Thank you for reading on a very eventful day for Victoria and the rest of the country.

Here are some of the headlines:

-- Police have arrested more than 200 people after another day of protests in Melbourne, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the gathering. The protests originally began against mandatory vaccination in the construction industry.

-- Dozens of patients have tested positive at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney, the second such outbreak at the hospital.

-- NSW has lifted lockdown for three regional areas - Gilgandra, Brewarrina and Narromine - after officials deemed the threat of a COVID-19 outbreak had passed.

-- The NSW government’s proposed hybrid check-in and vaccine passport app will not be ready when the state reopens in three weeks.

-- There are reports from the Northern Territory this afternoon that two people, including a two-year-old toddler, have tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

-- SA and WA are on alert after a NSW truck driver who was in WA on September 16 and 17 has tested positive. Another truck driver has tested negative.