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Community vision adopted and creative arts grants offered

HELLO to all Borough of Queenscliffe residents, ratepayers and visitors. Spring is in the air and while we might not be able to fully take...

Help shape the DAMP by having your say

OPINIONS about how dogs should be managed are as wide and varied as the breeds that are loved and housed in Greater Geelong. We councillors...

A time for co-operation and care

HELLO to all Borough of Queenscliffe residents, ratepayers and visitors. The sun is beginning to shine a little longer as we inch towards springtime. While...

Residents encouraged to ‘have your say’

AT any given moment, the City of Greater Geelong will have a number of plans and projects in progress that will affect local residents...

Banding together to keep our community safe and strong

HELLO to all Borough of Queenscliffe residents, ratepayers and visitors. At the time of writing, we are back in lockdown again, and while it never...

Council leading by example on climate change

PREPARING for a council meeting is an intense process, with hundreds of pages of information to process, questions to ask of city staff and...

Keeping busy behind the scenes

HELLO to all Borough of Queenscliffe residents, ratepayers and visitors. While we've all been at home over the past couple of weeks, rugging up...

Advice you can depend on from someone you can trust

FOR more than eight years, the team at Ruth Annett Chartered Accountant has been helping people living on the Surf Coast manage their finances. Clients...

How to alleviate stress for small business owners

WHILE small business owners (SBOs) are often considered entrepreneurial, financially independent and successful, there are many challenges they face in their daily routines that...

The value of a financial adviser throughout your life

THE 2020/21 financial year has been an interesting year to say the least, but if it’s taught us anything, it’s the importance of having...

How COVID-19 has reframed lender assessments

IF tax time wasn't already complex enough, COVID-19 has thrown businesses and lender assessments of business performance into chaos. And unfortunately, in some cases, what...

Will interest rates be next?

MANY have never seen anything like it – property values increasing to record highs and homes selling at unprecedented speeds. Throw in some historically low...

Armstrong Real Estate market and local update: May

What’s new in 3217 Every month sees an increasing amount of development throughout the Armstrong Creek Growth Corridor. Although lockdown reared its head again, progress continued...

Soaring house prices need addressing

Australia's house prices have risen by 10 per cent in the year to April 2021 and are forecasted to continue to increase further.