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Topic: Geelong Advertiser


  
  Geelong, Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geelong is covered by the municipality of The City of Greater Geelong.
Geelong is serviced by local bus routes covering most of the city and surrounding suburbs, and also a regular V/Line train service to Melbourne and Warrnambool operating from the Geelong railway station.
Geelong is home to the AFL club, the Geelong Football Club, the second oldest football club in the world, and for many years the only VFL club to exist outside of the greater Melbourne metropolitan area.
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 Geelong, Victoria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Geelong's population went from 8,000 in 1851 to 22,000 in 1853.
Geelong played a pivotal role in the growth of football, and was called the Pivotonians until the 1950s when the name was replaced by the Cats.
Geelong town became a city on 8 December, 1910 and electric trams began running in 1912, but the first world war and the years immediately after it were a quiet period.
www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/geelong.html   (1539 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Geelong, Victoria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
HANLON / Geelong, Colac, Warrnambool, Terang, and Camperdown, VIC, AUST / 1857+
PERREN / Geelong and Rothwell, VIC, AUST / 1842 - 1855
MALONE / Geelong, VIC, AUST / 1841 - 1914
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Geelong,-Victoria   (1260 words)

  
 Walkabout - Geelong
Geelong has always been a major port and has always had a symbiotic relationship with the fertile agricultural and pastoral districts to the west and north-west of the city - a relationship which is manifest in the form of huge bay-side grain silos.
The Geelong Advertiser, established as a weekly in 1840, was the first newspaper outside of Melbourne in the Port Phillip district.
Geelong, for the moment, was outstripped by Ballarat and Bendigo and was derisively referred to by Melburnians as 'Sleepy Hollow'.
www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/VICGeelong.shtml   (6383 words)

  
 Geelong
Geelong kicked poorly in its opening round loss to Essendon, as well as - in the view of its supporters - suffering at the hands of the umpires.
Geelong's performances during the season were characterised by a blend of prodigious kicking, towering marks and relentless pace.
Geelong was to remain a force to be contended with for much of the ensuing decade.
www.fullpointsfooty.net /geelong_(1).htm   (2652 words)

  
 Skandia Geelong Week
The City of Greater Geelong's support for Skandia Geelong Week is one of the central features of the City's promotion of the region as a major tourist destination.
Geelong Radio Cabs are market leaders and have the largest fleet of urban taxis in Victoria.
Geelong Radio Cabs is a memeber of the largest taxi telephone network in the world, with only one number to remember anywhere in Australia - 131 008.
www.geelongweek.com /sponsors/sponsors.asp   (1406 words)

  
 Skandia Geelong Week
The Geelong Advertiser has been a long-term supporter of yachting on Port Phillip and a sponsor of the annual regatta for well over a century.
The Geelong Advertiser Teams Trophy, now an aggregate trophy awarded to the overall best performed club, was first presented in 1946.
In the past, Skandia Geelong Week has hosted various dinghy classes, but in an effort to generate more interest and thereby increase numbers, this new Championship, an initiative of David Staley, Yachting Victoria’s Manager of Events and Competition Development, is open to all off the beach dinghies with a current Yachting Victoria Yardstick.
www.geelongweek.com.au /racing/keytrophies.asp   (1260 words)

  
 Geelong - History - Intown Geelong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Geelong region and much of the south western parts of Victoria were home to a large tribe of Australian natives called the Wathaurong but with the arrival of the first Europeans in 1802 their full blooded numbers of our original inhabitants began to decline.
By 1841, Geelong was sending wool to England, it had its own newspaper (the Geelong Advertiser- still going today) and a regular steamer service to Melbourne.
Now as we enter a new century- Geelong is thriving with a new bustle, its long forgotten waterfront being transformed into one of the finest precincts in the land and the largest population growth and highest confidence levels the region has seen for many decades.
www.intown.com.au /pages/historical/default.htm   (428 words)

