Melissa Brown
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- Sep 29, 2026
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City of Melbourne looks to reinstate Australia Day parade (opens the original)
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The City of Melbourne has voted to abandon its campaign to change the date of Australia Day. The council had adopted an official position in 2022 to advocate for the federal government to move Australia's national day from January 26. Council will consider reinstating the Australia Day parade which was previously organised by the state government. The City of Melbourne has voted to stop advocating for the federal government to move Australia Day celebrations to another date. Councillors voted in
Union not told Victorian paramedics to take lead on mental health call-outs (opens the original)
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The Victorian government has announced paramedics rather than police will become the first responders to mental health call-outs. The government says the plan aims to improve health outcomes for patients and free up police to focus on crime. The Victorian Ambulance Union says it was not consulted about the plan. The union representing Victoria's ambulance workers says it found out about a plan for paramedics to take over responsibility for mental health call-outs through the media. The Victorian
Historical picture theatre destroyed in suspicious fire in Melbourne (opens the original)
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An overnight fire has gutted the former Austral Picture Theatre in Collingwood. The theatre opened in 1921 and later became a rollerskating rink, but was vacant with plans to demolish it for apartments. Police will investigate the blaze after it was deemed suspicious. Police will investigate a fire that destroyed a historic theatre in Collingwood, in inner Melbourne. Firefighters arrived in Johnston Street about 10:30pm to find thick smoke and flames coming from the double-storey Austral Picture
Labor pledges more police and new academy in Melbourne's west (opens the original)
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Labor has promised to recruit an extra 1,500 police officers and build a new Victoria Police training facility in the Wyndham area, in Melbourne's south-west, if it wins the November state election. Premier Ben Carroll says applications to become a police officer are at a five-year high. But he says there is a bottleneck with training because there is currently only one permanent police academy in the state. A re-elected Labor government would recruit an extra 1,500 police officers and build a n
Smart glasses banned from Melbourne council's pools, gyms and playgrounds (opens the original)
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A Melbourne council has become the second local government in Australia to ban glasses with in-built cameras from its leisure centres, playgrounds and childcare centres. There will be an exception for people who are hearing impaired, have low vision or other disabilities who are aided by the smart glasses. The City of Yarra will now lobby the federal government to temporarily ban the importation of smart glasses until Australia's privacy laws better address wearable technologies. An inner Melbou
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