Man dies after fight in street

Police investigate the house where the man was found dead. Picture: Nicole Garmston Source: Herald Sun

Police investigate the house where the man was found dead. Picture: Nicole Garmston Source: Herald Sun

Neighbour Kirstie Peel said her friend heard yelling last night. Picture: Nicole Garmston Source: Herald Sun

A MAN believed to be aged in his 30s has been found dead in a house following a fight in a street in Melbourne's west.

Police were called to the house in Felicity Dr, Tarneit, just before 11pm after neighbours reported a brawl between two men that had spilled from the house onto the street.

A 35-year-old man who lives at the property has been arrested and is assisting police with their inquires.

A female aged in her 20s who stays at the address is also assisting police.

The victim, who is Victorian, did not live in the house.

Detective Sergeant Mark Hatt said the altercation was "obviously violent given that someone is deceased".

"We're still piecing together the investigation, a post-mortem will be conducted later today."

Neighbour Kristie Peel said it was a shock to have someone die next door.

"My friend was here and she said she heard two big yells, like a pained yell not a cry for help and that set my dogs off barking," Ms Peel said.

"It is really scary to find out what has gone on in the neighbourhood. It is pretty shocking, it's only two doors down."

The Homicide Squad is investigating.

More to come ...

Jessica.evans@news.com.au
 

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Man's explosive threat shuts down street

SIEGE: Police surround a home at Upper Coomera after a man threatened to blow up the house and himself. Picture: Mike Batterham Source: The Courier-Mail

A GOLD Coast street remains locked down by police as a man continues to threaten self harm.

The incident began after the man made threats at 7pm on Wednesday.

The man is believed to be alone in the home on Hart St at Upper Coomera and is threatening to detonate explosives.

Last night police had a suburban area boarded by Reserve Rd, Amelia St and Treeline Circuit shut down but this has been scaled back to just Hart St.

Residents of Hart St were evacuated last night and are still not allowed to return to their homes.

SIEGE: Police surround a home at Upper Coomera after a man threatened to blow up the house and himself. Picture: Mike Batterham

Locals waited in the rain across the road from the Hart St property for hours before they were sent further back in to the Upper Coomera State School car park, as police enforced a 500m exclusion zone.

The declared area was originally bounded by Reserve Road to the west, Amelia Street and the Coomera River to the south and Tree line Circuit to the north. It has since been reduced to cover just Hart Street.

One resident of the street told the Gold Coast Bulletin they had taken their children to a friend's house and were waiting for news.

"We have young kids and just want to get home," she said.

Another local said they were terrified after being told the man was threatening to blow himself up with three 9kg gas bottles.

THREATS: Emergency services at Hart Street, Upper Coomera, after a man threatened to blow up a house and himself with explosives. Picture: Richard Gosling

An emergency situation has been declared under the Public Safety Preservation Act.

* Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

THREATS: Emergency services at Hart Street, Upper Coomera, after a man threatened to blow up a house and himself with explosives. Picture: Richard Gosling

THREATS: Residents at Hart Street, Upper Coomera, were evacuated after a man threatened to blow up a house and himself with explosives. Picture: Richard Gosling

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Young man stabbed to death in street

Melbourne police say a young man, who was found stabbed and died at the scene, was 21-year-old Werribee man.

Forensic police investigate after a body was found in Fitzroy. Picture: Jake Nowakowski Source: Herald Sun

Police establish a crime scene after a body was found in Johnston St, Fitzroy. Picture: Jake Nowakowski Source: Herald Sun

Police establish a crime scene after a body was found in Johnston St, Fitzroy. Picture: Jake Nowakowski Source: Herald Sun

Forensic police investigate after a body was found in Fitzroy. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

POLICE are still hunting a brazen killer who stabbed a 21-year-old man to death yesterday morning.

The Werribee man was stabbed "multiple times" in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy about 5am.

Det-Sgt Allan Birch said CCTV footage from local businesses would be used to help find the attacker.

"It appears the deceased male has suffered a number of stabbing injuries," Mr Birch said.

"The difficulty faced by us at this stage is we don't know what happened.

"We don't know who was involved and we don't know exactly how the injuries were inflicted. Because of that our investigation is extremely wide."

Det-Sgt Birch said the victim was wearing "general street clothes" of shoes, jeans and a shirt.

He said a council worker stumbled across the young victim in a "distressed" state, approached him then saw him collapse at 5am.

"Unfortunately when the ambulance arrived very shortly after the young man could not be revived."

