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Grand Mufti terror statement slammed
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS UPDATE 8.30am 19 NOVEMBER GRAND Mufti Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed and the Australian National Imams Council have issued a clarification following their controversial…
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A win for what inclusion looks like
WALLARA’S Picture This competition encourages artists to capture what inclusion looks like. The idea is that people are better equipped to create inclusion in their…
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Wanted on traffic charges
POLICE are appealing for help to find Eugene Geortsacos, who is known to frequent Springvale. The 31-year-old man is wanted after failing to appear at…
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Teen missing for over a month
POLICE have concerns for the welfare of a 17-year-old girl believed to have recently been in the Dandenong region. Victoria Police have released an image…
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Threat to kill kinders ‘extraordinarily serious’
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A MOTHER has threatened to burn down an apartment building and to kill her ex-partner, child and the child’s kindergarten mates, Dandenong…
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Jailed for ‘ignoring’ the law
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A SERIAL suspended driver has been jailed after twice flouting a suspended jail sentence. Johann Michael Vantwest, 27, was picked up for…
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Drugged rider nabbed for speeding
AN UNLICENSED motorcyclist on drugs overtook a State Highway Patrol car at twice the speed limit, police allege. Officers were conducting a routine patrol in…
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Cyclist killed
A DRIVER has hit and killed a cyclist in Noble Park. Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which involved a white Holden sedan…
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Police seize weapons
A SHOTGUN, pen pistols and rifles were among items seized from a 20-year-old Dandenong North man during a police search. Greater Dandenong Tasking Unit executed…
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Elderly woman fights off home intruder
AN 86-YEAR-OLD Dandenong woman has punched a burglar in the head, sending him fleeing. Greater Dandenong CIU Detection Senior Constable Bree Jarvis said a man…
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Rail squeeze to linger for years
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS RAIL commuters on the Dandenong corridor are feeling an ever-tightening squeeze on morning peak trips, according to a Public Transport Victoria report.…
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Leaders in 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…
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