Rural

  • Shearer’s close shave with cancer

    A COLAC district shearer is about to return to full-time work nearly 12 months after recovering from a brain tumour.

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  • ‘Pathetic’ process angers home builders

    A COLAC district landowner says authorities have been “pathetic” in their handling of a process that’s blocking building in the Otways.

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  • Colac company to be world’s best

    AUSTRALIAN Lamb Company managing director John Verrall says he wants Colac’s abattoir to be Australia’s best exporter of sheep products.

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  • Quad bike safety debate

    A COLAC motorbike retailer says adult four-wheel motorbikes aren’t for children, amid calls from researchers to ban youngsters from the machines.

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  • Company plans Colac super farm within two years

    A DATA-STORAGE company says it is “100-per-cent focused” on setting up a multi-million-dollar super farm in the Colac district within two years.

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  • Sowing seeds of hope in Kenya

    BIRREGURRA’S Kate Lidgerwood plans to create a permaculture garden in Kenya “big enough to feed and educate an entire school”.

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  • Orphan joeys keep wildlife carers busy

    COLAC district wildlife carers Ron and Carola Anstis have their hands full looking after eight orphaned joeys.

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  • New owner for Colac lamb processor

    COLAC meat processor CRF has changed owners for the second time in two years.

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