News
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Life on $2 a day
By CASEY NEILL SPRINGVALE’S May Dang is doing her bit to change the way people think about poverty. She’ll take part in Live Below the…
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Cash for the crusade
By CASEY NEILL CORNISH College has raised $610 to help a young man on an 18,000-kilometre crusade. Students and teachers at the Bangholme school dressed…
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Good turn in cancer fight
By CASEY NEILL ONE person in Australia will die from bowel cancer every two hours. And Dandenong Rotary is doing its bit to reduce this…
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Cash crop catch
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A SPRINGVALE man has been charged over a $1 million cannabis crop discovered in a factory on the Princes Highway last week.…
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Surviving the cut
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A DANDENONG-based Medicare Local’s success should insulate the branch from speculated federal cuts, its chairman says. Dr Nicholas Demediuk, who chairs South…
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Truckin’ trouble
HEAVY vehicles are in the sights of Greater Dandenong Highway Patrol. Senior Sergeant Scott Roberts said his team was running Operation Austrans throughout May. He…
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No bunnies for Easter
By CASEY NEILL EASTER brought some unwanted attention to hundreds of bunnies in Keysborough. Melbourne Water conducted rabbit baiting in a drain beside 402 Corrigan…
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Manufacturing and working smarter
By CASEY NEILL COLLABORATION and tapping into universities were the key topics at a manufacturing forum in Dandenong last week. About 60 people attended the…
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’Keep the rage’
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A MAN ordered by a court to create a road-safety campaign after nearly killing himself and four passengers in a drink-driving crash…
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Teen armed robbery charges
TWO teenagers will answer charges over an alleged attempted armed robbery in Springvale South last week. Casey CIU detectives said the incident unfolded about 3.30pm…
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Ice disaster
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS IT’S a bit of a disaster. That’s how youth drug and alcohol agency chief Raymond Blessing bluntly describes the widely-described pandemic of…
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Council weighs in on race speech
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS GREATER Dandenong Council has joined a tide of opposition against proposed amendments to federal racial discrimination laws. Last Monday, the council resolved…