Tag: Geelong
Cats take a bye against Sydney
By John Van Klaveren
GEELONG Cats enjoyed another bye last night. Well, perhaps enjoyed is the wrong word. But that's what it was, to all intents...
NDIS left me helpless
MS victim's nightmare of red tape
By NOEL MURPHY
GROVEDALE MS sufferer Rob Goodman thought the new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) would at least preserve...
$10m city student housing plan
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
A THIRD student housing project has ramped up Geelong's push for inner-city living.
The eight-storey building, with 118 single-bedroom apartments, a retail...
Residents fight plans for $100m pesticide plant at Lara
By NOEL MURPHY
TWO hundred anxious Lara residents have petitioned City Hall over a new pesticide plant expected to generate 45 jobs and $100 million...
Dole work ‘failure’ for Geelong
By NOEL MURPHY
NEW WORK for the dole plans targeting Geelong are a proven failure, according to union and Labor figures.
Trades Hall secretary Tim Gooden...
Lyons uncovers historic mayoral robes at heritage centre
By NOEL MURPHY
SARTORIAL splendour at City Hall’s taken a turn for the, er, louder since Darryn Lyons took up the mayoralty - and here’s...
Fat-tasting ability link to obesity
Tasting fat could prevent obesity, according to new Geelong research.
Deakin University health researchers found that people who failed to taste fat were more likely...
FEATURE: Darren Clark, the pictorial wizard of Oz
Strippers and pole dancers, pearlers and farmers, Goths and punks, Aborigines, ballerinas , brooding inner-city scapes, homeless folk, rugged Outback vistas; they all surrender...
Police seek man over stolen car
POLICE have released images of a man they want to interview in relation to an allegedly stolen Subaru station wagon from a Bell Park...
Basketball giant Ron Dawson farewelled
INFLUENTIAL Geelong basketball figure Ron Dawson was farewelled this week after succumbing to cancer.
Mr Dawson, aged 70, was a life member of Basketball Geelong,...
Red Cross: thanks a million
RED CROSS had more than a million reasons to praise its annual Geelong fundraiser committee this month.
The charity bestowed a distinguished service award on...
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...
Delays following North Shore incident
Coaches are replacing trains between Geelong and Lara after a vehicle hit a level crossing boom arm in North Shore.
Department of Transport and Planning...
