Venice, Cannes, Footscray

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Marc Savage

Everyone loves Footcray.

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Beware Halloween in the west

Trick or treat western suburbs.

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Post code 3030 takes out top crim spot, 3020 a close second

3030 takes first position in total number of criminal offences recorded, according to Victoria Police data. Derrimut, Point Cook, Werribee, Werribee South and regional Cocoroc and Quandong are all listed in the 3030 post code and racked up a total of 5821 criminal offences recorded.

Runner up goes to 3020 which includes Albion, Sunshine, Sunshine North and Sunshine West with a total of 5648 criminal offences recorded.

Rounding off the top three is 3029 - Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit and Truganina with a total of 5317 offences recorded.

Fourth spot goes to 3021 - Albanvale, Kealba, Kings Park and St Albans with 4274 nudging out 3023 which includes Burnside, Cairnlea, Caroline Springs, Deer Park and Ravenhall with 4232 offences recorded.

The list, of course, does not distinguish between serious and petty crime and is based on a total figure, not a per capita figure. Basically, a post code covering a larger population is bound to have a higher amount of offences than a post code that covers a much smaller population. So if you are shocked at your areas figure, don't worry, it does not necessarily mean it is one of the most dangerous. That title (based on serious crime and broken down per capita) will be awarded to a suburb in our next article. Can you guess who it will be?

Check the stats for your post code in the image below.

Courtesy of Victoria Police

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Why is my hose getting smaller?

Credit: George Vasilevski

Think about it.

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Massive new suburb "East Werribee" to become newest CBD and create 60,000 local jobs

Courtesy of the Department of Planning and Community Development

The massive new suburb temporarily called "East Werribee" (pending winner of state government name competition) is planned to be a CBD located between Melbourne and Geelong. East Werribee will be 750 hectares in size and employ 60,000 people. The new suburb will be situated 25km from Melbourne and 40km from Geelong.

The suburb will have a mix of residential and commercial spaces centered around a 70 hectare waterway network and is situated between Werribee to the west and Point Cook to the east.

East Werribee will be Melbourne's largest infill development site and "will be the largest integrated business and residential development of government owned land in Victoria since Docklands", says the Department of Planning and Community Development.

7,000 homes are expected to be built to house 20,000 people medium and high density housing. Work on the $40 million diamond freeway interchange is expected to begin in 2014 and another $32 million of arterial road upgrades are expected.

Courtesy of the Department of Planning and Community Development

Courtesy of the Department of Planning and Community Development

Courtesy of the Department of Planning and Community Development

Courtesy of the Department of Planning and Community Development

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Lunch in Footscray

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South-west Melbourne youngest in whole of Australia

Australia's youngest area

Lalor holds the title of Australia's youngest electoral division, with 9% of its population being aged 0-4. It also has Australia's lowest number of residents aged 65 and over with 7.0%.

Lalor covers parts of Altona Meadows and Truganina and all of Hoppers Crossing, Laverton, Laverton North, Little River, Point Cook, Seabrook, Tarneit, Werribee, Werribee South, Williams Landing and Wyndham Vale. It also includes part of Eynesbury, part of Mount Cottrell , Quandong, Mambourin and Cocoroc in its rural territory.

Lalor ranks 6th highest nationally and 2nd highest in Victoria for families being couples with dependent children (44.4%), and also has the 6th highest rate of residents purchasing their own homes at 49.3%.

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Melton attractions

What's there to do in Melton?

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Anderson Road

But why?

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Beyonce in the western suburbs

Beyonce goes to Brunswick, Laverton and Sunshine.

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Sunshine West Google Earth

Credit: Paolo Tomasetig

 

Google Earth is watching.

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Ticket Inspectors

Credit: Drae White/Anthony TJ Cutajar

Oh ooooh.

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Arnie Pye in the sky

Kent Brockman over to the Westgate and Ring Road.

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Sunwhat?

Sunwhere? Sunwho?

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Massage in Tottenham

Credit: Troy Hallam

Shhhh. Don't tell anyone.

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Suited up in Sunshine

Only two reasons exist for seeing men  in suits in Sunshine...and only two.

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Sunshine TAFEs most famous graduate

The Castle - Sunshine TAFE

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Footscray Wall

Credit: Chris Crews

This old wall.

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Werribee Rules

Credit: Thomas Michaelis

No witnesses?

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Bongs

Credit: Lauren O'Neill

 

 

Can be found all around the western suburbs of Melbourne. Eucalyptus Bongolia

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Sanctuary Lakes Maze

Only two ways in. No choice.

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Another Westie in charge of Federal Labor

Courtesy of SMH

Member of Parliament for Maribyrnong, Bill Shorten, has been elected as the new Labor leader. Mr Shorten is the first Labor leader elected to the post since the introduction of Kevin Rudd's reforms, where the result of a ballot of ALP members is weighted equally against a ballot of ALP MPs.

Mr Shorten narrowly beat his rival, Anthony Albanese, who polled better among ALP members. 55 of 86 votes in caucus went to Shorten while 40% of ALP members also supported him, giving him an overall vote of 52%.

The new voting rules have been designed to make Labor leadership choices more transparent and give more power to the rank and file of the party as well as restoring the trust of the public, after the backlash over the methods used to appoint Gillard as leader. Each vote in caucus is worth 354 votes from members.

Bill Shorten has been MP of Maribyrnong since 2007. He has served as Minister for Education and Minister for Workplace Relations. Prior to Parliament, Shorten served as secretary of the Australian Workers' Union for 6 years.

Maribyrnong covers the suburbs of Moonee Ponds, Essendon, Niddrie, Keilor East, Avondale Heights, Tullamarine, Airport West, Sunshine and Brooklyn and has been under Labor since 1969.

Shorten is the second Federal leader of Labor to be representing a seat in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Julia Gillard previously served as MP for Lalor.

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Red Foo Werribee

Red Foo proud citizen of Werribee.

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Altona North McDonalds

Fix the driveway.  Even a Hilux will scrape.

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Meanwhile on the Melton Highway

Fast and Furious - Melton Highway. The VL Turbo makes another appearance with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker.

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Mark "Chopper" Read

What do you guys think of the man? Let us know below.

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Laverton horses

I wonder what happened to the random horses outside the Laverton baseball stadium next to the freeway?

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What is it?

Is it a palace? Is it Roman? Historic? Who can guess what it is?

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