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Save the world’s loneliest mother
How does it feel when your own children wish you to die? Afghanistan’s collapse not only forced young groups but also elders to evacuate the…
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Covid-19 – vax rates lag in Dandenong, Doveton
Large pockets of the Dandenong and Doveton postcodes are unvaccinated against Covid but the tide may be turning, new official statistics show. The South East…
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Plaza starts ‘market’ upgrade
Armada Dandenong Plaza has started an upgrade of its Level 3 ‘Woolworths precinct’. The upgrade will aim for a “market-like atmosphere” with better navigation to…
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Covid strikes disability home
A Covid outbreak has infected residents and staff at a Doveton disability care home. Four residents and six staff at the ermha365 residence in Paperbark…
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Hefty bill for ‘frightening’ dog attack
An unemployed single father faces a bill of more than $13,500 after his pair of unregistered dogs attacked a woman and her German Shepherd in…
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’Pro-choice’ Dark’s colleagues catch Covid
Greater Dandenong councillor Tim Dark as well as two work colleagues have tested positive to Covid-19. Cr Dark said he’d fallen ill the day after…
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Quest to preserve idyllic suburb
Greater Dandenong Council will pursue planning protection for a picturesque residential estate around Cardinia Close in Dandenong North. The council will recommend the precinct next…
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Covid-19: 80% vax target nears
Greater Dandenong is nearing its 80 per cent Covid vaccination target while active cases tripled in the past week. As of 4 October, 78.7 per…
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Recyclables stored in shipping containers
Greater Dandenong’s recycling contractor has found to owe more than $1.4 million to store recyclable plastics in off-site shipping containers since the end of the…
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Journey’s problem shared
In 2020, Star News Group journalist DANIELLE KUTCHEL received funding from the Melbourne Press Club’s Michael Gordon Fellowship to explore mental health in asylum seeker…
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Covid concern grows
Melbourne’s South East has been labelled as a Covid “area of concern” as active cases have more than doubled in the past week. Health authorities…
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Small comfort for pension battler
Two dollars a day. For Dandenong pensioner Danny Johnson, the latest pension increase doesn’t cut it. With rising utility and medication expenses, he says he…
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