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Venomous staffer abuse
A former staffer at a Labor MP’s ministerial and electorate offices says about 80 per cent of her work time was consumed with party-factional...
Violent serial robber jailed
A man’s 12-day violent spree of armed robberies, assault, stolen cars, petrol drive-offs and an aggravated burglary while on bail has landed him in...
Townhouse objections dismissed
Residents are riled by a council recommendation to introduce townhouses into their idyllic single-storey neighbourhood in Endeavour Hills.
A Casey Council planning officer has recommended...
Doc reprimanded for lewd conduct
A former Monash Health gynaecologist has been reprimanded over lewd remarks to a patient and long-term sexual harassment of a midwife.
Rudolph Gerad Lopes, 50,...
Postcodes well short of 70% vax
Doveton and Dandenong postcodes continue to lag well behind the state’s 70 per cent Covid double-vaccination milestone.
Victoria’s pandemic restrictions start to ease from 22...
Refugee housing needed
Long-term housing is required for about 650 airlifted Afghanistan refugees in the South East, a settlement agency says.
AMES Australia is seeking interest from property...
Stamps election rort claims
More than $10,000 of stamps were allegedly misappropriated from South East Metropolitan MP Adem Somyurek’s electorate office to help another MP’s re-election, an IBAC...
Somyurek office ‘shambolic’
A former staffer for State MP Adem Somyurek has described the electorate office in Dandenong as “shambolic” and “dysfunctional”.
Mr Somyurek’s father was paid to...
Byrne quits intelligence role
Holt MP Anthony Byrne has resigned from his long-held intelligence and security committee position in the wake of his branch-stacking testimony at IBAC.
In a...
Timber legend marks 60
From a lineage of sports champions, Jeff Harvey has scored an incredible 60 years with Hallam timber company Bowen & Pomeroy.
Mr Harvey – or...
Vax rate concerns linger
Doveton residents live in one of the lowest Covid vaccinated areas of Melbourne, according to state data.
As of 13 October, between 35-40 per cent...
Son hired for MP’s ’debt’
Factional heavyweight and MP Adem Somyurek allegedly requested for his son to be employed at an electorate office, with the MP pocketing his son’s...
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Judge tells murderer to ‘stop the crocodile tears’
A bodybuilder who stabbed his partner to death using six knives in Endeavour Hills while her young daughter tried to stop him has been...
