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    The Westsider: July, 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.

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    Editor’s Note – July 2024

    Barbara Heggen -
    No, really, you are. Because of your generous support The Westsider raised $2920 during our inaugural ‘Your Stories. Your Voice.’ campaign. THANK YOU!!!
    Opinion

    Dear Westie – July 2024

    Contributor -
    Several times a week, someone let’s their dog drop a deuce on the nature strip outside my house. I never see them, nor do I see the doo doo, until I step in it – and I always step in it! My shoes are ruined, I get doo doo on my rug. I’m at the end of my tether! How do I get these people to scoop their poop?
    Environment

    People power restoring the ecosystems of Melbourne’s precious western waterways

    Mario Pinti -
    Coming across Melbourne’s western plains for the first time, the early pastoralists would have been salivating. Gently undulating, sparsely timbered grasslands as far as the eye can see.
    Edition

    Your Voice – July 2024

    Contributor -
    This month's letters: 'Dangerous bike route claims another victim' and 'No more black roofs'
    Politics

    Ashamed councillors, a Techno Park decision, and who pays for Paisley Street?

    Josie Vine -
    Ashamed councillors, a Techno Park decision, and who pays for Paisley Street?
    Environment

    Forever chemicals pollute the west’s tap water. What can you do about it?

    Contributor -
    Since the 1940s, over 4700 poly and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been produced, for widespread use in the manufacturing of surfactants, dispersants, lubricants, non-stick cookware, fire suppressants, and aviation hydraulic fluid. 
    Environment

    Westies inspired by ecologist’s call to save the remains of Victoria’s native forests

    Contributor -
    In Naarm/Melbourne, we don’t need to imagine real forests: they’re on our doorstep. Our love of everything tall and leafy brought a hundred or so of us together on a mild Wednesday evening in Footscray, to hear from celebrity scientist David Lindenmayer in conversation with fellow author, Kate Mildenhall.
    Community

    WeFo says No to Australia’s first paint recycling facility

    Barbara Heggen -
    Residents of West Footscray and Maribyrnong have rallied together to stop Australia’s first Paintback recycling facility being set up in their neighbourhood.
    Community

    A history of Braybrook’s social housing offers lessons for today’s housing crisis

    Contributor -
    The shortage of social housing has reemerged as a critical issue and many of our local councils are developing policies in an attempt to address the crisis. What better time then to explore how authorities dealt with this problem in decades past in order to avoid more of the same mistakes.
    First Nations

    Champions of the West – Ian Hamm

    CHAMPIONS OF THE WEST -
    In 1964, when he was three weeks old, Ian Hamm was taken from his birth mother, and given to a white family in Yarrawonga, a town on the Murray River that neighbours Lake Mulwala. 

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