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  • Family nearing $50,000 cancer fundraising target

    A Colac district family has channelled their heartache into raising almost $50,000 towards finding a cure for brain cancer.

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  • Authorities investigate slaughter

    Firearm offences and an alleged slaughter of pigs at a community group’s shed in Forrest are under investigation.

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  • Council finds $500,000 savings

    Colac Otway Shire Council will have an extra half-a-million dollars to spend in next financial year’s budget, providing funding hopes for projects like new toilets at Cororooke.

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  • Council’s job gets harder

    Colac Otway Shire mayor Joe McCracken says council’s job will be “more difficult” following the Australian Electoral Commission’s final decision to move part of the shire into Wannon.

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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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