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  • Minister wants hospital to reimburse $60 payments

    Victoria’s Health Minister Jill Hennessy says she expects Colac Area Health to reimburse patients charged a $60 fee to attend the hospital’s urgent-care centre.

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  • EXCLUSIVE: $60 urgent care fee scrapped

    Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy has ordered Colac Area Health to stop charging a $60 fee at its urgent care department, in the wake of a Colac Herald article published on Monday.

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  • Urgent care patients face new $60 charge

    PATIENTS visiting Colac Area Health’s urgent care must cough up $60 for their visit while people using emergency rooms in bigger hospitals pay nothing. 

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  • Bid for state funding for theatre upgrade

    ARTS advocate Andrew Beale hopes the demand for an intimate artistic space in the district will secure state funding for Cororooke’s Carolyn Theatre.

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  • Athletes join forces to help cure disease

    Rival sports clubs South Colac and Colac Imperials will put their differences aside tomorrow to support a Colac woman’s fight for a cure for motor neurone disease.

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  • School funds drained

    A Winchelsea Primary School parent is calling on the State Government to pay for the school’s asbestos removal instead of taking money from funding allocated to repair the school’s roof and modernise the school library.

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  • Veteran Colac doctor closes book on career

    Colac’s longest-serving doctor Michael Connor will retire this month after almost half a century of continuous service to patients.

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  • Farmer wants transparency over wind farm plans

    A Cooriemungle landowner is concerned that a new windfarm developer is trying to increase the height of its turbines to 200 metres without having to “be transparent” and notifying neighbours.

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