Tag: Geelong
Customs House should be a museum, says Ansett
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG'S Customs House should become a museum celebrating the city’s immigration, wool and gold history, according to heritage councillor Tony Ansett.
The move...
Cats app plan to fill stadium
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
AN APP for Geelong Cats members to resell unused tickets could reduce empty game-day seats at Simonds Stadium, club chief Brian...
Musos mourn loss of Sweethearts’ Ross Lipson
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG'S music industry is in mourning after Sweethearts founder and 25-year director Ross Lipson this week succumbed to cancer.
The 57-year-old music teacher...
Matthew Flinders school caught up in slush fund claims
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
MATTHEW Flinders Girls Secondary College is under investigation as part of an alleged $28 million Education Department slush fund.
The school was...
Birds up for climate change, says Deakin research
BIRDS might have greater resistance to environmental impacts like climate change than previously thought, according to new Geelong research.
The finding emerged from a study...
Cricket: Cats find form
JIM TIMBERLAKE
GEELONG Cricket Club could complete only one of two scheduled Twenty20 matches last weekend after rain washed out the entire Sunday fixture.
But on...
Perfect storm facing mental health
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
MENTAL health services in the Barwon region are suffering a “perfect storm” of funding uncertainty, reduced services and difficulty coping with...
Don’t Miss this Saigon show
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
SOME seminal moments in history live on in the public memory, and the fall of Saigon during the Vietnam War was...
Feature: Myths and magic in the great southwest
Mystery, myth and magic inhabit Geelong and its great southwest hinterland. Volcanoes, megafauna, UFO sightings, war secrets … NOEL MURPHY sketches an artistic panorama.
TIME...
Man dies in Connewarre car crash
POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal crash which occurred in Connewarre this morning.
Investigators have been told a van was travelling east along...
Superstar Lyons Geelong’s billion-tweet baby and $50 million man
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG mayor Darryn Lyons has become the city’s superstar billion-tweet baby with his social media impressions going stratospheric over his first year...
Rep puts the Bard on high speed
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
BY ALL reports Shakespeare was a fast writer but Geelong Repertory Theatre is taking the bard to new speeds.
The Geelong Rep’s...
‘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...
