Monday, March 31, 2014

'Blasts heard' before body found near Melbourne kindergarten - Yahoo!7 News

Body found near kindergarten at Heidelberg WestBody found near kindergarten at Heidelberg West

A man has been shot dead in a suspected targeted attack on a suburban street in Melbourne's north-east.


The man's body was found by a truck driver on the corner of Blackwood Parade and Ebony Parade at around 7:30am this morning.


Police have confirmed the 47-year-old victim, who lives in the area, was shot in the torso, but they have not disclosed what type of firearm was used or how many times he was shot.


Police say the truck driver and police carried out CPR, but he died at the scene.


The man was walking only a couple of hundred metres from his house, said Detective Senior Sergeant Stuart Bailey of the homicide squad.


"I'd describe this as a brazen, high-risk crime, where it's placed members of the public at risk," Det Sen Sgt Bailey told reporters.


"There could be schoolkids walking to school."





He said residents of Ebony and Blackwood parades heard the gunshot, but no one had so far reported seeing anyone running away.

Det Sen Sgt Bailey said police believed the shooter ran off, so dog squads were searching the nearby area.


Police say the victim was known to them but had not had dealings with police in the past decade.


Police say no weapon has been recovered and a motive remains unclear.


Police investigate 'brazen' shooting at Heidelberg West. Photo: 7News



Det Sen Sgt Bailey said police did not think the shooting was random.


"One would think it's targeted. These type of crimes don't happen in suburbia without some kind of motive behind it," he said.


Ballistic experts, forensics and homicide squad detectives remain at the scene.


A post mortem will be carried out today to determine the exact cause of death.


The area remains cordoned off while police examine the body and question people in the street.


A man has been shot dead in what police are describing as a brazen attack at Heidelberg West. Photo: 7News



Resident Anna Ali reported hearing a loud explosion and a car speed off.


"It went 'bang'. I thought it was a shotgun, that's what it sounded like. It was pretty loud."


Ebony Parade resident Shirley said the body was found outside her house.


"I thought somebody has blown up something out in the street, or hit the fence or something like that," Shirley told radio station 3AW.


"We did not know that the man was lying in the gutter outside the house."


The man's name has not been released as police attempt to contact his family.


Anyone with information is being urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800333000.


Homicide detectives on scene after the discovery of a man's body at Heidelberg West. Photo: 7News

Time for Paul Roos to commit and start using the 'we' word at Melbourne - The Age


Premiership coach Paul Roos must take responsibility for the performance of his young charges.

Premiership coach Paul Roos must take responsibility for the performance of his young charges. Photo: Getty Images



Ninety three-point losses are not dissimilar to relationship break-ups in that there is no pleasant way of handling them. They are cruel, dispiriting affairs and moving on from them is no simple task.


And clearly Melbourne’s new coach did not see Sunday’s debacle against West Coast coming. The loss was perhaps predictable but not the tentative performances, the clangers, the failure of some players to even break into a chase.


But surely Paul Roos needed to take more ownership post-game of his struggling team of battlers. The shocked coach said the errors he witnessed were ''an eye-opener for me'' and so bad that he had never seen the likes of it before.


Roos said he would be making statements and changes and foresaw a weekly turnover of personnel, but too often he referred to his players as ''they'' and only occasionally as ''we''.



Real Housewives of Melbourne, episode six recap: Everybody Hates Gina - NEWS.com.au






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The Real Housewives of Melbourne will feature six new housewives who enjoy the lavish, pampered and cultured lifestyle who own private jets, amazing homes and are married to high profile businessmen, including one to a rock star and another to a plastic surgeon







Real Housewives of Melbourne cast.


Real Housewives of Melbourne cast. Source: Supplied





AS episode six of The Real Housewives of Melbourne opens, we’re treated to a glimpse of scholastic life for Lydia, who studies Interior Design at RMIT.



While she may major in Design, it appears she’s doing a minor in Patronising Linguistics, given the way she refers to her tutor and classmates:


“[Tutor] Kieron has this very sweet little personality. Because he knows I’ve been in the field for a long time, he does admire my opinion — and he questions himself. I do tease him.”


Just look at sweet little Kieron, admiring Lydia’s opinion and questioning everything he ever thought he knew about Interior Design:



Lydia: “You’re such a sweet, simple little man.” Kieron: “I cannot wait to fail you.”


