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  • Coastal businesses call for lower rates

    Apollo Bay traders and business leaders are asking Colac Otway Shire Council for commercial rate relief, with two petitions hitting council desks.  

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  • Battery talks get charged

    Corangamite Shire Council will ask Victoria’s Planning Minister Richard Wynne to stay out of an approval process for a $100-million Terang energy storage facility.

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  • Green energy call from Federal MP

    Corangamite MP Libby Coker is backing investment in renewable energy including hydrogen power to drive Australia’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Rural news in brief

    Growers need to keep an eye on their crops with wet conditions potentially affecting grain in storage long after the rain has stopped.

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  • High-tech meters aim to save water

    Digital water meters aren’t due to become permanent fixtures across Colac Otway anytime soon despite pilot projects launching across the shire.

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  • Restockers competitive at sale

    Cow prices lifted at Colac’s weekly cattle market, with the regular field of buyers present plus extra restocker competition.

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  • 10-cent step-up by Bulla

    Bulla Dairy Foods has announced its 2020-21 farmgate milk will price step up by 10 cents a kilogram milk solids.

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  • 2021 start for GOR chief

    The new Great Ocean Road authority plans to appoint its new chief early next year.

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