Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessor, the Werribee Banner
40 years ago
July 9, 1975
There’s a fairly high chance that residents of Woodville Park Estate have won their campaign to prevent land adjoining the shopping centre from being developed for flats. A residents’ action committee set up three weeks ago to fight the proposal is confident the land will ultimately be used for recreation.
30 years ago
July 10, 1985
Immigration Department officials detained 30 illegal immigrants on their way to work in the western suburbs last Thursday. Seven of the group were released on the same day but 23 others, including 20 employees of a Laverton North factory, are being held in the immigration detention centre at Maribyrnong.
20 years ago
July 5, 1995
Leukaemia sufferer Aaron Ussing died in his Wyndham Vale home on Friday because doctors could not find a suitable bone marrow donor for him. He was 11. Hundreds of Werribee people joined his parents, Carmel and Ian, brother Reese and sister Bianca at a Requiem Mass for him at St Andrew’s Catholic Church.
10 years ago
July 6, 2005
Wyndham residents will be able to have their say on the long-awaited marina at Werribee South when an environmental effects statement for the development – one of the largest construction projects in the western suburbs – goes on public display from tomorrow.
