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Love boat couple
By NARELLE COULTER IT is hard to imagine 1000 free-range chickens roaming in Noble Park, but that is Mary Bertolini’s earliest memory of the suburb…
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Furore over ‘Pommie bludgers’
‘POMMIE BLUDGERS’ screamed the Journal’s front page headline on 21 March 1974. The furore that followed still bemuses then editor John Woods. “British migrants,” read…
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Journal a shining light
By FORMER EDITOR, JOHN WOODS I WAS privileged to be editor of The (Dandenong) Journal for more than 30 years, during a time in which…
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Images through the ages and into the future
By ROB CAREW NEWSPAPER photographs have been with us for more than 100 years. Until then, only line block images had been used to illustrate…
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Now and then and still here
By FORMER EDITOR PETER SIMCOCK Ten years ago when I wrote some words for the Journal’s 140th anniversary I commented that it was easy to…
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Your newspaper continues to speak out
IT IS with great pleasure that I congratulate the Dandenong Journal on its 150th anniversary. This historical milestone is a proud achievement and a testament…
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A newspaper for the ages
Congratulations to the Dandenong Journal from The Age! To reach 150 years is a remarkable achievement: it’s a tribute to the community which has supported…
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Pen and ink caused a stink
IN THE late 1940s the Journal published a series of cartoons by Alec Brierley under the heading Looking Back on the Good Old Days. The…
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Journal’s jeep hit the streets
By NARELLE COULTER THROUGH rain, hail and shine, Merle Leak ensured her neighbours received their weekly copy of the Journal for more than 20 years.…
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Murder on the city’s streets
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD THEY were crimes that resonated throughout Greater Dandenong. Journal police reporter Lachlan Moorhead looks back at some of the darker stories that…
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Newshound on crime’s trail
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD HUGH Buggy was known as the ‘oracle’. So detailed were the crime reporter’s records of murder investigations that, after his death, police…
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Journal among the icons
THE Journal is one of a handful of institutions that have been constants in the life of Dandenong since the 1800s. The 20 years from…
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