News

  • Greening project to reduce impact

    Colac Otway’s Climate Action Team knows the importance of trees in keeping cities and towns cool.

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  • NEWS IN BRIEF

    Local radio award winners, thunderstorm asthma, a road maintenance blitz and more in today’s news in brief.

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  • MP calls for driver education

    Polwarth MP Richard Riordan has repeated calls for more driving education for international tourists, following a head-on crash on the Great Ocean Road and the post-covid return of international drivers to the tourism hotspot.

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  • Groups respond to review

    Colac’s fire brigade would like to retain its training track on the Lake Colac foreshore and Friends of the Colac Botanic Gardens want to retain and create heritage in the iconic Colac precinct.

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  • Monthly sale boosts industry

    Colac’s monthly store sale which yarded more than 1000 cattle has given the local livestock industry hope, but the industry is remaining wary of future trends and weather conditions.

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  • Funding to enhance stage productions

    Audiences at Colac Otway Performing Arts and Cultural Centre will benefit from an audio-visual upgrade, thanks to a $150,000 State Government grant.

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  • Billy finds his calling upon return to farm

    From Telstra to the family dairy farm. Despite the difference, Jancourt East’s Billy Buckingham says there’s a lot of skills that overlap between the two industries.

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  • Year 12s celebrate last day at school

    Trinity College’s Year 12s dressed to impress for their Celebration Day, as they wrap up their secondary school life and look towards exams.

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