Opinion
Dear Westie – August 2024
This months issue – can you 'bags' a car park. Also updates on the critical 'poop scoop' issue from last month.
Opinion
Dear Westie – July 2024
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?
Politics
Ashamed councillors, a Techno Park decision, and who pays for Paisley Street?
Ashamed councillors, a Techno Park decision, and who pays for Paisley Street?
Community
WeFo says No to Australia’s first paint recycling facility
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
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
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.
People
Konker Malual – Amplifying the voices of young migrant creatives
Konker Malual sits under fairy lights and looks out to the tightly packed crowd as the smell of Ethiopian food and incense wafts in the air. The beats of DJ Aucun Alias infuse the atmosphere.
Konker is the founder of The Rest of Us (TROU), a non-profit organisation helping disadvantaged youth to discover their voice and share their unique stories.
Education
A new generation of aged care workers ready to take on the world
There was a buzz in the air at Encore Events Centre in Hoppers Crossing recently when 39 students received certificates enabling them to work in an Aged Care setting. The participants all hailed from countries including Tibet, Ethiopia, Thailand and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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