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A Loyola College employee is under Police investigation after a student claimed he asked the boy to buy him MDMA drugs, reports the Herald Sun. Reporter Susie O’Brien said the employee is under investigation over his dealings with a Year 12 student. The 17-year-old student told Police that the staff member asked him to obtain
Plans to increase the wait time to up to six months for unemployment benefits is another cruel blow to those who have become jobless during the pandemic, says McEwen MHR Rob Mitchell. Mr Mitchell said the Morrison Federal Government confirmed it would press ahead with legislation to make Australians applying for the unemployment payments wait
A petition has been collected, with the signatories requesting that Murrindindi Council provide support to an application to VicRoads to extend the 80kmh speed zone to the north side of Nichols Rd, Kinglake West, to suit the Rural Living Zone. Paul Denton’s petition wassigned by five people, and will be brought to the attention of
It happens to the best of us! The North Central Review newspaper, published by the Mott family in Wallan-Kilmore-Broadford-Seymour, is pausing publication of that newspaper next week (only). The temporary pause also applies to their Whittlesea Review and (Romsey-Lancefield) Free Press titles.We know how much regret this short pause would cause to their owners and
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A man has been arrested after he drove towards police at a service station in Altona Meadows on Sunday morning. While on patrol Public Order Response Team officers approached the man after he pulled into a service station bay, on the Point Cook Rd exit of the Princes Hwy, just after 1.20am. The driver ignored
Police are hoping to identify a woman in relation to an investigation into credit card fraud that occurred in June. Investigators have been told the victim, a 27-year-old man, lost his credit cards near his home in Coburg sometime between 8.30am and 12.30pm on Sunday, 28 June. It is believed that someone has located the
Detectives from the Transit Crime Investigation Unit are hoping to identify a man following a stalking incident in Kingsbury in July. Investigators have been told a 19-year-old woman was on a north bound tram on Plenty Road when a man boarded the tram just before 6pm on 10 July. The victim got off the tram
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing 13-year-old Lara Nguyen. Lara was last seen at the Epping railway station on Thursday (Aug. 13) about 3.30pm. Police and family hold concerns for her welfare due to her age and the length of time she has been missing. Lara is known to frequent Doreen,
Watsonia Football Club and Plenty Valley Cricket Club will have a new home at Binnak Park in Watsonia North, with cash from the North-East Link Project negotiated by Banyule Council. This follows Banyule Council’s withdrawal from a Supreme Court Judicial Reviewagainst the State Government over the Link. The temporary home for Watsonia Football Club and
