Articles tagged: Letters to the editor
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Net zero manages energy systems Keith Armistead (Letters, 8/4) confuses demand for fuel with net zero. The whole point about net zero is to manage energy systems in such way as to wean us off the harmful stuff and onto renewables. Just because there is a diabolical war in the Middle East, climate change has […]
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Time for the world to act, seek change Keith Armistead is worried that the push for net zero is causing despair in our youth (Letters 25/3). I think what is causing the despair is seeing a worrying increase in extreme temperatures, droughts, bushfires and floods (which are now five times more common than they used […]
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Drop in travellers has ripple effect I write in reference to recent articles in the Colac Herald regarding the impact being experienced by businesses in Lorne and Apollo Bay as a result of the bushfires and floods in the region. It is important to point out that businesses in these areas are not the only […]
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V-Line needs to do better Your article on the problems with overcrowding on the Warrnambool train line (March 18) makes a good point that the recent reduction of the number of seats on the trains – leaving people standing in the aisles for three hours or unable to fit at all – will make it harder […]
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No shame in seeking support
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Polwarth residents show compassion, resilience The recent fire and flood events across the Polwarth region have tested our communities in ways few could have imagined. While the fires continue to burn and the clean-up effort continues along the coast, I want to take this moment to publicly acknowledge and thank the extraordinary people and organisations […]
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Gratitude for Nalangil Fire Brigade captain On the 22nd December Captain of the Nalangil CFA Fire Brigade Colin Carter called in and presented me with a mantlepiece-sized model of a fire truck with the inscription: To Kelvin McNaughton, In appreciation of your many years of service to the Nalangil CFA Brigade and community. What a […]
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Planning is key to charging EVs Your reporter (Colac Herald, 5/1) highlights the difficulties and frustrations sometimes experienced by electric vehicle (EV) users when it is necessary to charge vehicles at public chargers. The current provision of DC fast-chargers is a little like extensive housing suburbs that are built without the essential supports – ie. […]
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Price difference begs the question I travelled through Camperdown last weekend and found diesel at a service station for $1.61 and unleaded for $1.61 – compared with Colac fuel prices of $1.91 for diesel and unleaded $1.79. I was told that there is a consortium that determines fuel prices in Colac – how can they justify […]
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Pair pull support from organisation
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Judge praises Colac finalists
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A high level of news coverage dedicated to new potential candidates with their stories, aspirations and in some cases their party politic allegiances for state and federal elections! Interesting.
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Business backs Birre broiler farm As a Birregurra based small business owner I welcome and applaud the Colac Otway Shire Councils decision at Tuesday night’s Planning Meeting to support an application for a broiler farm development on Mooleric Road Birregurra. This decision, which carried the unanimous and enthusiastic support of all councillors, will provide an […]
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Bring back volunteers On reading of the proposed closure of the Colac Information Centre, a wonderful purpose-built building constructed by Apex and local people, I could only think what a waste of a great resource. So I made it my business to revisit the centre and noticed a few things. Firstly, I could not see […]
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Embarrassed by hospital’s ‘fake patients’ As a former employee of CAH., and long-term resident of this community, I feel disappointed, embarrassed and ashamed to hear the recent events associated with our health service. The so-called “fake patients” incident has posed, in my opinion, some questions to be asked. What if it had all gone wrong, […]
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Driver calls for bridge repair Has anyone at VicRoads noticed that for months now there has been a significant fracture in the road surface of the Murray Street railway overpass as you head out of Colac in an easterly direction? Every vehicle leaving Colac must hit this gap in the road. To avoid it means […]
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Residents’, ratepayers’ views important The Ratepayers Assoc and The Collective are two of many groups made up of diverse hard-working individuals that produce products and services for the benefit of residents in the Colac Otways and surrounds. These groups like to deal in facts, not fictions. The Colac Otway Shire has received a lot of […]
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Ratepayer feels shame As a ratepayer of the shire and a farmer I was disgusted to hear the ABC Country hour description of the hurdles being placed in the way of delivery of drought fodder to King Island through Apollo Bay by our council. King Island is currently experiencing its worst drought in 100 years. […]
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Thanks to Lake Colac swimmers On checking the death column in Monday’s Colac Herald, to our delight, I found out that the four elite superfish had not come to any mysterious death, from being so totally defiant and swimming from Meredith Park to the foreshore beach, rising up out of the water like four Neptunes, […]
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Congratulations to campaigner Re: Barwon Water ‘Never Again’ Colac Herald October 30, 2023. Congratulations and thank you Malcolm Gardiner for your tireless and persistent ongoing efforts over many years, all worthwhile with an excellent outcome. Heather Smith, Murroon Trick-or-treaters should use bin Next Halloween, I wonder if organisers and parents might ask or insist […]
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Hope for “hand of friendship” As I lurch, stumble into my old age I find that I cannot do many things that I once took for granted. The author Philip Roth described old age as more of a massacre than a battle, I concur. The only plus so far is that a lover of books […]
