Geelong ( /dʒəˈlɒŋ/) is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia, 75 kilometres (47 mi) south-west of the state capital; Melbourne. It is the second most populated city in Victoria and the fifth most populated non-capital city in Australia. The urban area runs from the plains of Lara in the north to the rolling hills of Waurn Ponds to the south, with the bay to the east and hills to the west, an area with an estimated population of 160,991 people. It is the administrative centre for the City of Greater Geelong municipality which covers the urban and surrounding areas and is home to over 191,000 people. An inhabitant of Geelong has been known as a Geelongite, or a Pivotonian, in the past.

Geelong was named in 1837 by Governor Richard Burke, with the name derived from the local Wathaurong Aboriginal name for the region, Jillong, thought to mean 'land' or 'cliffs'. The area was first surveyed in 1838, three weeks after Melbourne, and the Post Office was open by June 1840 (the second to open in the Port Phillip District). The first woolstore was erected in this period and it became the port for the wool industry of the Western District. During the gold rush Geelong experienced a brief boom as the main port to the rich goldfields of the Ballarat district. The city then diversified into manufacturing and during the 1860s it became one of the largest manufacturing centres in Australia with its wool mills, ropeworks, and paper mills.

Peter Powers is a British television personality and hypnotist. According to his website, he claims to hold the world record of being the fastest hypnotist, as well as inducing the longest hypnotic sleep documented.

Peter Powers also has made sixty TV shows; The Power of One, which is filmed in Australia, and Street Hypnosis which was filmed in the UK.

He made five one-hour TV Specials for UK's Channel 5, entitled The Naughty, Naughty Hypnoshow and recorded two one-hour TV specials for Network 9 in Australia in which well-known celebrities were hypnotized. Two new shows; Celebrity Superpowers NZ were fimed in New Zealand with well known TV personalities..^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, he appeared in a one-hour special ("Housemates Hypnotized") on Big Brother Australia 2008, where he hypnotized a many of the willing housemates.

His TV show in the Netherlands, Peter Powers' Payback, a 10 part series. was broadcast in early 2009.