Warrnambool City Council has put its 10-year foreshore caravan park plan on ice after councillors questioned the need for new cabins and “safari tents”, when the parks’ ageing amenities still need attention.

The initial plan proposed 17 new cabins and safari tents at Surfside holiday park, projected to cost $4.5 million, as well as leasing out Shipwreck Bay, which is only open 10 weeks a year.

The City of Ballarat will write to the Prime Minister and Federal Minister for Women to call for a royal commission into femicide and gender-based violence. 

Former Ballarat Mayor Tracey Hargreaves told the Brolga the issue is “very personal to us here in Ballarat”, and “the whole culture needs to be involved in shifting this”. 

As of November, 41 women have lost their lives to violence in Australia in 2026. 

Anna Malcolm hadn’t initially planned on running for One Nation. 

While checking something she’d seen on television, the Larpent local visited the party’s website and clicked on a banner reading “become a candidate” out of curiosity.

When the West Vic Brolga spoke to people in Wendouree on Friday about what will swing their vote at late-November’s state election, it was all meat and potatoes: putting food on the table, keeping a roof over the head, ropey roads, accessing hospital care when needed, being inclusive, managing rapid growth.

Here’s some events and things to do that caught our attention this week.