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Chamber chat helps business connect
FORGING business connections through casual chats is the aim of the next Greater Dandenong Chamber of Commerce event. It will host the Business After Dark…
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Council keen to cut the losses
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS GREATER Dandenong Council is one of the first to join a proposed national alliance to lobby for poker machine reform. The Alliance…
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Extreme bashing of woman
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A SPRINGVALE South woman told police she thought she was going to die after her ex-partner allegedly threw her against furniture, punched…
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Long arm of the law
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A MAN has faced court for drunkenly striking two car windscreens with a foot-scooter and injuring an elderly man during a punch-on…
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Winning way with lunch
BUSINESSES can tap into the south-east’s future workforce at a smorgasbord of inspiration. SEBN and South East Local Learning and Employment Network (SELLEN) will next…
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Art from the heart
By CASEY NEILL A NOBLE Park art project has built skills, confidence and teamwork – and a flower-themed mosaic mural. Artist Amanda Forster guided about…
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From eyesore to park?
By CASEY NEILL AN abandoned school site in Noble Park is attracting vandals. City of Greater Dandenong Councillor Peter Brown called for the former Noble…
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Dandenong up in lights
DANDENONG will next month host an Australian-first light and lantern celebration. The Chinese Cultural Works Light Spectacular is coming to the country for the first…
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Teens on right track
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG rail giant Bombardier has given teens a taste of making trains and trams. The manufacturer last week partnered with Rail Skills…
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The member next door
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS WHAT are the chances: a former Dandenong-based MP living next door to a Dandenong-based journalist? Dr Ron Wells represented Eumemmerring Province in…
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Ride to beat depression
By CASEY NEILL DEPRESSION has brought two brothers together for the first time in nine years for a motorcycle journey to the heart of Australia.…
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Niria’s carving out a new career
By CASEY NEILL NIRIA Blockley didn’t think she was smart enough to tackle a business course. But she has not only completed a Diploma of…