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Young face up to issues
By CASEY NEILL SAFETY, peer pressure and unemployment are the biggest issues facing young people in Greater Dandenong. One Year 10 student told the SpeakOUT…
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Rhonda turns it around
By CASEY NEILL SHARING the Victorian Apprentice of the Year title last week marked a turnaround in Rhonda Neil’s fortunes. In February, thieves stole a…
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Swag solution
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS SWAGS, rather than rooming houses and motels, could be the “new face of homelessness”, according to a housing support services manager in…
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Gifts on wheels
By CASEY NEILL A KEYSBOROUGH hairdresser is giving a new lease of life to some of Thailand’s most vulnerable people. Carmela Ercolano and her partner…
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Police target unlocked vehicles
By CASEY NEILL POLICE will send letters to motorists caught leaving their vehicles unlocked, to tackle a spike in thefts. They launched Operation Secure All…
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Fire was taxing
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS IT was perhaps a bad omen on the eve of a “heavy-lifting” federal budget. About 700 staff were evacuated from the Australian…
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Model of United Nations
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THE global stage was on show at Keysborough College’s Banksia campus in Springvale. Year 10 and 11 students were turned into delegates,…
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Police seize weapons, drugs, stationery
By CASEY NEILL A DRUG bust in Keysborough uncovered ice, a $2500 stationery stash, swords and machetes. Police executed a search warrant at a Corrigan…
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Budget repair and despair
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS REPAIRING the Federal Budget may have broken Shaunagh Stevens’ family budget. The secretary of the Dandenong-based Disability Resources Centre is married with…
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Business tick for tax cut
By CASEY NEILL GREATER Dandenong’s business community has welcomed the company tax cut in last week’s Federal Budget. But there are concerns the 2014-’15 plan…
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Jobs wasteland
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG High students are missing out on support to find employment because work to complete its transformation from three schools to one…
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Medicare Locals on the scrapheap
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS THE scrapping of Medicare Locals in last week’s Federal Budget has at least one positive, according to the Dandenong-based branch’s chairman. Dr…
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