Star Weekly looks back through the pages of our predecessors
35 years ago
May 20, 1987
The proposed development of a $130 million shopping center in Sunshine will be a financial benefit to the municipality, according to Cr Geoff Coxon.
25 years ago
May 21, 1997
People in Sunshine live in rat-infested squalor, enduring domestic and racial violence as they wait six or more years for social housing, letters to the state government reveal.
20 years ago
May 21, 2002
Northwest residents have been “abandoned” by the closure of intensive care and intensive care units at Sunshine Hospital in St. Albans, employees say.
10 years ago
May 22, 2012
The state government’s decision to cancel elections and keep the Brimbank council in charge until March 2015 has polarized the community.