Articles by Billy Higgins

  • City travellers, footy crowds can return under new COVID rules

    A border separating regional Victorian and Melbourne will lift and density limits will ease for a host of venues under new COVID rules that take effect Friday.

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  • Survey shows strong results

    Surf Coast Shire residents are more satisfied with their council’s performance than last year, survey results show, and the council is outperforming state averages.

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  • Victoria eagerly waits for restrictions to ease

    Victoria recorded two locally-acquired COVID-19 cases yesterday as it prepares further easing of restrictions later this week.

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  • “It’s dreadful”: Businesses feeling pain in travel ban

    Colac and district businesses are lamenting one of their worst long weekends in memory as a Melbourne travel ban devastated the local tourism industry.

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  • Street surveillance

    All eyes were on Camperdown over the long weekend, as curious vigilante artworks appeared on the main street.

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  • BIRRE BOOST: $5.7M for major internet upgrades

    Birregurra will soon benefit from top-of-the-range internet connections, with the Federal Government to spend $5.7 million on new technology.

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  • Aboriginal group rejects lease claim

    Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation has hit back at claims it influenced negotiations of an extended lease for a tourism business at Cape Otway Lighthouse.

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  • Native birds fascinate breeder from early age

    A lifetime’s contribution to aviculture has earned Elliminyt’s Graeme Hyde an Order of Australia award.

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