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    Peter Dewar

    21 POSTS
    The west is my lifelong home, and I love writing about its people, history and places of interest.

    MEET THE LOCAL ELDERS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM WHO ENVISIONED A GREENER, CLEANER INNER WEST

    In Harris’ compelling autobiography The unwanted Aussie, the reader returns to a bygone Australia and the making of a politician willing to go to extraordinary lengths to promote his anti-pollution cause. 

    HOW A SHOPPER’S PARADISE HELPED FOOTSCRAY OVERCOME A STINKY REPUTATION

    Trips to Footscray shopping centre were part of the fabric of living out west.

    A HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM IN THE WESTERN SUBURBS

    This year we revisit the same question of an Indigenous Voice. Ancient history, salty side of the Yarra.

    MEET FOOTSCRAY’S ELON MUSK AND HIS INTREPID, PRESENT DAY CHRONICLER

    Each day his email inbox contains an enquiry, response or new lead about the Buckingham.

    FROM GORDON STREET TO GRANDE DAME IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD

    "She was always a fierce defender of someone she loved (often those whom society reviled) and was never afraid to call out hypocrisy."