There are now Covid-19 cases linked to a Melbourne restaurant (file picture).
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At the stroke of midnight, police vehicles joined the ends of queues at each border checkpoint to mark the midnight closure. Travellers were told earlier on Friday they would need to be in line before 11:59pm in order to make it home. At midnight, regardless of how long the queue is, we ll have a police car go to the end of that queue, Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Rick Nugent said earlier. If you are there by midnight, regardless of whether you re actually processed, you re included as arriving prior to midnight.
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About 100 Victoria Police officers are settling in to spend Christmas in small, individual tents in a field outside the border town of Cann River as the Australian Defence Force insists it has more important priorities than patrolling state borders.
Lieutenant-General John Frewen, head of the ADF s COVID-19 taskforce, told
The Age and
The Sydney Morning Herald the military s priority list, worked out with the federal government in September, put high-risk weather events, returned Australians in hotel quarantine, counter-terrorism and support to Pacific nations above enforcing state border closures.
Victoria Police Acting Senior Sergeant Colin Shepherd who was deployed from the Bass Coast sits in his tent at Cann River on Wednesday.
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A father-of-three who was suffering a bipolar episode when he was run over by a police car before being brutally stomped on the head by another officer has opened up about the harrowing experience.
Tim Atkins, 32, sat in the emergency department for 20 hours at Melbourne s Northern Hospital in September, waiting for a bed in the psychiatric ward.
Police arrived at the hospital after hearing reports Mr Atkins had allegedly smashed the glass doors open and ran onto the road.
The father allegedly punched and kicked a police vehicle before disturbing footage captured him being rammed by another officer.
Officers tried to restrain the father who was lying on the asphalt, before one policeman stomped on his head, slamming it into the ground.