  
 Geelong forums, news and weather
Jackson, a pacy wingman who played with Geelong in the VFL last season, is most like his father David, who played 51 games for Woodville in 1982-83.
Primary and secondary teaching students from Deakin's Geelong and Burwood campuses and six Warrnambool-based students have combined for the environmental...
Geelong Camera Club members (from left) Nick Sady, Frank Sady, Hans Kawitzki and Irene Sady at the Shell refinery which Mr Kawitzki was told not to photograph.
www.geelong.com   (897 words)

  
 ACCC not to oppose proposed acquisition of Geelong Independent Newspaper Masthead by Geelong Advertiser Limited
Geelong Advertiser Limited owns and publishes the Geelong Advertiser newspaper which is published six days per week.
GA also owns and publishes The Echo and the Geelong News, which are free 'community' styled newspapers circulated in parts of the Geelong region on a weekly basis.
Professor Fels also noted that advertisers in the regional newspapers possess a degree of countervailing power which is likely to act as a further constraint on the merged firm.
accc.gov.au /content/index.phtml/itemId/347515/fromItemId/378016?...   (307 words)

  
 theage.com.au - The Age
Geelong is rife with speculation about who will buy its beloved Geelong Advertiser, but the market is more certain.
Once INL announced the Geelong Advertiser was for sale in its own right, speculation of a possible bidding war emerged.
Analysts say that while the Geelong Advertiser is a good newspaper asset in its own right, the real benefits come if it is locked into a group of other regional papers - pointing in the longer term to Rural Press or Fairfax owning it.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/04/15/1050172598332.html   (322 words)

  
 Skandia Geelong Week January 16th-January 28th
The selection committee from the Royal Geelong Yacht Club and Skandia were looking for a crew who’ impressed the most on and off the water and were ambassadors for the sport of sailing’.
Geelong Week is Australia’s oldest event, now in its 187th year, it is known as the Festival of Sail.
Geelong week is sailed half in Melbourne (2 days racing, day one old Olympic courses and day 2 windward, leeward followed by a 65 mile passage race back to Geelong.
www.fiercefish.com /charliefish/geelong04.htm   (2998 words)

  
 Geelong Advertiser: Bride
Planning a wedding is fun and exciting, but it takes a huge amount of work - this is where this website and Geelong Advertiser Bride is invaluable - they lead you directly to the wedding experts in our region.
Geelong Advertiser Bride is sold in newsagents throughout the region for $8.95.
You can contact the Geelong Advertiser Bride team, advertising manager Kristie Robertson and editor Janet Bond on 03 5227 4303 or 03 5227 4370 during business hours.
www.geelongbride.com /welcome.htm   (162 words)

  
 Geelong Lawyers' Collection - Deakin University
Owen Bourke S.M. was working as a clerk in the Geelong Court he noticed an old ledger type book used to prop up a ladder in the section where files were kept.
He had a look at it and saw it was the original register of the court cases held in Geelong.
Suburban and district courts at Geelong West, Belmont and Drysdale have closed and courts are no longer held at Queenscliff.
www.deakin.edu.au /library/geelonglawyers/geelawcourts/list.html   (837 words)

  
 Fairfax New Zealand Ltd: Publications
The ‘Addy’ (as The Geelong Advertiser is affectionately known) has continuously recorded and relayed news to the citizens of Victoria’s second largest city.
The newspaper is also the classified advertising ‘bible’ of the region, especially on Saturdays when up to 92 broadsheet pages are published.
The Geelong Advertiser is recognised for its coverage of local, national and international news, as well as for its long-standing commitment to sport.
www.fairfaxnz.co.nz /publications/general/info44.html   (119 words)

  
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Geelong's urban core has a much more human scale still, and it is right on the Port Phillip coast.
Geelong is blessed by high grade coastal bird habitat in saltmarsh areas eastwards from places as close as Limeburners Bay and Newcomb.
As various interest groups are promoting an ever-increasing population for Geelong, it is important that planners work to restore damaged areas, and to protect its coastal areas, and the views of them and from them.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/33516/20030211/home.vicnet.net.au/_phillip/ak_geead.htm   (643 words)

