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Gwen followed the paper trail
Journal reporter RUSSELL BENNETT talks to his grandmother, Gwen Jarvis (widow of former mayor Maurie Jarvis, and one of the City of Greater Dandenong’s Living…
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Family woven into history
By CASEY NEILL THE Tharle family and the Journal have been intertwined throughout their time in Dandenong. Both arrived 150 years ago and Dandenong and…
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Milestones still make good reading
By NARELLE COULTER MANY of the major milestone’s in Joyce Polman’s life have been recorded in the pages of the Dandenong Journal. A photograph of…
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Life set on paper path
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD IF SHE hadn’t worked at the Dandenong Journal, Susan Riley reckons her life would have taken a vastly different path. The Deputy…
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Facing a human tide
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THERE have been times when the waves of new arrivals drove Peter Jarrett crazy. At flood’s peak, hundreds in a month have…
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Love boat couple
By NARELLE COULTER IT is hard to imagine 1000 free-range chickens roaming in Noble Park, but that is Mary Bertolini’s earliest memory of the suburb…
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Furore over ‘Pommie bludgers’
‘POMMIE BLUDGERS’ screamed the Journal’s front page headline on 21 March 1974. The furore that followed still bemuses then editor John Woods. “British migrants,” read…
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Journal a shining light
By FORMER EDITOR, JOHN WOODS I WAS privileged to be editor of The (Dandenong) Journal for more than 30 years, during a time in which…
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Images through the ages and into the future
By ROB CAREW NEWSPAPER photographs have been with us for more than 100 years. Until then, only line block images had been used to illustrate…
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Now and then and still here
By FORMER EDITOR PETER SIMCOCK Ten years ago when I wrote some words for the Journal’s 140th anniversary I commented that it was easy to…
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Your newspaper continues to speak out
IT IS with great pleasure that I congratulate the Dandenong Journal on its 150th anniversary. This historical milestone is a proud achievement and a testament…
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A newspaper for the ages
Congratulations to the Dandenong Journal from The Age! To reach 150 years is a remarkable achievement: it’s a tribute to the community which has supported…
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