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Marjorie on a mammogram mission
BreastScreen Victoria’s mobile screening van, ‘Marjorie’, will return to Dandenong’s Palm Plaza offering free mammograms to eligible residents from Monday 2 to Friday 13 November 2020. Those…
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‘All options’ open to save trees: council
Greater Dandenong Council is exploring “all options” to save 25 river red gum trees earmarked for more townhouses in Yarraman Village estate. Recently, VCAT found…
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Voting deadline looms
Voting for City of Greater Dandenong councillor elections closes tomorrow. The Victorian Electoral Commission advised that ballot papers must be in the mail or hand-delivered…
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Fake cop jailed for crophouse ‘raid’
A former Olympic boxer has been jailed after he and two co-accused allegedly dressed up as cops and broke into a sleeping family’s home to…
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Candidates fined at anti-Dan protest
Nine people have been arrested and two Greater Dandenong election candidates appear to have been fined at a ‘Sack Dan’ protest at Premier Daniel Andrews’s…
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Stolen-ute driver crashes on Hallam tracks
A 27-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly crashing a stolen ute on train tracks near Hallam railway station. Victoria Police Highway Patrol officers spotted…
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Election 2020’s non-troll ‘haven’
Springvale North Ward has been declared a “haven of civility” during what’s been termed Greater Dandenong’s dirtiest election. Sitting ALP member councillor Sean O’Reilly said…
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Operation Alliance arrests top 250
Three people have been arrested and illicit drugs seized during an Operation Alliance police raid of a house in Springvale. A 45-year-old woman, a 40-year-old…
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Car repeatedly rammed in Springvale
A Volkswagen hatchback driver has deliberately swerved at a fast rate of speed and struck another vehicle several times in Springvale, police say. The black…
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Covid grants re-open for business
Greater Dandenong Council has re-opened and nearly doubled funding for its ‘overwhelmed’ Covid business grants program. A further $150,000 has been allocated for Round 2…
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Levy debate crosses boundaries
A Keysborough Ward candidate has spoken out against a fellow party member’s proposed “stunt” to remove a $350 open-spaces levy on a neighbouring ward’s residents.…
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Trolls ‘stoop’ even lower
Former mayor Roz Blades who spoke out against the toxic ‘trolling’ of candidates has been the target of an obscene Facebook post. Within 24 hours…
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