Tag: News
Child marriage equated to sexual abuse
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A guest speaker at City of Casey’s victims-of-crime forum has lashed out at a failure to strongly punish perpetrators of child marriage.
Betul...
Ex-CWA ladies keep it up
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
The Berwick CWA may have closed down, but its big-hearted members have not entirely disbanded.
After running a craft street-stall, the women raised...
Weird, wild and wonderful
You don’t know who you might bump into at Deza-Con-IV.
The South-East’s biggest pop culture fair has in the past attracted a motley crew of...
Byrne in right headspace
Holt MP Anthony Byrne joined a celebration of headspace services in Narre Warren recently.
The event marked headspace Day - a national day that aims...
They can do anything
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Nossal High students have lifted a statewide schools award from the scrapheap, so to speak.
A student group Nossal Environmental Sustainability Team (NEST)...
Bollards for Bunjil
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Surrounding roads will be closed while security bollards are installed around Casey Council’s new civic-arts headquarters in Narre Warren.
Magid Drive will be...
Colour car will go far
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Just the thought of driving his artfully-painted car makes Berwick artist Sohail Yamin nervous.
He refuses to drive the 'SalamMobile’ - it is...
Was it blackmail?
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A Doveton man, twice jailed for family violence, has been granted bail on appeal after claiming he was being blackmailed by the...
190 in 70 zone
A 21-year-old man has allegedly been clocked at nearly three times the speed limit on Princes Highway, Berwick.
The Dandenong North man in a white...
Man is critical
A man has been found with life-threatening injuries near a shopping centre in Berwick.
Passersby found the man with serious head injuries lying on the...
They’ll spin you a yarn
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Six of Casey’s elders reveal the extraordinariness of their lives in a one-off performance, Tale Tellers, at Bunjil Place.
The ‘tale tellers’ made...
Casey’s pokies fightback
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Casey Council has called for a review of gambling regulations after Zagame’s Berwick Springs Hotel won approval for 10 extra poker machines.
On...