Tag: News
JOIN THE CLUB: Movies in the Red
JOHN VAN KLAVERENTWO friends were sitting in a Geelong bar and decided to start a film society because it sounded like fun at the...
Dual sting for honey makers
Busy bees: John Edmonds tends a hive. JOHN VAN KLAVERENAN IMPORTED parasite and a state park lock-out are threatening the viability of Geelong’s...
AFL program in ‘bullying’ claims
ERIN PEARSONA CONTROVERSIAL team-building program used for AFL clubs is behind an outbreak of bullying complaints at Geelong’s The Gordon institute, according to Australian...
Farrell ‘code’ investigations
JOHN VAN KLAVERENINVESTIGATORS are probing whether Geelong councillor Jan Farrell broke her own code of conduct for councillors when she provided a reference for...
Customers queue up at Dimmeys opening
Opening up: Manager Graham Lewis outside Dimmeys Geelong on Wednesday. JOHN VAN KLAVERENCUSTOMER response to the reopening of budget retailer Dimmeys in central Geelong...
Guy, City at loggerheads on lapsed height controls
JOHN VAN KLAVERENSTATE Planning Minister Matthew Guy and City of Greater Geelong have blamed each other for the city’s 7.5-metre residential height control lapsing.
The...
EPA probes mysterious ‘poisoning’ of Corio creek
Dead: Alan Marshall at the creek where he previously collected live bait..JOHN VAN KLAVERENA STEAD Park stormwater drain once teeming with life appears to...
Court ‘ups ante’ over island war protesters
KIM WATERSGEELONG'S court has “upped the ante” on punishing Afghanistan war protestors, according to peace activists demonstrating at Queenscliff this week.
Anti-war activists Paul...
$10,000 Icon for Geelong competition ready to open
Start thinking: Tony Galpin, Deakin’s Hisham Elkadi and Andrew Senia launch the Icon for Geelong competition. ENTRIES for a competition to design an international...
Avalon set to be ‘hub for flying miner jobs’
JOHN VAN KLAVERENA FLY-in-fly-out hub at Avalon Airport will allow Geelong workers to share in Western Australia’s mining boom, according to a company behind...
Our jobs ‘safe with CO2 tax’
ERIN PEARSONGEELONG will gain jobs rather than lose them under the Gillard Government’s carbon tax to be unveiled this weekend, according to the region’s...
Central to receivers: Cloud over shopping centre future
Vote of confidence: Toyworld’s Susan Dillon prepares to open her shop at Torquay Central. ERIN PEARSON AND KIM WATERSTORQUAY Central has gone into receivership,...
From the Archives
15 years ago
July 2, 2010
Three councillors have called a public meeting to fight plans for redevelopment of Geelong Golf Club.
Eddy Kontelj, Stretch Kontelj and...
