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Anti-nuke push ‘nonsense’
Greater Dandenong Council has narrowly voted down a motion to lobby for Australia to sign an international treaty banning nuclear weapons. The motion’s proponent Rhonda…
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Action plan for ‘feared’ streets
A staggering 80 per cent of surveyed people say they feel unsafe at night in the troubled Hemmings Street precinct in Dandenong West. Greater Dandenong…
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Woman dies in two-car crash
A woman has died in hospital after a two-vehicle crash in Noble Park North. Police say a white Honda Accord collided with a green Hyundai…
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Working weekend cost defended
A weekend strategic workshop for City of Greater Dandenong councillors and executives at a Mornington Peninsula resort has been partly justified by bushfires several hundred…
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Seeing five sets of double
Killester College students and staff were at first startled to find five sets of twins starting in Year 7 this year. The first-morning assembly caused…
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State’s new ‘JobKeeper’?
A $250 million wage subsidy program will help businesses employ at least 10,000 job seekers, according to the State Government. The Jobs Victoria Fund was…
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Red light to halt pandemic
The Drum theatre in Dandenong was lit up red in recognition of the 1.4 million people who die from tuberculosis each year. It was one…
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Rooming houses rejected
Greater Dandenong Council has scuttled plans to expand a pair of double-storey rooming houses in a Dandenong neighbourhood. Councillors scrapped a planning officer’s recommendation to…
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Council backs solar farm
A controversial solar farm proposal in Springvale South has gained the support of Greater Dandenong Council ahead of a VCAT hearing. The $38 million project…
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$57m super unclaimed
An estimated $57 million in superannuation lies unclaimed in the Bruce federal electorate. Bruce MP Julian Hill said a few minutes tracking lost super could…
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Sex offender for life
A 64-year-old registered sex offender will have to report to police for life after serially exposing himself to families of young children in a Noble…
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Six arrested in hoon raids
Six people have been arrested and vehicles seized during anti-hoon police raids in Hallam, Endeavour Hills and Templestowe Lower. During the Operation Achilles raids on…