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  • HOUSING TALKS: MP clarifies ‘housing crisis’

    COLAC’S state MP has clarified that the issue he described as a “chronic housing crisis” in Colac is actually a potential shortage of higher-quality housing.

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  • 100 YEARS OLD: World peace wish for birthday

    A WINCHELSEA woman who served as a nurse in the Second World War hopes for continued world peace as she enters the second century of her life.

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  • COUNCIL BUDGET: Rate increase capped without service cuts

    COLAC and district homeowners will face an average council rates and charges increase of about $45 next financial year, with rating increases capped at 2.5 per cent.

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  • STAGE THREE: Colac faces tougher water restrictions

    COLAC, Lorne and Apollo Bay will face stage three water restrictions from May 1 as water storages plummet in “unprecedented dry conditions”.

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  • DOUBLING DOWN: Candidates prepared for federal election

    CORANGAMITE voters are set to go to the polls on July 2, with the Federal Government using its inability to set up a building commission as the trigger for an early election.

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  • MIRACLE WORKERS: Heart drug helped save Cobden man’s life

    A COBDEN man has thanked paramedics who treated him with a life-saving drug while he was having a heart attack.

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  • LAW BOOST: $11 million for new Colac Police Station

    THE COLAC community is celebrating the State Government’s commitment to spend $11.47 million on a new police station, replacing buildings dating back to the 1930s.

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  • BRUTAL ATTACK: Offender banned from pubs after attack

    A MAGISTRATE has called a Colac man a coward after he punched another man from behind at a Colac venue.

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