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• Victorian Amateur Football Association. Premier Men’s. Old Brighton 14.15 (99) d Old Melburnians 6.8 (44). St Kevin’s 26.17 (173) d Caulfield Grammarians 2.6 (18). Collegians 17.11 (113) d University Blacks 6.6 (42). Old Haileybury 6.8 (44) d University Blues 5.11 (41). Old Scotch 14.14 (98) d Old Xavierians 6.7 (43).Premier Men’s Reserves. University v
Moorabbin Crime Investigation Unit detectives arrested seven youths on Friday (July 28), following a spate of alleged offences in Melbourne’s southern metropolitan region.The incidents include alleged home invasions and the theft of motor vehicles and petrol, as well as criminal damage, robbery, burglaries, and affrays, in the Chelt-enham, Parkdale and Rosebud areas between Monday, June
Any film that stars Dame Maggie Smith will immediately get a second look from most movie lovers. Add the names Kathy Bates and Laura Linney and it’s starting to look like a pretty spectacular cast.Maggie Smith’s latest film, The Miracle Club, has the veteran in a very different role from the Dowager Duchess in Downton
Melbourne is such a forgiving place for Australian productions to be premiered.The local media reviewers are generally kind, often too kind. It is a traditional Melbourne thing, to encourage theatre producers.Opening night audience membersof 2:22 A Ghost Story were offered complimentary flutes of Chandon champagne as they milled outside Her Majesty’s Theatre in Exhibition St
Clayton Police are appealing for public assistance after a laptop was stolen in Clayton.Officers believe the unknown man and woman entered a store on Princes Hwy about 4.35pm on Wednesday, July 5.The duo walked around the store looking at numerous laptops on display before the man is seen to remove what appears to be bolt
The $72 million contract for a new 42km Dingley pipeline delivering recycled water in Melbourne’s south-east has been awarded to Abergeldie, BMD & KBR (ABK).The new pipeline will unlock 1.8 gigalitres per annum of recycled water supply, enough to fill Albert Park Lake more than two and a half times.The pipeline will deliver recycled water
Television writer-producer and broadcaster Bob Phillips presents his latest novel The Taylors.Ron and Bettina Taylor head an Australian family living on a small, idyllic seaside country property with five children.The oldest child, Trish, blessed with movie star looks and destined for stardom, is guided by her mother to enter various amateur model quests to become
The Thespian Theatre Company presents Love With No Remorse, August 3-13, at the Meat Market Stables, 2 Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne.Written by Touka Shokor and directed by James Huang, Love With No Remorse is set in modern-day Australia, post-pandemic and where statistics show that one in six women and men experience domestic violence at the
Essence Theatre Productions have much to celebrate this month – their 20th anniversary and 1000 performances of What Was That?, performed at the historic Werribee Mansion.Tickets are on sale now for audiences to join the Essence Theatre Productions team to celebrate these two special achievements at the ShadowFax Winery, Werribee on Thursday, August 17 from
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate Cornelius Brown.The 35-year-old is wanted on warrants in relation to burglary and drug offences.Brown is Caucasian, of medium build, approximately 185cm tall with brown shaved hair and has tattoos on both forearms.He is known to frequent the Moorabbin, Caulfield, St Kilda, Thornbury and Northcote areas.Investigators have
