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Crime fighters tackle Oxfam trailwalker
When they’re not busy fighting crime, Wyndham police officers have been hard at work raising money – and their heart rates – to help…
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Explosion fine for Laverton North company
A Laverton North business has been fined $84,000 after a workplace explosion and fire in 2015 that resulted in an employee spending two weeks in…
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Altona North’s Caterina Bartone celebrates 100 years
Altona North’s Caterina Bartone celebrated her 100th birthday on January 23. Born in Soriano Calabro in the Italian region of Calabria, Ms Bartone was the…
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Homegrown talent lights up Stony Creek Music Festival
A stellar line-up of homegrown talent will take to the stage in Yarraville as part of the third Stony Creek Music Festival. From 2-7pm on…
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Secret report behind Footscray childcare centre closure released
A Footscray childcare centre was supposedly shut due to poor patronage and low building quality, according to a confidential Maribyrnong council report. Empire Street Early Learning…
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New housing estate for Williamstown North ‘an experiment’
The former Hobsons Bay Caravan Park at Williamstown North is set to become a new estate housing about 400 people over 2.175 hectares. Hobsons Bay…
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Boomerang Bags cut reliance on plastic
Hobsons Bay Boomerang Bags will feature at a stall at Altona’s Logan Reserve on Australia Day to raise awareness about how people can reduce their…
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‘Outing Disability’ opens in Brimbank
A new exhibition at Brimbank Community and Civic Centre aims to improve understanding of the struggles faced by LGBTQI people who are also living with…
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Dumped cat Devante is fighting for his life
A cat dumped in a backpack and left for dead on a sweltering summer day is slowly returning to health, according to his rescuers. The cat,…
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Airport baggage thief burgles Altona Meadows home
A woman has stolen four bags from a Melbourne Airport carousel and later burgled the Altona Meadows home of one of the victims. Investigators from…
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My Place: Nick Gadd
Writer and psychogeographer Nick Gadd has spent years walking around Melbourne, but the inner-west remains dearest to his heart. He talks with Benjamin Millar …
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Beach lockers at Altona in statewide first
Hobsons Bay has become the first Victorian council to install beach lockers for people to store their personal belongings. The 60 lockers, next to Norfolk…
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Holden on to good times
It seems everywhere you go in Australia, someone has a Holden story. So novelist Paddy O’Reilly collected them and put them in a book titled…
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Walking with pride for Midsumma in Altona
People are invited to join in Hobsons Bay’s first ever pride walk and ‘Marching Together’ exhibition at Altona as part of GOWEST Midsumma Festival events.…
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Deal struck on project tackling homelessness in west
A groundbreaking deal has been struck on a housing project aimed at tackling homelessness in Melbourne’s west. Not-for-profit agency Launch Housing has applied to locate…
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