Det-Sgt Birch said no weapons had been found but added there were "potential weapons in laneways all around" Fitzroy.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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Google Street View 1872 unveiled

Holtermman Collection: Greatest Wonder of the World, Gulgong, 1872. Photo: State Library of NSW Source: Supplied

• Promotional shots of 19th century boom towns
• GALLERY: see how Australia lived in the 1870s
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A REMARKABLE new exhibition of newly digitized antique photographs at Sydney's State Library shows how much Australia has changed over the past 140 years.

More than a century before a Californian search engine sent cars to record our houses for Google Street View, a German-born entrepreneur employed early photographers to rove Australia's boom gold towns with large format cameras, capturing every aspect of the rapidly developing colony.

Holtermann Collection: J Greens Pie and Coffee Rooms, Hill End 1872. Photo: State Library of NSW Source: Supplied

Nineteenth century gold towns were vibrant, bustling places packed with numerous tempting ways for cashed-up miners to splurge their wealth.

Holtermann Collection: Hill End Dispensary 1872 and same location 2012. Photo: State Library of NSW Source: Supplied

Imported clothing was all the rage, every man wore a hat and coffee shops did a roaring trade.

Holtermann Collection: Gold speciments from the Star of Hope mine, 1872. Photo: State Library of NSW Source: Supplied

However muddy and dirty the booming towns appeared, catchy signs helped shopkeepers snare customers. How could anyone resist a shop named The Greatest Wonder of the World?

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Packed with informative multimedia and videos, the brilliantly staged new exhibition at the State Library of NSW showcases some of the first photographs ever taken in Australia.

One of the nation's greatest photo archives, the Holtermann Collection captures the goldfields of Victoria and New South Wales, and the rapidly emerging cities of Sydney and Melbourne.

Holtermann Collection: Post Office Hotel, Sydney April 1874. Photo: State Library of NSW Source: Supplied

Selected from a cache of 3,500 plate glass negatives rediscovered in a garden shed in 1951, the incredible images have now been digitised for the first time, revealing remarkable new details.

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Bernhardt Holtermann made his money mining gold in rural NSW, his fortunes peaking with the discovery of the 1.5m long and 286 kg Holtermann nugget, the largest hunk of gold ever found.

Flush with cash, Holtermann bankrolled Victorian photographer Beaufoy Merlin and his young assistant Charles Bayliss on an extraordinary mission: commissioning them to record photos for his great International Travelling Exposition, in the hope the photos would encourage other immigrants to come to Australia and enjoy the same success he had. Not quite Gina Rinehart.

Holtermann Collection: Studios of American & Australasian Photographic Company, Hill End 1872. Photo: State Library of NSW Source: Supplied

Merlin and his young assistant Charles Bayliss began working together in 1869 as the grandly named American and Australiasian Photographic Company, gradually moving north into NSW, recording every town they visited.

Hauling their darkroom on the back of a horse and cart, the new photographic equipment ignited excitement everywhere it went.

In an age where we all carry cameras in our pockets, it's worth remembering that only a few decades after the medium's invention, 19th century photographers struggled with large cameras on heavy tripods, very long exposures and a tricky photographic process: with no auto preview option.

After a tremendous amount of hard work by Davies and his team over the last four years, the State Library of NSW have digitised the entire Holtermann Collection in high resolution, allowing readers to explore old posters on distant walls and bottle labels in pharmacy windows.

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The Greatest Wonder of the World exhibition at the State Library of NSW runs until May 12

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 Simon Crerar is News Limited's Visual Story Editor, follow him at twitter.com/simoncrerar

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One dead in street sweeper smash

A DRIVER has died in a horror collision that saw a street sweeper mount and flatten a car in Gippsland this morning.

The driver – who is yet to be identified – was travelling along the South Gippsland Fwy at Foster, about 174km south east of Melbourne, when it collided with another car and a street sweeper just after 8am.

Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said paramedics were called to the three-vehicle smash at 8.04am

He said emergency services were still working to extract the deceased driver from the badly damaged car.

“Somehow this truck has gone over and ended up on top of a car and the person in the car is deceased. That person is severely trapped in the car,” he said.

“They’re trying to work everything out at the moment; everything is still fairly blocked down there.”

The driver of the third car sustained a leg injury and has been transferred to the South Gippsland Hospital in a stable condition.

The truck driver is being treated for shock and has been transferred to the Leongatha Memorial Hospital.

Victoria Police spokeswoman Senior Constable Melissa Seach confirmed the driver of the car had died in the crash.
 

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