Articles by Alex White

  • Tractor and truck collide

    TWO Colac district men escaped injury when a truck and tractor collided at Barongarook, south of Colac.

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  • Thieves rip through wall

    THIEVES have ripped apart a wall and crawled through a cupboard to steal $2500 worth of sheep drench from a Colac business.

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  • Surgeon defends hospital chiefs

    A COLAC surgeon says Colac Area Health’s executive and board are doing an “excellent” job and says criticism of the decision makers is “totally unjustified”.

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  • Model to save Colac emergency care

    A STEERING committee has unanimously agreed on a model it believes will save Colac Area Health’s overnight urgent care service.

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  • Family evicted for ‘public safety’

    AUTHORITIES evicted a family from a derelict Colac district property “in the interests of public safety”.

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  • Speedsters risk road workers’ lives

    POLICE say speeding motorists are risking the lives of road workers building the Princes Highway duplication.

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  • Children lived with drugs and filth

    PILL packets, alcohol bottles, soiled mattresses, food scraps, animal faeces and broken furniture – that’s how a Colac woman has lived with her four children.

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  • Police hunt knife-wielding bandit

    POLICE are hunting a knife-wielding bandit who pretended he had broken down on the Princes Highway and tried to mug a Colac district man.

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