Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Observer
To the growing list of unlikely heroes of the Olympics, Eddie the Eagle, Eric the Eel, the Jamaican bobsledders, Steven Bradbury, Australia can add another: our very own underdog queen of breaking, Spraygun, immortalised in creator Stephanie Broadbridge’s rollicking Breaking the Musical.Sprachael (Broadbridge), a wide-eyed, young(ish) Doctor of Breakdancing, hailing from the mean ghetto streets…
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Two brothers with alleged links to international organised crime have been charged over a complex drug importation plot involving 80kg of cocaine. The men appeared before the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday (Apr. 2) after the Australian Federal Police arrested them earlier in the day. One of the men, 38, from Seabrook, was remanded…
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Police News
A Melbourne man who gave false testimony and provided falsified evidence to the Family Court of Australia has been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. The man, now 36, will spend six months in prison, before being released from custody. The remaining 12 months of his sentence is to be served on a Recognisance Release Order,…
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Police News
A Victorian man has been charged with allegedly threatening a Commonwealth Parliamentarian via email. The AFP charged the Ballarat man, 51, after an investigation into alleged threats made in two emails to the Parliamentarian’s electoral office. The AFP allegedly traced these messages to the man’s personal email account and executed a search warrant on Thursday…
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Police News
Police are seeking witnesses to an incident involving a firearm in Dandenong North. Investigators have been told a mother and her seven-year-old daughter were walking through Tirhatuan Reserve when they observed a male riding a dirt bike in a southerly direction near the basketball courts on Kriegel Way about 6.30pm on March 25. The male…
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Police News
Detectives from the Missing Persons Squad are this week searching an area of Cape Schank as part of their investigation into the suspicious disappearance of Sergio Cuesta in 2023. The search, taking place on Thursday and Friday (Apr. 3-4), has a focus on an area near the Gunnamatta Surf Club. Over the past 18 months,…
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Police News
Three men have been charged with trafficking drugs, after police seized more than $100,000 worth of MDMA and cannabis in Melbourne’s south-east. Malvern Uniform members intercepted a white Mitsubishi ASX Wagon on Kingston Street, Malvern East as part of a routine vehicle stop, just after 2am on Wednesday (Apr. 2). Police will allege there was…
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Observer
Abby Hampton presents her Melbourne International Comedy Festival show An Age to Remember from April 15 to 20 at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre at 6.30pm.Just before her 20th birthday, Abby asked the world (Facebook) advice for the decade of her 20s.She was flooded with guidance from well-meaning friends, family and that person she forgot…
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Police News
Maroondah Crime Investigation Unit detectives are appealing for public assistance following a ram raid at a cigarette store in Ringwood North. It is believed unknown offenders in two separate vehicles attended a shopping complex on Warrandyte Rd about 1.45am on Tuesday, March 25. The offenders drove one of the vehicles, a grey Kia Seltos SUV…
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Police News
n unaccompanied learner driver has shocked police after being clocked doing 200-kmh in Cranbourne North early Sunday morningt (Mar. 30) Casey Highway Patrol members were patrolling along Thompsons Rd when they spotted two vehicles allegedly racing each other about 1am One of the vehicles, a blue Volkswagen Golf R, was detected doing more than double…
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