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Burning issues
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A TRAUMATISED former asylum-seeker was last week placed on a good behaviour bond after threatening Department of Human Services staff in Dandenong…
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Secret of English Channel training
By CASEY NEILL NOBLE Park Aquatic Centre is “the best kept secret in Melbourne”. Paul Hoffman is using the pool and Dandenong Oasis for training…
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‘Shocking’ train increase
By CASEY NEILL NEW train services on the Dandenong rail line will bring traffic to a standstill, a Greater Dandenong councillor fears. “It’ll probably be…
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Bob’s your uncle
By CASEY NEILL BERT Glinka has been coming to Uncles Smallgoods in Dandenong since he was a kid. Now the 27-year-old and business partner Brendan…
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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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