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    Remembering Dr Mary Burbidge: A visionary who helped create Newport Lakes

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    By Dominique Hes A plaque has been unveiled at Newport Lakes honouring the late Dr Mary Burbidge – a much-loved doctor, fighter for Newport Lakes, birder...
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    How to plan a safe summer getaway in the age of climate extremes

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    By Bridget Sheehan Nothing beats a summer break, out of the city, to a different place and pace, with beautiful natural surrounds. But with increasingly unpredictable...
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    Snakes alive! My favourite season of the year

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    Right now, across the western suburbs, you are never more than a couple of hundred meters away from a highly venomous snake. You just don’t know it.
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    Tens of thousands take a first look inside Melbourne’s newest tunnel

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    Melbourne’s west was on show as thousands of people turned out for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to walk through the West Gate Tunnel before it opens to traffic. 
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    Werribee’s new cliff walk a dazzling display of changing colours

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    Stage one of the K Road Cliff Walk above the Werribee River floodplains is complete and visitors have been wowed by the spectacular views, with some comparing them to Kakadu.
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    Living next door to Whitten Oval- a childhood remembered

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    A reflection on a simple childhood growing up in Footscray.
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    Step inside the West Gate Tunnel before it opens

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    Victorians will soon get a once in a lifetime opportunity to explore the West Gate Tunnel before it opens to traffic, as the project...
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    Cairnlea’s proposed ‘Toxic Hill’ housing development shrinks in size

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    Advocacy by Cairnlea locals appears to have successfully shrunk a future housing estate by 40 per cent.

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