Tag: Double Take
Double Take: Pink, graveyard, acid river, edumacation
DON’T let anyone tell you Geelong’s not a smart city. And edumacated as well.
According to Australia’s biggest bookstore, Bookworld, Geelong is the third most...
Double Take: Volcano tourism, bleeding obvious, Grovedale beach
Grovedale residents will be thrilled to know they now live in a "beachside" suburb.
That's the desription by property agent Savills Australia as it spruiks...
Double Take: Laundry theft, underCats, firestarter
GEELONG filmmaker Kristy Fuller was less than impressed when she couldn’t find her purse anywhere.
She turned the house upside down, called the last place...
Double Take: Sax, gastro, Lyons, Armytage book
COUGHS and colds ran rampant across Geelong this week as spring arrived in a flurry of rain, wind and fluctuating temperatures.
Bad pun of the...
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News that the region’s oldest music event, Geelong Schools Music and Movement Festival was on again this week brought back a few memories.
The 68-year-old...
Double take
By NOEL MURPHY
PRETTY chuffed crew at Queenscliff’s Vue Grand Hotel where they’ve picked up two bonuses this week.
The first was a pretty fair moniker...
Double Take: Flush with success
Too many cooks might spoil the broth but perhaps the serving size underwhelms, too.
Consider the taskforce formed in July 2013 to deliver a “draft...
Double Take: Blitz the Ritz on The Block
NOW here's a good bit of lateral thinking on Twitter by David Norman.
He suggests mayor Darryn Lyons try to get Channel 9's The Block reno...
Double Take: Ford heave-ho
Spare a thought for the 120 workers getting the heave-ho at Ford in Geelong this week, which the company is trying to manage sympathetically.
"Everyone's...
Double Take
CITY Hall firebrand councillor Jan Farrell is back in the social media fray after Geelong businessman Chris Tsorotes accused her of racism for re-tweeting...
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...
Double Take
As if AFL players aren’t under enough empirical scrutiny already, with measurements for everything from possessions to clangers and skin-folds.
KRock commentators set a new...
Man charged over Geelong West stabbing
Geelong Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following an alleged stabbing in Geelong West last month.
Emergency services responded after a man was...
