Here is what is making news for June 29, 2026.==================================The new one-hundred-and-twenty-six million dollar Twelve Apostles visitor centre has appointed Andre Smaniotto as its general manager under a new management structure.
====================================================================Are-able is hosting a Meet the Mentors Morning Tea at the Salvation Army Colac on Tuesday, July seven.

The event introduces the Parent Pathways program, designed to assist parents and carers of children under six who are not in paid employment.
====================================================================Colac residents are being urged to complete their National Bowel Cancer Screening kits.

Recent data shows only forty-four-point-three per cent of eligible Victorians use the tests, despite the program detecting nearly eighteen-thousand cancers. 
====================================================================Police are appealing for public assistance to locate missing forty-three-year-old Colac man, Matthew.

He was last seen at Footscray Railway Station at three-thirty-p-m on June three.

Matthew frequently travels on the V-Line between Colac and Melbourne, and uses the Metro network. Police hold welfare concerns as his disappearance is out of character and he lacks required medication. 
====================================================================The Surf Coast Shire Council has endorsed its Year Two Action Plan, detailing community and infrastructure projects for the next twelve months.

Initiatives impacting Lorne and Deans Marsh include progressing affordable housing developments in Lorne and providing community grants for local projects.

The plan also focuses on supporting small businesses across the shire and continuing road upgrades.
====================================================================Member for Wannon Dan Tehan has returned from a trip to Europe seeing first-hand the importance of investing in the right types of energy.

Mr Tehan visted England, Norway and Germany recently and says its crucial to ensure the sustainability of Australian industries.
====================================================================Colac Otway and Corangamite farmers can now register for the annual WestVic Dairy Trivia Night on Friday, July third.

WestVic Dairy Project Coordinator Liza Fahy says the event held at the Allansford Football Ground from seven p-m, the fifteen-dollar event raises funds for rural mental health charity Surviving the Dark Times. 
====================================================================AND IN SPORTThe Western Eagles footballers produced the shock upset of the CDFNL round kicking six goals to none in the final quarter to run out 29 point winners against Birregurra.
Lorn won convincingly in the Coastal Cup against Apollo Bay.

Colac Imperials were too strong for Alvie.

Irrewarra-Beeac had a good win against South Colac.

and Simpson were far too strong for Otway Districts.

Over on the netball courts, Birregurra was too strong for Western Eagles.

South Colac beat Irrewarra-Beeac.

Lorne smashed Apollo Bay.

Colac Imperials beat Alvie,

And Otway Districts had a seven goal win against Simpson.
====================================================================Colac netballer Zara Walters and her Melbourne Vixens teammates are through to the Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final after an 11 goal win over the West Coast Fever.

The Vixens face a huge test in the Adelaide Thunderbirds on July 4.
====================================================================Cobden were unsuccessful in this weekends Hampden Football League action going down to Port Fairy by 19.

Camperdown broke through for its first win of the 2026 season defeating Hamilton by 29 points.

Over on the netball courts Cobden won by 12, and Camperdown went down by 13.
====================================================================The Colac Tigers were again overrun in the final quarter in this weekends GFNL action, going down by 2 points to Newtown and Chilwell.

The Tigers led by 13 at three quarter time.

Over on the netball court, The Colac Tigers girls went down by 55 in A Grade.
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