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  • Facebook ban rocks regional media

    Facebook has taken the extraordinary step of blocking Australian news sites from posting to its platform in retaliation to a planned national bargaining code.

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  • Lockdown ends at midnight

    Victoria’s state-wide lockdown will end at midnight tonight, Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed.

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  • FIRE PROBE: Detectives investigate two suspicious blazes

    Detectives and fire authorities are investigating a series of suspicious fires at Wool Wool, north of Colac, after the two most recent fires hit the same property this week.

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  • Andrews backs Avalon quarantine, as Victoria waits for restrictions announcement

    The Victorian Government is planning a restructured international quarantine model that could see Avalon Airport host a dedicated facility, Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed, while he will announce today whether Victoria will exit its lockdown at midnight as planned.

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  • Florist lucky to avoid downturn

    A Colac shop owner and florist is remaining positive during Victoria’s circuit-breaker lockdown, and says she feels like one of the lucky ones, having sold almost all her flowers over the weekend.

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  • Tenant pulls out of Winchelsea Hall lease plans

    Winchelsea’s former shire hall looks set to tick past two years without a tenant after a prospective lessee pulled out of a deal to take over the facility.

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  • Colac Hospital will go it alone on pathology

    Colac Area Health’s pathology tender process has been delayed again, with the hospital set to go it alone in the tender process, having previously co-tendered with Western District Health Service.

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  • State pledges to fix dodgy district road

    The Cobden community’s calls have been answered, with the State Government committing to a major fix at a dodgy section of Cobden-Lavers Hill Road.

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