Police and Emergencies

  • Commission will challenge church

    COLAC’S Catholic parish priest says he expects a royal commission into child sexual abuse will challenge the church.

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  • Public drinking fines will double

    COLAC Otway Shire Council is set to double the fine for drinking alcohol in central Colac streets.

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  • Children lived with drugs and filth

    PILL packets, alcohol bottles, soiled mattresses, food scraps, animal faeces and broken furniture – that’s how a Colac woman has lived with her four children.

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  • Police hunt knife-wielding bandit

    POLICE are hunting a knife-wielding bandit who pretended he had broken down on the Princes Highway and tried to mug a Colac district man.

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  • Protesters rally to fix sex abuse laws

    CAMPAIGNERS have started a petition to remove a statute of limitations rule after state prosecutors dropped a Colac sexual abuse case from the 1970s.

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  • Stolen sheep in front seat

    A STOLEN sheep had an unexpected road trip after thieves allegedly sat it in the front seat of their car as they made their getaway.

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  • Winchelsea murder charge

    HOMICIDE Squad detectives have arrested and charged a Colac district man with murder after the death of a Winchelsea man this week.

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  • $1-million drug haul

    POLICE have seized close to $1 million worth of cannabis plants after using a helicopter to search the Otways.

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