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Welcome to the Dudsville Community Newspaper. Her you will find all the up to date headlines and happenings from within Dudsville and the community of the Wander Valley. The page will be updated on a weekly basis and will generally take the format of a local paper. The idea is for you, the community, to have accesss to current affairs at your own convenience.

Despite this week being our very first edition of the online newspaper there are plenty of articles and stories from the week just gone. so have a scroll around the site and enjoy the features. While looking around why not sign up to our members area or shoot us through an article yourself, and if its news, we'll publish it!

Workers would pay levy for new parents

WORKERS would pay a levy averaging $5.70 a week to fund a paid maternity leave scheme delivering mothers six months leave - under the first serious maternity-leave proposal put before the Federal Government.

A former senior public servant has drawn up plans for the $3.5 billion scheme that will be examined by the Productivity Commission.....

Girls take Centre Stage

It is the 11th and final season of the national netball league. In 2008, we go dancing with the Kiwis in the much-anticipated Tasman Trophy, but for now it is business as usual and the Swifts will hope nothing changes.
The stellar season of the Sydney team in 2006 makes it hard to look past them for this year. Alison Broadbent may have retired and a couple of young guns have headed to Canberra but the core of this brilliant team is intact.
Other teams must turn green with envy when they look at the Swifts' roster and see Ellis, Gerrard, Gilsenan, Cox and Pratley. It will take something special to derail their campaign.