2pm Wednesday 13 July Geelong Trades Hall back car park 12 7 Myers St, Geelong All CFMEU Construc tion & General Division members working in the Geelong area must attend this meeting. The proposed industry agreement governing your wages and conditions from 2011–15 will be explained and 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, Assistant Secretaries of the CFMEU Construction and General Division. www.cfmeuvic.com.au TOMORROW! C F M E U V 3 2 3 2 6 CFMEU MEMBERS Mass Meeting E B A 2 0 1 1 KARA IRVING Closed on Sundays Welcome to Geelon g .O p en six da y s a week but.. DEAD QUIE T: Moor aboo l St on a Sunday appearsabandoned as shop persstay away . BELOW: The view to Mark et Square down U nion St isn’t anybetter. Photo s:REG RYAN RETAILERS who are brave enoug h to open on a Sunday are calling for more shops owners to follow suit, in a bid to rejuvinate Geelong’s CBD. Of the 650 retail businesses trading in the city centre, only sel- ect out let s alo ng the water front and stor es surrounding Westfield Shopping Centre are open on a Sunday. Several small retailers on Little Malop, Moora- bool and Ryri e stre ets sai d the y don’t open because there’s not enough pedestrian traffic in their areas. Speakys surf shop owner Terry Lyons said the o nu s w as on re - tai ler s to open thei r busi ness es on Sunda y or lose customers. ‘‘If I wasgoing toclose one day a wee k, it wouldn’t be on a Sunda y. I’d be clos ing my store on the quieter days, either Monday or Tues day,’’ Mr Lyons said. Work ing in retai l for more than 40 years, Mr Lyons said some small busi nessownersneeded to take responsib ility for their trade. However, Subkulture store owne r Terr y Hams saidtherewas noreason for some retailers open- ing if they weren’t going to make a sale. ‘‘On Sunday, Gee- long’s CBD is flat and dead. It’ s almost de- pressing,’’ Mr Hams said. Mr Hams’ f a sh i on bout iquehas beenoper- ating in Little Malop St for just over a year. In that time, he said he’d reduced his Sunday trading from five to three hours because he didn’t attract many sales. The council’s Central Geelong chief executive offic er Jodie Reyntjes said the counci l was worki ng to lure people to the area through week end mark ets and activ itiesbut sheunder- stood some retailers couldn’t open every day of the week. ‘‘Small business owners would get tired runni ng their shops all week and p r o ba b l y want a day off on Sunday,’’ she said. Geel ong’s retai l sec- tor is est ima ted to be worth $2.06 billion dol- lar s and is the second large st contr ibutor to the local econo my be- hind manufacturing. Shooti ng vi ct im leaves hospit al VICTORIA MacDONALD Georgia Kirby’snew photo. A GEELONG-raised woma n who surv ivedbe- ing shot in the face by police at Coff s Harbo ur has been released from hospital. Geo rgi a Kirby, 24, is yet to be interviewed by NSW Police inve stiga t- ing the events of May 31, in whi ch she was sho t during an attempted ar- rest by two officers res- ponding to an all ege d car theft. A NS W Po li ce spokeswoman yesterday said Ms Kirby, who was not armed at the time of the shooting, was now listed as an outpatie nt after spendingthe week s since the inc ident re- covering in Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital. It is understood the officer’s bullet damaged Ms Kirby’s trachea, af- f ec ti n g h er abili ty to speak. A newly added photo- gra ph ofthe for mer Mat- thew Flinders Girls Secondary College student with her part- ner, Bradley Taylor, on socia l networking site F a ce b oo k appears to show the couple at a McDonald’s restaurant. In the photograph, Ms Kirby has a bandage on the lower right side of her face, over her jaw. Mr Tay lor , 26, fac es cha rges of stealing a motorvehicl e andtaking and dri ving a convey - ance wit hout consent overthe alleg ed car thef t and has had hi s bail conti nued to face Coffs Harbour Local Court on August 15. Ms Kirby has not been cha rged in rel ati on to the incident. But Kirby, who has lived betwe en Geelong and Que ens- land since leaving high school, has two separate matt ers liste d befo re the Geelong Magistrates’ Court next month. Hendra study effort MARTIN WATTERS GEELONG bio-sec urity sci ent ist s are working overtime to stop the spr ead of the deadly hend ra viru s whic h has left more than 30 people fearing for their health in Quee nsla nd and nort h- ern NSW. Researchers from the CSIRO’ s Animal Health Lab orat oryin Moo lapare working extra shifts, re- ceivi ng sampl es of the bat -bo rne dis ease after three outbreaks were confirmed on horse farms. Hendra has killed four of the s ev en hum an s kno wn to have contra c- ted t he di sease since 1994. Across the country seven horses with Hendra have been put down since June 20, five in souther n Queensla nd andtwo in nor ther n NSW and 10 pr ope rti es are under quarantine. A total of 32 people are believed to have been ex- posed to hendra-infected hor ses and all now face three rounds of tests be- fore they will get the all- clear. CSIRO veterinary patholog ist Dr Deborah Middleton said re- searche rs were continu- ingtostudy hen dra inbat populations and how the dise ase affec ts hors es. ‘‘There were p e o pl e working throughout the weekend and most likely in the coming weekend,’’ Dr Middleton said. ‘‘It’s the sor t oftaskthat isthe pri mary role of the ani- mal health lab, as we are the front line for emerg- ency animal disease s.’’ www.geelongadvertiser.com.au GEELONG ADVERTISER, TUESDAY 12 JULY 2011 I 9 M A I