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Afghan for business
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS BUSINESS ties have been quickly knotted since an historic Australia-Afghanistan Business Council economic conference in Dandenong two weeks ago, say organisers. One…
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Migrant family violence
FAMILY violence doesn’t happen just in migrant communities, but they suffer the most. As recently as last year, there were an estimated 400 intervention order…
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Speaking out on violence
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A GREATER Dandenong councillor and immigration lawyer has spoken out on the rising scourge of family violence in migrant communities. Heang Tak…
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Disabled keep the kids
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS MICHELLE de Hommel was taken aback when she was told by a politician that she shouldn’t have had kids. Another told her…
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Temple of room
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A TEMPLE squeezed into a house in Springvale has won a planning appeal to cram in more worshippers. The Chin Lien Quan…
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U3A can bear it
SICK children on their way to hospital will be able to cuddle up to a knitted teddy bear, thanks to the Dandenong branch of U3A.…
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Migrants learn the lingo
A GROUP of migrant students sailed to Ka-Troo and brought back an “It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo” a “Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker…
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Victim threatened with metal bar
A MAN was robbed and threatened with a metal weapon in Dandenong on 18 June. The 26-year-old Dandenong South man was approached by two males,…
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Spruce up for park
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THE ever-rising reputation of the crime-afflicted Menzies Reserve in Dandenong North has been given a $250,000 state funding injection. South-eastern metropolitan MP…
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Sweet dreams
By CASEY NEILL A SELF-TAUGHT Springvale South cake decorator has starred in a bake-off for a good cause. Kerry Tang, 21, saw last year’s Australia’s…
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Club won’t wear it
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS DANDENONG Thunder have indicated they will not stand for the “over-the-top” two-year ban on under 13s boys team manager Aldrin De Zilva.…
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Oasis glass is cleared
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS The Victorian WorkCover Authority has cleared Dandenong Oasis after glass fell from a bank of windows above its main pool in February.…
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