Geelong researchers have uncovered strong evidence that older siblings speed up the rate at which babies develop their gut microbiome, which protects them from allergic disease. The study, from Barwon Health, Deakin University and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, has been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. While researchers have long known having … [Read more…]
A Sri Lankan refugee uses his own lived experience as a young asylum seeker to help support people in the Geelong community to overcome mental health challenges. He was just 14 years old when he arrived in Australia by himself as an asylum seeker. Mr Santhrakumar, along with his parents and three brothers, were fleeing … [Read more…]
A man involved in a wild police chase north of Geelong was travelling 150 km/h on the wrong side of the highway, narrowly missing cars before escaping on foot in Corio. Tyson Hyde-Thomas, 23, now living in Altona, pleaded guilty in the Geelong Magistrates Court to charges including burglary, theft of a motor vehicle, reckless … [Read more…]
Three people, including a teenage girl, were found unconscious on the streets of Geelong and rushed to hospital on Wednesday amid reports of a toxic batch of the drug GHB hitting the city. Emergency services were first called to Gull St, Norlane at 12.30am where a man was discovered on the footpath. Another man was … [Read more…]