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No Covid-19 allowance for refugees
Asylum-seeker families are at crisis point due to being deprived from the Federal Government’s $130 billion JobKeeper coronavirus relief package. Since the Covid-19 lockdown, Friends…
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3D printer plugs supply gap
Adversity is proving the mother of invention for a Springvale factory. Due to the coronavirus, Asaleo Care faced a challenge in getting Swiss-made pushing-tube parts…
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IT helps new and vulnerable
Technology is being widely used to support asylum seekers and other new arrivals in Covid-19 lockdown. Dandenong refugee settlement agency AMES’s case managers are using…
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Social housing scrapped
A social housing project in central Dandenong has been quashed by Greater Dandenong councillors amid concerns of entrenching a crime-ridden “ghetto”. The council proposed to…
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Ex-landfill repairs in Springvale park
Greater Dandenong Council will share a $1.76 million bill to rebuild capping on a former landfill in parklands in Springvale South. The repairs to the…
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More trains on-time – with less passengers
As a small silver lining to Covid-19, Cranbourne and Pakenham train services are running more punctually and reliably. But they still didn’t meet State Government…
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Councils’ kitchen sold for $1?
The State Opposition has called for a Parliamentary inquiry into the Government’s purported buy-out of a financially-stricken catering kitchen part-owned by Greater Dandenong Council for…
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Council CEO gains emergency powers
Greater Dandenong Council has delegated emergency powers to chief executive John Bennie in case not enough councillors can attend council meetings during the Covid-19 pandemic.…
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Park youths fined for corona breaches
Ten youths in a Greater Dandenong skate park have been fined by police for breaching Covid-19 social distancing restrictions. They were among 52 fines issued…
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Teens in stolen car arrested in Noble Park
Three teenagers were arrested in Noble Park after a police pursuit of an allegedly stolen car early on Wednesday 15 April. The stolen car sped…
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’New life’ in I Cook Foods’ case
I Cook Foods director Ian Cook has lauded Greater Dandenong councillor Peter Brown’s “refreshing” intervention into claims that council health inspectors planted a slug prior…
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One more Covid-19 case in Dandy
Victoria’s Covid-19 testing regime has been expanded into the nation’s “broadest” in a bid to further “drive down” community transmissions. Testing will be open at…
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