Multiple RSL sub-branches have been vandalised on Melbourne on Anzac Day.

Two women, aged 20 and 22, have been charged by police after allegedly being caught spray painting a wall at Heidelberg RSL.

Members allegedly spotted the vandalism going on at 1.45am.

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The pair ran but were chased on foot by police.

They have both been charged with criminal damage, mark graffiti on property without consent and possess graffiti implement to mark graffiti.

They have been bailed to appear before Heidelberg Magistrates' Court on May 19.

Police say they believe two other acts of vandalism are also linked.

The Reservoir RSL sub-branch building in was also targeted with graffiti overnight, "containing anti-veteran, anti-Australian Defence Force and deeply offensive slurs".

A spokesperson for the sub-branch called the attack "disgraceful" but praised the veterans, serving members and families who came together in support and condemnation.

"Sometime overnight, offenders targeted our building with hateful graffiti containing anti-veteran, anti-Australian Defence Force and deeply offensive slurs," the statement said.

"These messages were sprayed across multiple external walls of our club on one of the most sacred and significant days in our national calendar.

"To deliberately target a veterans' organisation on ANZAC Day is disgraceful. It was clearly intended to cause hurt, division and distress to veterans, serving members, their families, and the broader community who gather each year to honour sacrifice and service.

"Despite this hateful act, the offenders failed in their objective.

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"Following the service, many attendees and members were unfortunately exposed to the graffiti while attending our traditional Gunfire Breakfast. While upsetting, the overwhelming response from the public was one of unity, support and condemnation of those responsible.

"Today, as always, Reservoir stood together."

The Fawkner RSL Memorial stone was also vandalised, that branch said.

Locals have pledges to help restore it, the sub-branch said in a statement.

"The paint will be removed our memorial will be restored to honour the glory of our fallen," they said.

It is the one day of the year when Australians can enjoy a game of two-up, as pubs around the country host games in commemoration of Anzac Day.

Typically two-up is only allowed on one day a year, April 25, after midday so it is your chance to be a part of the fun.

And judging by videos posted on social media today, Australians are turning out in their record numbers.

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The London pub in Paddington, Sydney, is hosting a street party for the first time and a huge queue, five-to-six-people wide stretched around the block by 8.40am this morning with only walk-ins guaranteed entry.

The startling footage was captured by Instagram account Bondi Lines.

Huge lines for the Clovelly Hotel in the Eastern Suburbs were also captured.

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How two-up works

At its most basic level, the game involves one person tossing up two coins and people in the crowd betting on the outcome.

The outcomes are either two heads, two tails or "odds", which is one of each.

Generally you can only bet on either heads or tails, and continue tossing up until you get a result.

Some venues will allow bets on odds.

The spinner will make a bet with someone in the crowd and then tosses the coins in the air, making sure they travel at least three metres in the air and land inside the ring.

Money is then exchanged depending on who won the bet.

Several bets are made among people in the crowd or "school" as it's known, and the whole game is run by the "boxer" who stands in the middle but does not bet.

It's the boxer's job to ensure all bets are paid and people are playing fairly.

They also have discretion when it comes to weak tosses, so make sure to get those coins nice and high.

The wooden paddle used to toss the coins is called the "kip".

The coins are always pennies from before 1939.

In most clubs you will find people betting in $5, $10 and $20 sums but you may find eager punters willing to wager a $50.

But the most important thing to remember when you're having a beer and tossing up the coins is the men and women who sacrificed their lives to make that moment possible.

Three people have been arrested after an alleged arson attack on an iconic Melbourne CBD bar.

Police were notified when Melbourne City Council staff spotted a suspicious vehicle on safety cameras near the corner of Flinders and AC/DC lanes.

When police arrived at the scene they found the late night venue Bar Bambi on AC/DC Lane ablaze.

Police chased down two alleged offenders on foot before arresting a third person in a nearby laneway.

The trio are in custody and will be interviewed today.

The US Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said.

The Justice Department is also reauthorising the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital that were used to carry out 13 executions during the first Trump administration — more than under any president in modern history. The Biden administration had removed pentobarbital from the federal protocol over concerns about the potential for unnecessary pain and suffering.