Lydia: “You’re such a sweet, simple little man.” Kieron: “I cannot wait to fail you.” Source: Foxtel



Of her classmates, this textbook IMAS (Insufferable Mature Age Student) says:


“I have made some very sweet little friends. It’s a gorgeous learning for me, understanding their simple, naive style versus mine.”


Lydia goes on to describe her design style as “classical, contemporary and egg-leg-dick.” We can add that inventive attempt at ‘eclectic’ to the ever-growing Lydia Dictionary, where it’ll join her pronunciation of tranquil as “TRAWN-KEEL” last week.


Next, we join cougar Janet at her weekender in Red Hill. She’s meeting with interior designer Andrew who, like Janet, is not bad for an old chook:



“Janet, I’ve gone $1.5 million dollars over budget, but you have to admit my hair is fabu


“Janet, I’ve gone $1.5 million dollars over budget, but you have to admit my hair is fabulous.” Source: Foxtel



It’s a good thing Andrew’s got the whole silver fox thing going on, because Janet informs us that her original renovation budget was $125,000. Andrew’s current quote is $1.7 million. Janet, no judgment: if an immaculately groomed Anderson Cooper lookalike asked us for $1.7 million, we too would FIND THE CASH.


Real Housewives is just a Suzie-Wilks-high-ponytail away from being Changing Rooms this week, because next we visit Andrea, who’s supervising the renovations of her Liberty Belle skin care clinic. As a client, she seems a little more ... high maintenance than Janet.


“Green carpet would be an enormous disaster,” is an actual real thing she tells her building supervisor, Adam.



Andrea’s opening is both huge and important, viewers.


Andrea’s opening is both huge and important, viewers. Source: Foxtel



With renovations running behind schedule, Andrea makes continued reference to the importance of her Huge Opening. We think we see her architect smirk at one point — OH GROW UP ADAM.


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Real Housewives, episode 1: In their own (ridiculous) words


Enough renovations! Time for fun. The ladies head down to Andrea’s weekender on the Mornington Peninsula for an afternoon of champagne, tennis, champagne and champagne.


Lydia gives Jackie a lift, leading to this amazing moment from Jackie:


“It’s tennis day! Lydia picked me up in her amazing Porsche — I’VE GOT A PORSCHE TOO.”


Subtle, Jackie, subtle.


As the Housewives arrive, Andrea takes them on an oh-so-humble tour of the beach house: “The tennis surface alone is worth $40,000,” she boasts, at which point her dog emerges from the shrubbery carrying a dead rosella in its mouth.


Here is a picture of Andrea on the aforementioned $40,000 tennis court, carrying a partially eaten dead bird.



“We have all our partially eaten rosellas imported from Tuscany.”


“We have all our partially eaten rosellas imported from Tuscany.” Source: Foxtel



“As I was driving down I was thinking to myself, ‘If we could have no drama today, it would be sensational,’” Janet says on arrival at the house.


Trouble is, Gina’s running behind schedule, so two minutes later, Janet changes her tune.


“I’m just getting so sick of the fact that Gina is always late. Making us all wait like that, it’s just the height of arrogance and rudeness.”


Janet, the wise philosopher Mary J Blige said it best: No More Drama.


As the girls wait and wait for Queen G, tension mounts. Just look at the unimaginable turmoil they’re all experiencing:



WOW much turmoil very sadness such waiting


WOW much turmoil very sadness such waiting Source: Foxtel



FINALLY, Gina swans in, luggage in tow, looking like she’s about to board an international flight.



“Hey plebs, which way to the first class lounge?”


“Hey plebs, which way to the first class lounge?” Source: Foxtel



As Gina changes into her tennis outfit, the rest of the girls start playing. While it’s just a bit of light cardio between drinks for most of them, Lydia and Andrea take it VERY SERIOUSLY. Here’s some exclusive footage:


“Lydia was very bossy to me during the tennis. She kept telling me to keep my eye on the ball. But if she kept saying it to me, SHE was going to have to keep her eye on the ball,” says Chyka, who hasn’t quite mastered the art of delivering pithy tennis-related bon mots.


While they all wait for Gina to get changed, an impatient Jackie tests out yet another iteration of her #SHINESHINESHINE catchphrase: “Come on Gina G, let’s shine this up.” The other ladies wisely ignore her latest attempt to make ‘Fetch’ happen.


