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  • Member for Corangamite Darren Cheeseman is leading a campaign to obtain World Heritage listing for the Great Ocean Road and Otways region. The Twelve Apostles, pictured, are one of Australias top tourist icons, but arent on the list.

    World Heritage push for Great Ocean Road

    OTWAYS tourism operators say a campaign to World Heritage list the Great Ocean Road must involve a funding push to improve the road’s “appalling” condition.

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  • Brazen thief steals shed from property

    POLICE are seeking information about the theft of an estimated $12,000 worth of shedding material at Lavers Hill.

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  • Families go hungry across Colac region

    MORE than 1500 Colac and district residents are going hungry because they lack money, transport, or food skills.

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  • Top council officers live outside shire

    COMMUNITY leaders say too many Colac Otway Shire Council officers live outside the shire, taking money away from Colac Otway businesses and reducing accountability.

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  • Parkinson’s sufferer inspired to live life

    COLAC’S Sandra Turner has started ticking off her “bucket list” since discovering she has Parkinson’s disease.

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  • Four seasons in a day

    COLAC residents might have thought they experienced four seasons yesterday, with a balmy morning giving way to a stormy afternoon.

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  • Paralysed but still positive about life

    BECOMING a quadriplegic completely changed Peter Johnstone’s perspective on life.

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  • Call for new Colac lobby group

    A PROMINENT business owner says Colac needs a non-political lobby group to lead the city’s future and promote growth.

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