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Sports precinct up and running
St John’s Regional College students got a brief but exciting chance to try out the school’s new multi-million dollar sports precinct at the end of…
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Twin double-storeys ‘improvement’: VCAT
The state’s planning tribunal has overruled Greater Dandenong Council’s refusal of a double-storey development at a former public housing estate at Dandenong North. Victorian Civil…
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Covid-19 restrictions saved 36,000 lives: modelling
Social distancing measures has saved Victoria from catastrophic levels of coronavirus death and infection, according to modelling released by the State Government. On 19 April,…
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Promising signs in Covid curve
The number of Covid-19 cases reported in Greater Dandenong has been revised down to 14 in DHHS figures today – a drop of one since…
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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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