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Bad drivers blitzed in Operation Roadwise
Serious road injuries were down in the South East during the recent Christmas-New Year traffic enforcement blitz. Across the statewide Operation Roadwise, nearly 34,000 traffic…
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Jeep driver on the run from highway crash
A man has fled on foot after ploughing a Jeep into the back of another vehicle at speed on the South Gippsland Highway, Dandenong South.…
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Mystery Good Samaritans help robbery victim
Police are seeking two unknown Good Samaritans, who have come to the aid of a street robbery victim in Springvale. A 23-year-old Noble Park man…
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Police search for teen
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing teenager Ataarea Rota-Harris. The 15-year-old left her home on Gerard Street in Dandenong about 10am…
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Police search for teen
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing teenager Emily Douglas. The 16-year-old was last seen in Dandenong North on 17 December. She…
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Police search for missing man
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing Doveton man Aaron Hoghton. The 32-year-old was last seen at an address on Fogosia Street…
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Probe on outsourced costs
Greater Dandenong Council is set to investigate the value-for-money of outsourcing work to consultants. Councillors narrowly voted for a report on whether some of the…
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Staff apply law of kindness
Staff at a Dandenong law firm have dug deep to ‘adopt’ a family of six for Christmas. It’s the fourth consecutive year that the Maurice…
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Model parkland welcomes all
Designing an inclusive park isn’t exactly child’s play. But Years 3 and 4 students at Holy Family Primary School in Doveton put on their design…
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Needy left in post-festive lurch
Financial counselling services in the South East have had their funding cut just ahead of the busy post-Christmas peak-season. Clients at The Salvation Army in…
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Council rethinks parking meters
Greater Dandenong Council is set to investigate ways to resuscitate Dandenong’s declining CBD. The report into The State of the Dandenong Activity Centre will look…
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Council passes ’weak’ pokies policy
Greater Dandenong Council has watered down a proposed gambling policy that would have barred the council holding events at pokies venues. During a meeting on…