From the archives

2002

Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors

35 years ago

May 20, 1987

The proposed $130 million shopping centre development in Sunshine will be a financial bonanza for the council according to Cr Geoff Coxon.

25 years ago

May 21, 1997

People in Sunshine are living in rat-infested squalor and enduring domestic and racial violence as they wait six or more years for public housing, letters to the state government reveal.

20 years ago

May 21, 2002

North-west residents have been ‘let down’ by the closure of intensive care and critical care units at Sunshine Hospital in St Albans, says staff members.

10 years ago

May 22, 2012

The state government’s decision to cancel elections and keep Brimbank council under administration until March 2015 has polarised the community.