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Passenger’s fury over bus-train connection
Like many, Declan Foley hates catching a connecting bus home. His reason, he says, is due to the poor connection timetable between bus and train…
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Classroom is a breath of fresh air
Students at Berwick’s Timbarra P-9 College can now enjoy lessons in fresh air after winning a recycled outdoor classroom. Organised through a partnership between brands…
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Watsons subdivision ’purely private’: Casey CEO
Casey’s chief executive Glenn Patterson has revealed in an IBAC hearing that he’d hired John Woodman’s company Watsons for a “purely private” planning matter. He…
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Oates ’knocked back’ Woodman approach
Former Casey mayor Brian Oates has told of being offered but not accepting “help” by John Woodman’s ALP lobbyist Phil Staindl ahead of the 2016…
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Developer banned
Casey chief executive Glenn Patterson has told an IBAC hearing that developer John Woodman and his planning consultant Megan Schutz were “the most difficult” for…
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Three teens arrested in stolen car
Police have arrested three people in an allegedly stolen vehicle in Narre Warren on Tuesday 3 March. An Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) site had…
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Council’s cosier meeting
Casey Council’s newly appointed interim administrator Noelene Duff has chaired her first public meeting following the dramatic sacking of councillors. Ms Duff led a new-look…
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SWCRAG run by ’lobbyist’
Save Cranbourne West Residents Action Group leader Ray Walker said he didn’t declare to his members all of the paid work he did for property…
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’We work together’: Pallas tells Woodman planner
Treasurer Tim Pallas and Premier Daniel Andrews’s familiarity with property developers has been revealed in an explosive tapped phone call at an IBAC Operation Sandon…
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Planning Minister’s rebuff
An “angered” Planning Minister Richard Wynne “cut off” a planning counsultant’s approach to him, telling people to “keep that girl away from me”, IBAC has…
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SCWRAG led by Woodman ’lobbyist’
The president of Save Cranbourne West Residents Action Group was being allegedly paid as a “lobbyist” for property developer John Woodman. Ray Walker and wife…
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Needles found at park
Jake Styles was walking his dog at a reserve in Narre Warren when he stumbled across a handful of needles not far from a playground.…












