Colac real estate is capturing the attention of buyers across Australia.Real estate agents said new infrastructure, the Geelong bypass and Colac’s close proximity to the coast had lured interstate and Melbourne buyers.Agents said Colac and district had attracted buyers planning to relocate as well as buyers wanting investment properties.Colac to Coast Real Estate owner Lynne [...]
Business owners and community members are meeting to draw up a proposal for a Colac community petrol station.Colac Otway Shire Council candidate Frank Buchanan said he had received an “overwhelming” response from the community after he revealed plans for a Colac community petrol station last week.Mr Buchanan said he spoke to business people and community [...]
A council candidate says he has a solution to Colac’s high petrol prices – a community-owned petrol station.Colac Otway Shire Council candidate Frank Buchanan said Colac could set up a community-owned petrol station to help force down the city’s petrol prices.Mr Buchanan, who lives at Apollo Bay, said he helped start a fuel co-operative at [...]
Federal opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull will visit Colac this month to talk to the district’s business leaders about the Australian economy. Mr Turnbull will be in Colac on November 30 to hear residents’ concerns about the impact of Australia’s flagging economy on the region.Colac’s Richard Riordan, a member of the Liberal Party’s Colac branch, is [...]
Colac Otway Shire Council has an alliance of candidates contesting a municipal election for the first time in the council’s history.Eight candidates have formed a public alliance for this month’s election to help voters understand their intentions.The alliance members are sitting councillors Chris Smith, Warren Riches and Peter Mercer and new candidates Frank Buchanan, Simon [...]
Dust might shroud Colac this summer, with Lake Colac at risk of drying up.Lake authorities say ongoing drought could empty the lake in coming months, and northerly winds could blow dust from the dry lake bed into Colac.The lake’s level rose during winter, but it has started to fall again with the region experiencing warm [...]
Colac has had its driest October for more than 40 years.The district received only 16 millimetres of rain last month, making it the driest October since 1967 when the region received 14 millimetres of rain.Colac’s October rainfall was almost 50 millimetres below the October average of 75 millimetres and is the fifth driest October since [...]
High petrol prices could threaten Colac’s economy as people head out of town to buy their fuel.Colac Otway Shire Council has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to investigate Colac’s unleaded petrol prices, which range between 16 and 28 cents higher than in Geelong.Cr Warren Riches said he was concerned Colac families would [...]
Police will increase patrols at Colac nightspots and introduce harsher penalties for drunken behaviour in an attempt to reduce assault rates in Colac’s central business district.Colac police plan to ban abusive patrons from the city’s nightspots and impose special bail conditions on people arrested for assaults.The bail conditions would ban people from returning to nightclubs, [...]
A Colac motor company has snared Colac district’s premier business award.McKean Motor Company won this year’s Powercor Colac Otway Business Excellence Award on Saturday night and also claimed the Retail Award.Directors Warren McKean and Nick Lowden said they were shocked to receive the night’s top award.“It’s a fantastic achievement that shows off hard work and [...]
