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• Western Bulldogs v Geelong Cats: Leigh Matthews baffled by Dogs ...

  

  AFL legend Leigh Matthews has been left baffled by the Western Bulldogs' preparation for their Friday night blockbuster with Geelong at Simonds Stadium.The Dogs decided to travel to Geelong on Thursday night and sleep in a hotel rather than get to the ground on the day of the game. More Sport Videos Previous slide Next slide FootyFix: wounded dogs head to the Cattery Pav set for game 350 Paul's $100,000 footy kick Peter Bell targets Mark Ro..

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• Waterfront site for convention centre

  

  DEAKIN’S waterfront campus car park is locked in as the site of Geelong’s new convention centre, the Premier confirmed on Friday morning. Daniel Andrews announce $1 million for planning for the long-awaited project this financial year, allowing for more cash in the 2017-18 financial year to construct the 1000-seat convention centre.Mr Andrews visited Deakin Waterfront this morning alongside Planning Minister Richard Wynne, Regional Minister Jaala Pulford, Police Minister Lisa Neville and Sports ..

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• Geelong - Did You See...

  

  Tossilini (Image: Racing Photos) The new Lindsay Park training combination get off to a winning start? The stable has a new co-trainer with Ben Hayes joining father David and cousin Tom Dabernig in the top job. The move was confirmed on Friday with Ben to take charge of the Lindsay Park stables in Adelaide and Sydney, while the existing partnership can concentrate on the team at Euroa and Flemington. Ben has been the stable’s foreman at Morphettville recently, with his full training licens..

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• Jetstar near miss in the air

  

  A JETSTAR flight from Avalon Airport activated collision avoidance procedures in a near miss with an AirAsia jet near Coolangatta Airport.The Jetstar A320 went into a climb during descent for landing to maintain space between the two aircraft after an alert for loss of vertical separation as the Air Asia Airbus A330 was taking off.Australian Transport Safety Bureau officials are investigating the incident, which was at 11.42am on July 21.“Both aircraft received a traffic collision avoidance syst..

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• Enright the best Cat: Scarlo

  

  FORMER Geelong defender Matthew Scarlett has declared Corey Enright the best player he played with during the club’s premiership dynasty. Enright will tonight break the club’s all-time games record when he plays his 326th match in the finals-shaping clash against the Western Bulldogs.Scarlett, who retired in 2012 and is also regarded as one of the best defenders of the modern era, said Enright was “quite comfortably” the pick of all his teammates over the most successful period in the club’s h..

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• COMMENT: Giant leap to change

  

  WHEN you are president of a sporting club you love, it is no small thing to stand in front of a packed room of your own members and ask them to make a change so big that the place will never look the same again. That was what confronted Paul Eastman, who started an extraordinary meeting at West Oval on Wednesday night as president of Geelong West-St Peter’s and ended it as the boss of the Geelong West Giants.“The colours are important, the jumper is important, but the people are what are most im..

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• Defence contract hopes … contract

  

  GEELONG’S leading hope for the Land 400 defence contract has crashed out of the race without firing a shot.Team Sentinel promised to set up an assembly plant in Geelong if it won the $4 billion to $5 billion contract to provide 225 armoured combat vehicles to the Australian Defence Force.But the ADF has cut its list of contenders for the contract from four to two, leaving Team Sentinel and General Dynamics Land Systems out.Geelong leaders are now pinning their hopes on luring remaining contender..

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• It's city via the sea in ferry first

  

  HUNDREDS of people turned up to wave off the first ferry trial between Portarlington and Docklands in Melbourne on Friday morning. At 10.30am on the dot the ferry set off from Portarlington pier for the first time and it was smooth sailing all the way to Melbourne.Local resident Doug Stephens said the whole town had been really excited.“We’ve been campaigning for it for years and we really wanted to get on board the first trial but they ran out tickets so quickly,” Mr Stephens said.media_cameraM..

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• End of the line for Geelong's beloved Ford ute

  

  The first victim of the collapse of the Australian car manufacturing industry - the iconic Ford ute - is no more. The last Ford ute rolled off the production line at the company's production lines on Friday, signalling the beginning of the end of Ford's manufacturing presence in Australia. The final Falcon utility emerged from the company's Broadmeadows plant, roughly 90 kilometres from Geelong, the city where it was conceived during the dark days of the Great Depression. In 931 Ford designer ..

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• Uni student leads animal rights charge

  

  AN animal rights group is calling for Geelong’s Deakin University to be more open about its use of animals in science.However, the university says there is very limited use of live animals at Deakin.A protest against testing and experiments on animals will be held at the university’s Waurn Ponds campus on Friday, led by one of its own science students.Alex Sedgwick, who is also a member of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), said about 50 people were expected to attend the protes..

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