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Health kitchen food strike serves up a sour taste
By CASEY NEILL
MONASH Health has refused to confirm whether it threw away food left unattended during a kitchen strike last week - or served...
Islamic centre closes after “false accusations“
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
AL-FURQAN Islamic Centre in Springvale South has announced its immediate closure due to “harassment, pressure and false accusations”.
In a statement on its...
New charges for terror accused teen
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A HAMPTON Park man who had been placed in preventative detention since Saturday’s counter-terrorism raids has been released, re-arrested and charged by...
Spirit rises up with the sun
ENDEAVOUR Hills resident Asanga Seneviratne was among 76 students chosen to represent Victoria at the Anzac Day Dawn Service in Gallipoli, Turkey.
The Berwick...
Spirit of teenage war adventure
AS THE centenary of the Anzac landing in Gallipoli is commemorated this week, 16-year-old TRAVIS REID, from Hallam Senior College, reflected on his journey...
Mission to save wounded
By CASEY NEILL
DANDENONG man Rod Tharle thought his great uncle had died on a World War I battlefield.
But just a few years ago he...
Family destroyed by battle
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
IN LESS than a year the Great War claimed the lives of both the Kent brothers.
The first of the Narre Warren siblings...
Town hall welcome home
WOUNDED Gallipoli veteran George Pearson was lauded as a hero when he returned to Dandenong in October 1915.
Grainy photographs taken outside the Dandenong Town...
War’s school of hard knocks
By NARELLE COULTER
THE ghosts of Lighthorsemen past ride on at Dandenong High School, their memory preserved in the school’s official colours - dark blue,...
Study tour across history
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THIS month 15-year-old Hayley Hickey stood looking over Anzac Cove and was lost for words.
The current Year 10 student from Fountain Gate...
Wheels roll in to back local manufacturing
By CASEY NEILL
“A GERM of an idea around a dinner table” grew into a traffic-stopping showcase of Dandenong’s manufacturing strength.
Calls to create an annual...
First in the line of bravery
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
NARRE Warren's Neville Jacka reckons his ancestor Albert Jacka must have been a “little bit crazy” to perform such incredible acts of...
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Home Affairs to fund Thomas St dialogue
An intercultural dialogue will be the first step in Greater Dandenong Council's plan to resolve the Thomas Street precinct-naming controversy.
In a council meeting on...
