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Star Weekly looks back at the pages of our predecessors.

40 years ago

September 21, 1982

More than 550 workers in the western suburbs have been laid off in the past three months, according to figures tallied by the Western Region Right To Work Committee.

30 years ago

September 16, 1992

Roy Jamieson died last Friday. He had retired from journalism only a few weeks earlier.

20 years ago

September 18, 2002

Initial plans to redevelop the deteriorating Barkly Theatre have been scrapped.

10 years ago

September 26, 2012

Environmentalists have praised the EPA after a Laverton North company was made to pay $55,000 for discharging herbacide into Altona’s Cherry Lake.

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