Star News Group is one of the largest Australian Family owned independent publishing companies in Victoria. With a motto of connecting people and communities Star News Group publish 25 community newspapers across Greater Melbourne, Victoria and QLD. Our oldest publications, the regional paid weekly The Berwick Pakenham Gazette (founded 1909) and the weekly free Dandenong Star Journal (founded 1866) are still published today, across Melbourne's fastest growing urban growth corridors, the outer south east.