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Welcome to another weekly wrap up.
This week we revealed dairy giant Fonterra was talking to parties interested in buying the soon-to-close Dennington factory. Those potential buyers are not in the dairy industry.
Fonterra appears unlikely to sell the site to a dairy competitor because it is fighting to hang on to its milk supply. Company chiefs were in the region this week meeting suppliers as part of a campaign to shore up milk supplies to sustain its Cobden processing plant and newer factory at Stanhope.
Farmers made it clear to Fonterra it needed to lift its milk price, which will open the new season below several other rivals. Farmers are more likely to change processors than ever because loyalty is largely gone after the 2016 dairy crisis.
New statistics released this week revealed Warrnambool's crime rate was increasing. Police have stepped up their efforts, targeting regular offenders but the most alarming stat was a jump in youth crime.
More international tourists than ever are flocking to the Great Ocean Road, a report released this week said. But how good is their experience?
On a recent trip to Melbourne I was talking to a Scottish tourist, who had trekked to the 12 Apostles, and I asked about her experience. She said the scenery was nice but the overall experience wasn't much to write home about. "There was a toilet there but not much else," she said.
It is inexcusable that calls for a tourism "loop" to be established to capture the estimated 2.45 million people who have or will visit the Great Ocean Road this year are not top of mind for federal, state and local governments, as well as private enterprise.
The latest data shows international visitors spent an average of $462 each over the duration of their Great Ocean Road journey, and around $115 per night. An average of $118 was spent on commercial accommodation per visitor per night.
All that money must have been spent elsewhere because at the region's end of one of the world's great tourism drives, there is little or nothing to prompt them to spend their money on.
Tourists seem to simply turn around before they get to the end of the road and look for greener pastures elsewhere.
Let's face it, at the moment tourism infrastructure on the Great Ocean Road is well short of great. The Twelve Apostles is a parking nightmare and the tourism centre (if what appears to be a large toilet block can be called that) is underwhelming on the same scale that the coast is beautiful.
Other than Port Campbell (a town which does its tourist thing very well, by the way), there really is a whole lot of nothing to make tourists slow down or even stay.
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Until next week,