Tag: Politics
Police rally against staff ‘shortages’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
Off-duty police have taken a "big step" to rally against staff shortages in the Geelong region, according to their union.
About 200...
Mayor Lyons’ blitz on council staffers
By NOEL MURPHY
GEELONG mayor Darryn Lyons has savaged City Hall bureaucrats for putting barriers in the way of business opportunities.
Department staff and some senior...
City cash focus off ward funding and back on CBD
By NOEL MURPHY
CITY Hall’s new budget has achieved what former mayor Keith Fagg could not, redirecting $7 million from ward funding into central Geelong.
The...
Government ‘duds north’ over hospital
By NOEL MURPHY
LABOR MPs have savaged plans for a hospital at North Geelong after the state budget allocated $3.4 million to the project next...
Canberra feels ‘pier pressure’
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
FEDERAL MP Sarah Henderson has welcomed Mayor Darryn Lyons’s response to her deadline for action on revitalising central Geelong.
The Liberal Member...
Few surprises left in budget
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
THERE were few surprises for the Geelong region in this year’s state budget, with most major announcements already revealed over the...
Pressure grows for probe into secret $50m Epworth deal
By NOEL MURPHY
Shadow Health Minister Gavin Jennings and the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association have backed calls for an Ombudsman inquiry into a secret...
Shorten’s anti-union push won’t affect our numbers, says Trades Hall’s Gooden
By PAUL MILLAR
Geelong Trades Hall Council secretary Tim Gooden believes a push by Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten to distance the Labor Party from...
COMMENT: Phoney election in full swing …
A PHONEY election is in full swing as Liberal and Labor parties alike pull out all stops to lure votes in the marginal seats...
$1 million handout ahead of Ann Nichol protest
THE State Government has given Bellarine Community Health a $1 million handout a day ahead of a public protest rally against the sale of...
Extra firepower for Geelong’s $20b army contract bid
A $60,500 grant will add firepower to Geelong’s bid for a $20 billion army manufacturing project.
Member for Western Victoria David Koch announced the funding...
NDIS a political disaster designed to happen
COMMENT: Noel Murphy
The dying days of the Gillard Government saw one of Australia’s most cynical, self-serving political stunts played out.
It was a stunt that...
Out & about at the beach
It was a stinker on Monday, but Voice photographer Ivan Kemp went to Ocean Grove main beach early, as did many others, before it...
