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Geelong deputy mayor Michelle Heagney reveals the rolling, leafy landscape of her hidden hideaway at Sutherlands Creek.   Words: John Van Klavern Pictures: Reg Ryan   It’s the councillor’s hideaway that’s no longer as hidden as it once was. Blue Wren Park is a stunning private garden and residence on a 60-hectare farm in the […]

It’s a golfer’s dream home that even a non-golfer can appreciate.   Words: John Van Klaveren Photos: Reg Ryan   You can only make a first impression once, the truism goes – and it certainly applies in the case of this stunning modern Barwon Heads residence. The long, wide and high entrance certainly creates a […]

A perfect 28C February day, a mild breeze, her dad’s favourite flowers and a shady place by the Barwon River – Susan’s and Stewart’s day couldn’t have been more perfect.   Words: Emily Iannello Pictures: Louisa Jones Photography   HOW THEY MET Grovdale’s Susan Threlfall and Stewart Gill knew after their first date that they […]

George ‘Toppa’ Topouzakis, one of Geelong’s first DJs, has passed on his love of disco to son Steve.   It was the era of one of the biggest seismic shifts ever in music and entertainment and two Geelong school mates turned out to be among the pioneers of the time. It was the mid-1970s and […]

JOHN VAN KLAVEREN steps into the hectic yet ordered world of renowned Bellarine Peninsula artist John Druce.   John Druce’s studio is packed. The Barwon Heads artist uses the seek-and-you-shall-find method of filing, with drawers, cupboards, boxes and shelves holding bits and pieces collected over his 76 years. Druce can (almost) unerringly go to the […]

A Norfolk Pine stands as a sentinel guarding the memory of a Geelong engineer and his two brothers, who made the supreme sacrifice in The Great War. BARRY ABLEY recounts their tragic tale in the year of the Anzac centenary.   Hussars, dragoons and a myriad cavalry regiments exercised and watered their steeds 20 miles […]