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Healthy boost for Hazara vaccine rates
The South East’s Hazara community is being targeted in an innovative promotion to lift Covid-19 vaccine booster rates. Data shows that linguistically and culturally diverse…
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Scores seek bills relief
The mounting pressure of cost of living in Greater Dandenong has prompted a community relief group to hold a ‘Bring your Bills Day’. About 150…
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Man charged over alleged crophouse
A 47-year-old man has been arrested by police at an alleged cannabis crophouse in Hampton Park. Divisional Response Unit police arrived with a search warrant…
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Toxic waste operator fined
The operator of Dandenong South’s toxic waste dump has been fined by EPA Victoria for a reporting breach. Veolia Recycling and Recovery Pty Ltd had…
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Sandon report ‘sobering’: Duff
An IBAC anti-corruption report had exposed a “litany of governance failures” at Casey Council, says the council’s chair of administrators Noelene Duff. Speaking at an…
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Boy ‘unintended’ victim of Endeavour Hills shooting
A sleeping teenage boy is believed to be the unintended victim of a targeted shooting into a home in Endeavour Hills, according to police. The…
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‘Citizens arrest’ after hunt for robbers
Residents performed a dramatic ‘citizens arrest’ after four masked robbers ambushed two boys walking in Narre Warren North. Police say the four males approached in…
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Boy injured after shots fired into Endeavour Hills home
A teenage boy has been injured after several shots were fired into a home in Endeavour Hills. The 17-year-old was sleeping when he was shot…
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Young trafficker on CCO
A drug trafficker has been jailed and released on a CCO after large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine were seized from his bedroom in Clyde.…
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Pharma overdoses ‘preventable’
Prescription drugs are a common factor in accidental fatal overdoses despite being “largely preventable”, a Monash University expert says. Both illicit and pharmaceutical opioids are…
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‘Save my son’
A Dandenong mother is pleading for a “compassionate” Australian Government to stop its planned deportation of her only son. Supporters are rallying behind refugee Reeta…
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Driver takes a U-turn to court
A Hampton Park man has been charged with unlicensed driving and firearm, drug and car theft offences after a police intercept in Dandenong. Police say…
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