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Following a shopping centre brawl in Melbourne at the weekend, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced the state will ban the sale of all machetes from Wednesday. In March this year, the ...
The ban on the sale of machetes was to have taken effect on that date. A three-month amnesty will give people time to dispose of their machetes at police stations and secure bins without penalty.
The new measure to ban machete sales fast-tracked a partial implementation of a plan that the state announced in March, which in turn was made after a previous series of vicious crimes involving ...
A teenager filmed wielding a machete near a Geelong shopping centre has been charged with weapon offences and is allegedly ...
It took a brawl between machete-wielding young people at a suburban shopping centre to speed up Victoria's ban of long-edged weapons — not some well-developed policy process from Premier Jacinta ...
A Newspoll published in The Australian shows support for Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has slipped below that of the ...
Interim sale ban on May 28: Australia’s first total ban on machete sales. Commonwealth consumer law allows a state minister for consumer affairs to introduce an interim ban on the sale of certain ...
Following a shopping centre brawl in Melbourne at the weekend, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced the state will ban the sale of all machetes . Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.
The ban on the sale of machetes was to have taken effect on that date. A three-month amnesty will give people time to dispose of their machetes at police stations and secure bins without penalty.
This is Australia’s first machete ban, and we agree with police that it must be done once and done right. It took the UK (United Kingdom) 18 months – we can do it in six.