Teach for Australia expands
Victoria’s brightest minds are proving their worth as teachers, working with secondary students in some of the state’s most challenging classrooms.
The state government has...
Family violence prevention should start at school
The Broadmeadows Legal Centre has called on the state government to take a long-term approach to family violence by tackling it in the classroom.
In...
Cull slashes rabbit numbers
Rabbit populations along some of Sunbury and Bulla’s most vulnerable creeks and rivers have been reduced by up to 90 per cent as part...
Honour restored to Whittlesea’s memorial plaques
About seven months ago, Michael Whitehead (pictured) decided to research the names embossed on plaques that line Whittlesea’s Avenue of Honour.
The RSL member discovered...
Immunisation inroads
A Thomastown early-learning centre for Aboriginal children and families is turning around low immunisation rates and helping others get the message, too.
About six weeks...
Premier defends Sunbury secession review
Premier Daniel Andrews visited Sunbury today where he defended the review of the town's planned secession from Hume.
Speaking at Sunbury College, where he was making...
Epping man charged after training scam raid
An Epping man is one of three men to have been charged with a series of offences relating to a criminal syndicate that allegedly...
Council tightens up on sports funding
Hume council has revised its sports grants program to put a stop to funds flowing to private interstate and international sports tours, and to...
Fresh food off the back of a truck
Asylum seekers can now access fresh fruit and vegetables after the city-based Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) set up a mobile outpost at Thomastown.
From...
No greater gift
Anita Miler’s mother and four friends have all offered to donate a kidney to her. But because of the would-be donors' age or blood...
Carpark mired in mud and blame
Mill Park MP Lily D’Ambrosio and Yan Yean MP Danielle Green last week called on the council to fast-track approval of Public Transport Victoria’s...
On a mission to force council to clean “city of s**t”
A Meadow Heights resident is on a mission to force Hume council to clean up piles of dumped rubbish.
John Mitchell offered to take Star...
Food Bank helps avoid hard choices
Tough economic times are forcing more Victorians to choose between heating or eating this winter.
Single dad Tom, who didn’t want to reveal his surname,...
Runaway groom arrested in Campbellfield
Runaway groom Murat Shomshe, who skipped out on his new bride and the law, has been arrested.
Shomshe, 33, who goes by the name I-am Houdini on Facebook, was...
Sunbury split: Hume seeks its share
Hume council has added its voice to the great number of views expressed to the auditors reviewing plans for an independent Sunbury.
Councillors last week...
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Crafty school holiday fun
The NGV Kids on Tour program made a stop in Gladstone Park and Lalor this week, where children took part in some creative school...
