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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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Pen and ink caused a stink
IN THE late 1940s the Journal published a series of cartoons by Alec Brierley under the heading Looking Back on the Good Old Days. The…
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Journal’s jeep hit the streets
By NARELLE COULTER THROUGH rain, hail and shine, Merle Leak ensured her neighbours received their weekly copy of the Journal for more than 20 years.…
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Murder on the city’s streets
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THEY were crimes that resonated throughout Greater Dandenong. Journal police reporter Lachlan Moorhead looks back at some of the darker stories that…
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Newshound on crime’s trail
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD HUGH Buggy was known as the ‘oracle’. So detailed were the crime reporter’s records of murder investigations that, after his death, police…
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Journal among the icons
THE Journal is one of a handful of institutions that have been constants in the life of Dandenong since the 1800s. The 20 years from…
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Market’s wide embrace
Dandenong’s iconic market and the Journal were founded a year apart. As the market gears up to celebrate its 150th anniversary next year, marketing manager…
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Printed photo saves the day
By GEORGIA WESTGARTH IF IT wasn’t for the Dandenong Journal, Helena and Richard Green would be without a photo from their wedding day. Married in…
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We loved our youthful adventures
Artist Sue Jarvis, one of former mayor Maurie and mayoress Gwen Jarvis’s four daughters, tells the Journal what Dandenong was like in her formative years.…
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