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New suburbs: Population boom or bust?
MORE than 190,000 residents will call Wyndham home over the next 30 years as a result of newly approved suburbs, fanning fears about how the…
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Mercy hospital’s spare beds ‘still closed’
PAEDIATRIC beds in Werribee Mercy Hospital’s short-stay unit remain closed more than a year after the facility was opened. The 10-bed suite was opened by…
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Call to preserve Point Cook’s ‘green lung’
PROTESTERS have called on the state government to protect Point Cook’s green wedge from housing after land was included in Melbourne’s urban growth boundary. Cold…
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Derelict Glen Devon school will hit property values, says neighbour
THE owner of a house next to Glen Devon Primary School has called for the disused site to be cleaned up and put to use…
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Human rights, wrongs debated
YOUNG faces peering through the wire of off-shore detention centres, Third World hunger and poor health in indigenous communities in Australia – no human rights…
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Wyndham retirees denied rates reduction
WYNDHAM Council has again knocked back a request for differential rates for the city’s retirement villages. But it has vowed to help them lobby the…
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Wyndham Vale ‘gaps’ open to burglars
BURGLARS have targeted houses in Wyndham Vale, with four properties broken into over three days. Houses in Boucaut Street, Bursill Court and Narung Way were…
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Toddler surge swamps kindy funding
GOVERNMENTS are being urged to overhaul childcare and kindergarten funding amid fears Wyndham’s influx of young families is outstripping services. A week after the latest…
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Powering on for RecLink
WYNBAY Power’s Anthony fights off a group of Living Room players in the team’s second home game of the RecLink football season. The Power won…
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Hoppers Crossing pokies request to regulator
A HOPPERS Crossing club has taken its bid for more poker machines to the state’s gaming regulator after Wyndham Council rejected its request. It will…
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Wyndham gambles on limits
THE negative social and economic costs of problem gambling are targets of a new Wyndham Council initiative. With more than $81million fed into poker machines…
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VFL: Ablett back to blinding best
WERRIBEE Tigers handed Casey Scorpions only their second loss of the Victorian Football League season at Avalon Airport Oval on Saturday, running out 78-point winners…
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