News
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Letters to the Editor, Dandenong Journal
We must learn to embrace our waste Far too many usable items are being placed out for hard rubbish. If residents had an address of…
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Identity thief takes $200,000
Police are warning people to report lost identification immediately, after more than $200,000 was stolen from a Dandenong man earlier this year. In what police…
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Stabbed woman's bank card used at ATM
Attacker ‘tried to use ATM’ Police believe a man who stabbed a 73-year-old woman in the neck during a violent home invasion in Endeavour Hills…
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Explosives found at Springvale school
A 10-year-old boy has been cautioned by Greater Dandenong CIU detectives after two suspected explosive devices were found at a Springvale South school last Monday.…
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New arrivals' lesson plan for a new life
By CHAD VAN ESTROP In Maryam Wafajo’s former life, school was a place of arbitrary and random violence dispensed by impatient and intolerant instructors. At…
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Family violence rises in Greater Dandenong
Robberies and drug offences have dived but family violence assaults have climbed in Greater Dandenong in the 12 months to March, according to police statistics…
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Community Voice: Booting the barriers
AS a first-generation Australian, born to Sri Lankan Muslim parents, I know all too well the difficulties faced by migrants in creating that equal sense…
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Firebugs strike in night of havoc
By DANIEL TRAN POLICE say a series of fires lit across the cities of Greater Dandenong and Monash last week could have been disastrous. Detective…
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FFV: Dandenong Thunder joins statewide bid for restructure
DANDENONG Thunder has submitted an 11th-hour expression of interest to be part of the next stage of Football Federation Victoria’s statewide competition restructure. Spokesman Sezar…
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Ballet 'on air' at Drum Theatre
Melbourne Ballet Company’s latest production On Air leaps into action at the Drum Theatre this week. Drum Theatre director Greg Hordacre said the company had…
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Time to bin it right
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS RED, yellow and green bins are set to become the new language on rubbish collection nights in Greater Dandenong within the next…
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Disability access: Council moves to correct problems
GREATER Dandenong Council has taken a “first step” to fixing a glut of disability-access problems in central Dandenong, Cr Matthew Kirwan says. Last Monday, councillors…