Refugee leaders unveiled
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A MIX of refugees, community leaders and councillors comprise Greater Dandenong’s Asylum Seeker and Refugee Advisory Committee, which was unveiled...
Workers to be the biggest winners
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
BOMBARDIER Transportation’s Dandenong factory has been the venue for spirited competition lately.
While its workers are engaged in a Biggest Loser...
Truck driver pleads guilty to train crash
A TRUCK driver last week pleaded guilty to five charges over a fatal Dandenong South train crash.
Melville Bollen, 72, from Narre Warren North was...
Wool poppies, warm hearts
By CASEY NEILL
A DANDENONG craft class is crocheting and knitting in tribute to Australia’s fallen soldiers.
Wellsprings for Women’s Crafty Connections group for...
Drugs and gun haul
POLICE have charged three men with drugs and firearms offences following raids in Dandenong and Hallam.
They executed search warrants in Ingrid Street, Dandenong, and...
Grocery memories come flooding back
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...
Squatters blamed
POLICE believe squatters started a fire in a Dandenong house last week.
Neighbours noticed smoke coming from the Jesson Crescent property about 4.30pm on 10...
Hoons link to blaze
POLICE are appealing for information about a grassfire that broke out in Fernside Drive, Bangholme, on 7 November.
Witnesses discovered the fire about 9pm, after...
Putting out a new message
Frank Cresia, CEO of Waverley Industries
WHEN approached by the City of Casey to participate in the White Ribbon Challenge Family Violence program...
Disability’s political action
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A DANDENONG-based disability advocacy service has said that hundreds of people with disabilities are being left waiting for individual support packages in...
Maccas raiders take away cash
ARMED robbers have hit Greater Dandenong McDonald’s restaurants four times in one month.
The latest thefts occurred in the early hours of Monday 27 October.
Greater...
Basic needs put lives on track
A DANDENONG networking night will help women and children rebuild their lives after family violence.
Maurice Blackburn’s annual women’s networking function at the Drum Theatre...
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Judge tells murderer to ‘stop the crocodile tears’
A bodybuilder who stabbed his partner to death using six knives in Endeavour Hills while her young daughter tried to stop him has been...
