Local Newspapers from Melbourne, Victorisa, Australia
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Police News
Three teenagers have been charged after a stabbing in Oakleigh.Detectives from the Eastern Region Crime Squad executed three search warrants across Melbourne’s eastern and south-eastern suburbs and arrested three boys.The trio, a 17-year-old from the Stonnington area, a 14-year-old from the Greater Dandenong area and a 17-year-old from the Knox area, were charged with a…
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Police News
Police are investigating a collision in Williamstown North on Thursday afternoon (Apr. 23).Emergency services were called to reports that a car and motorcycle had collided at the intersection of Kororoit Creek Rd and Churchill St, about 4.40pm.The 27-year-old male motorcyclist sustained life-threatening injuries and was transported to hospital.The driver of the car was not injured…
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Police News
Nunawading Highway Patrol officers are investigating after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a car in Mount Waverley on Thursday night (Apr. 23).A vehicle was travelling along Steph-ensons Rd, near Griffiths Ct, when it struck the male pedestrian on the roadway about 9.20pm.Despite the best efforts of emergency services, the man died at the scene.The…
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Emergency Services
Greater Dandenong Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating a suspicious fire at a Keysborough factory on Thursday night (Apr. 23).Emergency services were called to the large blaze at an alcohol distribution centre on Atlantic Drive about 10.45pm.The building and its contents were completely destroyed.Investigators were treating the fire as suspicious in nature.
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Council News
City of Whittlesea CEO Craig Lloyd’s appointment as Chief Executive Officer of a Western Australian Council was decided at the Joondalup meeting on Tuesday, March 24.A subsequent special meeting of the City of Joondalup Council was held on Monday last week (April 13) to vote 9-1 to approve the finalised terms and conditions of a…
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Police News
Benalla Highway Patrol officers are investigating a fatal collision in Violet Town on Friday afternoon (Apr. 17).Emergency services were called to the Hume Fwy near Harrys Creek Rd following report a B-double truck was involved in a collision just before 1.30pm.It is believed the truck collided with a road workers truck and then veered across…
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Police News
Police have arrested three people following erratic driving and a truck fire in Melbourne’s east, an extended follow through multiple suburbs and a quick dip at St Kilda Beach.Officers saw a stolen truck and a blue Holden Commodore driving erratically in Heathmont just after 2am on Saturday, April 18.Both vehicles sped off before Air Wing…
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Observer
Hell on earth could well be a corporate training session where recruits are ‘onboarded’ – an odious word if ever there was one – but, for Andy Balloch, it represents an opportunity to chastise and satirise and, for that matter – demonize everything that’s problematic in society. His Welcome to Hell contribution to the Melbourne…
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Observer
When it comes to farce, it would be difficult to rival current events where the United States are concerned but Richard Mealey has taken on that daunting task in his contribution to this year’s Comedy Festival. Titled Disunited States, we are privy to a range of stereotypical characters that expose the fraught underbelly of a…
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Observer
Two women lounge in deck chairs, staring out to sea. This is Birds, presented as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival at The Beckett Theatre, Malthouse.Shayna (Alex Hines), a wealthy five-time divorcée, and Beverley (Sarah Stafford), a suburban mother of twelve boys, bond over cocktails and cigarettes, as if Kath Day-Knight had met Prue…
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