Rural

  • Meeting will protest coal-seam gas exploration

    ENVIRONMENTAL activists expect hundreds of people at a Forrest meeting to protest against coal-seam gas exploration.

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  • Colac district sheep thefts go unreported

    A COLAC stock agent says Colac district farmers refuse to report sheep thefts to police because they are frustrated with the outcome.

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  • Growing market for lowline cattle breed

    BEEF farmers Jeanette and Peter Stebbins farm for love.
    The couple moved six years ago to their Princeton

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  • Tractor fans gather for ploughing contest

    COLAC and district ploughers will gather at Larpent this weekend for the Colac and District Ploughing Association’s annual contest.

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  • Landcare celebration for silver anniversary

    COLAC district Landcare groups keep fighting to improve the environment, 25 years after the national network began.

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  • Senator joins gas mining fight

    A GREENS senator has thrown his support behind a battle against coal-bed gas exploration in Colac and district.

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  • Proposed $1.5M roof could save saleyards

    STOCK agents say building a roof over Colac’s saleyards is critical to its survival.

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  • Senator says convoy flopped

    VICTORIAN Greens Senator and Deans Marsh resident Richard Di Natale says a protest convoy from Colac to Canberra was “a flop”.

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