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Pyne’s backflip on reforms a source of principal pain
The federal government’s backflip on Gonski funding has angered school principals as education funding worth billions of dollars is in doubt. Despite the Coalition’s promises…
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Coalition plan to repeal mining tax may prove costly for families
The federal Coalition’s plan to repeal Labor’s mining tax is a step closer with the House of Representatives having passed legislation to overturn the Minerals…
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Meadow Heights kids get the jump on literacy skills
Children from three Meadow Heights playgroups have spent the past 10 weeks taking part in Westside Circus’s Tumbling Stories program, a combined literacy and circus…
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Jacksons Creek land to be rezoned for farms
Hume council has moved to clarify its intentions in proposing to rezone a block of land reserved for public purposes to farming land. The proposed…
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Satellite lessons take off across Hume in first year
Hume council is pleased with the success of the Multiversity, video-conferencing-based program in its first year, and hopes community interest will translate into increased enrolments…
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Get smart … Whittlesea is, and now it’s official
Whittlesea was last week named a ‘Smart 21 Community’ by a New York-based community governance group, Intelligent Communities Forum. Whittlesea joins 20 other cities around…
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Face up to AIDA risk, says youth worker
Unacknowledged homosexuality and risky sexual behaviour is the main reason for the ongoing spread of the AIDS virus, warns leading drug and alcohol support agency…
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Black Saturday memorial from seed of an idea
Amanda Gibson’s house in Cottles Bridge was about two kilometres from the fire when a wind change proved a saviour for her on Black Saturday,…
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Violence means passengers miss Roxburgh Park bus
The 901 bus is avoiding Roxburgh Park shopping centre and railway station at weekends after threats and physical violence against drivers. In the past six…
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Students get jobs advice from those in the know
Decisions about elective subjects for next year, as much as exams, make the last weeks of school among the most challenging for years 9 and…
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Determined Rhiannon’s Next Step well on the way
Few quadriplegics are able to ride a horse, live independently and drive a car, let alone walk again just four years after sustaining complete paralysis…
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Sunbury decides: Secession on way, but questions emerge
Hume mayor Casey Nunn and chief executive Domenic Isola met Local Government Minister Jeanette Powell last week over Sunbury’s vote to set up its own…
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