Tag: Geelong
Eastern Park bats pose killer virus risk: expert
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG’S Eastern Park could be harbouring up to 17,000 potential killers if a Medical Journal of Australia warning on bats and lyssavirus...
High art of Rone transforms derelict powerhouse
By NOEL MURPHY
BERLIN, Paris, London, San Francisco, Miami ... now international street artist Rone’s captivating public art is emerging in his home town at...
Tidal wave of art sweeps up Eclectic ladies
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE Eclectics' Tidal sounds more like a pop group's album than an art exhibition.
But the group of Bellarine Peninsula artists decided...
MP wants reviews of Ann Nichol sale, Epworth deal
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THE sale of Ann Nichol House and a deal to deliver public hospital services at Waurn Ponds will be reviewed under...
Leigh Sleightholme: Just one of the boys in the band
HE’S one of Geelong’s most talented sons, a star of stage and screen, a first-order acrobat and tumbler, and pretty handy with a whip...
Milling about for bargains
By Elissa Friday
DRIVING along the Bellarine Highway, I decided to stop in and explore the Amazing Mill Markets.
Amazing is a good description because it’s...
Tears for fears: Deakin ATAR discovery video goes viral
A DEAKIN University video capturing the moment 30 school students discover their Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) has gone viral with more than 189,000...
Library-heritage centre takes shape over Johnstone Park
GEELONG'S new library/heritage centre cum art gallery is taking shape in rapidly in Johnstone Park as this image shows.
The nine-storey structure, valued at $45...
FEATURE: Keren faces up to her art
Geelong artist Keren Zorn is carving out her place in the arts with unique linocuts of furrowed faces. NOEL MURPHY steps into her studio...
Two-day $90m Cats project call ‘wrong’: Cook
CONTRACTORS looking to provide management services for the stage four $90 million upgrade at Simonds Stadium have a week and a half -- not...
Land swap plan for convention centre: Neville
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
CITY Hall could swap its busport facility for Deakin University's waterfront car park to build a Geelong convention centre, according to...
Billion-tweet Lyons draws $52m for Geelong but loses council support
By NOEL MURPHY
MAYOR Darryn Lyons has drawn $52 million in media attention to Geelong, according to figures in a new report outlining his first...
‘ESCAPE’ Corio’s library
Young people across Geelong can put their brains to the test by participating in challenges as they try to ‘ESCAPE! The Library’.
The...
