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Footscray residents are questioning why police didn’t use tasers or pepper spray before fatally shooting a man who charged at them with a knife in Melbourne’s inner west overnight.

Police said that when officers arrived at the scene Footscray Plaza and told the man to drop his knife, he allegedly ran at two officers, prompting both to open fire.

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“His last words to me last Saturday were: ‘The system has made me the person I am today.’ I have thought long and hard about that.”

“His last words to me last Saturday were: ‘The system has made me the person I am today.’ I have thought long and hard about that.”

Readers respond to the debate between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton and the policies of the two major party leaders.

The Victorian government refuses to guarantee the future of local public health units that were crucial to the state’s pandemic fight, igniting concerns about more budget cuts to an already stretched health service.

Days after learning about a fight at Chris Habiyakare’s house, armed intruders staged a home invasion to steal the rapper’s rumoured $1 million in cash.

One Facebook comment posted from Nixon’s account said he was “on a mission” to kill as many police officers as possible.

Four people died of an overdose of nitazines, a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than heroin.

Keep Australia Beautiful Victoria ran the Stationeers volunteers for 30 years – until a government agency quietly took over a few weeks ago.

Theatres were prepared for the phenomenon when it arrived in Australia last week, even buying industrial vacuums to clean up the mess after each screening.

One Facebook comment posted from Nixon’s account said he was “on a mission” to kill as many police officers as possible.

Teenage movie-goers let off fire extinguishers at a Melbourne cinema during a screening of Minecraft.