Suddenly, Gina emerges from a cloud of hairspray, resplendent in a hot pink minidress and stilettos. She looks a hundred bucks, but Janet seems to suffer some sort of an allergic reaction:


“As she walked out, my heart just hit the ground. Why did I ever think she was going to participate? I was so angry, I was just churning up inside. I thought, I am going to kill you, I am going to kill you,” she seethes.


Here is Gina, not caring:



“Haterz gonna hate.”


“Haterz gonna hate.” Source: Foxtel



“I decided to wear high heels for a bit of comedy, a bit of Kath and Kim,” Gina says of her decision to ruin Andrea’s $40,000 tennis court.


“Really, at the end of the day, who wants to watch five bloated women running around a tennis court?” She’s got you there, Janet.


After a strenuous 90 seconds on the court, Gina once again retires to the bathroom to reapply her makeup and make sure her hair-helmet is still fresh n’ crispy.


At lunch, the others try to confront Gina about her rude behaviour. She’s too busy checking her phone — presumably finalising her deal for a Judge Judy-esque spin-off show.



“Mmm-hmm, yep, keep detailing your problems with me. TOTALLY listening. SO not on Tinder


“Mmm-hmm, yep, keep detailing your problems with me. TOTALLY listening. SO not on Tinder right now.” Source: Foxtel



Having downed several bottles of champagne, the ladies all get back in their cars for the drive home. SAFETY FIRST GIRLS!


Back in Melbourne, Jackie and Gina catch up for a coffee. Last time they did so, someone got accused of demonic possession. This time it’s a much more laid-back meeting, and the pair agree to let bygones be bygones.


Jackie ends with “I think we need to do this more often, and that way, we can shine off together.”


Gina, we don’t know what ‘shining off together’ entails, but we’ve got one word of advice for you: RUN.



Everyone: “AAAAAAAY Macarena”


Everyone: “AAAAAAAY Macarena” Source: Foxtel



The ladies round out the episode with a salsa lesson at up-market club Silk Road. They all shake their hips and scream random Spanish words like “Hola!” and “Arriba!”, suggesting their understanding of Latin culture has laregly been gleaned from Old El Paso ads.


It’s not a total bust, though, as Janet does swap numbers with dreamy salsa instructor Jai. Given that he announces during the lesson that “everybody should share everybody’s partners,” we think Janet’s in for a good time.



Janet’s salsa instructor: not actually three feet tall.


Janet’s salsa instructor: not actually three feet tall. Source: Foxtel



Remember, until next week: Shine Shine Shine! DAMMIT JACKIE


Catch The Real Housewives of Melbourne, 8:30pm Sundays on Foxtel’s Arena channel.



The Lion King bound for Melbourne stage - The Age




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Much-loved musical The Lion King is set return in February next year with some tweaks and tightening up.


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Melbourne has secured the return of hit musical The Lion King.


The hugely successful show will return to The Regent Theatre in February next year, 10 years after it graced the same historical stage.


Disney Theatrical Group president Tom Schumacher told Radio 3AW that there have been some tweaks to the much-loved musical because "a show is a living thing performed by living people, so over the years the show has been refined and changed a little."


Coming to Melbourne ... Nick Afoa as Simba in <i>The Lion King</i>.

Coming to Melbourne ... Nick Afoa as Simba in The Lion King. Photo: Deen van Meer



Nick Afoa plays Simba, Josslynn Hlenti is Nala and Buyi Zama is Rafiki. While Australians Rob Collins and Josh Quong Tart play Mufasa and Scar respectively.



Paul Roos savages Melbourne players for shocking errors - The Age




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Eagles down dismal Demons


Vast swathes of empty seats at the MCG on Sunday as Melbourne slumped to a 93-point thrashing at the hands of the West Coast Eagles.


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Paul Roos has begun compiling a dossier of the Melbourne players who can’t perform the non-negotiables of football as he forecast savage changes to the team over the coming weeks following their 93-point savaging against West Coast.


The Demons coach said he had witnessed many fundamental errors he had never seen in his teams before. It was the biggest defeat Roos had experienced as a coach.


‘‘Now it is probably the point of – this is what I want and if you can’t deliver then someone else will,’’ Roos said. ‘‘That’s fine. That is where we will be over the next two to five weeks. I will just make changes and just make statements and that is what footy is.’’


Demons coach Paul Roos watches his players being outplayed by the Eagles.

