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2pm Wednesday 13 JulyGeelong Trades Hall back car park 

127 Myers St, Geelong

 All CFMEU Construction & GeneralDivision members working in the

Geelong area must attend this meeting. 

The proposed industry agreementgoverning your wages and conditions

from 2011–15 will be explainedand voted on.

Hear about:✔

 Wages up 20% over the agreement✔ Extra superannuation✔ A better RDO calendar✔ All overtime paid at

double time, and much more.Authorised by Bill Oliver, Secretary, Tommy Watson and John Setka, AssistantSecretaries of the CFMEU Construction and General Division. www.cfmeuvic.com.au

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KARA IRVINGClosed on Sundays

Welcome toGeelong.Open six days aweekbut..

DEAD QUIET: Moorabool St ona Sunday appearsabandonedas shoppersstay away.BELOW: The view to MarketSquare down Union St isn’tanybetter. Photos:REG RYAN

RETAILERS who arebrave enough to openon a Sunday are callingfor more shops ownersto follow suit, in a bid torejuvinate Geelong’sCBD.

O f t h e 6 5 0 r e ta i lbusinesses trading inthe city centre, only sel-ect outlets along thewaterfront and storessurrounding WestfieldShopping Centre areopen on a Sunday.

Several small retailerson Little Malop, Moora-bool and Ryrie streetssaid they don’t openb ecause there’s note n o u g h p e d e st r i a ntraffic in their areas.

Sp eak ys s urf s hopowner Terry Lyons saidthe onus was on re-tailers to open theirbusinesses on Sundayor lose customers.

‘‘If I wasgoing tocloseo ne d ay a w ee k, i tw ou ld n’ t b e o n aSunday. I’d be closingmy store on the quieterdays, either Monday orTuesday,’’ Mr Lyonssaid.

Working in retail formore than 40 years, MrLyons said some smallbusinessownersneededto take responsibilityfor their trade.

However, Subkulturestore owner Terry Hamssaidtherewas no reasonfor some retailers open-ing if they weren’t goingto make a sale.

‘ ‘On Sund ay, Gee-long’s CBD is flat anddead. It’s almost de-pressing,’’ Mr Hamssaid.

M r H a ms ’ f a sh i onboutiquehas beenoper-ating in Little Malop St

for just over a year. Inthat time, he said he’dreduc ed his Sundaytrading from five tothree hours because hed idn’t attrac t manysales.

The council’s CentralGeelong chief executiveofficer Jodie Reyntjessaid the council wasworking to lure peopleto the area throughweekend markets andactivitiesbut sheunder-stood some retailerscouldn’t open every dayof the week.

‘ ‘ S m al l b u s i ne s sowners would get tiredrunning their shops allw e e k a n d p r o ba b l yw an t a d ay o ff o nSunday,’’ she said.

Geelong’s retail sec-tor is estimated to beworth $2.06 billion dol-lars and is the secondlargest contributor tothe local economy be-hind manufacturing.

Shooting victim leaves hospitalVICTORIA MacDONALD

Georgia Kirby’snew photo.

A G E E L ON G - r a i se dwoman who survivedbe-ing shot in the face bypolice at Coffs Harbourhas been released from

hospital.Georgia Kirby, 24, is

  yet to be interviewed byNSW Police investigat-ing the events of May 31,in which she was shotduring an attempted ar-rest by two officers res-ponding to an allegedcar theft.

A N S W P o l i c espokeswoman yesterdaysaid Ms Kirby, who was

not armed at the time of the shooting, was nowlisted as an outpatientafter spendingthe weekssince the incident re-covering in Newcastle’sJohn Hunter Hospital.

It is understood the

officer’s bullet damagedMs Kirby’s trachea, af-fecting her ability tospeak.

A newly added photo-graph ofthe former Mat-t h ew F l i n de r s G i r l sS e c o n d a r y C o l l e g estudent with her part-ner, Bradley Taylor, onsocial networking siteFacebook appears toshow the couple at a

McDonald’s restaurant.

In the photograph, MsKirby has a bandage onthe lower right side of her face, over her jaw.

Mr Taylor, 26, facescharges of stealing amotorvehicle andtakingand driving a convey-ance without consentoverthe alleged car theftand has had his bailcontinued to face CoffsHarbour Local Court onAugust 15.

Ms Kirby has not beencharged in relation tothe incident. But Kirby,who has lived betweenGeelong and Queens-land since leaving highschool, has two separatematters listed before theGeelong Magistrates’Court next month.

HendrastudyeffortMARTIN WATTERS

GEELONG bio-securityscientists are working overt ime t o s top t hespread of the deadlyhendra virus which hasleft more than 30 peoplefearing for their health inQueensland and north-ern NSW.

Researchers from theCSIRO’s Animal HealthLaboratoryin Moolapare  working extra shifts, re-ceiving samples of the  bat-borne disease afterthree outbreaks werec o n f ir m e d o n h o r sefarms.

Hendra has killed fourof t he s even humansknown to have contrac-ted the disease since1994.

  Across the countrys e v e n h o r s e s w i t hHendra have been put

down since June 20, fivein southern Queenslandandtwo in northern NSWand 10 properties areunder quarantine.

 A total of 32 people are believed to have been ex-posed to hendra-infectedhorses and all now facethree rounds of tests be-fore they will get the all-clear.

C S I R O v e t e r in a r ypathologist Dr DeborahM i d dl e t on s a i d r e -searchers were continu-ingtostudy hendra inbatpopulations and how thedisease affects horses.‘ ‘ T he r e w e r e p e o pl e  working throughout the weekend and most likelyin the coming weekend,’’Dr Middleton said. ‘‘It’sthe sort oftaskthat istheprimary role of the ani-

mal health lab, as we arethe front line for emerg-ency animal diseases.’’

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