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[Link] Passengers escorted off Qantas flight by police after Sydney airport security breach

Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com

All passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney Wednesday evening were escorted off the plane by police to the unscreened area of Melbourne airport, after one passenger managing to bypass screening. Just got off Qantas flight QF487, Sydney to Melbourne.

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[Link] Teen climate activist subjected to sexist and racist abuse amid federal court climate case

Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

Teenage climate crisis campaigner Anjali Sharma has revealed the torrent of sexist and racist abuse she has received while fronting a legal case against the Morrison government’s approval of a New South Wales coal project.

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[Link] More than 1,000 Victorian police officers incorrectly sworn in due to 'administrative oversight'

Read: 23/2/2022 www.abc.net.au

The Victorian government is urgently drafting retrospective legislation to address an administrative error which has resulted in more than 1,000 police officers being invalidly sworn in over the past eight years.

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[Link] Have you asked for an Airbnb refund during COVID? Ross was refused one – and then told to break lockdown

Read: 29/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

So when they booked a night at a Victorian country home for a getaway with friends, the Melbourne-based couple didn't pay too much attention to their Airbnb host's cancellation policy.

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[Link] Terror detectives charge Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives

Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

Terror detectives have charged a Melbourne man with inciting protesters to make explosives, as police continue to investigate threats against Victorian MPs who supported the state's controversial pandemic legislation.

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[Link] Thick blue line: Victoria builds the country’s biggest police force

Read: 14/11/2021 www.theage.com.au

Victoria has become one of the most heavily policed states in Australia after a two decade-long law and order rivalry between the ALP and Coalition helped build the country’s largest law enforcement organisation.

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[Link] More than 60% of people visiting Melbourne vaccination hub did not have Medicare card

Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

More than 60% of people who visited a Melbourne vaccination centre targeting those facing disadvantage did not have a Medicare card, while about 5% were probably homeless, figures show.

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[Link] SA Police investigate how COVID-positive woman who sparked NT lockdown entered state

Read: 8/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

SA Police is investigating if a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 and sparked the Northern Territory's lockdown had the relevant travel permits into South Australia from Victoria.

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[Link] War on viruses over for Victoria's sentinel chickens after decades of bloody service

Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

For almost 50 years, flocks of sentinel chickens along the Murray River have formed the front line of defence against mosquito-borne viruses.

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[Link] 10,000 tickets confirmed for Melbourne Cup, but only 500 available to the public

Read: 22/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Organisers have confirmed crowds will be back at the Melbourne Cup for the first time since 2019, with 10,000 allowed at Flemington, including 500 members of the general public.

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[Link] Truck driver accused of spitting on and assaulting police at border checkpoint refused bail

Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Brendan J Moore, 57, faced the Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with assaulting a police officer and another worker, and resisting police.

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[Link] Man spared jail after assaulting attendant on flight from Melbourne to Adelaide

Read: 12/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Timothy Kenneth Hawkes, 29, was flying from Melbourne to Adelaide in May after South Australian authorities announced the state's border was closing to Victoria due to a COVID-19 outbreak.

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[Link] Police bungle cost ‘14 years of potential progress’ in Maria James’ murder, Melbourne inquest hears

Read: 23/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

Police errors regarding the storage and examination of evidence hampered the investigation into the unsolved murder of Maria James in Melbourne, with one bungle costing “14 years of potential progress”, an inquest has been told.

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[Link] Two week shutdown of construction industry expected following violent Melbourne protests

Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au

The Victorian government is expected to forcibly shutdown all construction sites across the state in response to violent protests outside the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union's Melbourne office today.

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[Link] Man jailed for terrifying, humiliating knifepoint attack on partner

Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au

Darryl Nugget has been jailed for four years over the March 2020 attack, in which he repeatedly threatened to kill the woman while holding a knife to her throat in front of several children.

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[Link] Emaciated animals removed from property where horse graveyard found, court told

Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au

RSPCA inspectors first attended the property at Warrak near Ararat in January 2016 following a complaint from a member of the public about the animals' condition.

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[Link] Age photographer pepper-sprayed at anti-lockdown protest

Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au

The conduct of some Victoria Police is being investigated after a newspaper photographer was pepper sprayed and video was published online showing a woman being pushed to the ground and sprayed by an officer at a violent anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne at the weekend.

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[Link] South Australians, including a couple in their 60s, arrested after entering the state without a permit

Read: 8/9/2021 www.abc.net.au

Six people, including a couple from Kangaroo Island and another pair who crossed fields to enter the state from Victoria, have been arrested and charged after separate breaches of South Australia's COVID-19 restrictions.

