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Double Take: Namatjira, keep on trucking, wet sail …

“AS SLOW as a wet week” took on added meaning with the region copping a bucketing with an average of 42.5 mm of rain. The...

Alcoa closes Geelong while flourishing OS, with Ford and aerospace

By NOEL MURPHY ALCOA is buying up in the aerospace industry and in Ford – two industries once deemed the future of Geelong -- as...

Geelong loses as Ford, Alcoa prosper in US

ALCOA’S Geelong workers might be gearing up for another 300 Christmas job losses but in the US the aluminium-maker's F150 pick-up trucks with Ford...

Spy catches Ford ‘testing new car’

Ford has been caught testing a new car around Geelong, according to a motoring website. “Exclusive spy shots” from a reader of motoring.com.au showed three...

Double Take: Politics, graffiti, Mustangs, Port storm …

LIBS candidate for Geelong Paula Kontelj is out of sorts over a political graffiti artist’s assault on her election billboards. The board, on the fence...

Prison jobs target Alcoa, Ford workers

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN RETRENCHED Ford and Alcoa workers are targeted for prison jobs as part of a wider recruitment campaign launched this week. Barwon Prison...
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Value of manufacturing job rescue funds in doubt

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN GEELONG is part of the third-most “economically vulnerable” region in the country, according to a new report. And job-assistance and rescue packages...

Ford cuts 70 more from its Geelong plant

MORE than 70 Ford workers are licking their wounds today as they’re told they’re no longer wanted by the company at its North Geelong...
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Alcoa, Ford cuts hammer Geelong charity support

By NOEL MURPHY GEELONG’S needy could miss out on $500,000 a year with the departure of Alcoa, Ford and manufacturing workers to redundancies, warn the...
Ford North Geelong

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...
Ford North Geelong

120 Ford jobs go next week

By NOEL MURPHY FORD Geelong workers are counting down the days as the company prepares to cut 120 more jobs from the auto plant next...

MPs urge ‘positivity’ as Ford job losses loom

By NOEL MURPHY FORD and federal Liberal MPs have embarked on a charm offensive ahead of 120 job cuts set for the auto-maker’s North Geelong...

Browne to lead Tigers in coaching coup

Former Australian Diamond Madi Browne has taken over the role as Torquay netball coach full-time on a three-year contract. Browne is dual Liz Ellis Diamond...

Thefts on the rise