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Labor’s Jill Hennessy wins Altona
Labor’s Jill Hennessy has been returned to the seat of Altona. With more than 23 per cent of first preference votes counted in tonight’s state…
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Labor’s Melissa Horne wins Williamstown
Labor’s Melissa Horne has been elected to the seat of Williamstown. With more than 40 per cent of first preference votes counted in tonight’s state…
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Katie Hall wins Footscray as Labor retains power
Labor’s Katie Hall has been elected the new state member for Footscray, retaining the party’s stranglehold on a seat it has firmly held for almost…
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Industrial action for Pier Street
Altona’s Pier Street will be transformed for a night as part of the Art and Industry Festival. “A Night in Altona” will include art installations,…
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Harry’s helping hand
Twelve year old Harry Lidyard of Seabrook Primary School has received a Fred Hollows Humanity Award for comforting a bereaved classmate. The award recognised his…
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My Place: Jovan Kralevski
Altona North’s Jovan Kralevski is a past Hobsons Bay Citizen of the Year for his volunteer work with the Macedonian community, particularly senior citizens. He speaks…
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Food Bytes with Sarah Patterson
FB: How would you rate your cooking skills? EM: I am a certified chef from William Angliss, I worked as a culinary producer on MasterChef North America…
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Paris Hilton at Highpoint to launch new fragrance
American socialite Paris Hilton will make her debut Maribyrnong appearance on Friday as she launches her latest fragrance at Highpoint. The celebrity heiress will be…
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Australia Day festival in Altona cancelled
The Australia Day festival in Altona has been cancelled. The annual event has been run by the Altona Village Traders Association for the past 11…
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Dad inspires a champion boxer
If You Could See Me Now – that’s the song world champion boxer Sylvia Scharper thinks of when she enters the ring and remembers her…
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Summit tackles challenges of growing up African-Australian
AFL star Majak Daw has praised the unifying power of sport at an African Summit at Maribyrnong College involving about 150 African-Australian students from across…
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Six-storey plan for Douglas Parade in Williamstown
Plans have been lodged for the first six-storey residential and retail development in Williamstown’s Douglas Parade. Holtfield Pty Ltd has applied to Hobsons Bay council…
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Artist aid for bush critters
Altona’s Peter Forward is using his art to raise awareness of Australian bush creatures at risk of extinction and the threats to their habitats. Using…
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Council drives test case
In an Australian-first, Toyota has partnered with Hobsons Bay council to trial zero-emission hydrogen-electric cars that produce only water, supposedly clean enough to drink. Toyota…
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Speeding motorcyclist arrested
Police have arrested a motorcyclist who was allegedly detected travelling at almost 200km/h in Laverton North this morning. Police said they observed a 2003 Suzuki…
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