Swag solution
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
SWAGS, rather than rooming houses and motels, could be the "new face of homelessness", according to a housing support services manager in...
Gifts on wheels
By CASEY NEILL
A KEYSBOROUGH hairdresser is giving a new lease of life to some of Thailand’s most vulnerable people.
Carmela Ercolano and her partner John...
Police target unlocked vehicles
By CASEY NEILL
POLICE will send letters to motorists caught leaving their vehicles unlocked, to tackle a spike in thefts.
They launched Operation Secure All Valuables...
Fire was taxing
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
IT was perhaps a bad omen on the eve of a “heavy-lifting” federal budget.
About 700 staff were evacuated from the Australian Tax...
Model of United Nations
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
THE global stage was on show at Keysborough College’s Banksia campus in Springvale.
Year 10 and 11 students were turned into delegates, and...
Police seize weapons, drugs, stationery
By CASEY NEILL
A DRUG bust in Keysborough uncovered ice, a $2500 stationery stash, swords and machetes.
Police executed a search warrant at a Corrigan Road...
Budget repair and despair
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
REPAIRING the Federal Budget may have broken Shaunagh Stevens’ family budget.
The secretary of the Dandenong-based Disability Resources Centre is married with two...
Business tick for tax cut
By CASEY NEILL
GREATER Dandenong’s business community has welcomed the company tax cut in last week’s Federal Budget.
But there are concerns the 2014-’15 plan won’t...
Jobs wasteland
By CASEY NEILL
DANDENONG High students are missing out on support to find employment because work to complete its transformation from three schools to one...
Medicare Locals on the scrapheap
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
THE scrapping of Medicare Locals in last week’s Federal Budget has at least one positive, according to the Dandenong-based branch’s chairman.
Dr Nick...
Fighting grief
By CASEY NEILL
CHILDREN who’ve lost someone close to them often need special help.
Rainbows for the Children of Australia is offering a program in Keysborough...
When Cat meets Cat
KEYSBOROUGH Cats fan Lachlan, 11 months, looked a little apprehensive about meeting premiership player Tom Hawkins last Wednesday.
The Geelong Football Club forward posed for...
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Accused hoon to face 10-day trial
An alleged high-speed hoon from Berwick will contest up to 110 charges in a trial lasting an estimated 10 days, Dandenong Magistrates’ Court has...
