Target founder's vision always on Geelong and other top stories.

• Target founder's vision always on Geelong

  

  TARGET’S founding father would be “very upset” that the Geelong headquarters he set up and worked hard to keep in the city is being moved to Melbourne, his son said. Geoffrey BettsGeoffrey Betts bought the business in 1956 when it was a single store named Lindsay & McKenzie. By 1968, with a tally of 14 stores, he sold to Myer and became the first managing director of the newly branded Target chain. Geoffrey Betts died in February 2015, after a lifetime of commitment to Geelong.His son, Michael B..

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• What should we make of sloppy Cats?

  

  THE bookies were telling us before Saturday that the Cats were contenders for the flag.Sitting fourth in most markets for the premiership, there was reason to believe given their win over Hawthorn on Easter Monday and trouncing of Brisbane last week.But for three quarters on Saturday afternoon against the lowly Bombers, Geelong barely looked like a finals side.The Cats led at every break of their 30-point win over Essendon but despite significantly more scoring shots, they led by single digits a..

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• City needs new generation of leaders

  

  Former mayor Keith Fagg says Geelong needs a new generation of leaders.AT THE NGV’s Ian Potter Centre there’s a painting by renowned Australian artist Jan Senbergs. Entitled Geelong Capriccio, it envisages what Geelong may have looked like had we been settled first and became Victoria’s capital city. Complete with numerous CBD skyscrapers and two bridges over the Rip, it’s an intriguing image.As this week’s events involving the sacking of the city council unfolded, Senbergs’ abstract work came b..

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• Live: GWS v Port kick off a bumper Sunday

  

  MELBOURNE is adding to Nathan Buckley’s misery, comfortably outplaying Collingwood at the MCG to lead by 27 points at half time. The Demons came out sizzling in the opening quarter, kicking six goals to one, while the Pies looked lethargic and slow around the stoppages.Jack Watts has been all class up forward, slotting four majors, including one from an acute angle on the boundary in the second quarter.FOR FULL LIVE HQ COVERAGE WITH SUPERCOACH SCORES TAP ON THE GAME IN THE SCORE CENTRE ABOVE OR ..

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• Bishop dumped by Liberal Party

  

  Bishop rolled in Mackellar preselection3:15After being Mackellar's sitting member for over two decades Bishop has lost preselection to Jason Falinski. BRONWYN Bishop, 73, has chartered her last taxpayer-funded helicopter.But she has won a taxpayer-funded pension for life worth an estimated $200,000-a-year and a life gold pass for free domestic flights.The Life Gold Pass to be awarded to her when she exits politics at the next election will entitle her to fly around Australia on domestic flights..

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• Police hunt for suspects in bikie club firebomb attack

  

  Bandidos clubhouse firebombing0:25Police are seeking two men over the firebombing of a bikie clubhouse DETECTIVES have called on the public to help them solve a firebombing on a bikie clubhouse earlier this year.The renewed call for help comes two-and-a-half months after the Australia Day attack on the Bandidos OMCG clubhouse in Geelong.MEN SOUGHT OVER FIREBOMBING OF BANDIDOS BIKIE CLUBHOUSEPolice are hunting two suspects. They suspect the firebombing may have been the work of two disgruntled m..

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Three dead after truck and car collide in Burrumbeet near Ballarat .	Geelong Presbyterian church fire being treated as suspicious .
Townsville Crocodiles will not field an NBL team in 2016/17 .	Share losses and a weakening housing market are weighing on consumers' minds. Fairfax Media .