Federal Government

  • ROAD TO SOMEWHERE: Politicians take aim over ‘biased’ highway report

    CORANGAMITE MP Sarah Henderson has slammed a “city-centric” study which failed to consider the Princes Highway’s vital role in Australia’s agriculture and tourism industries.

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  • MAYORAL MATTERS: Second attempt at federal grant

    A transformation of Colac’s central business district will start this year, as civic leaders apply for federal funding for the project.

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  • FUNDING LOSS: Colac health service faces $200,000 cut

    COLAC AREA HEALTH’s chief says he has received confirmation it will face almost $200,000 in Federal Government funding cuts to the service.

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  • LET THEM STAY: District community fights for refugees

    COLAC and district residents and community leaders have demanded the Federal Government stop plans to deport refugees to offshore detention centres.

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  • No fast plan to fix Otways reception

    Otways residents and visitors to high-fire risk areas could have a two-year wait for mobile phone access to fire warnings despite a government funding commitment last year.

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  • Prime Minister vows to back firefighting during visit to Wye River

    PRIME MINISTER Malcolm Turnbull has committed funding to keep water-carrying aircraft in the region for an “extended period” to fight ongoing bushfires.

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  • MAYORAL MATTERS: Colac misses out on federal grant for CBD plan

    WE ARE disappointed to advise the community that our second application to the Federal Government’s National Stronger Regions Fund was unsuccessful.

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  • Asylum seeker pleas to remain in Colac

    COMMUNITY leaders are rallying to support an Iranian asylum seeker who has lived and worked in Colac for three years as he fights to stay in Australia.

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