millar FORMER Geelong Cats favourite Wayne Closter spilled blood while serving in Vietnam. But it was on a football field rather than a war...

Our Brendan missing ‘sweetheart’

DRYSDALE’s Brendan Fox is living a lifelong dream as an army “termite” in the Middle East. Deployed to Al Minhad Air Base in the United...

Local heroes typified Anzac spirit

By NOEL MURPHY 'We are the ragtime army, The A-N-Z-A-C, We cannot shoot, we won’t salute, What bloody good are we? And when we get to Berlin The Kaiser he...

Japanese spy mission over Torquay, Bellarine ….

By NOEL MURPHY As thousands gather at Point Impossible for the Anzac Day dawn service, few might be aware of the World War II Japanese...

Riding 4000km for refugees’ education

A Hazara former refugee has embarked on an extraordinary 4000km cycling journey to raise educational funds for refugees and Afghan women. Muzafar Ali has begun...