Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Police News
Riders on e-bikes, scooters and bikes working for food delivery services have been put on notice, with nearly 300 fines issued as part of an operation cracking down on dangerous rider behaviour in Melbourne.Operation Pathfinder has been running since the start of June, with 289 fines issued for a range of e-bike, e-scooter, motor scooter,…
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Police News
Police are investigating after a fatal collision in Westmeadows on Friday night (Aug. 8).Emergency services were called to reports of a collision involving a car and pedestrian on Mickleham Rd about 6.55pm.The pedestrian, a 52-year-old West-meadows woman, died at the scene.The driver of the car, a 22-year-old Westmeadows man, was uninjured and has spoken with…
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Observer
The undoubted star of the new film Kangaroo Island is the spectacular coastal scenery of the South Australian island itself.It’s a perfect setting for a family drama, which opens in Hollywood where estranged daughter Lou’s (Rebecca Breeds) promising acting career has not achieved the heights predicted for her.She returns to her childhood home on Kangaroo…
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Observer
The Pony Cam troupe make no pretence about trying to revive or perform a classic even though The Orchard is based on Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard.Indeed, they endeavour to eschew character, plot and narrative and dive into the themes and tone of Chekov’s original in a form of experimental and improvised theatre that could well…
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Observer
In a premiere at TheatreWorks’ Explosives Factory venue, Kathleen Mary Fallon produced Ms Julie Gabler: Trapped.While being an ambitious well-intentioned work seeking to explore jealousy, race, power and gender the play, unfortunately, failed to deliver and thus disappointed.The play revolved around three actors who were vying for parts in a production of Shakespeare’s Othello.Robert was…
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Observer
In a wonderful piece of youth theatre written for ages 10 to 13, Monkey Baa Theatre Company put on a moving production of Yong at the The Show Room, Melbourne Arts Centre.The play was a depiction of the mostly untold story of Chinese immigration to Australia and their role in the Victorian gold rush of…
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Observer
Bloomsday in Melbourne’s Dr Steve Carey and Associate Professor Frances Devlin-Glass present A Day With James Joyce’s Ulysses on Sunday, August 24 from 10am – 4.30pm at 3ZZZ, 309 Albert St, Brunswick.Ulysses was published in Paris on James Joyce’s 40th birthday, February 2, 1922.This interactive course, a mix of presentation and discussion of text, assumes…
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Observer
The opening announcement boomed: “The time has come to rock!” And PLOS Musical Productions sure did rock Frankston with their splendid show We Will Rock You at the Frankston Arts Centre.We Will Rock You is set 300 years in the dystopian future when Planet Earth has been renamed the iPlanet, controlled by the Globalsoft Corporation…
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Observer
The Dunolly Gilbert and Sullivan Society presents Florrie from Fitzroy on Saturday, August 16 at 2.00pm in the Fitzroy Town Hall Reading Room.The show celebrates the 150th birthday of Florrie Forde, said to be one of the most famous musical hall stars of the early Edwardian era. Florrie was born in Gertrude St, Fitzroy, on…
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Observer
Arts Project Australia has launched Limitless, a major new annual commissioning series supporting large-scale, ambitious works by neurodivergent artists and artists with intellectual disability.Limitless offers a platform for APA artists to explore their practice entirely on their own terms.It marks an opportunity to develop their most expansive and ambitious works to date.The series represents a…
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