Yimbies welcome Labor’s plan for more housing in Melbourne and Geelong but question priorities
Strategy could deliver 2.5m new homes – and Jacinta Allan doesn’t rule out forcing councils to hit targets
April 2024
Back to Back: Multiple Bad Things review – this provocative Australian ensemble is better than ever
The internationally lauded company made up of entirely neurodivergent and disabled actors returns with a hilarious, provocative work of profound complexity
March 2024
Former Victorian Liberals director Sam McQuestin fined $40,000 over federal election ads
Federal court rules authorisations on 2022 newspaper ads fell foul of electoral advertising laws
December 2023
Man who killed two women nearly 30 years apart receives second life sentence in Victoria
Darren John Chalmers murdered Geelong woman Annette Steward in 1992 and Dianne Barrett in 2019
October 2023
Two children fight for life in hospital after Geelong shed fire killed baby and toddler
Police say how the Corio fire started is unclear but it is not being treated as suspicious
Two children dead and two in critical condition after shed fire in Geelong
Preschoolers with severe burns airlifted to hospital in Melbourne, Ambulance Victoria says
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Ed Husic calls for government to ‘push for de-escalation’ in Middle East – as it happened
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September 2023
Geelong man found dead with head injuries after failing to return home from walk
Police are treating death of Paul Grapsas, 40, as suspicious and have asked anyone with information to come forward
August 2023
Bye bye brutalism, hello Instagrammers: inside Geelong’s spectacular $140m arts centre
Australia’s newest and largest regional arts centre features malleable theatres, Indigenous art and spaces especially designed to get your camera out
