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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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Refugee finds home at SES
With a commitment to “give back”, Greater Dandenong SES member Zulfiqar Hydari is a role-model volunteer. Mr Hydari recently featured in a Scanlan Foundation Research…
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Man charged with murder
A man has been charged with the murder of a 26-year-old Springvale woman at a block of units in Noble Park. Emergency services were called…
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Tree law ‘crunch time’ ahead
The second-stage of Greater Dandenong’s policy to boost its vanishing tree coverage has passed, but thornier decisions remain ahead. Councillors unanimously approved its urban forest…
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Dandenong Covid-fine central
More than 1000 on-the-spot fines for breaching Covid directions were handed out in Dandenong in the 2020-’21 financial year, according to the latest official crime…
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Woolworths cleared for ‘gateway’ site
A new Woolworths shopping centre on a former Bunnings site is touted to inject 150 jobs and $20 million into Dandenong’s economy. The 3600-square-metre project…
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Construction to reopen, Covid-safe
Restrictions on the Victorian construction industry will ease from 11.59pm on Monday 4 October, with a Construction Sector Roadmap setting a way forward for the…