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CASEY: Homicide detectives investigate Lyndhurst death

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of a male following a serious assault in Lyndhurst on Friday night (Mar. 14). Police were called to reports of a group of males seen fighting in the vicinity of Society Avenue about 8.30pm. Emergency services arrived to find a male with serious injuries consistent with a stabbing….

Observer

OBSERVER: The Final Call

Friday, March 14, 2025

The Local Paper/Melbourne Observer music columnist Rob Foenander notes that Whittlesea CEO Craig Lloyd, in his side hustle as a xcountry music entertainer, has released his new single titled The Final Call.

Observer

OBSERVER: MICF comedy for young people

Pilot’ is comedy by young people, for young people at the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.‘Pilot’ is bringing together six of Australia’s most promising up-and-comers to headline their first ever Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows.Producers Ethan Gallagher and Dylan McBurney come from comedy and performance backgrounds, and saw a gap in the festival’s youth programs…

Observer

OBSERVER: OK Column with John O’Keefe

Actor-musician Rick Springfield has announced a MRI scan revealed he has lingering brain damage caused by a fall on stage in LA some 25 years ago. At the time of his fall Rick thought he had hurt his wrist and that cured itself. Onwards and upwards for Rick, aged 76, is keeping up his concert…

Observer

OBSERVER: The Arts with Peter Kemp

Presented by The Signal Curators Group, the show Unreal is concerned primarily with the relationship between perception and reality.Within this overreaching concept lies a particular focus on the politics of perception and reality, system of knowledge and their particular basesexplored, the question “who benefits from this message of the truth” presented by viewer to interrogate.The…

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OBSERVER: Louise Lovely’s Labassa

The National Trust property Labassa in Caulfield North presents Louise Lovely’s Labassa on Friday, March 21 from 6pm-7.30pm and 8pm to 9.30pm.Film pioneer Louise Lovely was Australia’s most successful actress in Hollywood’s early silent era, and also Labassa’s most celebrated resident of the 1930s. Visitors are invited to delve into Miss Lovely’s extraordinary life story…

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OBSERVER: Stand Up For Seniors

Tasmanian comedian Daryl Peebles is bringing his stand-up comedy show Stand Up for Seniors … but not necessarily on the bus to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from March 26 to April 6 at 6pm at Wheat, Wine and Whisky, Collingwood.Describing himself as an ‘elder-comic’ entering his ‘final quarter in the football game of life,’…

Sport

HUME: Works underway at Roxburgh Park’s Lakeside Reserve

Local footballers and cricketers can look forward to a better game day experience at Lakeside Reserve in Roxburgh Park with works now underway on a pavilion upgrade and expansion, backed by the State Government. Ros Spence (pictured), Minister for Community Sport, joined Greenvale MLA Iwan Walters and Hume City Council Mayor, Cr Jarrod Bell, at…

Community News

NORTH-EAST: More 513, 514 buses

There are to be more bus services more often in Greensborough, St Helena and Eltham North. More frequent weekend services will be introduced later this year on Routes 513 Eltham – Glenroy via Lower Plenty and Route 514 Eltham – Glenroy via Greensborough, and on weekdays on Route 517 Northland – St Helena. Feedback through…

Police News

BALLARAT: man reunited with 1956 Chevvy

Detectives from the Ballarat Divisional Response Unit have reunited a man with his treasured 1956 Chevrolet Sedan, after a public appeal helped track down the stolen vehicle. The vintage car which held deep sentimental value for the family, was stolen from a property in Smythes Creek on February 27. Following an appeal for information, members…