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Poster child for success in Sea Shepherd campaign
The Steve Irwin ship at Williamstown has temporarily closed due to COVID-19 but people are being invited to be part its history. During its closure,…
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Heavy metal: Residents sent to hotel over West Gate Tunnel noise
Residents along the West Gate Tunnel corridor have been relocated to Quest apartments due to noise from hydroblasting works. Some households have been loaned “white…
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Cedar Meats cluster grows
A growing coronavirus cluster at Brooklyn-based Cedar Meats has been linked to infected workers at a Footscray aged care home and Sunshine Hospital. The meat…
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Celebrating our frontline fighters
From nurses to cleaners, Western Health takes us inside Footscray and Sunshine hospitals to meet some of the staff on the frontline of the coronavirus…
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Lifeline for arts community
Footscray Community Arts Centre has been thrown a lifeline after the state government announced a $16.8 million survival package for Victoria’s creative and cultural sector. Executive director Robyn…
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Angst over driver rules
After 48 years in business, a western suburbs’ driving instructor says he had to take out a private loan to survive the coronavirus crisis. Altona…
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Setting Sun Film Festival moves online
The annual Setting Sun Film Festival, which sells out every year, will go ahead despite COVID-19. Now in its seventh year, it had been set…
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Rubbish bottleneck at Kororoit Creek
Thousands of plastic bottles have washed up in Kororoit Creek in Melbourne’s west, prompting calls for the state government to fast-track a container deposit scheme.…
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Cheers to Communitinnies
When the bars and pubs shut, Footscray’s Hop Nation Brewery pulled together beers made by struggling local independent brewers to home deliver packs of “Communitinnies”.…
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Drive-through testing sites open
Ten drive-through coronavirus testing sites opened in major shopping outlets across Melbourne last week, including Bunnings West Footscray and Highpoint shopping centre. It comes as…
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Farmers’ market proposal for wedding venue
A wedding venue could become the site of Melbourne’s next Slow Food Melbourne Farmers’ Market amid the coronavirus crisis. Happy Receptions at 199 Sunshine Road,…
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Maribyrnong detention centre to house prisoners to slow coronavirus
The former Maribyrnong Immigration Detention Centre will house men leaving jail to “slow the spread of coronavirus”. The state government on Friday announced the centre,…
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Virus rise linked to meatworks cluster
The Cedar Meats processing facility in Brooklyn has been confirmed as the plant at the centre of the latest COVID-19 outbreak. There are 34 cases…
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Pandemic emergency centres identified
Williamstown Town Hall and the basketball stadium in Altona Meadows could be used as emergency relief centres in the event of a local COVID-19 outbreak.…
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Yarraville childcare pupils clear of COVID-19
A Yarraville childcare centre will reopen tomorrow after two children were found not to have coronavirus. The Learning Sanctuary in Gamon Street closed on Wednesday…
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