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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…