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Basketball stadium security push
Greater Dandenong Council will investigate beefed-up security measures at Dandenong Basketball Stadium over reports of drug dealing and discarded syringes in the outside grounds. At…
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First look at new train fleet
The first High Capacity Metro Trains have been given an airing in darkness at Dandenong railway station. Still to pass its key safety tests, the…
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Council, cyclists plan 11th-hour talks
An 11th-hour meeting has been arranged between Greater Dandenong councillors and cyclists seeking to save the Parkfield Reserve cycling track. Cr Maria Sampey invited Cycling…
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Students step up for change
Family violence is an issue that’s tackled head-on at Hallam Senior College. Students in a VCAL personal development skills class themselves chose the cause –…
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Reds in the flower bed
It’s that time of year when Karinga Nursery’s rich red poinsettia blooms are off to market. Roy Schirmer has hundreds of the flowers primed in…
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DBA’s tournament assist
Dandenong Basketball Association has offered to save a long-running national tournament for South Sudanese Australian players. The upcoming Summer Slam competition was scrapped by the…
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Cabinet hits the reset button
In a sweeping State Cabinet reshuffle, Dandenong MP Gabrielle Williams will oversee family-violence prevention. The issue has been identified as the State Government’s no.1 law-and-order…
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Heavy forces, light learning at Luna Park
Keysborough College joined more than 1400 female students on the rides of Luna Park as part of a pioneering science and maths event. Taking outdoor…
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Road rage at school drop-off
A father-of-two has been punched while dropping his children off at school in a road-rage attack in Carlton Road, Dandenong North on Wednesday, 14 November.…
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Phoenix up in flames
A classic American car has been torched at a factory on Healey Road, Dandenong South. The 1964 Dodge Phoenix was deliberately set alight about midnight…
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House of high-powered weapons and drugs
Two Lyndhurst ‘ice’ addicts were found living in an ‘Aladdin’s cave’ of drugs, firearms and a stolen Ford Mustang, the County Court of Victoria heard.…
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Williams, Somyurek elevated to Cabinet
Dandenong-based state MPs have been the winners in a State Cabinet reshuffle three days after an emphatic election victory. In a stellar rise, Dandenong MP…