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  • Vote to set Forrest caravan park’s future

    A national tourism and training company is poised to receive the lease for the Forrest Caravan Park. Colac Otway Shire councillors will vote whether to grant the lease for the park to BelgraviaPRO when they consider the item at a meeting on Wednesday. A recommended deal in the agenda report proposes handing Belgravia a 15-year […]

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  • Crews fight Boonah fire

    Colac district fire brigades were on hand to fight a fire at a pine plantation at Boonah, south east of Colac.

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  • Letters to the editor

    Apollo Bay’s rejected bottle shop, Grace Tame, climate change and politics feature in today’s letters.

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  • Research on child farm injuries

    Rates of child farm-related injury have remained constant over the past 20 years, despite ongoing efforts to reduce them.

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  • Meat and livestock group predicts sheep increase

    Australia will have 74.4 million sheep by the end of 2022, with Meat and Livestock Australia predicting the national herd to grow by 4.9 per cent this year.

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  • State biosecurity system boost

    A new Victorian Biosecurity Reference Group will aim to strengthen Victoria’s biosecurity system for the future.

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  • Sheep movements recorded

    National Livestock Identification System recorded about a million sheep movements in Victoria in December 2021, as the system hits full implementation.

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  • REAL ESTATE PROPERTY OF THE WEEK

    Number 6 Jellie Street, Colac, is ideal for families big and small.

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