Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Friday, September 18, 2026
Police News
Police are investigating a theft and assault at a shop in South Wharf.It is understood two offenders entered a store in a shopping centre on Convention Centre Place about 3.30pm on March 5. Officers were told they briefly left, stood outside for two minutes, then returned and asked to try on puffer jackets.A short time…
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Police News
Police are appealing for information about a hit-run involving a child in Point Cook on Tuesday (Mar. 11).It is understood the child was crossing the road on Parkwood Drive when he was struck by a vehicle about 6.15pm.The car stopped for a moment, and then continued travelling on Parkwood Drive.Miraculously, the 9-year-old boy sustained minor…
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Observer
On May 15, in a much-needed fundraiser for the Melbourne City Mission, sleepers will converge on the MCG to tackle youth homelessness. Each year hundreds of Victorians come together in support of thousands of young Victorians who are without a safe place to call home, for one big sleepover at Melbourne’s most celebrated sporting and…
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Observer
Oscar Wilde’s wildly arch dialogue, enjoyed by audiences for 130 years, is on fire again in the National Theatre Live’s The Importance of Being Earnest.Director Max Webster imbues the production with a high-camp, pantomime vibe with new dialogue additions, fourth wall breaks and sight gags.The bare bones of Wilde’s comedy centres on Jack (Hugh Skinner)…
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Observer
Club Voltaire was the perfect venue for this collection of six vignettes by Cerise de Gelder.Tucked away in Raglan St, North Melbourne, accessed by a narrow stairwell, and with drapery across the ceiling, the venue had the intimacy needed for these explorations of people’s foibles.Gelder’s scenarios were quirky and comic touching, as they did, on…
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Observer
Essendon Theatre Company: Love, Love, Love (by Mike Bartlett)Until March 29 at the Bradshaw Street Hall, Bradshaw St., West Essendon. Director: Casey Bohan. Bookings: 0406448368 or trybooking.Fab Nobs Theatre: Come From Away. Until April 5 at Fab Nobs Theatre, Factory 33, 1-45 Industry Place, Bayswater. Director: Sarah Tierney; Musical Director: Sally McKenzie; Ass’t. Director/Choreographer: Aimee…
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Observer
ward-winning comedian and NSW RAW Comedy State Finalist Rian (‘imagine Ian with an R’) Howlett has had it up to here with statements that are just untrue.Tired of hearing people whinge about the limits of free speech he’s decided to do the only thing left in a world like ours.Howlett’s show You Can’t Say Everything…
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Observer
A musical beget from the tragedy of the 9/11 terrorist attack event that changed many things forever.Book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff (librettist and lyricist) and David Hein (writer) her husband put the small Newfoundland town of Gander (locally called ‘The Rock’) on the map with Come From Away, when some 38 planes containing…
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Observer
Blanche d’Alpuget is a successful and prolific writer, and her latest book has taken her in quite a new direction.Best known as a writer for her historical fiction, essays, and biographies of her late husband, former prime minister Bob Hawke, Blanche has just written her first crime fiction novel entitled The Bunny Club.Enter the world…
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Observer
The Call(MA). 111 minutes. Now streaming on Netflix.It’s not often that a remake improves on its original source, but The Call does just that, reformatting the material to entertaining, full-blooded effect.Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) returns home to see her mother (Kim Sung-ryoung), who is in hospital suffering from a brain tumour. Having lost her mobile phone…
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