Tag: News
Hoon powers set for region
Alex de VosGeelong Police will have the power to confiscate hoons’ cars next month.
Chief Inspector Wayne Carson said local police would undergo training to...
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Deaths hearing
GEELONG Magistrates’ Court has committed Robert Farquharson to stand trial on murder charges over the drowning deaths of his three sons.
Mr Farquharson has...
Violence mars wakes at Lara
Hamish HeardA bottle was allegedly thrown at a police officer and a woman was hospitalised after mourners from two separate wakes rioted at Lara...
Public finally sees historic view
Geelong’s $3.8 million art purchase went on public display at the city’s gallery yesterday.
The gallery has called Eugene von Guerard’s 1856 View of Geelong...
No reception this time under China-friendly mayor. What a ‘Lama excuse’
Hamish HeardLocal councillors and Tibetan leaders yesterday questioned why Geelong’s mayor had failed to organise a civic reception to honour the Dalai Lama when...
Jury: doctor guilty
Karen HartA JURY yesterday found a Geelong doctor who injected women with pethidine in exchange for oral sex guilty of ten counts of drug...
Dunes to be fenced
Jane EmerickNew fences will block men trying to meet for sex in dunes at Point Impossible.
Executive officer David Clarke said Great Ocean Road Coast...
Plant gulps 110 million litres a year but to Bracks…’It’s sustainable’
Hamish Heard110 million litres of drinking water a year is a fair price to pay for a plastic company doubling production in Geelong, according...
Right kind of boom a blast at our SES unit
Hamish HeardTorquay’s State Emergency Services unit is enjoying a boom in volunteer ranks after a recruitment drive netted 10 new members.
SES regional manager Alan...
Mill man planning six more
Hamish HeardThe Geelong businessman behind Mill Markets has unveiled ambitious plans to roll the concept out across Victoria and New South Wales.
Ian Ballis’s plans...
alleged assault leads to claim against cops
Karen HartA JEWISH man who claims he was assaulted and racially vilified at the hands of Ocean Grove footballers has lodged a complaint against...
Bookies: McArthur, Marles ”unbackable”
Hamish HeardIncumbent parties are shortpriced favourites to retain the region’s two federal seats at this year’s poll.
And Labor leader Kevin Rudd this week overtook...
Rory’s Dry July pledge
Having topped the individual Dry July leaderboard for the past four years, Geelong business leader and philanthropist Rory Costelloe is keen to make it...
