Articles by Jacob Traynor

  • Legal workers feeling positive

    A boom in agriculture and property has kept Colac lawyers busy during the COVID crisis, the chief of Victoria’s peak body for solicitors says, but they are keen to return to court.

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  • Councillors appraise draft budget

    Colac Otway’s official draft budget proposes to spend $13.6 million on capital works and deliver an average annual rate increase of 1.5 per cent.

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  • Colac’s big build

    Builders say there is a construction boom across Colac and district, while property data shows there are hundreds of houses going under the hammer.  

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  • Police seek bike stolen from oval

    Police are appealing for witnesses after thieves stole a mountain bike from Colac’s Central Reserve.

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  • VCAT overturns council permit

    A tribunal has overturned a Colac Otway Shire Council decision and refused a permit to subdivide Irrewarra farmland. 

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  • Raid in Colac

    Police have searched a Colac home over an alleged explosive device incident and arrested a man over drug and weapons offences.

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  • Stolen car crashed near Lorne

    A vehicle involved in a Sunday morning crash near Lorne was stolen and the driver allegedly unlicensed.

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  • Farm rates remain steady

    Colac Otway farms would miss out on a previously proposed rates bill reduction under a draft rating strategy.

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