Demons coach Paul Roos watches his players being outplayed by the Eagles. Photo: Getty Images



Roos bemoaned that bad habits seemed so entrenched in the team that he could struggle to break them.



Real Housewives of Melbourne, episode six recap: Everybody Hates Gina - NEWS.com.au






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The Real Housewives of Melbourne will feature six new housewives who enjoy the lavish, pampered and cultured lifestyle who own private jets, amazing homes and are married to high profile businessmen, including one to a rock star and another to a plastic surgeon







Real Housewives of Melbourne cast.


Real Housewives of Melbourne cast. Source: Supplied





AS episode six of The Real Housewives of Melbourne opens, we’re treated to a glimpse of scholastic life for Lydia, who studies Interior Design at RMIT.



While she may major in Design, it appears she’s doing a minor in Patronising Linguistics, given the way she refers to her tutor and classmates:


“[Tutor] Kieron has this very sweet little personality. Because he knows I’ve been in the field for a long time, he does admire my opinion — and he questions himself. I do tease him.”


Just look at sweet little Kieron, admiring Lydia’s opinion and questioning everything he ever thought he knew about Interior Design:



Lydia: “You’re such a sweet, simple little man.” Kieron: “I cannot wait to fail you.”


Lydia: “You’re such a sweet, simple little man.” Kieron: “I cannot wait to fail you.” Source: Foxtel



Of her classmates, this textbook IMAS (Insufferable Mature Age Student) says:


“I have made some very sweet little friends. It’s a gorgeous learning for me, understanding their simple, naive style versus mine.”


Lydia goes on to describe her design style as “classical, contemporary and egg-leg-dick.” We can add that inventive attempt at ‘eclectic’ to the ever-growing Lydia Dictionary, where it’ll join her pronunciation of tranquil as “TRAWN-KEEL” last week.


Next, we join cougar Janet at her weekender in Red Hill. She’s meeting with interior designer Andrew who, like Janet, is not bad for an old chook:



“Janet, I’ve gone $1.5 million dollars over budget, but you have to admit my hair is fabu


“Janet, I’ve gone $1.5 million dollars over budget, but you have to admit my hair is fabulous.” Source: Foxtel



It’s a good thing Andrew’s got the whole silver fox thing going on, because Janet informs us that her original renovation budget was $125,000. Andrew’s current quote is $1.7 million. Janet, no judgment: if an immaculately groomed Anderson Cooper lookalike asked us for $1.7 million, we too would FIND THE CASH.


Real Housewives is just a Suzie-Wilks-high-ponytail away from being Changing Rooms this week, because next we visit Andrea, who’s supervising the renovations of her Liberty Belle skin care clinic. As a client, she seems a little more ... high maintenance than Janet.


“Green carpet would be an enormous disaster,” is an actual real thing she tells her building supervisor, Adam.



Andrea’s opening is both huge and important, viewers.


Andrea’s opening is both huge and important, viewers. Source: Foxtel



With renovations running behind schedule, Andrea makes continued reference to the importance of her Huge Opening. We think we see her architect smirk at one point — OH GROW UP ADAM.


Real Housewives, episode 5: Meeting in the ladies room


Real Housewives, episode 4: One-night stands and drunk ski trips


Real Housewives, episode 3: Girls gone wild


Real Housewives, episode 2: Angels and demons


Real Housewives, episode 1: In their own (ridiculous) words


Enough renovations! Time for fun. The ladies head down to Andrea’s weekender on the Mornington Peninsula for an afternoon of champagne, tennis, champagne and champagne.


Lydia gives Jackie a lift, leading to this amazing moment from Jackie:


“It’s tennis day! Lydia picked me up in her amazing Porsche — I’VE GOT A PORSCHE TOO.”


Subtle, Jackie, subtle.


As the Housewives arrive, Andrea takes them on an oh-so-humble tour of the beach house: “The tennis surface alone is worth $40,000,” she boasts, at which point her dog emerges from the shrubbery carrying a dead rosella in its mouth.


Here is a picture of Andrea on the aforementioned $40,000 tennis court, carrying a partially eaten dead bird.



“We have all our partially eaten rosellas imported from Tuscany.”


“We have all our partially eaten rosellas imported from Tuscany.” Source: Foxtel



“As I was driving down I was thinking to myself, ‘If we could have no drama today, it would be sensational,’” Janet says on arrival at the house.


