Colac Otway Shire
Mayor calls for cool, calm, kind community
Colac Otway Shire mayor Kate Hanson is encouraging Colac and district community members to be alert but calm in the wake of Colac’s COVID-19 outbreak, and continue to spread kindness.
Cash to assist event recovery
Colac Otway and Corangamite shires will receive funding to accelerate the recovery of community events due to the pandemic.
G21 conference goes virtual
A COVID-19 lockdown has sent the G21 annual stakeholder forum online for the second time.
Colac Otway homelessness highest in state
Colac Otway’s homelessness rate is the highest in the state, new analysis shows.
State boosts mobile coverage for community
Seven sites across the Colac Otway and Surf Coast shires will receive mobile phone base stations which will provide better mobile coverage to local businesses and communities.
Three-year-olds revel in kinder
More than 220 three-year-olds have become part of the first cohort to attend three-year-old kinder in Colac Otway Shire.
Federal cash targets social isolation risks
A funding boost will support older Colac Otway Shire residents and help to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Colac’s new voice of youth
Two Colac 20-year-olds will draw on their own experiences and engage with other Colac Otway youth when they represent the shire in a Regional Youth Voice group.