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Vaccine ‘pockets of resistance’ targeted
Greater Dandenong’s Covid anti-vax pockets will be targeted as the council area’s Covid vaccination rates and active cases continue to rise. Health authorities have voiced…
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Driver dies in hospital
A driver has died in hospital after a single-vehicle crash into a brick fence in Dandenong last month. Police say the 63-year-old Dandenong man’s red…
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Support for outdoor opening
As Victoria prepares to reopen, the State Government has unveiled support to help businesses operate outside. The $54.5 million Outdoor Economy Package will help support…
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Home alone in lockdown
Lockdown’s end can’t come soon enough for Springvale retirement-village resident Maria Janac. The 78-year-old widow lives alone, largely confined to her Lexington Gardens unit during…
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Cannabis crop seized in factory
A Springvale man has been charged after police seized more than 200 cannabis plants in a factory in Dandenong. SD3 divisional response unit officers discovered…
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Covid restrictions ease Friday
Melbourne’s hard lockdown is set to ease from midnight on Thursday 21 October due to Victoria nearing a 70 per cent double-vaccination rate. However, health…
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Stamps election rort claims
More than $10,000 of stamps were allegedly misappropriated from South East Metropolitan MP Adem Somyurek’s electorate office to help another MP’s re-election, an IBAC inquiry…
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Somyurek office ‘shambolic’
A former staffer for State MP Adem Somyurek has described the electorate office in Dandenong as “shambolic” and “dysfunctional”. Mr Somyurek’s father was paid to…
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Cr Truong out of hospital
Greater Dandenong councillor Loi Truong is back at home after spending nine days in hospital with Covid-19. On 6 October, Cr Truong was put on…
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Casey gets new vax site to bolster numbers
A new vaccination pop-up has launched in Casey as officials race to get ahead of rising cases in the municipality. A vaccination centre has been…
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VCAT allows shisha lounge
Greater Dandenong Council’s refusal of a proposed shisha lounge in Noble Park on health and public amenity grounds has been overturned by the state’s planning…
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Report ’critical’ of authorities
I Cook Foods director Ian Cook says the latest Parliamentary inquiry report into the Dandenong South commercial caterer’s closure raises a lot of questions. “There’s…
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