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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Yarraville centre waits on COVID test
A Yarraville childcare centre has closed as it awaits test results for two children with presumed coronavirus.
The Learning Sanctuary in Gamon Street closed on...
Council offers rates relief
Rates relief forms part of a $6.5 million support package for residents and businesses affected by COVID-19 that was endorsed at last week's Maribyrnong...
From little things, big things grow
What started as a small gesture by a family business has turned into a network of helpers delivering free staples to the elderly and...
Job loss ‘best chance’ for casuals
A decision to terminate rather than stand down 150 casual employees during the coronavirus crisis has been defended by Maribyrnong council's chief executive.
CEO Stephen...
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Supporting more Victorians with financial counselling
The state government is supporting thousands of Victorians doing it tough, including those in Maribyrnong and Hobsons Bay, through free access to financial counselling...
