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Trawler Geelong Star under stricter controls after dolphin and seal deaths

Stricter controls will be applied to controversial fishing trawler Geelong Star after four dolphins and two seals were killed in its nets on its first outing in Australian waters. The 95-metre-long vessel, which is operated by Seafish Tasmania, caused ... >> view original

Baby girl in induced coma after car crashes into Geelong home

A family continues to hold a bedside vigil for a baby girl who suffered life-threatening head injuries when a car ploughed through her family's Geelong home on Sunday night. Four-month-old Isabelle was sleeping with her parents, Natalie and Dylan ... >> view original

Roos' Ziebell firms for Geelong clash

North Melbourne onballer Jack Ziebell is increasingly likely to take on Geelong as he continues to recover well from a bruised lung. Ziebell, 24, sustained the injury in a heavy collision with Port Adelaide's Ollie Wines during Saturday night's loss ... >> view original

As Geelong stays strong on its pay scale principle, is Collingwood the real ...

At the same time, Geelong coach Chris Scott was walking into a television studio in Melbourne to talk, among many things, about Crows free agent Patrick Dangerfield. The two incidents are not related, but it does not take much to create a conspiracy ... >> view original

Baby fighting for life after car crashes into Geelong home

A four-month-old girl is fighting for her life in hospital after a car slammed into her family's Geelong home. It is understood the baby girl was sleeping with her parents when a car ploughed through their fence and into the bedroom about 8.30pm on Sunday. >> view original

Geelong Cats confused over sliding rule that resulted in long-term injury to ...

GEELONG says it is confused by the rule relating to contact below the knees after Jimmy Bartel was ruled out for up to 10 matches on Tuesday. The AFL said on Tuesday the correct call was made in the incident with Gold Coast's Michael Rischitelli in ... >> view original

Joel Selwood leads Geelong to a stirring first win

Geelong had gone to half-time having allowed the opposition 20 scoring shots to the long break for the first time since the 2010 preliminary final, and fortunate that poor conversion by the Suns had kept them in the game and the visitors' lead to only ... >> view original

Geelong's two public worlds in digital change race

I found myself in two worlds last Friday at the IPAA Victoria Digital Delivery conference in Geelong. One world was a panel of researchers and seasoned observers concluding Australia was middling when it comes to public sector uptake of digital and ... >> view original

Geelong stricken by injury crisis

“Jennifer was a much-loved member of the Geelong Cats family,'' Cook said. “Her life was intrinsically linked with this club and we will miss her greatly. At this time we will come together to support Jack, Jane, Tom, Edwina and Charlie and show them ... >> view original

2015 AFL season: Geelong defeats Gold Coast by nine points at Simonds Stadium

But when he burst away at the three-minute mark of the third quarter on Sunday, it was eye-opening simply for the fact that Geelong hadn't looked anything like doing that for the previous two quarters. Gold Coast had smashed the Cats around the ball ... >> view original