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Gong for Greater Dandenong businesses
TWO Greater Dandenong businesses and an engineering manager were awarded at this month’s Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame event. AW Bell Machinery, based in Dandenong…
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Two men injured in Springvale hit-and-run
A Keysborough man, 28, was arrested after two men were struck in a hit-and-run incident in a supermarket car park in Springvale about 9.20pm on…
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Disabled residents' anger over Springvale Road crossing
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS DISABLED residents are driving their chairs across a 500-metre footpath obstacle course, including free-wheeling among Springvale Road traffic, to reach a medical…
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Dandenong West 'clean up' plea by traders, residents
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS MORE security cameras, rubbish clean-ups, a crackdown on drug dealers and aggressive beggars, and a post office — they are among the…
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Asylum seekers 'on the brink'
By Cameron Lucadou-Wells A DESPAIRING Afghan community leader said asylum seekers, barred from working and on sub-dole incomes under the federal government’s ‘no advantage’ rule,…
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Kasey Chambers best by a country mile
By CHAD VAN ESTROP COUNTRY music singer Kasey Chambers thrives on the immediacy of a live performance. The ARIA award winner and chart-topping artist says…
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Man robbed at knifepoint in Dandenong
A 21-year-old man sitting in his unlocked car in Potter Street, Dandenong, was robbed at knifepoint. The man was parked outside a vacant block about…
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Dishing out eager, job-ready trainees
IS food the best way into a business person’s heart? Avocare Community Care pitched for work placements for its trainee and Work-for-the-Dole workforce at a…
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Tales from the truck stop
B-triple trucks measuring more than 36 metres are set to hit the Monash Freeway and EastLink. The government says the move will decrease the number…
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Cornish College students bed down for homeless
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS WITH only the cover of cardboard and sleeping bags, students at Cornish College in Bangholme braved winter’s wet and cold for a…
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No extra visitors, council tells Springvale temple
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS A TEMPLE squeezed into a house in Springvale has been denied a second request to cram in more worshippers. The Chin Lin…
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Blades made the cut
By CASEY NEILL ROZ Blades came to Australia as a 10 Pound Pom at age 20, having left school at 14. “It wasn’t that we…