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Police issue long weekend water safety warning
Water police are urging beachgoers, including those in Hobsons Bay, to stay safe this Australia Day long weekend after being called out to more than…
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Anger at war memorial graffiti
A relative of one of the crew members on HMAS Yarra II, has been left angered after finding graffiti sprayed across its memorial in Newport.…
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Celebrating tennis club century
Great history and a love for sport are just some of the things I love about Hobsons Bay, and my ward of Williamstown. Recently, I…
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From the archives
Star Weekly looks back on the pages of our predecessors. 40 years ago 29 January, 1986 The west’s scallop fisherman claim their industry and jobs…
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Keeping cool on the savannah
As the Victorian summer continues, zookeepers and experts from Werribee Open Range Zoo explained to Jaidyn Kennedy how they help the animals keep cool when…
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Tobacco license deadline approaching
The state government has issued a final call for tobacco retailers and wholesalers to secure a mandatory licence, with less than two weeks remaining before…
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Drinking linked with cancer risk
A major study led by La Trobe University has sent a wake up call to residents across Melbourne’s north and west revealing that cutting just…
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Mum’s fight for life
Fundraisers and appeals are almost always for very worthy causes, but rarely are they matters of life and death. Unfortunately for Footscray single mother Kirsty…
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Western suburbs men charged following Southbank brawl
Five men from the western suburbs have been charged in relation to an alleged brawl at a Southbank licensed premises late last year. It’s alleged…
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Footscray to host misfit poetry party
Having made their first venture out west in November last year, Melbourne poetry collective Slamtidote is making a quick return with a show in Footscray…
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Community Calendar
Free walking basketball Love basketball, but not the running? Join the Westgate Basketball Association’s walking basketball program. Walking basketball is ideal for those returning from…
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Wanted woman hands herself in
Police have revealed that a 27-year-old Tarneit woman who was wanted on warrant following a fatal house fire in Sydenham on 8 September 2024 has…
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Family of film festival finalists
A western suburbs family has been selected as film festival finalists for each of their short films. Filmmaker Tez Frost (Tez Vi Truong), his seven-year…
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My Place
Orginally from Brighton in England, Andy Moutray-Read is now very much at home in the inner-west, serving as a chief executive, a director and a…
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Faces of the west
Each week Star Weekly photographers are out and about capturing events and people across the west.
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