Theft is the main area of crime in Victoria, according to figures released by the Crime Statistics Agency. The Editor of the Bayside Neighbourhood Watch newsletter, Geoff Bransbury, talks with Clare Arthurs about crime and efforts to make Bayside safer. Links: https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/ For more local stories, click ‘Clare on Air’.
Read moreAs Victoria’s tougher bail laws take effect, significantly more offenders are being remanded in custody, according to the Member for Bentleigh Nick Staikos. Crime and punishment are the first item on the agenda in this podcast as Nick Staikos chats to Southern FM newsman Colin Tyrus. Nick Staikos is the Minister for Local Government and Minister for Consumer Affairs in
Read moreBeating Hearts sounds like the name of a self-important album from the 80’s and the vibrant but overlong and clichéd French romantic crime drama Beating Hearts (or L’amour Ouf) feels like the movie equivalent of such an album. The film traces the 12-year romance of delinquent thug Clothaire (played by François Civil as an adult and Malik Frikah as a
Read moreSleeping Dogs, which stars Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan and Martin Csokas, attempts to update the 1940’s film noir crime thriller to the present day. This is a tricky undertaking as that brooding style of film making was a very subtle art. While first-time director Adam Cooper manages – at least for a while – to build satisfying layers of mystery,
Read moreWith news of armed robberies on Bayside supermarkets at the weekend, Colin checked in with Brad Rowswell, the Member for Sandringham who says crime is one of the main worries for the people of Bayside and surrounding communities. Have a listen to the podcast here. As broadcast Monday 17 June 2024 on A Newsman and His Music (9 AM to
Read moreThe low-budget 80’s action-comedy TV series The Fall Guy, which starred former Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors as stuntman/ bounty hunter Colt Seavers, isn’t a show that seemed to be crying out for a cinema adaptation. It was amiable, undemanding TV, typical of mystery/crime/action shows of the late 70’s and early 80’s where everyone but the actual police solved
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