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Support for Kabul refugees
Greater Dandenong residents and businesses are getting behind newly-arrived refugees from Afghanistan, AMES Australia reports. Chief executive Cath Scarth said the agency’s Dandenong office had…
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Sandown Lions win funding
Sandown Lions FC has been awarded in $15,000 State funds to keep at-risk youth connected. South East Metropolitan MP Lee Talarmis said the Sports Alliance…
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Ex-mayor drives medicinal cannabis change
Former Greater Dandenong mayor Roz Blades has described being overwhelmed by chronic pain in her final weeks as mayor as well as her recovery with…
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‘There’ll never be another Merle’
Merle Valma Mitchell 15.07.1934 – 20.09.2021 Merle Mitchell AM, 87, is being remembered as a “true leader” – one who nurtured Greater Dandenong’s community and…
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Warm food hits homes
A South East-based social service is delivering packages of hot-cooked Covid relief to hundreds of vulnerable residents. Since mid-July, Community Abundance’s emergency relief team have…
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Trees vanish, strategy watered down
Greater Dandenong’s sparse tree canopy coverage is receding, despite being a key part of council’s climate change strategy. Since 2016, it has lost a further…
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Family pain remains 30 years on
It was just a few weeks after Sean Millane won the 1991 VFA premiership with Dandenong. It should have been the best time of his…
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Covid-19: Keysborough school Tier 1
A Keysborough school has been added to the state’s Tier 1 Covid exposure sites. An infected case attended Mount Hira College at 185 Perry Road…
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‘God speaks’ with a tremor
St Mary’s Parish priest Brendan Lane was just commenting on the online service’s “technical” difficulties when earth tremors started. Then the camera’s jitters became a…
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Earthquake shakes region
Greater Dandenong appears to have escaped significant damage by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake this morning, according to early reports. According to Geoscience Australia, the epicentre…
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Four Tier 1 exposures at hospital
A fourth Covid Tier 1 exposure event has been recorded at Dandenong Hospital’s emergency department waiting room in the past two weeks. The latest infected…
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Covid-19: Vaccines at Springvale hall
A five-day Covid pop-up vaccine clinic will be unveiled in Springvale in a bid to bridge Greater Dandenong’s vaccination gap. Springvale City Hall’s supper room…
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