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29/10/2022

Star Weekly looks back at the pages of our predecessors.

35 years ago

November 4, 1987

Victorian Government housing estates in the Braybrook and Maidstone areas will get $3.68 million for improvements in the current financial year.

25 years ago

November 5, 1997

The State Labor MP for Sunshine, Mr Ian Baker, is believed to have created Parliamentary history last week when he was one of two Opposition MPs suspended from the Legislative Assembly for a week.

20 years ago

November 5, 2002

A tip fire at Western Land Reclamation, Brooklyn, blanketed Brimbank, Hobsons Bay and Maribyrnong in heavy smoke as it smouldered and flared up for days on end.

10 years ago

November 6, 2012

A former employee at a Cairnlea housing estate is calling on the state government to intervene after residue of chemicals used to make explosives was found to have polluted groundwater in part of the suburb.

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