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Timetable for students’ return
Victorian students will be returning to school in a phased opening starting Tuesday 26 May. From that day, Prep, Grade 1, Grade 2, specialist school,…
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Man dead in Endeavour Hills shooting
Homicide Squad police are investigating the death of a man reportedly shot in Endeavour Hills on Monday night, 11 May. Emergency services were called to…
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‘Small step’ to normality
Victorians can legally resume hosting up to five visitors at their homes as part of a “small, cautious first step” to easing social restrictions. Premier…
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Bills, jobs compound Corona woes
Paying the bills and job losses are the chief concerns of about 150 local CALD families during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey of…
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Covid curve slows
The number of Covid-19 cases in Greater Dandenong has remained at 15, according to state health department figures. However, the Department of Health and Human…
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Art threads through isolation
With public gatherings, performances and exhibitions cancelled in the wake of Covid-19, many artists have struggled to keep up their practice in a blow to…
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Kindness in severe times
Simple, powerful words from Dandenong Primary School students are spreading a timely message of kindness during Covid-19. Photographer Julieanne Perara’s Faces of Harmony exhibition has…
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Funds for ‘sensory landscape’
An inclusive ‘sensory playscape’ area is set to be built at Chalcot Lodge Primary School in Endeavour Hills. The project extends the library’s interior spaces,…
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Cleft nurse wins top award
An Endeavour Hills nurse who has been crowned Australia’s best says she has the “best job”. Tania Green was awarded Nurse of the Year at…
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Clean set of rules
Masks, sanitisers, crowd restrictions and temperature guns are part of the new sets of rules for shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photographer GARY SISSONS visited Dandenong…
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Pell ‘implausible’ on Searson inaction
Cardinal George Pell’s reasons for not acting sooner against Doveton parish priest and accused paedophile Father Peter Searson were “implausible”, according to an unredacted Royal…
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Staff retained for Covid relief
Greater Dandenong Council says it has redeployed 67 staff rather than standing down workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Local councils and their workers have however…