Coronavirus

  • Extension for hunting licences after virus lockdowns

    Recreational hunters will receive a one-year extension to their game licences after the State Government banned recreational hunting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Industry guides state work on coronavirus

    A panel of farming industry representatives is helping the State Government ensure supply chains stay open during the coronavirus pandemic.

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  • MP wants school to resume

    Polwarth MP Richard Riordan has called for the State Government to open Victorian schools as soon as possible to minimise disadvantage to students.

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  • More than 200 tested for virus

    More than 360 people have been screened for COVID-19 at Colac Area Health, with more than 200 people being swabbed for coronavirus.

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  • Fuel price falls, slowly

    Colac’s petrol is the cheapest it has been in years, but local motorists are still paying substantially more than drivers in other areas of Victoria.

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  • Elective surgeries resume next week

    Elective surgeries at the state’s public and private hospitals will start to resume next week, where safe to do so, after a slowdown in the number of new coronavirus cases.

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  • Pubs to survive coronavirus downturn

    The Colac district’s rural publicans are confident their taps will be back flowing as normal once coronavirus restrictions ease across Victoria.

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  • Performing arts will return in Colac, bigger and better

    The temporary closure of all social and leisure facilities across Australia has left an enormous emptiness in our communal sense of wellbeing.

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