Geelong has always been and continues to be a strong motorcycling town.I am very proud to talk up Geelong and its motorcycling facilities and have backed that up in the form of setting up my own Craig Dack Racing (CDR)

BUSHFIRE victims will be legally represented when the next round of Bushfires Royal Commission hearings starts next month, after previously being refused leave to appear.

POLICE and State Emergency Service volunteers have combed a rural Victorian property and nearby bushland but failed to find a woman missing since Friday.

AN AUSTRALIAN shot dead near a massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia's volatile Papua region was a 29-year-old Victorian man, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) says.

AN Australian has been shot and killed, possibly by a sniper, near a massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia's volatile Papua region.

SEVERAL AFL players have been taken to hospital after a tornado tore through a football ground, lifting cars and destroying buildings.

A 25-year-old man is in hospital with possible life-threatening head injuries after a group of up to 30 people threw objects at cars in suburban Adelaide.

IF an army marches on its stomach, the 25,000 US and Australian troops taking part in war games in Queensland this weekend should be just about able to walk home.

A PRISON officer is under investigation over allegations he supplied pornography to inmates at a prison farm in Queensland.

TWO people have died when a utility burst into flames after crashing through a school fence at Gladstone, in central Queensland.

POLICE have launched a major investigation to determine whether two fatal shootings in south-east Queensland are linked.

A 45-year-old woman has died after a bus she had disembarked struck her while reversing, Queensland police say.