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Sunshine North land to fetch nearly $2 million

A block of land in a residential zone at Sunshine North is expected to fetch nearly $2 million when it goes under the hammer...

Councillors will return in 2016: Hutchins

Local Government Minister Natalie Hutchins has promised the return of democratically elected councillors to Brimbank next October, despite calls to keep administrators. Possible council candidate...

Giving teens skills and a second chance

Two Sunshine organisations are playing their part to help disadvantaged teenagers get back on track. ACM Parts is donating free items, such as car guards...

Library books to keep for ever

It’s a Brimbank book celebration 10 years in the making, and Christine Denis (pictured), of Sunshine library, can’t wait. Brimbank Libraries will hold its first...

Summer storytime cool for kids

Summer is nearly here and kids are being urged to slip, slop, slap and enjoy a good book. Brimbank council is about to hold a...

Sunshine council offices to be sold next year

Two Sunshine properties housing Brimbank council’s offices and library are not expected to be sold until the second half of next year, at the...

Council park award praised by the Greens

Brimbank council has drawn praise after collecting a fourth award for its Creating Better Parks policy. Western suburbs Greens MP Colleen Hartland said the council...

Weapons arrest raises Melton anti-Islam rally fears

A Braybrook man has been charged with weapons offences after police received intelligence that several people were planning to bring weapons to an anti-immigration...

Photos shed light on life in Afghanistan

Dinjerra Primary School pupils have paused to consider what life might be like for children in Afghanistan. The pupils, including Joseph (pictured), visited Braybrook library...

Australia’s largest Hindu temple to open at Rockbank

People will finally have the opportunity to marvel at Australia’s largest Hindu temple when it’s unveiled later this month. Construction on the Sri Durga temple,...

Landmark arts project lifts off the ground

Brimbank council has secured three major partners to commission a $100,000 artwork for Sunshine’s town centre. Work to construct a sculpture, Man lifting cow –...

Spend a penny for World Toilet Day

It’s hard to imagine life without a toilet, but billions of people around the world don’t have access to this basic necessity of modern...

Keilor council offices to be open to new tenants

Brimbank council will spend $100,000 to develop its Keilor offices in a pitch to attract businesses to the site. Works are due to start next...
One of the families from the original Struggle Street series.

Council “ignores ‘Struggle streets’ outside Sunshine”

A Sydenham resident has questioned where the true Struggle Street lies within Brimbank. As SBS considers filming its next instalment of the Struggle Street documentary...

Vandals deface Sunshine war memorial

A returned serviceman says he’s disappointed with the disregard shown by vandals who defaced a memorial at Sunshine. Kevin Wanders, 81, was walking home from...

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Big battery build underway

Construction on one of the world’s biggest renewable energy storage batteries is now underway in Melbourne’s west. On Wednesday, Premier Jacinta Allan and State Electricity...

Electric bus boost

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