  
 Geelong Little Athletics Centre - Home Page
Geelong's track stars will take on elite opposition on the night which promises to be the biggest athletics meeting in Geelong in decades.
Geelong coach Trevor Beaton has a big stable of runners at the meeting, which will start at noon and finish at 5pm.
GEELONG Track Institute's youngest member Bianca Maurer made a clean sweep of the throwing events at the Victorian All-Schools Championships.
www.glac.asn.au   (3389 words)

  
 Geelong Gallery Exhibition program 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
From Conder's Springtime (1888), to Roberts' Evening, when the quiet east flushes faintly at the sun's last look (1887-88) and Streeton's Point Piper (1907), this installation represents one of the most spectacular regional loan exhibitions drawn from the holdings of the National Gallery of Victoria during its current redevelopment.
Watercolours by prominent botanical artist and teacher Jenny Phillips, her students and associates illustrating plant specimens in the Geelong Botanic Gardens.
The architectural heritage of Geelong revealed in archival photographs, architectural models and historic plans.
www.geelonggallery.org.au /exhibit/exhibit2001_.htm   (704 words)

  
 Geelong Advertising & Marketing - Geelong - Melbourne - Sydney - Brisbane
Secondly a vibrant, individual modular real estate guide was designed to appear in the Geelong Advertiser.
And thirdly, a new corporate branding campaign, consisting of a series of six advertisements, each created to aggressively market Hayden Real Estate with select marketing points of difference which appear in the early news section.
Geelong advertising agencies, Geelong advertising company / companies.
www.wooddesigncentral.com /Our%20work%20advert%20hayden.html   (149 words)

  
 Geelong Heritage Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Geelong Heritage Centre is Victoria's largest regional archive and resource centre.
The Geelong Historical Records Centre was established in 1979 through a partnership between Geelong local government and the Geelong Historical Society.
Geelong and district historical publications and general Victorian historical works.
www.zades.com.au /geelong/ghrc.html   (535 words)

  
 Geelong Advertiser - Vancouver Cougars Oz Expats
When Geelong ex-pat Stuart Grills settled in Canada to marry the love of his life, there was one thing missing from his fairytale - footy.
So when Grills found out his nearest Aussie Rules football team was in Seattle, a two hour drive and an international border away, he did what any footy-crazed Aussie would do and jumped in his car.
Growing up in Geelong, Grills said he had always played a sport and seeing as Canada's number one sport involved ice-skates, he had no other option if he wanted to stay fit.
www.bcfooty.com /press_articles/geelong_advertiser.htm   (524 words)

  
 Australia’s Aborigines ... did they see dinosaurs?
For instance, the Geelong Advertiser, of Victoria, Australia, reported in July 1845 about the finding of unfossilized bone forming part of the knee joint of some gigantic animal.
There are several traditions which suggest that the ancestors of today’s Aborigines may have had contact with the last few dinosaurian survivors of a rapidly drying continent.
Geelong Advertiser, July 1845, reprinted in the same newspaper in 1991.
answersingenesis.org /home/area/magazines/docs/v21n1_aboriginals_dinosaurs.asp   (2038 words)

  
 From Geelong Advertiser - Death leads to 1000-bike haul
The small single-storey rented home was packed with bikes of all types stacked on top of each other throughout the house, in the back yard and in two sheds.
Neighbours said they knew the man, who was in his 60s, had an interest in bicycles and had seen them in his backyard, but didn't know he had so many.
Geelong Superintendent Steve Barber confirmed yesterday the man died attempting to steal a bike in central Melbourne last week.
www.cyclingforums.com /t102236.html   (1781 words)

  
 Drew Sinton Vampires (Geelong Advertiser)
Every soul in Geelong knows at least one vampire - or victim - or they may themselves be a vampire.
Drew Sinton is a ghost hunter and Australian Ambassador for the Transylvanian Society of Dracula.
"Geelong has its fair share of psychic vampires and they are relatively easy to find," he says.
www.haunted.com.au /news/geelongad01.html   (696 words)

