40 years ago
April 16, 1975
The Environment Protection Authority has revealed a $1.3 billion plan to reduce pollution across Port Phillip Bay – except at Werribee beach – to safe levels by 1982. EPA chairman Don Little said it did not include the Werribee bay frontage in the project mainly due to the danger caused by the Board of Works sewerage outlet discharging waste into the water. Mr Little also said it “wouldn’t be realistic” to say Werribee beach would be clean and of no danger to swimmers or marine life by this time.
30 years ago
April 10, 1985
A home improvements company has agreed to stop its unfair practices following a series of complaints from Werribee residents to the Victorian consumer affairs department. One resident told the department he had outlaid $6000 to the Scenic Home Improvements and seen “only a few feeble attempts” to start work over the following six months. A department spokesman said complaints laid related to door-to-door sales, contravening the Building Contract Act, and failure to start or complete work in a reasonable time.
15 years ago
April 19, 2000
Wyndham residents are being forced to sleep on the streets, under bridges and in the city’s church yards because of a shortage
of local accommodation and an acute crisis in funding for housing services. Figures released by the Office of Housing (OOH) showed Wyndham, which has a population of 83,000, has 650 OOH properties and 18 community houses, well short of neighbouring Hobsons Bay, which has a similar population and 1033 OOH properties and 162 community houses.
5 years ago
April 7, 2010
A survey of Wyndham’s young people has revealed many are too scared to walk the streets at night. The
Banner asked members of the city’s youth taskforce for their views on drugs, alcohol, binge-drinking and violence in response to a 35 per cent increase in assaults across the region. A 16-year-old Truganina girl recalled being attacked with a meat cleaver by a group of teenagers while walking with her brother near Wyndham Village shopping centre, while others said they felt unsafe on public transport.
