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Melbourne's Lord Mayor has described a poster of the accused Bondi shooter in the style of a popular street artist as "just sick".

A picture of alleged gunman Naveed Akram with the caption "Aussie" has been plastered in multiple locations in Melbourne's CBD.

The poster was designed in the same style as famous street artist Peter Drew's "Aussie" series and has been spotted in over 40 places in the city.

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Lord Mayor Nick Reece said Drew's iconic posters are a celebration of Australia's national identity and multiculturalism and decried the copycat posters as "absolutely abhorrent".

"His posters are a good example of the role contemporary street art can play in politics as a means of social activism," Reece said in a statement.

"For Drew's work to be hijacked and appropriated into images of hatred and division is absolutely abhorrent.

"To use the image of the Bondi shooter is just sick. Families are still grieving, the community is still grieving.

"There is no possible universe in which this can be seen as an artistic response to the original series."

Reece said his team has worked around the clock to remove the posters.

Racist and hateful material will be removed in Melbourne within one hour of being reported under a new city policy, the mayor added.

"Our approach is 'whatever it takes': we are not going to tolerate hateful, racist material on the streets of our city, for even one hour," Reece said.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Daniel Aghion told The Age the posters are a "devastating and disrespectful" blow to the victims of the Bondi attack.

"The Bondi terrorists will fade into history and their names will be forgotten," Aghion said.

"The people who will be remembered are the victims, the survivors, and the heroes who rushed in to help. They represent the true Aussie spirit."

Fifteen innocent people were killed and dozens more were injured when two gunmen opened fire from a footbridge overlooking the park in Bondi on December 14.

Akram has been charged with 59 offences.

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The incident occurred outside Bar 20 on King St in Melbourne’s CBD on Friday night.

Several states across Australia's south-east will be on alert tomorrow as hot and windy conditions trigger increased fire danger after the driest January in 19 years.

Firefighters in South Australia will be on alert in parts of the west coast, Yorke Peninsula and the Mount Lofty Ranges where there is extreme fire danger tomorrow.

"The Mount Lofty Ranges takes in the Fleurieu Peninsula, where we saw a signficant fire start last night," Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Christie Johnson said.

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"We also have some of these high fire danger areas that are very close to the threshold for extreme fire danger and that includes regions such as the Murraylands and the upper south-east."

Parts of Victoria will also be under an extreme fire danger rating tomorrow.

"Over in Victoria, extreme fire danger mostly through central parts, particularly the Central District and this includes area, and also the North Central District.

"We also have some other districts that are very close to the threshold for extreme, including the Wimmera and the West and South Gippsland District."

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There will be high fire danger across Tasmania tomorrow, except for in the north-west.

"However our latest modelling suggests it could actually be even worse than this tomorrow and we're now expecting high fire danger right across the state, reaching extreme fire danger through the east coast and the Midlands district."

The fire danger comes as south-eastern Australia recorded its driest January since 2009.

Weatherzone reports it was also the region's second driest start to the year since 1965, with January rainfall down by 23.14mm, when averaged across all official weather stations in the region.

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The final shift for sex worker Revelle Balmain was meant to have settled her debts and given her extra cash to splurge while following her dreams overseas.

Instead, she disappeared from the face of the earth.

The 22-year-old had grand plans on becoming a dancer in Japan when she vanished on November 5, 1994.

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An inquest into one of Sydney's most notorious cold cases resumed today where Balmain's former boss Jane King has given evidence.

King and her now ex-husband Zoran Stanojevic ran the escort agency, Select Companions, at the time of the model's disappearance.

Balmain was last seen by a client when he dropped her off at a hotel in Kingsford, in Sydney's east, about 7pm.

She missed her next booking and has not been heard from since.

King said she called the escort's flatmate the day after she missed the appointment.

"I was worried about her," she told Lidcombe Coroners Court.

The former madam rejected suggestions by counsel assisting Matthew Johnston SC her primary reason for chasing up the escort was because she owed the business money.

The outstanding funds would have been taken out of what Balmain earned that night, King said.

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"It wasn't a huge amount of money and I didn't have any reason not to believe her," she told the inquest.

A missed pager message sent to Balmain the morning after she disappeared read "pls call Zoran to arrange settlement of your account".

King told the inquest she didn't remember if she sent the text.

She couldn't remember what was discussed during a one-minute phone call to Stanojevic about 8pm on the Saturday night that Balmain disappeared.

"I could have been asking him to get me some takeaway or something," King said.

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She denied making any calls from the landline in her two-bedroom apartment to her husband, despite records showing five calls made that night and during the early hours of the following morning.

The former madam said the landline calls would have been diverted to the escort agency's receptionist, known for legal reasons as Danielle.

King said she had been pregnant at the time and would have been in bed watching TV.

Her husband had returned home the following day with complaints about drama at work after Balmain missed her booking and his vehicle had a flat tyre, King told the inquest.

He told her not to call police as that would alert the model's family, who did not know she was working as an escort.

"She'll turn up, don't worry, she always does," he allegedly said.

When there had still be no word from the model on Monday, King contacted police.

A previous inquest in 1999 found Balmain had died at the hands of a person or persons unknown and the matter was referred to the Unsolved Homicide Unit.

A fresh investigation between 2007 and 2009 followed by a formal review in 2020 failed to produce any compelling evidence in the case.

Authorities offered a $1 million reward for information in 2021.

The inquest continues.

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New Zealand’s largest bank has also hiked interest rates on Pie funds and term deposits.

Two boys have been stood down after today’s incident.

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