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The death of the Queen and swearing in of a new King has naturally brought about the question of what will happen to the Queen's Birthday public holiday in Australia.

Experts do not expect the day will change, seeing as the public holiday did not previously occur on Queen Elizabeth II's actual birthday, April 21, in any Australian state.

"Already in Australia we have different dates where the Queen's birthday is celebrated," Sydney University's cultural historian Dr Cindy McCreery has said.

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"And of course they've got nothing to do with the Queen's actual birthday anyway."

She expects the public holiday will remain on the same date in each state, but the name will change to the 'King's Birthday' public holiday.

New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, ACT, South Australia and the Northern Territory have traditionally marked the public holiday on the second Monday of June, while it has been taken in September in Queensland, and in October in Western Australia.

Monarchs' birthdays used to be celebrated publicly on their actual dates of birth until King George V, Elizabeth's grandfather, died in 1936.

He had been born on June 3, 1865.

Following his death, most Australian states continued to celebrate the monarch's birthday around that same date.

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Things that are expected to change over time

However, many other things related to the Queen are set to change with her passing.

"It's enormous the number of things that will have to change but they're going to have to change slowly," Dr McCreery said.

Australia's $5, which bears the Queen's portrait, is not expected to change for many years.

But new coins will be minted in the next 12 to 18 months once a portrait of King Charles the third is approved for use.

He will face to the left not right, with a tradition dating back to King Charles II dictating the portraits change direction with the changing of a monarch.

Extensive changes will have to take place for the legal profession following the Queen's passing, with the late Queen intertwined in many procedures and formalities.

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Senior barristers who were Queen's Counsel or QC, have already changed to King's Counsel – KC.

People are also prosecuted in the name of the monarch, with cases having been brought by the Queen against accused persons.

They will now have to be brought in the name of the King.

Victoria's parliament will also not be able to resume until each MP has sworn allegiance to King Charles III.

Victoria is the only state where the swearing will be required.

Operation Unicorn is the name given to a set of detailed plans outlining what should happen if Queen Elizabeth II died in Scotland.

That operation is now in motion, after the UK's longest-serving monarch died peacefully at Balmoral, her beloved Scottish estate.

Leaked some time ago, the operation's plans reveal the Queen's coffin will temporarily rest at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland.

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Her coffin is currently in the ballroom of Balmoral Castle before it is moved in the coming days to the Palace of Holyroodhouse at Edinburgh.

Buckingham Palace has not confirmed what day the coffin will be moved from Balmoral to Edinburgh.

A ceremonial procession of the coffin will then continue along the Royal Mile in Edinburgh to St Giles' Cathedral.

There would be a service at the cathedral, attended by the royal family, before a 24-hour period of lying at rest.

It is believed the public will be able to view her coffin at St Giles' Cathedral however Buckingham Palace is yet to confirm this.

The coffin will then move to London, either by royal train or on a plane.

It will then be taken to Buckingham Palace before the big ceremonial procession in the capital planned for "D+5" of the 10-day funeral plans, which will involve the Queen lying in state.

In the afternoon on D+5 a gun carriage procession will take the coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall at the Palace of Westminster.

It's expected members of the family and palace staff will walk on foot behind the procession, which will travel past the Queen Victoria Memorial and on to Pall Mall, through the Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, Parliament Square and into New Palace Yard.

Huge queues are expected to occur when Queen Elizabeth's coffin lies in state at Westminster.

When the Queen Mother's coffin lay at Westminster Hall in 2002, thousands of people lined up to pay their respects.

Each year, the Queen would travel north to spend her summers at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire.

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Balmoral, a 50,000-acre estate, is widely thought to be the monarch's favourite residence.

In 1852, Prince Albert purchased the estate as a gift for his wife, Queen Victoria.

Balmoral is a private residence, rather than a royal residence belonging to the crown estate.

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A pedestrian has died after being hit by a tram on a busy street in South Melbourne.

The crash occurred in an inbound lane of Kings Way near the Citylink off ramp just after 1.30pm.

The person died at the scene and is yet to be identified.

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The exact circumstances surrounding the collision are being investigated.

Motorists are being advised to expect significant delays in the area with three inbound lanes closed on Kings Way.

Anyone with information, dashcam or CCTV footage of the incident is urged to contact police.

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Within hours of meeting Christopher Collins on Tinder, he had swindled thousands of dollars off a Melbourne woman.

But that was just the beginning of her nightmare.

Weeks of manipulation followed, including threats of blackmail. And then, a lengthy legal process.

Collins, 33, pleaded guilty to 24 charges including financial deception offences, fraud and theft and was sentenced to 22 months in prison on Friday.

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He stole more than $100,000 from three women he met online from January 2020 to January 2021.

Collins remained silent when he appeared by video link from prison in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday.

The court heard he had just completed an 18-month community work order for similar offending – stealing money off women he met online and using it for gambling – when he began stealing from a woman on January 3, 2020.

The woman, who spoke to AAP, said Collins had left her physically, mentally, emotionally and financially "ruined".

"It was a nightmare," she said.

She met Collins on Tinder, where he went by the name CJ.

They chatted about sport and he said he was a professional gambler.

She invited him over to watch some cricket, which was when the scamming began.

Collins encouraged her to put money on a "sure bet" and convinced her to open new online betting accounts.

Then they went to a Richmond pub, where Collins sat in a dark corner with her phone after she went to the dancefloor.

Within 20 minutes he had transferred $96,000 from her bank accounts and moved $72,000 into betting accounts.

After they went home together, he stole her credit card while she was sleeping and used it to pay for a taxi and then drinks at a strip club in Melbourne CBD.

When she confronted him, he manipulated her and threatened to send a damaging video of her if she went to police.

He sent her messages pretending to be his mother, told her she owed money to bikies and threatened suicide.

She became frightened, worried and confused.

"That confusion and sense of urgency, that's not a scenario that I've ever been in, and you don't know how you'll deal with it," she told AAP.

She's been unable to recover $45,000 of the money he stole from her and has spent almost $15,000 on lawyers as the legal process dragged on.

"It's had such a detrimental impact on me emotionally, mentally, physically, since it all occurred," she said.

"I'm a senior executive, I'm street savvy, no way did I ever think this would happen to me and have the ongoing long-term effects it has."

Another victim, a single mother of four, told the court she had to survive on handouts for months after the offending.

She has lost trust in men and has not dated anyone since she met Collins.

Magistrate Cecily Hollingworth described Collins' behaviour as "brazen and cunning" and said it showed his lack of respect for women.

"You could have stopped, you could have desisted at any stage but you continued to defraud these women," she said.

"You exploited women that you knew had limited means."

Collins must spend 16 months in prison before he becomes eligible for parole. He has already served more than 10 months in pre-sentence detention.

He has paid back $10,000 to the court.

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