Trouble is, Gina’s running behind schedule, so two minutes later, Janet changes her tune.


“I’m just getting so sick of the fact that Gina is always late. Making us all wait like that, it’s just the height of arrogance and rudeness.”


Janet, the wise philosopher Mary J Blige said it best: No More Drama.


As the girls wait and wait for Queen G, tension mounts. Just look at the unimaginable turmoil they’re all experiencing:



WOW much turmoil very sadness such waiting


WOW much turmoil very sadness such waiting Source: Foxtel



FINALLY, Gina swans in, luggage in tow, looking like she’s about to board an international flight.



“Hey plebs, which way to the first class lounge?”


“Hey plebs, which way to the first class lounge?” Source: Foxtel



As Gina changes into her tennis outfit, the rest of the girls start playing. While it’s just a bit of light cardio between drinks for most of them, Lydia and Andrea take it VERY SERIOUSLY. Here’s some exclusive footage:


“Lydia was very bossy to me during the tennis. She kept telling me to keep my eye on the ball. But if she kept saying it to me, SHE was going to have to keep her eye on the ball,” says Chyka, who hasn’t quite mastered the art of delivering pithy tennis-related bon mots.


While they all wait for Gina to get changed, an impatient Jackie tests out yet another iteration of her #SHINESHINESHINE catchphrase: “Come on Gina G, let’s shine this up.” The other ladies wisely ignore her latest attempt to make ‘Fetch’ happen.


Suddenly, Gina emerges from a cloud of hairspray, resplendent in a hot pink minidress and stilettos. She looks a hundred bucks, but Janet seems to suffer some sort of an allergic reaction:


“As she walked out, my heart just hit the ground. Why did I ever think she was going to participate? I was so angry, I was just churning up inside. I thought, I am going to kill you, I am going to kill you,” she seethes.


Here is Gina, not caring:



“Haterz gonna hate.”


“Haterz gonna hate.” Source: Foxtel



“I decided to wear high heels for a bit of comedy, a bit of Kath and Kim,” Gina says of her decision to ruin Andrea’s $40,000 tennis court.


“Really, at the end of the day, who wants to watch five bloated women running around a tennis court?” She’s got you there, Janet.


After a strenuous 90 seconds on the court, Gina once again retires to the bathroom to reapply her makeup and make sure her hair-helmet is still fresh n’ crispy.


At lunch, the others try to confront Gina about her rude behaviour. She’s too busy checking her phone — presumably finalising her deal for a Judge Judy-esque spin-off show.



“Mmm-hmm, yep, keep detailing your problems with me. TOTALLY listening. SO not on Tinder


“Mmm-hmm, yep, keep detailing your problems with me. TOTALLY listening. SO not on Tinder right now.” Source: Foxtel



Having downed several bottles of champagne, the ladies all get back in their cars for the drive home. SAFETY FIRST GIRLS!


Back in Melbourne, Jackie and Gina catch up for a coffee. Last time they did so, someone got accused of demonic possession. This time it’s a much more laid-back meeting, and the pair agree to let bygones be bygones.


Jackie ends with “I think we need to do this more often, and that way, we can shine off together.”


Gina, we don’t know what ‘shining off together’ entails, but we’ve got one word of advice for you: RUN.



Everyone: “AAAAAAAY Macarena”


Everyone: “AAAAAAAY Macarena” Source: Foxtel



The ladies round out the episode with a salsa lesson at up-market club Silk Road. They all shake their hips and scream random Spanish words like “Hola!” and “Arriba!”, suggesting their understanding of Latin culture has laregly been gleaned from Old El Paso ads.


It’s not a total bust, though, as Janet does swap numbers with dreamy salsa instructor Jai. Given that he announces during the lesson that “everybody should share everybody’s partners,” we think Janet’s in for a good time.



Janet’s salsa instructor: not actually three feet tall.


Janet’s salsa instructor: not actually three feet tall. Source: Foxtel



Remember, until next week: Shine Shine Shine! DAMMIT JACKIE


Catch The Real Housewives of Melbourne, 8:30pm Sundays on Foxtel’s Arena channel.



Heatwaves 'cost Melbourne $37m' - The Australian




The extreme heat experienced in Melbourne between January 14 and 17 this year is estimated to have cost businesses in the municipality approximately $37 million in lost revenue, according to new City of Melbourne research.


