Letters to the editor

  • Letter to the editor

    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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  • Letters to the Editor

    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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  • 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 […]

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  • 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, […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • 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.  […]

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  • 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, […]

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