Articles by Billy Higgins

  • Shutdown leaves traders struggling

    A Colac business leader has grave concerns for the future of the city’s small businesses as they endure a second stage three lockdown.

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  • CASES SPREAD: Patients hospitalised as shire’s case numbers hit 106

    Colac Otway now has 106 confirmed cases of COVID-19, as the city sees its first hospitalisations from the virus and it spreads to surrounding communities.

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  • Abbatoir due to re-open

    Colac’s Australian Lamb Company is set to re-open today, pending final approval from state health authorities.

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  • Colac residents follow isolation advice

    The Colac district is bucking a state-wide trend of non-compliance with COVID-19 self-isolation orders.

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  • Tourism sector needs support

    A Great Ocean Road tourism leader says a further state-wide lockdown is necessary to avoid more damaging, longer-term impacts to the region’s visitor economy. Great Ocean Road Regional Tourism chairman Wayne Kayler-Thomson said the current stage three lockdown would have “devastating” consequences on the region’s industry, but he believed the restrictions were necessary to suppress […]

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  • Warmer shelters for health staff

    Hard-working Colac health staff received some winter comfort this week, with the arrival of new insulated tents at Central Reserve’s COVID-19 testing facility.

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  • Childcare centre remains open after scare

    Colac’s Millville Childcare Centre remains open to families because a staff member who tested positive to COVID-19 had not worked while they were infectious. Millville informed families this week that a staff member had returned a positive test but had not been to the centre’s premises since Tuesday last week. The employee was a close […]

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  • Overtaking lanes open in Otways

    Regional Roads Victoria has put the finishing touches on a $10-million upgrade to the Forrest-Apollo Bay Road.

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