The findings are part of research commissioned by the City of Melbourne as part of its Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. With the frequency and intensity of heatwaves expected to increase, an understanding of the economic impacts of such events on businesses is needed.


A survey of more than 600 local businesses found an overall decline in revenue of almost 10 per cent. The sectors which were impacted the most were retail, food and beverage and accommodation, with 78 per cent of these types of businesses impacted.


Other key findings from the research include:

• 59 per cent reported an impact on the comfort, motivation or moral of their workforce

• 40 per cent reported an impact on the reliability of their workforce

• 62 per cent of businesses experienced additional operational costs (such as increased air-conditioning operation) Seven per cent reported air-conditioning failures.


The research also indicated four in 10 businesses (44 per cent) took action to help staff cope with the heat, such as letting their staff start or finish earlier (7 per cent) and buying cold drinks or fans to keep staff cool


More than half of businesses (52 per cent) are very or fairly concerned about future heat wave impacts on their business, reinforcing the need for City of Melbourne to continue to work with others to adapt our city to a changing climate.


City of Melbourne Environment portfolio chair, Councillor Arron Wood, said Council is firmly focused on building Melbourne’s resilience to climate impacts.


“We’re doubling tree canopy cover for our urban forest, upgrading drainage infrastructure, funding more energy efficient buildings, implementing planning processes to minimise climate risk and installing various water-sensitive urban design initiatives. Heatwaves don’t only impact our city economically, heat related illness also kills more Australian’s each year than any other natural disaster so City of Melbourne has identified this as a priority issue we must prepare better for,” Cr Wood said.


“In December 2013 the Rockefeller Foundation announced Melbourne as one of the first 33 cities to participate in its 100 Resilient Cities Program. This program is a significant opportunity to further enhance Melbourne’s ability to cope with heat waves like the one we experienced in January.”


As part of this program Melbourne will receive support to recruit a Chief Resilience Officer whose role will be to create a Resilience Strategy for metropolitan Melbourne. On Tuesday industry experts will gather to pinpoint what Melbourne needs to become a more resilient city.


The City of Melbourne will also host a Melbourne Conversations event at Deakin Edge, Federation Square on Monday 31 March (6.00pm-7.30pm). Speakers will discuss the heat wave impacts on Melbourne's community and infrastructure, what we've learnt, how to cope and how we can build our city's resilience.



Melbourne's The Palace Theatre To Close For Good In May - theMusic


The tug-of-war over the future of Melbourne’s The Palace Theatre appears to have taken a big step in the favour of developers with the historic music venue set to close Saturday 31 May.


The venue’s future has been the subject of much discussion since last year when a development bid was submitted by China-based Jinshan Investments. Although subsequent building plans have been rejected, a statement from the venue today claims that the landlord has declined to extend the music venue’s lease while the planning and building permits – for a hotel and apartment development – are being refined for approval.


Today The Palace’s General Manager Greg Young confirmed to theMusic.com.au that it was the end for the venue, and they would no longer be continuing their search for a potential new space.


“Numerous requests to the landlord to extend our lease have been rejected,” read the statement. “The landlord has made this decision while still awaiting approval of planning and building permits which to date, have been rejected by both the State Government and Melbourne City Council.


“Palace Theatre management had requested assistance from both state and local government to seek alternative locations to ensure the ongoing success of the Victoria’s thriving live music industry and to continue to provide live music. Regretfully, to date, this avenue of relocating the operations of the Palace Theatre has been unsuccessful.”


The venue started trading in 1860 and has been home to a number of venues, including Apollo Theatre, Metro Nightclub, Metro Theatre, St James Theatre and Brennan’s Amphitheatre.


“The Palace Theatre team is extremely proud to have created a world-class and much sort after venue over the past eight years and to have been a part of its 150 year history,” said the statement. “This venue has hosted many hundreds bands which have entertained over two million patrons during these eight years.”


A campaign to keep the venue open as a live music venue was started last year, with a modest rally held in October.


There are a number of shows booked at The Palace until the lease runs out, including Karnivool, RÜFÜS, Jake Bugg and John Newman. Full list here.



Paul Roos savages Melbourne players for shocking errors - The Age




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Eagles down dismal Demons


Vast swathes of empty seats at the MCG on Sunday as Melbourne slumped to a 93-point thrashing at the hands of the West Coast Eagles.


