Articles tagged: Comment
Play it safe this festive season
A warning on workplace safety at the busiest time of the year.
EDITORIAL: Time to lift Lake Colac’s boating speed limit
The State Government and its agencies have some explaining to do about Lake Colac’s ridiculous five-knot speed limit for vessels.
EDITORIAL: Sport caps need to be improved
The State Government needs to urgently revise its restrictions on regional Victoria to ensure community sport can actually go ahead.
EDITORIAL: Working together to evade coronavirus
Patience, vigilance and understanding are the key for our community as we come out of another COVID-19 lockdown.
Big shift for public health
Professor Eugene Athan shares details on a new Public Health Unit for the Barwon south-west region, and the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines.
EDITORIAL: Don’t worry. Our commitment to local news continues
Recent decisions by multinational billionaire-owned companies like Google and Facebook to block Australian news content have shown they don’t care about Australia.
Mayor bids farewell to position
Cr Jason Schram shares his final mayoral column as Colac Otway Shire Council heads into caretaker period.
Tackling wealth disparity
Trinity College Colac Year Nines Josiah Ellemor writes about the imbalance of money distribution in the world. Here is Josiah’s piece.
Rural news hits back at internet giants
Country Press Australia, which represents the interests of rural newspapers including the Colac Herald, has responded to a campaign by internet giants Google and Facebook against a proposed mandatory code for negotiations between internet and news businesses.
