40 years ago
May 4, 1983
“The shame of it is that we have been lumbered by the bad operators of other plants – people have no other way of judging us“, said Mr Dave Cocks, Victorian manager of A.J Bush and Co, who are applying for a permit to establish a rendering works at Fitzgerald’s Road, Laverton North.
30 years ago
May 5, 1993
Monkeys bred at Werribee are used for medical research. Their brains and bodies help us understand human diseases.
20 years ago
April 30, 2003
A new unit at Laverton North’s Port Phillip Prison has the capacity to remotely deliver tear gas en masse – a first for Australian correctional facilities.
9 years ago
April 30, 2014
Eritrean artist Michael Adonai is holding a solo exhibition titled I did not choose to be a refugee. The Werribee artist’s confronting images were inspired
by last year’s sinking of a boat carrying about 500 asylum seekers off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Altona’s Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre is
$1000 shy of the funds needed to frame Adonai’s works in time for the June exhibition.