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Paul Roos has begun compiling a dossier of the Melbourne players who can’t perform the non-negotiables of football as he forecast savage changes to the team over the coming weeks following their 93-point savaging against West Coast.


The Demons coach said he had witnessed many fundamental errors he had never seen in his teams before. It was the biggest defeat Roos had experienced as a coach.


‘‘Now it is probably the point of – this is what I want and if you can’t deliver then someone else will,’’ Roos said. ‘‘That’s fine. That is where we will be over the next two to five weeks. I will just make changes and just make statements and that is what footy is.’’


Demons coach Paul Roos watches his players being outplayed by the Eagles.

Demons coach Paul Roos watches his players being outplayed by the Eagles. Photo: Getty Images



Roos bemoaned that bad habits seemed so entrenched in the team that he could struggle to break them.



Real Housewives of Melbourne, episode six recap: Everybody Hates Gina - NEWS.com.au






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The Real Housewives of Melbourne will feature six new housewives who enjoy the lavish, pampered and cultured lifestyle who own private jets, amazing homes and are married to high profile businessmen, including one to a rock star and another to a plastic surgeon







Real Housewives of Melbourne cast.


Real Housewives of Melbourne cast. Source: Supplied





AS episode six of The Real Housewives of Melbourne opens, we’re treated to a glimpse of scholastic life for Lydia, who studies Interior Design at RMIT.



While she may major in Design, it appears she’s doing a minor in Patronising Linguistics, given the way she refers to her tutor and classmates:


“[Tutor] Kieron has this very sweet little personality. Because he knows I’ve been in the field for a long time, he does admire my opinion — and he questions himself. I do tease him.”


Just look at sweet little Kieron, admiring Lydia’s opinion and questioning everything he ever thought he knew about Interior Design:



Lydia: “You’re such a sweet, simple little man.” Kieron: “I cannot wait to fail you.”


Lydia: “You’re such a sweet, simple little man.” Kieron: “I cannot wait to fail you.” Source: Foxtel



Of her classmates, this textbook IMAS (Insufferable Mature Age Student) says:


“I have made some very sweet little friends. It’s a gorgeous learning for me, understanding their simple, naive style versus mine.”


Lydia goes on to describe her design style as “classical, contemporary and egg-leg-dick.” We can add that inventive attempt at ‘eclectic’ to the ever-growing Lydia Dictionary, where it’ll join her pronunciation of tranquil as “TRAWN-KEEL” last week.


Next, we join cougar Janet at her weekender in Red Hill. She’s meeting with interior designer Andrew who, like Janet, is not bad for an old chook:



“Janet, I’ve gone $1.5 million dollars over budget, but you have to admit my hair is fabu


“Janet, I’ve gone $1.5 million dollars over budget, but you have to admit my hair is fabulous.” Source: Foxtel



It’s a good thing Andrew’s got the whole silver fox thing going on, because Janet informs us that her original renovation budget was $125,000. Andrew’s current quote is $1.7 million. Janet, no judgment: if an immaculately groomed Anderson Cooper lookalike asked us for $1.7 million, we too would FIND THE CASH.


Real Housewives is just a Suzie-Wilks-high-ponytail away from being Changing Rooms this week, because next we visit Andrea, who’s supervising the renovations of her Liberty Belle skin care clinic. As a client, she seems a little more ... high maintenance than Janet.


“Green carpet would be an enormous disaster,” is an actual real thing she tells her building supervisor, Adam.



Andrea’s opening is both huge and important, viewers.


Andrea’s opening is both huge and important, viewers. Source: Foxtel



With renovations running behind schedule, Andrea makes continued reference to the importance of her Huge Opening. We think we see her architect smirk at one point — OH GROW UP ADAM.


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Enough renovations! Time for fun. The ladies head down to Andrea’s weekender on the Mornington Peninsula for an afternoon of champagne, tennis, champagne and champagne.


Lydia gives Jackie a lift, leading to this amazing moment from Jackie:


“It’s tennis day! Lydia picked me up in her amazing Porsche — I’VE GOT A PORSCHE TOO.”


Subtle, Jackie, subtle.


As the Housewives arrive, Andrea takes them on an oh-so-humble tour of the beach house: “The tennis surface alone is worth $40,000,” she boasts, at which point her dog emerges from the shrubbery carrying a dead rosella in its mouth.


Here is a picture of Andrea on the aforementioned $40,000 tennis court, carrying a partially eaten dead bird.



