Tag: News
'Flying rats' no myna matter
John Strachan is at war - and the battleground is his Oakleigh South backyard. The enemy? Some 23 centimetres of brown and black feathers,...
Church 'ruined my career'
By TARA McGRATH and CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
CARMEL Rafferty was silenced, shut down and bullied in 1992 when she dared to question the behaviour of a...
Haunted by priests' 'dark history'
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
FATHER Michael Shadbolt says a "dark history" of child sex abuse by rogue priests still haunts his Holy Family parish in Doveton.
The...
It's official: Greater Dandenong's streets ahead
By MARG STORK
THE reason Greater Dandenong is 'great' is the people who laid the foundations of our historic city.
Tour guides taking visitors around won't...
Jobs decline as Dandenong work goes overseas
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
JOBS in Greater Dandenong are growing scarcer and it's getting tougher to snare even an entry-level job, a local recruiter says.
In June,...
Men's shed: Fund-raiser for Springvale multicultural shed.
A multicultural men's shed is planned at Springvale Uniting Church early next year and a fund-raising dinner hopes to raise up to $10,000 to install...
Mosque for Doveton vote 'not faith-based'
CASEY councillor Wayne Smith says ideology would not sway his vote on a proposed mosque in Green Street, Doveton.
More than 100 petitioners have opposed...
Segways segue for Dandenong baby shop
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
THERE'S a new way to take a spin in Dandenong.
George Banjac and daughter Diana Papasavva have made an unlikely expansion of their...
Off the bottled water
Silverton Primary School pupils Shania, Jamie, Jaden and Sam were part of a bold film about the environmental harm producing bottled water causes. The War...
Jobs: New Dandenong ventures raise hope
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
TWO recent investments have raised optimism about job opportunities in Greater Dandenong.
Next month, Chobani officially opens a $30 million yoghurt factory in...
What's on in Greater Dandenong
German Christmas: The annual Christmas bazaar at St John’s German Lutheran Church is on this Saturday from 10am at 3 Albert Avenue, Springvale. Featuring...
Exhaustive vote
MY heartfelt thanks go out to all my dearest family - especially my octogenarian mum who despite her age handed out and manned polling...
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Looking Back
100 years ago
30 April 1925
ANZAC DAY
To commemorate Anzac Day, a combined church service was held in the Dandenong Town Hall. The public officers and...