The moves were announced as part of a broader push to step up federal executions after a moratorium under the Biden administration. Only three defendants remain on federal death row after Democratic President Joe Biden converted 37 of their sentences to life in prison, though the Trump administration has so far authorised seeking death sentences against 44 defendants.

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“The prior administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by refusing to pursue and carry out the ultimate punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including terrorists, child murderers, and cop killers,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice is once again enforcing the law and standing with victims.”

The federal government has not previously included firing squad as a method of execution in its protocols, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre. Five states currently allow executions by firing squad: Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah.

The pentobarbital protocol was adopted by Bill Barr, attorney general during Trump’s first term, to replace a three-drug mix used in the 2000s, the last time federal executions were carried out before Trump's first term in office.

Attorney General Merrick Garland in the final days of the Biden administration withdrew the pentobarbital lethal injection policy after a government review of scientific and medical research found there remains “significant uncertainty" about whether its use causes unnecessary pain and suffering."

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In 2020, under Barr's leadership, the Justice Department published a rule in the Federal Register to allow the federal government to conduct executions by lethal injection or use “any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed.”

A number of states allow other methods of execution, including electrocution, inhaling nitrogen gas or death by firing squad.

The Trump administration, in a report released Friday, said the Biden administration “got the standard and the science wrong."

The Biden administration's findings, among other things, “failed to address the overwhelming evidence” that an injected with pentobarbital quickly “quickly loses consciousness—rendering him unable to experience pain," the report said.

Currently on death row are are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.

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The partial remains of eight Australian soldiers have been laid to rest in France ahead of ANZAC Day, more than a century on from World War I.

They'd been used for medical research at a museum in the US, which came as a shock to relatives like Olwyn Crimp, whose great-great-uncle was one of the soldiers.

William Alexander Pavey was just 21 years old when he left his life as a Brisbane labourer behind to join the fight on the western front.

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Private Pavey survived almost three years of war in France before he died from gunshot wounds in May 1918.

"He fought right through until he was killed, just before the end of the war," Crimp tells 9News.

"You know, that's a long time to be in the trenches in France."

The brave young ANZAC was among those whose partial remains have recently been returned to his grave.

They had been kept in the US for medical research for more than a century.

"I was pretty uncomfortable with it initially," Crimp said.

"I'm still trying to come to terms with what they might have done.
The remains were taken from the hospital from what I can gather."

The medical research they underwent would have helped soldiers that came after them, Brenton Philp from the Department of Veterans' Affairs tells 9News.

"It would have absolutely contributed to the survivability and treatment of military wounds and war wounds for others that followed," he said.

"It does seem strange by our standards, but it was common after the first world war."

Seven other Australian soldiers' remains were also handed back.

"We understand that the remains have been treated with great respect and dignity," Philp said.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission completed burial works at Private Pavey's grave and at others in the Mont Huon Military Cemetery ahead of Anzac Day commemorations, as people journey to France to pay their respects.

"We're very proud that the Australian Army was able to be there as part of the reinterment ceremony to ensure that our soldiers are well respected," Philp said.

And the news is comforting for Crimp.

"He wasn't forgotten then and hopefully he won't be forgotten now," she said.

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Former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith has attended the Anzac Day Currumbin Dawn Service on the Gold Coast.

Wearing a suit and adorned with the medals he received for his service, Roberts-Smith arrived at the service at around 4.30am, sitting alongside thousands of other attendees.

"I've never thought about not coming, I was always going to be here," he said.

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He added that it was a day "everyone should be reflecting and commemorating the service of all of those Australians that have given us the country that we live in".

After the ceremony he spent time and shook hands with many of the other attendees and supporters, and was asked by some for his picture to be taken with them. Roberts-Smith said he found the support 'overwhelming'.

The former SAS soldier was arrested on April 7 and charged with murdering or ordering the murders of five unarmed detainees while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012.

He denies all the allegations.

He successfully applied for bail on April 17 at Sydney's Downing Centre Local Court.

He was released from Silverwater Correctional Centre before travelling back to Queensland.