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CORANGAMITE: Fatal collision at Terang

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Police are investigating a fatal collision in Terang on Tuesday night (Apr. 22). Emergency services were called to reports an e-scooter and car had collided on Lyons St about 6.40pm. The teenage e-scooter rider was airlifted to hospital and later died. The male driver of the Ford utility was not injured and stopped at the…

Police News

MELBOURNE: 5 arrested after store ram-raids

Melbourne Crime Investigation Unit detectives have arrested five people following a series of ram raids at luxury stores in Melbourne’s CBD. Detectives executed multiple search warrants at six properties and storage units in Cranbourne, Dandenong and Springvale on tuesday (Apr. 22). Investigators located and seized a number of luxury handbags, stolen vehicles, drugs and assorted…

Observer

OBSERVER: Tiny King

Nathan Hugh Robért returned to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with a reworked version of Tiny King, directed by Taylor Griffiths at the Motley Bauhaus in Carlton.Is it a play, stand-up, or a self-deprecating monologue with a dash of audience participation?Honestly, it’s none of the above—and hard to define. What it is, though, is deeply…

Observer

OBSERVER: One for the Record Books

A fascination with the Guinness Book of World Records exposed Julian O’Shea to many of the world’s quirky and weirdest world records. And so he questioned the provenance of these records. Will they ever be broken and what do you do to become a record breaker?His desideratum to break a world record all started as…

Observer

OBSERVER: Casey Filips, Virtuoso

Virtuoso stars Casey Filips as the pompous and pretentious British actor, Tobias Finley-Fraser, in this solo comedy master class of a show.Co-opted as casting directors, the audience reserves its collective judgement on auditionee number 86, Finley-Fraser.A classically-trained actor and veteran, Finley-Fraser reveals, of 300 similar cattle call auditions.Like the legendary Alexander Dane from the iconic…

Observer

OBSERVER: Dalin Oliver, 90-Day Comedian

Dalin Oliver is a South African comedian, making his debut performance at the MICF.He has performed his show in 18 cities and in seven countries including Australia, Netherlands, England, France, Spain and Germany.Dalin has boundless energy and enthusiasm for the diversity of his native South Africa.He enthuses about his native city of Cape Town and…

Observer

OBSERVER: How Revolting! Sorry To Offend

“You have been watching Milo Edwards,” reads the headline of a card listing a glossary of British terms and references, laying on the seat of each audience member. Claiming that the show was the most ‘British’ show that he has ever written, it provided an insight into the many eccentricities and foibles of British life.A…

Emergency Services

WANGARATTA: Electric couch causes fire

An electric couch is believed to have sparked a blaze which partially destroyed a Wangaratta home on Easter Monday (Apr. 21). Fire Rescue Victoria firefighters were called to the address in Leishman St at 5:45am following calls to Triple Zero (000) reporting a house fire. Crews arrived on scene within six minutes to find a…

Emergency Services

WHITEHORSE: Blaze at Burwood animal hospital

There was a fire at an animal hospital in Burwood on Tuesday evening (Apr. 22). Fire Rescue Victoria firefighters were called to the premises in Blackburn Rd shortly before 7pm after multiple Triple Zero (000) calls alerting them to smoke billowing from the building. Crews arrived on scene within six minutes to find flames issuing…

Police News

WEST WIMMERA: Fatal collision in Little Desert

Police are investigating a fatal collision in Little Desert. Emergency services were called to reports a car collided with a truck on Nhill-Harrow Road, just after 2pm on Tuesday (Apr. 22). The driver and sole occupant of the car died at the scene. The driver of the truck, a 49-year-old Nhill man was uninjured and…