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For a long time, Melbourne's western suburbs have suffered the stigma of disadvantage.

According to Campbell Rose from The Age, this perception of the west as a rust belt bedevilled by social and economic malaise hasn't been helped by the inevitable comparisons to the east — the affluent, leafy suburbs with iconic schools and institutions, with the Maribyrnong River acting as some sort of physical, mental, social and economic divide.