  
 Geelong Advertiser Music Scholarship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Scholarship came about as a result of The Geelong Advertiser Pty Ltd to mark the achievement of 150 years of publishing in November 1990, The Geelong Advertiser sought to widen its support of community programs in the field of performing arts, especially music.
In recognition of the support of readers and advertisers down through the years it was then announced by the directors that the company was to create a trust for the benefit of musicians by providing assistance to them to further their skills, talents, and careers.
To apply for the 2005 Geelong Advertiser Music Competition at the National or Regional level, the applicant must complete the appropriate application form.
www.geelongadvertiser.com.au /MusicScholarship   (1178 words)

  
 Geelong Mayor nominated for head-in-sand award for denial of noise problem
Readers who contacted the Geelong Advertiser yesterday said they were losing sleep, suffering stress and considering selling their homes to escape noisy neighbours and their pets.
An elderly woman in East Geelong said dogs on either side of her fence yapped all day long.
I am an old lady, 86, and can put up with a fair amount but it does get on my nerves when they are on their own all day and barking,'' she said.
barkingdogs.net /newsaustraliageelong.shtml   (382 words)

  
 sail-world.com -- Geelong Advertiser Trophy to 'Royals'
Racing was conducted by Royal Geelong Yacht Club in mixed conditions throughout, some days very shifty and tactically challenging, particularly the Passage race in which many yachts were caught on the wrong side of the course, whilst others had to wait overtime for the expected sea breeze which did not fill in until late.
Apart from the Scotchmans Hill Series, the Geelong Advertiser Trophy is the most hotly contested event at Skandia Geelong Week, which finishes this afternoon.
At the presentation this afternoon, Graeme Ritchie, the Regatta Chairman, paid tribute to the many sponsors and supporters of Skandia Geelong Week, the volunteers, whom he said were the most professional he had worked with, other clubs involved in the event, particularly the RYCV, which looks after the start of the series and the competitors.
www.sail-world.com /news.cfm?Nid=16191   (478 words)

  
 The Geelong Advertiser - Advertising Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Geelong Advertiser circulates in the Barwon region, which comprises of the City of Greater Geelong, Surf Coast Shire, the Borough of Queenscliffe, Golden Plains Shire and the Colac Otway Shire.
In addition to the Geelong Advertiser, the Geelong Advertiser Group also publishes two weekly community newspapers - Geelong News and echo.
Click here to see full deadline details for the Geelong Advertiser Group by day and section.
www.geelongadvertiser.com.au /advertising.html   (147 words)

  
 Letter to the Editor Geelong Advertiser (Serena O'Meley)
This is with particular regard for the catchment for the Apollo Bay area, but also includes water catchments for Geelong, Warnambool and other towns within the region.
Water is in the consciousness increasingly, particularly in towns like Geelong, facing water restrictions for the third year in a row.
The people of Geelong scrimp and save water while water bodies such as Barwon Water must wonder at the lost economic resource.
home.vicnet.net.au /~gcforum/rfasub000200OtwayForum.htm   (933 words)

  
 Geelong Info
GEELONG biotech company ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals has struck a lucrative deal with a major drug company to boost its diabetes research.
GEELONG antique dealer John Rosenberg drew a sharp breath when he discovered he'd be taking in the ceramics collection of his late friend John Lee.
GEELONG'S bid for a Rolling Stones concert is still alive, despite tour promoters holding discussions with Flemington race course officials.
www.geelonginfo.com   (217 words)

  
 Geelong and District : St Augustine's Orphanage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jan offered her work to be put on our web site for the benefit of all.......
Brownhill, Walter Randolph (with postscript 1955-1990 by Ian Wynd) The History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Geelong Advertiser, Geelong, 1990.
The registers together with various financial and historical reports have been microfiched and are available in many genealogical / historical societies and libraries.
www.zades.com.au /geelong/gdaugust.htm   (624 words)

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