Christine Couzens MLA, Labor member for Geelong appeared on Mitchell’s Front Page to talk about the year ahead in state politics and all the big political issues.  Christine Couzens Labor MP View all interviews with Christine Couzens View 1 other candidates for Geelong

Listen back to program highlights from February 26.

Rosa and Gina from West End Real Estate appeared on Mitchell’s Front Page, looking at promotion and advertising in real estate.

Toby Hagon from Wheels Magazine joined the program to discuss the latest from the world of motoring.

Andrew Katos MLA, Member for South Barwon appeared on the program, looking at a 110km/h speed limit between Geelong and Melbourne, bike lanes and more.

Listen back to program highlights from February 19.

Kerrie Tomkins joined the program to discuss the Encompass Pumpkin Fair- and the focus of the event on sustainability.

Caroline Moore joined the program to offer a preview of the Port Fairy Folk Festival for 2018.

When humans first set foot on the moon in 1969, the people of that decade thought the world had changed forever. Little did they know the world had already laid down the precise marker of a far greater global change four years earlier, signalling our planet had entered an entirely new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. That new epoch began between October and December 1965 according to new research published today in Scientific Reports by members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014. The researchers were able to mark this profound change so precisely because of a radiocarbon “golden spike” found in the heartwood of a strange and singular tree, a Sitka Spruce found on Campbell Island, a World Heritage site in the middle of the Southern Ocean. The spruce is locally referred to as ‘the loneliest tree in the world’ with the next closest tree over 200km away on the Auckland Islands. The radioactive carbon spike was created by the culmination of mostly Northern Hemisphere atmospheric thermonuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s. The signal was fixed in the wood of the Campbell Island Sitka spruce by photosynthesis. “We were incredibly excited to find this signal in the Southern Hemisphere [...]

Mitchell Dye spoke to Magdalena and Frank Wheatland from the Surf Coast Relay for Life committee, along with local traders who are supporting the cause.