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Light the lanterns
Chinese New Year will be celebrated in the west this week with many colourful events. The Year of the Goat will be heralded in with…
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Maribyrnong mayor Nam Quach between two monarchs
Maribyrnong mayor Nam Quach is flanked by Aiko Montecarlo and Kiarah Angelique during Saturday night’s crowning of Miss Gay & Miss Transsexual Australia at the…
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West Gate Distributor figures fudged, claims Matthew Guy
The state government has been caught out fudging figures on the cost of the West Gate Distributor, Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has claimed. Labor entered…
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Altona’s wave warriors
Altona Nipper Aimee Jungfer (pictured) will represent her club in the fifth Medibank Wave Warriors Junior Challenge at Torquay Surf Life Saving Club on February…
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Second bite for Sirens
By Goya Dmytryshchak An iconic Williamstown restaurant that went into liquidation to repay a tax debt, unpaid creditors and workers’ wages has reopened with a…
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Western suburbs’ house prices surging, says REIV
House prices rose in the suburbs of Kingsville, Maribyrnong, Altona and Williamstown in the December quarter but unit prices fell, according to REIV figures. Altona’s…
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Coffins stolen A warehouse break-in at Braybrook last month netted two thieves 17 coffins. The men broke into a storage area between midday and 2pm…
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Rapist guilty of repeat offence
A truck driver who abducted and sexually abused three women had built a “raping machine” in a bus he had converted into a home, a…
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Altona: Leah MacGibbon’s riding feat to ‘hell’ and back
Just nine months after bone surgery on both feet, an Altona woman has completed a bicycle feat equivalent to scaling Mount Everest. Leah MacGibbon completed…
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Pictures of diversity
A Footscray artist is turning the notion of “authentic” identity on its head in an exhibition at Footscray Community Artists Centre. Steven Rhall says We…
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Black Sabbath Friday
It has been hailed as the birth of heavy metal – the 1970 release of Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut album. Exactly 45 years later, Yarraville…
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Footscray Mail February 3, 1945 Footscray people everywhere join in the Australia-wide pride at the arrival of the Duke of Gloucester who will become the…
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Queer eye on our times
Newport Substation volunteer Carmel Kozolup appraises works by four Melbourne- based queer cartoonists, who are featured in the Sissy Blvd exhibition at the Substation as…
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Bayside beauty
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It’s difficult to fault properties like this one which has been beautifully renovated and is in a top location. A crisp white colour palette inside…
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