Letters to the editor
Letter to the Editor
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 […]
Letter to the editor
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, […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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 […]
Letters to the Editor
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 […]
Letters to the Editor
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. […]
Letters to the Editor
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, […]
Letters to the Editor
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 […]
Letters to the Editor
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 […]