Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors.
40 years ago
December 14, 1982
Michaelis Bayley’s Footscray tannery – which survived the great Australian depressions of the 1890s and 1930s – has been forced to close by the current economic crisis.
30 years ago
December 16, 1992
Brokly has won a major victory in its battle to be annexed from the city of Sunshine to the city of Altona.
20 years ago
December 18, 2002
Maribyrnong council has endorsed plans to build a 10-level apartment and business complex at 242-250 Barkly Street, Footscray.
10 years ago
December 12, 2012
In the dim lights of Williamstown’s Mechanics Institute, hundreds rallied on Saturday against plans to build a ‘Beacon Cove’ in their suburb.
The meeting, organised by Save Williamstown, was a display of defiance against plans for a high-rise high-density development on the Port Phillip Woollen Mill site.
