This week on The Booletin and Beyond; Kimberley Price, Kyra Gillespie and Sean Hardeman bring you all the news from across the south-west.
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The JobKeeper wage subsidy officially ended at the start of the week and potentially leaves up to 150,000 Australians without a job. Cally Hotel manager Lucas Reid said businesses are a long way from their pre-pandemic earnings.
Warrnambool grassroots program RSL Active received a state funding boost of $46,000 off the back of its wide-ranging success helping veterans assimilate back into the community after serving.
And accommodation providers said they had been busy after a tumultuous 12 months with one operator reporting the Easter holiday period started booking out in January.
Over to sport and if the Hampden league's season-opener revealed anything, it's that Koroit is still the benchmark. In the netball South Warrnambool came off the mark as the Roosters stunned Koroit in one-goal Good Friday thriller.
Merrivale and Old Collegians have been left to lick their wounds after a bruising Good Friday encounter in the heat. While Merrivale netball coach Elisha Sobey was pleased to get a gritty victory in the heat over a tough opponent under the belt early in the season.
The Standard's sports journalists Nick Ansell, Brian Allen and Sean Hardeman discuss their HFNL and WDFNL 2021 predictions in The Main Break podcast.
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