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Groups of teenagers and young men are using dating apps to lure, violently assault and rob men in Melbourne parks before posting footage they capture of the disturbing attacks on social media.

James thought he was meeting a date. Attackers beat him and laughed while he screamed

Groups of young males are using fake dating profiles to lure men to parks for vicious homophobic attacks which are then being posted to, and boasted about, on social media.

  • Melissa Cunningham and Cameron Houston

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Police officers apprehend a person at Northland after Sunday’s brawl.

Concealed machetes and an ambush: How the Northland brawl unfolded

Court documents reveal how the brawl spilled out from an ambush in an alleyway as a rival gang produced machetes concealed in their pants.

  • Cassandra Morgan and Sherryn Groch
Ali has described how he sprung into action during the machete brawl at Northland on Sunday.

Ali came for sushi and left a hero after rushing to act during machete brawl

Ali survived the Boxing Day tsunami and a bombing attack in his native Sri Lanka. When a machete brawl broke out in front of him on Sunday, he sprang into action.

  • Sherryn Groch, Cassandra Morgan, Melissa Cunningham and Nicole Precel
Premier Jacinta Allan announces a sale ban on machetes.

Machete attack re-ignites political debate after government rejected ban two months ago

The Allan government discussed using consumer laws to stop retailers selling machetes but decided against it until the Northland brawl forced its hand.

  • Chip Le Grand and Cassandra Morgan
A photo taken by witnesses at Northland shows a person wielding a knife lunging at two other people.

Rival gangs armed with machetes send shoppers fleeing, force centre into lockdown

Police swarmed Northland shopping centre after a brawl involving 10 people, some armed with knives, broke out on Sunday afternoon.

  • Roy Ward, Henrietta Cook and Ashleigh McMillan
Police swarmed to the area near Park and Dow streets in South Melbourne late on Saturday.

‘Get the car off me’: Witnesses describe fatal police shooting after driver rams officer

South Melbourne residents are on edge a day after gunshots shattered the peace in a suburban street where a woman was killed after ramming a policeman with a car.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
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Original member of The Dogs, who later became Deputy Prime Minister Jim Cairns.

How an ‘invisible’ police unit has hounded criminals for generations

On the night of the planned abduction, the Dogs were watching from a flat overlooking the house. Police had moved the family and replaced them with mannequins, apparently sleeping in their beds.

  • John Silvester
Detectives at the scene of the Chadstone house fire on Thursday.

Police yet to talk to critically injured mother after Chadstone blaze, man ruled out as suspect

Two young girls severely injured in a suspicious blaze in Melbourne’s south-east are now in a stable condition in hospital.

  • Cassandra Morgan
A crime scene has been established at a Chadstone home after a suspicious blaze.

‘No cries for help’: Gas bottle behind suspicious explosion that left mother, two girls fighting for life

Firefighters forced their way into the townhouse and found the woman and two young children unconscious in an upstairs bedroom.

  • Cameron Houston, Cassandra Morgan and Sherryn Groch
Treasurer Jaclyn Symes addresses the media on Tuesday.

Big prison spend, but less for police in crime crackdown

The government has spent about $1.6 billion on new crime and justice initiatives, but police look set to come under budget pressure.

  • Daniella White

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