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Knife drama shuts Endeavour Hills street
POLICE cordoned off Girvan Circuit, Endeavour Hills, at 10am on Friday, June 28 when a man armed with a knife threatened to harm himself and…
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Charges after Hallam police pursuit
A SOUTH Yarra man has been charged with conduct endangering life after a police pursuit in Hallam. Police patrolling a Hallam Road industrial estate, following a…
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Asylum seeker's cry for help in song
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS MY name is Selva … And I am fighting for my life. So begins Song for Selva, an ode to a Sri…
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Housing plan for Doveton, Eumemmerring school sites
By ALECIA PINNER THE state government wants to rezone three former school sites in Doveton and Eumemmerring as residential areas. A total of 10.4 hectares…
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Civic centre boost for Springvale
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS A BIGGER public library, a community plaza and refurbished town hall are key planks of Greater Dandenong council’s Springvale civic master plan.…
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My Voice: A moment with Marg
Gateway to the goldfields Did you know that Dandenong was once known as the gateway to the goldfields? In The Dandenong Journal’s 120th anniversary issue,…
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Dandenong Market managers dumped
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS DANDENONG Market’s managers were dumped last week as stallholders’ complaints about high rents and low customer numbers came to a head. Dandenong…
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Baa saga: Sheep man counting on the high court
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS SPRINGVALE refugee Vu Ho will take his expensive legal battle to keep his 16-year-old sheep Baa at his home to the High…
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Monster tram from Dandenong South onto test track
By ALECIA PINNER: apinner@mmpgroup.com.au BOMBARDIER’S first 210-passenger, three-section tram has finally rolled off the assembly line in Dandenong South. Overnight on Thursday, June 27, the…
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Copping the good and the bad
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS: clucadou-wells@mmpgroup.com.au RACISM among some police is still a concern, legal aid advocates have claimed. Speakers at last week’s Springvale Monash Legal Service…
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Peacemakers of the streets
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS We join a team of peacemakers building bridges between police and young people from African and Pacific Islander communities. Their targets are…
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Life 'ruined' by deliberate high-speed smash
By ADAM COOPER, The Age A MAN told his fiancee their lives were about to end before he deliberately rammed his ute into the back of…
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