Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Observer
The Fifth Step will screen in select Australian cinemas from November 28.Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in this critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play written by David Ireland and directed by Finn den Hertog.The story tells of James having spent…
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Observer
Parody done well can be hilarious. However, doing it well is not as simple as it looks. The play The Haunting Of Spook Mansion (By Ghosts), as the title suggests, was a send-up of the classic haunted house horror story.Hilarious at times it unfortunately failed to maintain its early momentum and faded in the second…
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Observer
Singer, songwriter and satirist Denis Carnahan returns to the stage this summer with his one-man cult hit musical comedy show, Cricket the Musical.Cricket The Musical will follow the English Cricket Team’s tour of Australia and plays in Melbourne on December 27, 28 in The Show Room, Arts Centre Melbourne.“The 2025-26 cricket season is destined to…
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Observer
The gratuitous violence and callousness of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus has often seen the work sidelined, but in this interpretation by directors Kevin Hopkins and Claire Nicholls, the moral ambiguities of exacting revenge, the political schemes perpetrated, and personal grievances manifested are all made relevant.Josh Morrison makes for a powerful Titus caught between duty to the…
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Environment
Mornington Peninsula communities are celebrating after being named Tidy Town of Victoria 2025 at the Keep Australia Beautiful VIC’s Tidy Towns and Cities Sustainability Awards.The awards recognise the passion and dedication of local people working together to make their communities stronger, more connected and more vibrant places to live.A host of local projects were celebrated,…
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Police News
Police have caught a woman who carries a zero-alcohol limit on her licence, behind the wheel and allegedly more than four times the standard blood alcohol limit in Belmont on Thursday (Nov. 13).Officers responded to reports of a substance affected woman behaving erratically in a car park on High St about 2.30pm.The woman, who was…
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Police News
Ballarat Crime Investigation Unit detectives have charged a man following an arson in Ballarat on Thursday (Nov. 13).It is alleged the man was seen acting erratically by witnesses inside a church on Lydiard St South about 3pm.Police allege the man set a lectern, altar and other antique furniture alight before smashing a window and fleeing…
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Police News
Detectives from Fawkner Divisional Response Unit have charged two people following an affray in Broadmeadows last month.Police were called to an altercation between two groups in a carpark on Pascoe Vale Rd about 7.20pm on October 10.Police will allege the altercation continued in a nearby shopping centre.The groups fled the scene in a silver Honda…
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Police News
Manningham Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating after two 13-year-old boys were injured and had their electric motorcycles stolen in East Doncaster.Investigators have been told the pair were riding along Koonung Creek Trail when they were approached by two unknown males shortly after 5pm on Monday, November 10.The offenders assaulted one of the boys and…
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Police News
A man has been arrested following a pursuit and subsequent collision in Melbourne on Tuesday morning (Nov. 11).Police noticed a minivan travelling on Leakes Rd, Truganina, about 4am.The van was of interest to police in relation to an ongoing investigation.The van was covertly followed along the West Gate Freeway until it exited at the Kings…
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