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Explosive device thrown at house
An explosive device was thrown at a Dandenong North home earlier this month. Police say a three-centimetre-diameter device, containing an unknown power, caused a small…
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Dandenong losing its history due to lack of storage
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS SIGNIFICANT parts of Greater Dandenong Council’s historic collection have been damaged due to inadequate storage. A council report last week stated that…
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Speed limit review for Dandenong High
VicRoads will consider changing speed limits on Princes Highway near Dandenong High School. Greater Dandenong Council’s engineering services director Bruce Rendall said VicRoads told the…
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Letters to the Editor, Dandenong Journal
Green wedge: Councillors reject call to resign Well, at least they were given the opportunity. This is a much bigger issue than the Greater Dandenong…
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Hospital ignored security warning: nurses
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS DANDENONG Hospital has failed to implement safety recommendations made two years ago, leading to ongoing staff concerns, the nursing union claims. Nurses…
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Anzac collector unbowed by brazen theft
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS LORRAINE Laughton was unbowed after being cruelly robbed of her handbag and her car while collecting for the Anzac Appeal at Endeavour…
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Filthy on 'eyesore' beside Cheltenham Road
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS PLACES Victoria and Greater Dandenong Council are being urged to remove an “eyesore” of weedy soil heaps outside a housing estate ‘gateway’…
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Pharmacy robbed in Dandenong
An man armed with a knife held up a pharmacy in Stud Road, Dandenong, on Sunday, April 21. The man, described as aged between 30-35…
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Anzac spirit honoured from Dandenong to Gallipoli
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS NOTHING compares to marking Anzac Day at Gallipoli, says Greater Dandenong mayor — and current tourist in Turkey — Angela Long. What’s…
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War service that was never meant to be
By CASEY NEILL GEOFFREY Charters joined the Air Force at age of 18 and fought in Borneo during World War II – but his service…
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Honour the dead and help the damaged
By CASEY NEILL THE Vietnam veterans’ motto is ‘Honour the dead, but fight like hell for the living’. It’s a mantra Noble Park RSL president…
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Scars apart, ’best thing ever’
By CASEY NEILL “YOU’D be six weeks without even taking your boots off, and when you did, your feet’d just bleed. “No blisters or holes…
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