News

  • Online test for permit

    Aspiring learner drivers can avoid the wait for a learner permit test with the upcoming release of an online test.

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  • Outbreak grows as MP calls for ring of steel return

    The State Government has refused to rule out an extension to the current lockdown or a “ring of steel” metropolitan border as the state’s COVID outbreak grows.

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  • Chamber welcomes package for hard-hit traders

    Colac Chamber of Commerce has backed a State Government support package for businesses impacted by the current lockdown.

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  • Cape koalas moved on

    More than 90 koalas are settling into their new home in the Great Otway National Park near Lorne after being translocated from the over-browsed Cape Otway.

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  • Police seeking info on dangerous thief

    A “dangerous petrol thief” who evaded police has struck at Colac, with police appealing to the public for information to help catch him.

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  • Beauty and the greased: lovebirds gaining Ford momentum

    Meet Dale McGoldrick and the two great loves of his life: his fiancé Ange and his middle-aged mistress, a 1971 four-speed V8 Ford Falcon XY.

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  • Cyclist hits 1000km for Salvos

    Beeac’s Luke Lethbridge has smashed out the kilometres and his fundraising target in his month-long effort to support the Salvation Army’s Red Shield Appeal.

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  • May rain wrap, and south west winter climate outlook

    Colac Otway rain gauges caught mixed results in May, but Colac’s official weather station recorded a wetter-than-average month.

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