This alienated him most of his liberal colleagues, and also from the influential Melbourne newspaper, The Age.

"It is the Australian dream," a fringe dweller told a Melbourne newspaper.

Three weeks before the 1977 state election 400 demonstrators were arrested in what a Melbourne newspaper called "Joh's War".

A casket, containing copies of Melbourne newspapers of the day was deposited in a cavity beneath the foundation stone.

In the Melbourne newspapers, editorials were prominent.

This was reported on The 7.30 Report and also in the Melbourne newspapers, resulting in the extraordinary vote.

Richard Clapton's year of birth is elusive: in a 2002 interview with a Melbourne newspaper, The Age, he described himself as being 50-something.

He was employed as music critic for The Argus and The Age, both Melbourne newspapers, from 1950 until his death.

In January 1946 he joined the Melbourne newspaper The Herald.

For many years, during the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote music criticism for the Melbourne newspaper The Age.