Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors.
40 years ago
November 16, 1982
About 1400 workers in the western suburbs have been retrenched since June, according to figures released by the Western Region Right to Work Committee.
30 years ago
November 18, 1992
Footscray is the scene of a controversial new film by director and writer Geoffrey Wright, formerly of Laverton, about a violent, neo-Nazi skinhead gang and its eventual destruction. The $1.5 million film, Romper Stomper, centres on a skinhead gang that lives in an old warehouse near Moreland Street, Footscray.
20 years ago
November 20, 2002
This is how a Maidstone pensioner has been forced to live for the past three months. A giant sign nailed to the front door of his home wards off unwanted guests. A meat cleaver hanging on the inside of his door is meant to be another deterrent.
10 years ago
November 21, 2012
Angry residents protested outside Altona’s Dow Chemical plant last Friday at 10am, ready to greet members of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal as they visited the site. Innova Soil Technology is appealing against Hobsons Bay council’s refusal to grant a planning permit for a plant to treat Victoria’s contaminated soil.
