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From Afghanistan to Avalon, the career of fire fighter Luke Wood is now blazing a path into one of Australia’s hottest calendars. JOHN VAN KLAVEREN feels the heat.   Luke Wood is a model fire fighter – and has the photos to prove it. The 26-year-old Avalon Airport fire fighter is the sizzling face of […]

A local monologue shapes the internationally acclaimed script of unique Geelong theatre company Back to Back. JOHN VAN KLAVEREN goes backstage.   It’s described as a leading contemporary theatre company in books, articles, academia and reviews all over the world. Well, everywhere except Geelong, apparently. Locals are only a tiny percentage of audiences intrigued by […]

WHITE sandy beaches, thatch huts, tall palms… A blistering Fijian sun overlooked Jennifer Day and Rick Opperman as they frolicked in the tropical water. Jenn stood for a moment in Savala island’s crystal-clear shallows with their two-year-old son, Jett. She turned to find Rick on one knee, proposing. Jen had nowhere to run.   HOW […]

Geelong artist Keren Zorn is carving out her place in the arts with unique linocuts of furrowed faces. NOEL MURPHY steps into her studio.   FEW things in this world are more inscrutable than the human face. A smile can be something altogether different to what it seems, a basilisk stare might be a look […]

An ever-expanding range of body enhancements are available in Geelong to meet the demands of an increasingly image-conscious clientele.   Maybe it’s our celebrity-saturated Western society but cosmetic enhancement seems to have become one of the largest growth industries of the past decade. Obsession with a youthful appearance has become commonplace in contemporary society as […]

Mystery, myth and magic inhabit Geelong and its great southwest hinterland. Volcanoes, megafauna, UFO sightings, war secrets … NOEL MURPHY sketches an artistic panorama.   TIME capsules in black and white, a moment in history, Magic Boomerang-like standstill snapshots of an era not quite gone … however they’re described, the Rigby Sketchbook series from the […]