Disaster | Tragedy
Disaster | Tragedy - News & Media Around Melbourne
Melbourne and Victoria has had more than its fair-share of tragic events and disasters. Some have been natural like bush-fires while others sadly are man-made tragedies...
⊜ Churchill
A 5.5 magnitude earthquake rocked Melbourne on Tuesday 19th June 2012. The earthquake sent a wave of alarm across social networks and online, so much so that the website of Geoscience Australia...
⊜ Mansfield
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake was one of four that rocked Melbourne on Wednesday 22nd September 2021. The earthquake centred below Mansfield shook Melbourne, regional Victoria, southern NSW, Sydney,...
⊜ Portsea
Australia's 17th Prime Minister, Harold Holt disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea. 5 August 1908 - presumed dead 17 December 1967. Holt spent 32 years in Parliament,...
⊜ South Road Longford
The Longford gas explosion was a catastrophic industrial accident which occurred at the Esso natural gas plant at Longford in the Australian state of Victoria's Gippsland region. On 25 September...
⊜ Melbourne
Melbourne has experienced tragedies including the Walsh Street Murders, Russell Street Bombings, Drug Wars, Hoddle Street Massacre, Queen Street massacre and Moorabbin Police murders. Melbourne's...
⊜ Mount Dandenong
On Tuesday 25th October 1938, an Australian National Airways Douglas DC-2 airplane crashed into the Dandenong Ranges killing all 18 passengers on board. The Kyeema airline plane flying from...
⊜ Portsea
The remarkable story when 74 soldiers fought in vain to save the lives of their mates off Portsea as 3 soldiers died. Tragically, Privates Roger Wood and Edward Meyer, and Warrant Officer George...
⊜ Melbourne
The fires that ravaged Victoria on Friday 13th January 1939 are considered one of the worst natural bushfires in the world. Almost 20,000 km (4,942,000 acres, 2,000,000 ha) of land was burnt, 71...
⊜ 2 McBride St, Cockatoo
Each year we remember Ash Wednesday, the day on Wednesday 16th February in 1983 when fire claimed 47 human lives in Victoria and destroyed countless homes. Years of severe drought and extreme...
⊜ Marysville
February 2025 marks the 16th anniversary of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires which was one of the most significant disasters Victoria has experienced. Each year we remember the horrific day on...
⊜ Eastern Freeway Kew East
On 23 April 2020, a truck driver crashed his truck into a Porsche 911 and two police cars on the Eastern Freeway killing four police officers. Never Forgotten Police Officers Constable Lynette...
⊜ Melbourne
Thursday 11th September 2025 is the 24th anniversary of one of the world's worst terrorist attacks when two hijacked planes ploughed into the World Trade Centre in Manhattan USA. It is important...
⊜ Spotswood
Just before lunch on Thursday 15th October 1970, the West Gate Bridge suddenly groaned. An eerie pinging noise filled the air. A storm of rust flakes peeled off weathered steel. The girders started...
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