Melbourne was shaken Sunday by a rare and shallow earthquake—the largest earthquake to hit the Australian city in over a century—swaying buildings but ultimately causing very little damage. Preliminary information indicated the 3.8-magnitude quake struck the northwestern suburb of Sunbury at 11:41 pm local time at a depth of 2 kilometers (1.24 miles), according to […]
MELBOURNE, Australia—Novak Djokovic received a warm and enthusiastic welcome in his return to Melbourne during an exhibition match against Nick Kyrgios on Friday. Djokovic’s visa for entering Australia was revoked and he was deported ahead of last year’s Australian Open because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19. He still hasn’t gotten the shots, but the […]
Australian airline Qantas has responded after footage showing baggage handlers deliberately manhandling passengers’ luggage went viral. A video surfaced showing three baggage handlers at Melbourne Airport smiling as they threw and kicked suitcases and bags, roughly slamming them onto a conveyor belt. An urgent investigation was initiated by the airline and its baggage handler contractors, […]
MELBOURNE, Australia—After premiering alongside more than 120 feature-length and short documentaries, the award-winning human rights documentary “Eternal Spring” has taken out the “Supreme Award” at the internationally acclaimed Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF). The Canadian-made documentary, which uses a mixture of animation and interviews to tell the true story of a group of Falun Gong […]
Shen Yun continued its Australia tour in Melbourne, performing at the Palais Theater from April 22 to 26. Lawyer Leanne Sinclair said she was blown away by the scope and quality of the dancing—particularly with Shen Yun’s powerful storytelling. “These are stories that have to be told, and I think telling difficult stories through dance […]
MELBOURNE—Top-seeded Naomi Osaka pulled out of her Melbourne Summer Set 1 WTA event semi-final against Veronika Kudermetova on Saturday, citing the intensity of recent games as cause for her withdrawal. “Sad to withdraw due to injury from my match today, my body got a shock from playing back to back intense matches after the break […]
You might have seen the videos circulating on social media of police in Australia, often in Melbourne, violently breaking up anti-lockdown protests or tackling people to the ground for not wearing a mask. Australia has been under some of the harshest lockdown measures anywhere in the world. And after 18 months, that started to boil […]
Police in Melbourne, Australia, fired pepper balls and large projectiles at unarmed civilians on Wednesday, seeking to disperse crowds that took to the streets to protest against the government’s vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions. This is the third day of demonstrations by construction industry workers in Melbourne against mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Besides construction workers, protesters also included others […]
Protests have continued for the third day in the Australian city of Melbourne after the Victorian state government shut down the construction industry for two weeks on Tuesday. The state government cited COVID-19 compliance issues in the construction industry and violent demonstration scenes outside the offices of the CFMEU construction union, which occurred on Monday […]
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Melbourne, Australia, in a largely peaceful fashion to rally against local lockdown restrictions—a stark contrast to the situation in Sydney, where more than 1,500 police officers descended upon the central business district (CBD) and surrounding areas to quash what was believed to be a planned anti-lockdown protest. […]
MELBOURNE—Australia police arrested 38 animal rights activists on April 8 after they blocked peak hour traffic in Melbourne in protests to mark the first anniversary of a film about factory farming. The protests were part of a wave of action in three states, where activists targeted abattoirs in the middle of the night to call […]
A talented American jazz musician is recovering in hospital from serious head injuries after a random Melbourne street attack. Musician Oscar E Villagrana was visiting Australia to play a couple of jazz gigs, but ended up in a Melbourne hospital suffering massive head injuries after a violent assault. The 32-year-old Californian man was the victim […]
Authorities are investigating how a Victorian woman passed away on March 1 during what would usually be a typical flight from Los Angeles, California. National Broadband Network operations centre executive Aleisha Tracy, 33, died just hours into the 16 hour long haul flight to Melbourne, Australia. She was on the way home after a holiday in […]
A Victorian man has been detained for questioning about a terrifying attack on a U.S. citizen on March 27. Victoria Police confirmed on April 2 officers have arrested a man in relation to an assault in Preston, 9 kilometers (6 miles) north of downtown Melbourne. The 27-year-old man with no fixed address was located and taken into custody […]
