Tag: Geelong
New tech for CBD parking meters
CAR PARKING in Geelong is undergoing yet more changes – this time with new solar-powered meters, updated security for credit cards and an app...
City Hall to light up for Christmas
CITY Hall is set to be lit up like a ... well, like a Christmas tree, this festive season.
Animated light projections by artists Nick...
Geelong dealer in $multi-million Whiteley art fraud claims
By NOEL MURPHY
A GEELONG art dealer faces charges over an alleged multi-million-dollar Brett Whiteley art fraud.
Peter Gant, who ran Irascible Gallery at Melbourne, is...
Magic Geelong Cup day amid slurs and sackings
By NOEL MURPHY
THE BEST Geelong Cup in years saw Caravan Rolls On win the $300,000 group three event before 15,000 patrons in perfect conditions.
The...
Public danger at $4bn Cheetham dream site
By NOEL MURPHY
IT MIGHT be earmarked for a $4 billion waterside suburb but the former Cheetham saltworks at Newcomb has become a dangerous, asbestos...
Joe Camilleri and Black Sorrows in Wool Exchange show
By NOEL MURPHY
AUSSIE legend Joe Camilleri is headed Geelong’s way next week, armed with a kitbag of hits and tunes to set bodies rocking...
Aussie parents giving teens grog: Deakin
AUSTRALIAN-born parents are more likely than migrants to supply their teens with booze, according to new Geelong research.
Deakin University's De Bosco Rowland and his...
City pay cut ‘threat’ against union work bans
By NOEL MURPHY
CITY Hall is threatening to dock staff wages over legitimate work bans as they chase a new pay agreement, according to their...
Residents slam Lara truck racket
By NOEL MURPHY
HEAVY trucks lugging shipping containers through household streets night and day have Lara residents up in arms.
Hundreds of trucks have been travelling...
Couch link to fatal Norlane fire
By NOEL MURPHY
POLICE are preparing a report for the Coroner following the death of man after a house fire at Norlane on Monday night.
A...
North Geelong red light fines plummet
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
FINES revenue from a controversial Norlane red-light camera have fallen 97 per cent after motorists' complaints to the Independent prompted an...
Rent debts lifting homeless: report
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
GEELONG community services have experienced a 94 per cent increase in tenants at risk of homelessness because of rental arrears, a...
Community calendar
Belmont Seniors
Players wanted to play 500 each Monday 12.30pm. Belmont Senior Centre, 52 Thomson St, Belmont.
■ 5241 1776
Geelong Vietnam Veterans
Coffee and a chat at...
