Help Shape Colac Otway's Future

A community survey is now open on Council’s Have Your Say page and is expected to take about 15 minutes to complete.

Each eligible participant who completes the survey can opt to go into the draw to win one of ten $50 vouchers to a local business.

Complete the survey.

Submissions close at 11.59 pm on Wednesday 12 March 2025.

Be part of the discussion!

Colac Otway is recruiting community members from diverse cohorts across the shire to be part of a community panel across a series of three, 2-hour workshops to be held in Colac, Apollo Bay and Forrest.  

Each workshop is designed to build on the discussion of the previous workshop in what’s known as a deliberative approach to community engagement, so it’s important that you can commit to all three workshops. Participants will be selected based on ensuring a diversity of representation across age range, gender and location to help ensure the Council Plan is developed with a mix of views and perspectives about what’s important to our shire.

Places are limited so please ensure you register your interest - registrations close at 5pm Friday 28 February 2025. 

Community Panel ROI

Registration of Interest forms will also be available at Council’s Customer Service Centres in Colac and Apollo Bay. Participants will be compensated for their time.

You can also send us an email with your name, town and contact details to councilplan@colacotway.vic.gov.au and we will contact you soon to start the conversation.

There will be pop-up stations at key shire events in February and March.

Community members will have the opportunity to provide their feedback at these Drop-in Sessions

The Online Community Workshops will give community members the opportunity to work with a facilitator on key issues and topics important to the shire alongside others to ensure diverse representation.

Workshops will be delivered via Zoom and run for 1.5 hours.

Community members will have the opportunity to provide their feedback during these online sessions.

Participants should have access to:

Focus Groups on key issues and topics important to the shire with stakeholders from various sectors are taking place. Focus Groups coming up:

Please contact Council to enquire about registering for a Focus Group. Email councilplan@colacotway.vic.gov.au or phone (03) 5232 9400.