Playgroup learns how to seriously play
By CASEY NEILL
A DANDENONG North playgroup has the state’s best team at its helm.
Rosswood Playgroup won the Community Committee of the Year title at...
Sum of its parts
By CASEY NEILL
MICHAEL Ryan’s name will no longer appear on the accounting firm he started almost 30 years ago.
But he couldn’t be happier.
Aston Ryan...
Group’s burning determination
By GARRY HOWE
A FIRE lit in the conscience of more than 100 community leaders across Greater Dandenong, Casey and Cardinia as part of the...
Religions are united in respect
GREATER Dandenong’s faith and spiritual leaders are uniting against family violence.
The municipality’s interfaith network members are promoting equality and respect toward women.
Equality between women...
Messages make their mark
By CASEY NEILL
GENDER-BASED violence will spend 16 days in the spotlight in Dandenong.
Southern Melbourne Integrated Family Violence Partnership will start #16DaysDandy on International Day...
More than a black eye
FAMILY violence may not be what many people think it is.
Head of the Casey Family Violence Unit (CFVU) Sergeant Ian Lane said control was...
A life lived with abuse
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
HOME has been a house of horrors for ‘Neeti’ both as a child and as a wife.
At 65, the Noble Park grandmother’s...
None Of Our Business But…
IT SEEMS hard to get a drink of water these days.
A burglar fled from a vacated, heavily fire-damaged home when police arrived, Dandenong Magistrates’...
Men still behaving badly
THE man accused of more than 6000 intervention order breaches can’t believe he’s in court.
He’s already told the police that the charges are “bulls***”.
As...
New bus routes in a jam
By CASEY NEILL
BUS routes proposed for Keysborough South have serious flaws, say campaigners.
About 40 residents attended a Public Transport Victoria (PTV) information session on...
‘Anti-Aussie’ migrant coup
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A SELF-described ‘Migrant Team’ has staged an anti-“Australian” coup during a rare board spill at a south-east based migrant resource centre.
Southern Migrant...
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Jack Johnson is the author of When the Clock Strikes, a fascinating account of growing up in Dandenong, his years tending to the city’s...