From the archives

By Molly Magennis

From the archives – Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors.

February 8, 2012

Hanging tough. Women find inspiration by joining the circus.

February 6, 2002

Belandra will be rebuilt. Company director Frank Oravec said the Brooklyn meatworks factory, almost totally destroyed in a blaze last June, would be fully reconstructed.

February 12, 1992

A complaint by the former Footscray mayor Ron Jevic about the Western Independent newspaper’s coverage of the 1991 Footscray Council election has been upheld by the Australian Press Council.

February 9, 1982

Hundreds of Footscray residents are continuing the fight for cleaner air in the West.