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[Link] Man faces court over alleged kidnapping of children from Blackburn North

Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Jiangang Ji is facing charges including kidnapping, aggravated burglary, armed robbery, false imprisonment, assault and theft of a motor vehicle.

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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia

Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.

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[Link] Statement of Concern: Police use of projectile weapons

Read: 22/8/2021 melbactivistlegal.org.au

Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) expresses concern regarding use of projectile weapons at Melbourne protest on 21 August 2021.

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[Link] Brunswick’s Good Karma Network shuts amid claims of ‘toxic positivity’, racism

Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

It began as a place online where you could share excess lemons with your neighbours, pass on clothes your kids had outgrown or lend someone a power tool: a utopian vision of an online community sharing gifts and advice.

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[Link] From kickboxing to Adolf Hitler: the neo-Nazi plan to recruit angry young men

Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

An unprecedented look inside Australia’s radical fringe shows their deep links to violent international groups, and what they’ll do if they are banned.

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[Link] ‘Ridiculous’: Police warn protesters ahead of anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne

Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

Police have warned people attending an anti-lockdown march in Melbourne on Saturday that they will take strong action to deter breaches of lockdown restrictions. Thousands were expected to join the protest, which organisers said would begin at 12pm in the CBD.

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[Link] Supreme court rejects Victorian anti-lockdown protester’s legal challenge

Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

A legal challenge to Covid-19 stay-at-home orders brought by a woman who protested against Victoria’s second wave lockdown has been dismissed.

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[Link] Tesla’s Megapack Battery Burned For Days In Grid Storage Fire

Read: 15/8/2021 hackaday.com

Lithium rechargeable batteries have been heralded for their high-density energy storage, enabling all manner of technologies to come to fruition. From drones to practical electric cars to large-scale grid storage, the applications are endless.

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[Link] Police arrest dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD

Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Victorian police arrested dozens of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne's CBD last night. Officers appeared to outnumber a handful of protesters who came into the city's centre to protest hours after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a seven-day extension to the city's lockdown.

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[Link] Crown royal commission hears chief financial officer knew of money laundering 'red flag' but can't remember response

Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

The man in charge of the finances of Crown's two Australian casinos was warned of multiple suspicious transactions which could indicate money laundering — but can not remember taking any action.

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[Link] Victorian couple desperate to return from NSW hear nothing a week after applying for Covid travel pass

Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Victorians Carla Styles and Stuart Annand were just past the Queensland border, near Goondiwindi, when their mad scramble home began to unravel.

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[Link] Centrelink pauses welfare and childcare debt repayments during lockdowns

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Centrelink will no longer issue or recover welfare and childcare debts during lockdowns, including in parts of New South Wales and Queensland currently under stay-at-home orders.

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[Link] How was Tasmania's new COVID case allowed into the state?

Read: 7/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Tasmania has recorded its first COVID case in hotel quarantine in 238 days. It means potentially dozens of northern Tasmanians have been forced into self-isolation and questions are being asked about how he came to be in Tasmania in the first place.

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[Link] High level Victorian police under investigation by corruption watchdog

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog is investigating alleged cover-ups, nepotism and internal information leaks involving high ranking police in a probe that is likely to rock force command, policing sources say.

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[Link] Police officer shot dead armed robber after being told not to intervene, Victorian coroner’s court told

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

An undercover police officer who shot dead an armed robber during the hold-up of a bottle shop had been told to let the crime occur rather than intervene, a Victorian court has heard.

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[Link] Hundreds protest against Victorian COVID lockdown, leading to clashes with police

Read: 6/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Hundreds of protesters have taken to Melbourne's streets hours after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced a statewide lockdown from 8:00pm on Thursday.

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[Link] No conviction, $6000 fine for gangland cop who leaked corruption secret

Read: 6/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

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[Link] SPC makes COVID vaccination mandatory for workforce, becoming Australian test case

Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Fruit and vegetable processor SPC has become the first Australian company to mandate vaccines for all onsite staff and visitors. The Shepparton-based cannery wants all its 450 onsite workers to be fully vaccinated by November, in what could be a legal test-case for the country.

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[Link] Richard Pusey being found too unpopular for community order is 'disturbing', judge says

Read: 28/4/2021 www.abc.net.au

WARNING: This story contains language that may offend some readers. Pusey was assessed for a community correction order ahead of his sentence on charges including outraging public decency following Melbourne's Eastern Freeway crash that killed four police officers.

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