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Road rage driver hits car with hammer
Narre Warren police are appealing for witnesses after reports of a man driving erratically, tailgating and striking a Lexus with a hammer on the Monash…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…