Tag Archives: geelong

Channel Seven – Please Get It Right!

Over the weekend, Channel Seven Melbourne was heavily promoting a “special report” to be screened on this evening’s nightly news bulletin, extolling the virtues of living in Geelong instead of Melbourne, and commuting into Melbourne for work. About how “easy” and “relaxed” this commute is. I regularly do this commute, and I can warn the […]

Alexander Downer: Bitch

In what many are seeing as an extraordinary spray against regional Australia, former Liberal opposition leader and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has stated: “If SA Cricket Association members vote down the Adelaide Oval redevelopment project then it will consign our city to mediocrity and provincialism worthy of Geelong or Newcastle.” Not to be outdone, Geelong’s […]

Geelong Advertiser Oopsy

Great to see a new look Geelong Advertiser website this morning – a great improvement on the previous cluttered mess. However, I think a few QC checks went astray: Is it just me, or are these circled links in the wrong place? Oops!

New Geelong Hospital Announced – Again

With less than two weeks until the Victorian state election, the incumbent Labor government is getting out and announcing just about anything and everything they can. Over the weekend, $165m was “announced” for the new southern Geelong hospital. Labor Pledges $165m for Hospitals “The Government, if re-elected, will plough $85 million into the new stand-alone […]

Newspaper is Effective Bully

Well, despite its excellent anti-bullying campaign titled “Think Again”, the Geelong Advertiser seems to have effectively bullied a man into fear of his life with its bullying “Name the Granny Killer” campaign. The newspaper has been running this campaign to publicly name a convicted rapist and killer of an elderly Frankston woman ten years ago, […]

Anti-Bullying Media Outlet Bullies Man

Living in Geelong, I know first hand of the issues the city has had with criminal activity over the last few years. Much of it is alcohol-fueled, and despite the best intentions of the “powers-that-be” – particularly politicians looking to shore up a few votes for the upcoming state and federal elections, not a lot […]