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    The Westsider: March, 2024

    The Westsider is a not-for-profit, monthly community newspaper, written by volunteers and delivered to hundreds of pick-up points across the inner west each month.

    People

    Community united in the call for better buses in Melbourne’s western suburbs 

    Contributor -
    Community members from across Melbourne’s West gathered on Thursday 14th March, alongside local and state government representatives to ask the question ‘Why is the West still waiting for Better Buses in 2024?’
    Edition

    Editor’s note 

    Editor Barbara Heggen -
    There’s been an undeniable stench in the air around the western suburbs of late and it’s not been coming from any factory, abattoir or hazardous material storage facility but from a gym acting as a headquarters for many who identify as neo-Nazis.
    Edition

    Letters to the editor

    Contributor -
    Some advice and a question for Hobsons Bay Council.
    Politics

    Bigger’n Taylor Swift!

    Josie Vine -
    The meetings at Hobsons Bay and Brimbank council last month were bigger’n Taylor Swift!. Well no, maybe your correspondent exaggerates. But there were a lot of people both in and outside council chambers.
    Wellbeing

    Hobsons Bay to host a groundbreaking Dementia Forum 

    Contributor -
    Does someone you love have dementia?  Finally, there’s some good news. A new group has formed called The Hobsons Bay Dementia Soaring Falcons Alliance.
    Sustainability

    Regenerating the West; A tale of two workshops 

    REGEN WEST -
    Two community workshops held over the past month, focused on revitalising areas of the inner west. Both were part of the National Sustainability Festival.
    People

    CHAMPIONS OF THE WEST – Liliana Bravo, Casa Bonita Lifestyle

    CHAMPIONS OF THE WEST -
    After getting her business up and running, Liliana Bravo, a Colombian-born and raised woman, is determined to pass on everything she has learned.
    Local places

    Journey into railway history at Newport Workshops Open Days

    Contributor -
    The historic Newport Railway Workshops are open on the Labour Day long weekend this year (9 to 11 March).
    History

    1927 ‘Mount Mistake’ in West Footscray 

    THEN & NOW -
    Right next to the shiny new Whitten Oval stands ‘Mount Mistake’, a massive tangle of vehicular overpasses that carries Geelong Road traffic over the railway lines at West Footscray station.
    History

    Watswool Wool Brokers

    GHOST SIGNS -
    A towering warehouse in West Footscray, with its decayed WATSWOOL WOO(L) (B)ROKERS sign, was constructed for Australian Estates wool brokers.

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