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Yarraville performer joins triple treat marking 50 years of ballet’s best
A CHEEKY dig comparing the Aussie male to a courting lyrebird will be part of a trio of works returning to the stage to celebrate…
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Life on street with Les: Gangs, pangs and pride
Les Twentyman is fighting for the western suburbs and the kids who live in them, trying to make sure they have better chances in life,…
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Life on street with Les: Gangs, pangs and pride
Les Twentyman is fighting for the western suburbs and the kids who live in them, trying to make sure they have better chances in life,…
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Altona North: Man wanted over indecent assaults
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to a number of assaults on women in Altona North in June, believed to have been committed by the same…
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New Williamstown library to open next month
Williamstown’s new $7.8 million library will open to the public on September 20. The temporary library at the Mechanics Institute will close on September 7.…
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Newport concert designed to ‘soothe the soul’
INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed inner-west musicians will be drumming up support for peace – individually and internationally – in a special performance in Yarraville this Sunday. Newport…
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Footscray lad Leunig a ‘living treasure’
FACTORIES and open fields, burning rubbish tips and the winding river … the Footscray of Michael Leunig’s childhood has come a long way in some…
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WWE star opens Brooklyn pro-wrestling school
PRO-WRESTLING’S first openly bisexual wrestler has opened the first training school run by a pro in Australia – right here in Melbourne’s west. Hailing from…
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Apology to Williamstown’s Olympic hero Peter Norman ‘came too late’
SHUNNED for his involvement in the black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Australian sprinter Peter Norman has received a posthumous apology from…
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Altona author’s journey from anguish to teaching
IT WAS two alarming events that spurred Altona author Dean Mason to write about the grief and trauma of divorce. On May 13 last year,…
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Twentyman youth violence summit battles ‘tidal wave of issues’
POLICE, youth workers and educators have vowed to take a united approach to helping troubled young people in the west following a youth violence summit…
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Williamstown doctor’s flash of insight saving African lives
A WILLIAMSTOWN doctor is helping raise awareness of a little-known disease killing the “poorest of the poor” in central Africa. Peter Zammit, together with other…
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Altona Meadows plaque added to Allem’s legacy
A REMEMBRANCE plaque sparked by the death of Altona Meadows teenager Allem Halkic could be erected in his home suburb by September 8 – the…
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Sunshine rail buses ‘no-go zone’ for injured Altona woman
AN ALTONA woman who is classified by her surgeon as “partially disabled” after undergoing a shoulder reconstruction says Metro staff refused to help as she…
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Roxon’s cigarette battle a win for the generations
A WEEK after the High Court’s decision to uphold the world’s first plain packaging laws for cigarettes, Australia’s first female Attorney-General Nicola Roxon is back…
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