Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Police News
A taxi driver has lost his licence after being caught over the limit in Hadfield.Officers had set up a testing site on Sydney Rd and pulled the Toyota Camry taxi over just after 1am.The male driver allegedly blew .058 on a preliminary breath test at the scene.Instead of attending a police station for an evidentiary…
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Police News
Police are investigating a series of armed robberies in Melbourne’s north-west.It is understood three to four offenders, wearing ski masks and armed with weapons, attended a service station on Dohertys Rd, Truganina, just before midnight on Tuesday, July 1.The group attempted to force entry to the store but were unsuccessful and fled empty handed.The offenders…
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Observer
In a delightful entertaining flight of the imagination, Theatre Works and Inotrope Productions’ show All Is Good … In The Glow Of Moonlight provided a moving evening of song, laughter and tears and a window into what life as an artist must have been like in Stalin’s Russia.In a depiction of the afterlife suggestive of…
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An event, celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Organ Music in Australia, having its beginning with Australia’s very first pipe organ public performance at St David’s Church Hobart on May 15, 1825.The organ, ordered from London in 1824, and shipped to Tasmania at great expense was the very beginning, where today there is said to be…
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Observer
Following the award-winning presentation of Elegies: A Song Cycle in 2024, Clovelly Fox returns to Fortyfivedownstairs from August 20- 31 to present the musical Ordinary Days, written by celebrated composer and lyricist Adam Gwon.Ordinary Days is described as ‘a charming and moving musical about making simple connections in a chaotic city, and tells the story…
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Observer
The Diamond Valley Singers present an eight-performance season of Curtains – ‘The Musical Comedy Whodunit’ from July 11 – 19 at Warrandyte High School.Set in the bright and optimistic world of 1959 Boston, where the premiere of new musical ‘Robbin Hood’ takes a dramatic turn. The show’s diva, Jessica Cranshaw, collapses and is rushed to…
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Observer
The centre piece of Lang Lang’s MSO recital was Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana, which is a deeply expressive, multidimensional work that lives at the intersection of music, literature, and psychology.The emotional volatility of the piece speaks to the duality not just within the work but within Schumann himself.There is impulsiveness and introspection that Lang Lang brought…
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Observer
In one of its regular Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Mornings concerts, classical music lovers were treated to two works by the composers Maurice Ravel and Modest Mussorgsky both of which had rousing passages to stir the emotions.The first short piece was Alborada del gracioso by Ravel; it is the fourth of five movements that make up…
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Observer
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria presents The Mikado from July 17 – 20 at the Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Clayton.With music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and the libretto by W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado is a comic opera, featuring entertaining songs such as I’ve Got a Little List, A Wand’ring Minstrel I, Three…
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Police News
Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following a fatal collision in Hastings.Emergency services were called to reports a pedestrian had been struck by an allegedly modified electric bike on Frankston-Flinders Rd about 6.40pm on May 12.The pedestrian, a 69-year-old Hastings man, was flown to hospital with life-threatening injuries where he later died.The…
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