The Melbourne Snap⚡- Monday 20 January
Birthday party brawl ends in two deaths, ill-tempered night between tennis star and Melbourne crowd and the beach suburbs offering "bargains".
G’day and welcome back to The Melbourne Snap. Last week we finished out the week smashing past 300 subscribers. Thank you. It’s great to know people find the Snap enjoyable and useful. Now let’s get on to Monday’s edition.
A heartbroken mum has shared a tribute to her 27-year-old daughter who was killed when arsonists set fire to the wrong home last week. - Yashee Sharma, Nine News
➡️Kate Tangey a beloved burlesque star who performed under the stage name Vivien May-Royale, died when flames engulfed a three-storey home on Dover Street in Truganina on Thursday. She had been housesitting while her brother was on his honeymoon.
➡️Kate’s family has set up a GoFundMe page to help the family while they try to navigate through this tragedy. - You can donate here
✊Large crowds gathered at pro-Palestine demonstrations in Melbourne hours before a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was due to come into effect. A crowd of a couple of thousand protesters gathered at the State Library before a march through the CBD. Organisers say weekly marches will continue. - ABC
➡️Acting Premier Ben Carroll said he was hopeful the protests could come to an end now.
⛅Monday weather
Crime Watch
This section is dedicated to crime news. Scroll on if you want to skip to lighter news. It tends to be longer on Mondays due to many incidents on a weekend.
⚫A one-year-old's birthday party became a murder scene after a father and son were stabbed when a brawl involving up to 20 people broke out in Melbourne's south-east. Police found 23-year-old Karl Gruber-Terrick and his 54-year-old father, also named Karl, at a property in Clyde North. Adam Vidler, Serena Seyfort, Eleanor Wilson, Nine News
🚓A 13-year-old boy is among a group of four young people charged after they allegedly rammed a police vehicle with a stolen car in Springvale, south-east Melbourne, on Friday night. Two other boys aged 14 and 16 were arrested alongside a 21-year-old male from Clyde North. - Victoria Police
🥷🏻On to another teen gang, four boys, aged 14-17, have been charged in connection to a series of burglaries and robberies in the south-east last week. The charges related to incidents of theft across 10 locations, mainly around Cranbourne. - Victoria Police
🚨Two men have been charged following an aggravated carjacking in the city’s north-west on Wednesday, 15 January. A man parked his BMW sedan outside a property on Keilor Road, Niddrie, when two men allegedly threatened him with a knife and demanded his car. - Victoria Police
⚫The body of a 62-year-old fisherman was pulled from the waters south-west of Melbourne. The Caroline Springs man was found near Queenscliff Pier in Queenscliff about 4:20am on Saturday. - Victoria Police
🏍️Cops seized $35,000 in cash, drugs and a knuckle duster after they pulled over a man on a Harley Davidson motorcycle in the CBD on Saturday morning. - Victoria Police
🚴A man has been arrested after a reported hit-and-run collision in the south of Melbourne on Saturday morning. Two cyclists were seriously injured in the coastal suburb of Carrum during the incident. - Victoria Police
🥎Another tennis star has fallen out with Aussie Open crowds (last week it was American, Danielle Collins). After winning through to the final eight, Novak Djokovic declined the usual on-court interview, seemingly frustrated with fans in the Melbourne crowd who had been giving him stick.
➡️[Correction: Novak Djokovic has clarified the reason he declined the interview was in response to disparaging comments Nine’s Tony Jones made to Serbian fans. Here’s Djokivic’s video explanation.]
🇻🇳 Australia's first Vietnamese museum has received planning approval from the Victorian government. The proposed cultural centre and museum in Sunshine will provide Vietnamese Victorians with a place to celebrate their heritage and preserve stories of migration and refugee settlement. - Vic Gov
🔢Multiple Victorian heritage number plates are up for auction to celebrate the Lunar New Year. VicRoads will put several rare number plates under the hammer on 18 February. These include one two-digit combination and several three-, four-, and five-digit combinations. - VicRoads
➡️Custom plates start at $620 in Victoria and there’s a lot of money to be made depending on the rarity of the plate. Last year, a two-digit heritage numbers-only plate was sold for an Australian record. Victoria '20' went for $2.54 million! - drive.com.au
🐍It’s the summer so snake sightings aren’t rare, but this one was spotted in Richmond, by the looks of it on the busy Main Yarra Trail path. Watch your step!
☕A new community-focused cafe opened on St Kilda’s Pakington Street on Friday. Goose Coffee vows to ‘Brew Good, Do Good’ and donate a percentage of its revenue to charity each month. - Instagram/ via Melbourne 417
🏖️Beach-loving Victorians could be in luck with beach houses across the state on sale for a “bargain” after prices dropped by as much as 10 per cent in 2024. It’s claimed prospective buyers could buy in areas such as Coronet Bay and Portland North for as little as $520,000 and $550,000, respectively. - realestate.com.au
🔒The Old Raffles Place on the corner of Johnston and Wellington Streets in Collingwood has closed. The Singaporean restaurant had been in business for 25 years. - Instagram/Old Raffles Place
🎥The popular Europa! Europa Film Festival is gearing up for its fourth edition, bringing a fresh wave of European cinema to Melbourne screens from February 12 to March 12, 2025. - Beat Magazine
💳A skimming device was reportedly found on the ATM outside Ritchies IGA, Point Nepean Road in Dromana on Saturday. The device was removed and ihas been handed to authorities. Skimming devices are small electronic devices that steal credit card and debit card information. - Dromana & Safetybeach community group
🐐If you see goats at Belgrave station on Melbourne’s eastern edge, leave them be. They’re busy working. Goats have been brought in to clear the weeds around the station in an eco-friendly manner. - Metro Trains
📢Community Noticeboard📢
📌“Adults [in Wyndham], it's your time to shine! Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned player, you're invited to join us at Saltwater Tennis Centre for some fun on the court. When? Monday 20 Jan (7-8pm) and Thursday 23 Jan (7-8pm)” - More details
📌 “OLiV – Our Little Library Van - will be at the Briar's Craft Market 25 January if you want to pop in and say hello! Starting February 2025, OLiV will travel across the Mornington Peninsula, making it easier than ever to connect with your library.” - More details
Get your news, event, gathering, new business or community update here. Fill in this form. There’s no charge.
🐍And finally… Did you see the comet? The one mentioned in Friday’s newsletter? No? Okay, don’t worry Comet C/2024 G3 (aka ATLAS) will be back in around 160,000 years. To be fair it was pretty hard to spot, but here it is, as spotted by a photographer on Reddit.
Thank you for reading edition 44 of The Melbourne Snap. If you missed Friday’s edition you can read it here. This newsletter is 100% independent and free for all. I write in the early hours every weekday morning so it gets to you around 7am. Any support you can give, either by becoming a paid subscriber or simply sharing this with a friend, is greatly appreciated. See you tomorrow.
