Tag: News
Dressed in unity for harmony
NOBLE Park students last Friday celebrated the diverse cultures that make up Australia - and their classrooms.
St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School students dressed in...
Trying to lick Farsi
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
THE phrase “learning a new tongue” couldn’t be more apt for staff at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre office in...
Rhythms of city’s vibrant life
GREATER Dandenong’s rhythms, colours and languages came to life on stage in Springvale last week.
Springvale Learning and Activity Centre hosted the Unity in Diversity...
Donations pour in for nurse as man faces injury charges
By CASEY NEILL
MORE than $33,000 in donations have flooded in for a nurse who was left in an induced coma with head...
Booked in to learn
NARELLE COULTER
EVERY day staff at Dandenong Library greet Afghan refugee Ramazan Ali with smiles and a chorus of friendly hellos.
When he arrived...
Sights on soft hearts
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
GREATER Dandenong councillor Peter Brown has lashed out at critics of his call for armed guards to patrol Dandenong Civic...
Police cautiously welcome fall in family violence figures
GREATER Dandenong has bucked the state’s soaring rate of reported family violence, according to a Crime Statistics Agency report released last week.
In 2014, there...
Arts lead to harmony
By CASEY NEILL
ART celebrated creativity and highlighted diversity at St John’s Regional College last week.
The Dandenong school held a week-long arts festival...
Tip Top is tapping into laptops
A DANDENONG manufacturer is helping Lyndale Secondary College students to reach their full potential.
Tip Top donated 22 refurbished laptops to the Dandenong North school...
New chapter for history hall
By CASEY NEILL
A NEW archive will protect Greater Dandenong’s history for the future.
City of Greater Dandenong will join with Springvale and District...
Attorney-General backs call to expand Drug Court
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
STATE Attorney-General Martin Pakula has thrown his support behind the lauded Dandenong Drug Court.
Mr Pakula said he was looking forward...
Double fire bomb attack burns fence
MOLOTOV cocktails which set a fence on fire woke a Dandenong North resident on 15 March.
Greater Dandenong CIU Detective Senior Constable Tony Lavars said...