“We have all our partially eaten rosellas imported from Tuscany.”


“We have all our partially eaten rosellas imported from Tuscany.” Source: Foxtel



“As I was driving down I was thinking to myself, ‘If we could have no drama today, it would be sensational,’” Janet says on arrival at the house.


Trouble is, Gina’s running behind schedule, so two minutes later, Janet changes her tune.


“I’m just getting so sick of the fact that Gina is always late. Making us all wait like that, it’s just the height of arrogance and rudeness.”


Janet, the wise philosopher Mary J Blige said it best: No More Drama.


As the girls wait and wait for Queen G, tension mounts. Just look at the unimaginable turmoil they’re all experiencing:



WOW much turmoil very sadness such waiting


WOW much turmoil very sadness such waiting Source: Foxtel



FINALLY, Gina swans in, luggage in tow, looking like she’s about to board an international flight.



“Hey plebs, which way to the first class lounge?”


“Hey plebs, which way to the first class lounge?” Source: Foxtel



As Gina changes into her tennis outfit, the rest of the girls start playing. While it’s just a bit of light cardio between drinks for most of them, Lydia and Andrea take it VERY SERIOUSLY. Here’s some exclusive footage:


“Lydia was very bossy to me during the tennis. She kept telling me to keep my eye on the ball. But if she kept saying it to me, SHE was going to have to keep her eye on the ball,” says Chyka, who hasn’t quite mastered the art of delivering pithy tennis-related bon mots.


While they all wait for Gina to get changed, an impatient Jackie tests out yet another iteration of her #SHINESHINESHINE catchphrase: “Come on Gina G, let’s shine this up.” The other ladies wisely ignore her latest attempt to make ‘Fetch’ happen.


Suddenly, Gina emerges from a cloud of hairspray, resplendent in a hot pink minidress and stilettos. She looks a hundred bucks, but Janet seems to suffer some sort of an allergic reaction:


“As she walked out, my heart just hit the ground. Why did I ever think she was going to participate? I was so angry, I was just churning up inside. I thought, I am going to kill you, I am going to kill you,” she seethes.


Here is Gina, not caring:



“Haterz gonna hate.”


“Haterz gonna hate.” Source: Foxtel



“I decided to wear high heels for a bit of comedy, a bit of Kath and Kim,” Gina says of her decision to ruin Andrea’s $40,000 tennis court.


“Really, at the end of the day, who wants to watch five bloated women running around a tennis court?” She’s got you there, Janet.


After a strenuous 90 seconds on the court, Gina once again retires to the bathroom to reapply her makeup and make sure her hair-helmet is still fresh n’ crispy.


At lunch, the others try to confront Gina about her rude behaviour. She’s too busy checking her phone — presumably finalising her deal for a Judge Judy-esque spin-off show.



“Mmm-hmm, yep, keep detailing your problems with me. TOTALLY listening. SO not on Tinder


“Mmm-hmm, yep, keep detailing your problems with me. TOTALLY listening. SO not on Tinder right now.” Source: Foxtel



Having downed several bottles of champagne, the ladies all get back in their cars for the drive home. SAFETY FIRST GIRLS!


Back in Melbourne, Jackie and Gina catch up for a coffee. Last time they did so, someone got accused of demonic possession. This time it’s a much more laid-back meeting, and the pair agree to let bygones be bygones.


Jackie ends with “I think we need to do this more often, and that way, we can shine off together.”


Gina, we don’t know what ‘shining off together’ entails, but we’ve got one word of advice for you: RUN.



Everyone: “AAAAAAAY Macarena”


Everyone: “AAAAAAAY Macarena” Source: Foxtel



The ladies round out the episode with a salsa lesson at up-market club Silk Road. They all shake their hips and scream random Spanish words like “Hola!” and “Arriba!”, suggesting their understanding of Latin culture has laregly been gleaned from Old El Paso ads.


It’s not a total bust, though, as Janet does swap numbers with dreamy salsa instructor Jai. Given that he announces during the lesson that “everybody should share everybody’s partners,” we think Janet’s in for a good time.



Janet’s salsa instructor: not actually three feet tall.


Janet’s salsa instructor: not actually three feet tall. Source: Foxtel



Remember, until next week: Shine Shine Shine! DAMMIT JACKIE


Catch The Real Housewives of Melbourne, 8:30pm Sundays on Foxtel’s Arena channel.