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01/05/2022

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

10 years ago

May 2, 2012

Justice for all. Lawyers putting rights before money.

20 years ago

May 1, 2002

Last Monday Yarraville residents relished something they had not heard for decades: silence.

30 years ago

April 29, 1992

Runaway teenagers sleeping in disused factories, heroin details in the dark corners of our city, drunks sleeping in the Footscray Mall and Railway Reserve and many homeless youth roaming the streets. That is the scene after dark in Footscray on any week night.

40 years ago

April 27,1982

Footscray Council was expected last night to consider setting up a task force to investigate the operations of its credit department.

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