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| UpdatedOne of Victoria's most prestigious private schools, Geelong Grammar, says it has made changes to its policies and will learn from its failings in handling allegations of child sexual abuse.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, geelong-3220
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Victoria's residential care system is failing the young people it is set up to care for, a former workers says.
Topics: carers, youth, community-and-society, health, child-abuse, child-health-and-behaviour, vic, geelong-3220
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| UpdatedGeelong defender Harry Taylor becomes the second high-profile AFL player to raise concerns about the prevalence of gambling advertisements, saying he is worried about the impact it has on children.
Topics: gambling, community-and-society, australian-football-league, sport, geelong-3220, melbourne-3000, footscray-3011
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| UpdatedAfter a weekend of hot, sunny weather, parts of Melbourne receive almost a month's worth of rain in one night, damaging buildings and causing flash flooding.
Topics: weather, rainfall, storm-event, melbourne-3000, geelong-3220
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Victorian grains growers say they are angry and disappointed as a wheat harvest delivery delay continues at GrainCorp's Geelong Port site.
Topics: grain, geelong-3220
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| UpdatedAFL star Patrick Dangerfield enlists some high profile help for a social media post announcing his impending fatherhood.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, geelong-3220, vic, australia
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The Victorian Government will consider including codeine-containing products in a state-based real-time monitoring system, amid a decision by the Therapeutic Goods Administration to restrict the drug's sale.
Topics: drug-use, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, health-policy, geelong-3220, vic
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The mammoth Great Victorian Bike Ride involves thousands of cyclists, and a mobile city that makes its way through a different part of regional Victoria every year.
Topics: cycling, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, halls-gap-3381, dunkeld-3294, mortlake-3272, port-campbell-3269, bellbrae-3228, queenscliff-3225, geelong-3220, warrnambool-3280, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedGeelong's Brownlow medallist Patrick Dangerfield says a player strike during the AFL preseason competition next year is a possibility if the league cannot reach a collective bargaining agreement by February.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, geelong-3220
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| UpdatedLocals are being overlooked for jobs at a Geelong construction site because the contractor is using foreign workers on 457 visas, the manufacturing union claims.
Topics: manufacturing, unemployment, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal---state-issues, immigration, geelong-3220, australia
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| UpdatedBen Long, Brandon Parfitt and Willie Rioli are all headed south to continue their footy careers after being successfully drafted by the AFL.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, darwin-0800, geelong-3220, st-kilda-3182
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government's plan to transfer a number of young offenders to an adult prison following riots is "totally inappropriate" for their wellbeing, a youth law advocate says.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, youth, community-and-society, parkville-3052, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, geelong-3220, lara-3212
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| UpdatedAs many as 40 young offenders in Victoria's youth justice system, including teenagers involved in recent riots, will be housed in a separate unit at the maximum-security Barwon Prison.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, geelong-3220, lara-3212
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| UpdatedA cyclist dies after colliding with a truck on Ryrie Street, Geelong.
Topics: death, accidents, geelong-3220, vic, australia
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Former POW Bob Appleton of Geelong remembers his colleagues on Remembrance Day and says he is still enjoying life and volunteering in community radio at the age of 94.
Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, geelong-3220
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Adverse findings have been recommended against two high-profile former headmasters at Geelong Grammar School for their handling of child sex abuse allegations from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, geelong-3220
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Christian Brother Robert Best, a convicted paedophile, pleads guilty to more cases of child sexual abuse dating back nearly 50 years.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, geelong-3220, ballarat-3350, box-hill-3128
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A Melbourne man says he is stunned and angry that a teacher who sexually abused him has been deported despite there being an ongoing police investigation.
Topics: child-abuse, crime, royal-commissions, geelong-3220
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Victorian police are searching for a man who told a 12-year-old girl to "come with me" after kissing her on the cheek while she was walking her dog at Corio, near Geelong.
Topics: crime, corio-3214, geelong-3220, vic
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A full 140 metres of shelf space dedicated to archives on Australia's car manufacturer Holden, including old adverts through to government policy, can be found at the State Library of South Australia.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, arts-and-entertainment, manufacturing, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa, geelong-3220, vic
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Prestigious independent Victorian school Geelong Grammar says it wants to encourage survivors of past child abuse at the school who have not yet come forward to contact them for "guidance and support".
Topics: crime, child-abuse, religion-and-beliefs, schools, geelong-3220, vic
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| UpdatedMovement at Richmond on the final day of the trade period, with Brett Deledio off to GWS, while the Tigers add Geelong on-baller Josh Caddy.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, geelong-3220, richmond-3121, hawthorn-3122, carlton-3053, melbourne-3000, vic, homebush-bay-2127, sydney-2000, nsw, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedGodolphin's European team claim a win on Australian soil with Qewy running his rivals into the ground to win the Geelong Cup.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, geelong-3220, vic