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Star Weekly looks back on the articles of our predecessors…

40 years ago

5 February, 1986

Deer Park residents are trying to enlist the aid of the militant Builders Laborers’ Federation in their fight to stop the building of the controversial Transport City and other industrial developments in the area.

30 years ago

7 February, 1996

Brimbank commissioners are turning up the heat on western suburbs’ federal politicians in a bid to get the $21 million necessary to extend Kings Road, St Albans, to the Calder Freeway in Sydenham.

20 years ago

7 February, 2006

Amendments to allow greater flexibility in planning for the Broadcast Australia site of the Sydenham Transit City Keilor Plains Precinct have been adopted by Brimbank council.

10 years ago

2 February, 2016

As many as 400 hoon drivers at a time are gathering in industrial estates at Tullamarine for street racing so intense that fire brigade units are called out.

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