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Keysborough acid test: gallery, video
By ALECIA PINNER
EPA staff donned protective suits before tackling the clean-up of an acid spill on Keysborough Road last Tuesday.
A 1000-litre container fell off...
Pole makes light work of Hallam oval’s tree problem
By ALECIA PINNER: apinner@mmpgroup.com.au
CASEY council will erect an extra light pole at Hallam Recreation
Reserve to solve the problem of a large tree casting a...
Casey, Great Dandenong grants take a massive hit
By ALECIA PINNER
CASEY council will lose $434,000 in federal government grants this
financial year – the second-highest loss to a council in Victoria –...
Gillard backer Dreyfus survives turmoil
By DANIEL TRAN & CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
- See: Crean won't contest Hotham
JULIA Gillard supporter and Isaacs MP Mark Dreyfus will continue
in his role as the...
Baa and Vu beaten, but sheer determination will go on
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS: clucadou-wells@mmpgroup.com.au
- SEE: Vu Ho the fighter: Sheep, prison, Viet Cong, pirates
SPRINGVALE refugee Vu Ho faces a $200,000-plus legal bill after
losing his...
Dramatic build in Greater Dandenong council debt
By DANIEL TRAN
GREATER Dandenong council expects to return to “acceptable” debt
levels in five years, after revealing it borrowed $33 million in 2012-13
to fund...
Thick wall saves woman as car heads into Dandenong North bedroom
By DANIEL TRAN: dtran@mmpgroup.com.au
A DANDENONG North woman could have died when a car ploughed into
her bedroom if the walls had not been double-brick, says her...
Monash Health needle-exchange staff fear job losses
By ALECIA PINNER: apinner@mmpgroup.com.au
STAFF at Monash Health are fighting changes to the Dandenong and
Springvale needle-exchange program which they fear could eliminate their
jobs.
The Foster...
Simon Crean won't contest Hotham at election
By Richard Willingham, The Age
LABOR party veteran Simon Crean has declared the past three years in the hung parliament the low point of his...
Pictures of the Month: May
CHECK out our best photos through May from all over our city, as featured in the Weekly and The Weekly Review newspapers.
Images selected by Metro Media Publishing’s Picture Editors...
Distress over missing diabetic pooch Boofy
THE Narre Warren owners of a diabetic poodle-cross which went missing from Dandenong North two weeks ago are concerned for her health.
'Boofy' was staying...
Isaacs MP Dreyfus to stay Attorney-General
By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
ISAACS federal MP Mark Dreyfus will remain as Attorney-General despite backing former prime minister Julia Gillard in the ALP’s leadership ballot on...