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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 53m

Fatal crash in Mill Park
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Fatal crash in Mill Park

MILL PARK, VIC. — Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash in Mill Park last night.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 2h

Walter Cronkite turns in his grave.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 6h

"There's a crowd of radicals blocking the intersection ... " (Moir, 13/10/25).
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Moir’s View …

There's a crowd of radicals blocking the intersection ...

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 20h

Payne & Tander triumph in classic Bathurst 1000
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Payne & Tander triumph in classic Bathurst 1000

Matt Payne and Garth Tander have won the Bathurst 1000 after prevailing in an enthralling wet-weather race with heavy rain and a 'pea souper' fog affecting The Great Race.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 20h

I even fitted a switch so I could only have fog lights and parkers without even low beam to improve visibility.

How they drove through that at over 200km/h tells you about the skills of the drivers. Most powerful or 'best' car means nothing now. All comes down to a driver's skill.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 20h

Heck, the Kinglake township (yes, I wrote about it) fought to have road signs erected telling stupid drivers from Melbourne to "Turn High Beams Off in Fog" as high beams are useless in those conditions.

You want low-mounted quality fog lights.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 20h

Try doing 100km/h (now 80km/h) speed limit across the Kinglake Ranges in the winter fog. Try about 40km/h tops, unless you want to die. Ya can't see shit and headlights are useless. Everyone in mountain towns fits fog lights.

They were doing 200km/h+ on Mt Panorama.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 20h

A typical day in any town atop the Great Dividing Range. The rain came, so did the pea souper fog where ya can't see one foot in front of you - on foot - let alone at over 200km/h in a race car.

Sure, it used to be 100km/h across Kinglake. Just 'cause the sign says it ain't make it so.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 22h

I'll leave you to see the marketing slogan they used and the implied double entendre.

Wouldn't be used in marketing today because of what the ad implies.

Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 22h

www.bathurstscan.com/livestreams/...

Race Control Stream

Race Control - Hear the action of Safety Car, Medical Retreival, Rescue , Fire Marshals as the race is monitored from the start!

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 22h

Try www.broadcastify.com, who often have hams taking feeds. I'll see if I can find any feeds via ham radio networks in VK2.

My guess is "broadcast rights" so unless you're there with a scanner, can't hear it.

But could be someone at Bathurst taking a feed off a scanner and putting it online?

Broadcastify - Live Police, Fire, EMS, Aircraft, and Rail Audio Feeds

The world's largest source of public safety, aircraft, rail, and marine radio live audio streams

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 22h

Both Kinglake (Vic) and Bathurst (NSW) are mountain towns atop the Great Dividing Range. I know what this weather is like from years in Kinglake.

You can't see a foot in front of you, headlights do nothing, and it's pouring rain and a pea-souper fog. That's without all the road water spray.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

On 'wets' (treaded), cold tyres, in teaming rain, fog, plus road water spray, this is where, forget the car or the team or who's got the best car.

It all comes down to the drivers in these conditions.

This is where ya Brock's, Moffat's, Lowndes', Skaife's (legends of Bathurst) shine.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

Bathurst right now looks like a Kinglake winter's day when ya can't see five feet in front of ya for fog and rain. Imagine doing that at over 200km/h?

In a Kinglake winter, it's dangerous enough at 40km/h.

The upside? Well, this is where money and 'the best car' become irrelevant.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

I guess you mean the Le Mans 24-hour?

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

Heck. I'm a 'Holden' man, but Australia made great cars, unique to our nation's conditions.

The Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III was (at the time) the fastest car in the world. Faster than a Ferrari, Maserati, or Porsche.

And it was made right here, in Australia, for Aussies, by Aussies.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

Thanks. You know I'm right. The Liberal Party has no right to cosplay and when I saw Hastie standing next to a GTHO Phase III, babbling on about 'bringing manufacturing back' I couldn't believe it.

I just thought, "You're the reason we don't make cars here anymore ya fucking dickhead."

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

If the Liberals hadn't done this, we might today be watching the latest model Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores battle it out at Mount Panorama.

So, when Andrew Hastie cosplays about 'manufacturing in Australia' I just want to give him a serve. He was a member of the Libs that caused it.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

And if we'd kept GMH and Ford, maybe we'd be making Aussie-made EVS now at Ford's Geelong & Broadmeadows plants and at GMH's in Dandenong?

It was the Liberal Party who got rid of Australia's car manufactruing, so they don;t get to cosplay now.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

And I'll call it every time. If the Libs can prop up coal, gas, and mining, then why did they tell GMH and Ford to piss off?

When I saw Andrew Hastie standing next to the GTHO, boy was I pissed off at his cosplaying. He was part of telling them to piss off.

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Holden 'chased out of the country' by the Coalition in 2013: Weatherill

Holden was chased out of the country by the federal Coalition after it cut its subsidy by $500 million, SA Premier Jay Weatherill says as he farewells the company that has been producing Australian-ma...

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

Hence why, when Liberal Andrew Hastie recently stood beside a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III and talked about "reviving the car industry" when it was HIS PARTY who said "no more subsidies" and told GMH and Ford to piss off.

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'Nameless cowards, muppets': Andrew Hastie unleashes on Liberal colleagues

Senior Liberal Andrew Hastie has taken aim at colleagues who questioned a social media post where he bemoaned the loss of Australian car making, calling them "nameless cowards" and "muppets".

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 23h

Same. I still love Bathurst and it is huge part of Australian culture, just like the AFL & NRL Grand Finals, the Melbourne Cup, The Ashes, The Sydney to Hobart Yacht race, Bells Beach, etc.

But it's just not the same without Aussie-made cars.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

This isn't an image I Googled and found online. This is the Model T on my Mum's side and a pic of it from my cousin, who maintains this car to this day.

For special family occasions, like a wedding. Forget limos, ya leave after your wedding in my family's Model T.

And it was made in Geelong.

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

Here's a pic of my late Uncle's Model T at the MCG. Uncle Peter did all the work to verify, check and service my Torana. He knew cars.
Yep, he's worked in the pits at Bathurst.
I've driven this car, and what fun it is to drive history.

My (late) Uncle Peter's Model T Ford today. PHOTO: David Henry (cousin).

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

A Kinglake Toyota 4WD friend got bogged, and his 4WD mates couldn't pull it out. The Torana did. Snatch strap and the pure torque.

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