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The crash, believed to have occurred overnight, was discovered at midday.

Footage of a violent brawl erupting between football fans at a Melbourne pub has been shared online.

About 10 men were seen using bar stools to attack each other during the pub fracas after watching an A-League match on Richmond's Swan Street last night.

The two groups clashed and used metal chairs and umbrellas during the brawl after yesterday's Melbourne derby between Victory and City.

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Police said the fight took place about 10.15pm and no injuries were reported.

The group fled the scene when officers arrived.

A 27-year-old man was arrested nearby and released pending inquiries, police said.

A spokesperson for Melbourne Victory said the club was aware of the incident.

"The club is working with all relevant stakeholders to gather further information in order to determine whether there is any connection, or otherwise to last night's derby," the spokesperson said.

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"Melbourne Victory does not condone any form of violence or antisocial behaviour.

"As the matter is currently under Victoria Police investigation, the club is not in a position to make any further comment."

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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The World Nature Photography Awards (WNPAs) have announced their winners from a pool of entries from all corners of the globe.

The Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International ranks 180 countries and territories worldwide by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.

The results are given on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

US President Donald Trump's right-hand man Elon Musk has claimed all federal workers must explain what they "got done" in the past week or risk losing their jobs.

The Tesla and Space X founder – who is also at the helm of Trump's DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency – suggested in a post on X that failure to respond to the email demanding proof of productivity would be considered a resignation.

"Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week," Musk said on X.

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"Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation."

Trump has already moved to drastically shrink the US federal workforce after mass layoffs shortly following his inauguration in January.

The president's DOGE, led by Musk, has been prioritising cutting waste across the federal government workforce.

Trump took to his own platform Truth Social to praise Musk over his work to audit the government and encouraged him to "get more aggressive".

"Remember, we have a country to save," Trump wrote.

Trump last week signed an executive order for agencies to work with DOGE to "make preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force".

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However the legality of whether the US president can fire federal employees remains complex.

Most public service employees in the US can only be fired legally for bad performance or misconduct, Reuters reported.

There is also a process and appeal rights if workers are let go.

Trump's Office of Personnel Management sent out an email to federal employees with the subject line 'Fork in the Road', which offered a deferred resignation.

Over 77,000 workers accepted this offer, which cut the government workforce by around 3 per cent in one fell swoop, the White House said.

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The drama involving Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea has escalated with a second live firing drill on Saturday afternoon.

It comes just a day after a similar incident in which passenger jets were forced to change course with little warning.

Now, the opposition and security experts are calling for a stronger response from the federal government.

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However the prime minister, while on a pre-election campaign trail in Tasmania, insisted China were within international law.

"Defence has confirmed that China did comply with international law," Anthony Albanese said, before the second live firing drill took place.

"We believe it would've been appropriate to have been given more warning of this potential event taking place.

"I can confirm also that there has been no danger to Australian assets as a result of this action in China."

Albanese was meeting residents in must-win swing seats in the apple Isle, as Chinese navy vessels advised of live firing activity for the second day in a row in waters just to the east.

New Zealand's defence minister Judith Collins confirmed their navy observed live rounds being fired from the Chinese ship's gun.

The Australian PM knocked back suggestions the government should impose any stronger rebukes like restrictions on trade.

"You do know that most of the trade goes from here to there, not the other way around," Albanese told reporters.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong raised concerns over Friday's live fire drill alert – including appropriate notice – when meeting with her Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in South Africa.

"I don't think we have a satisfactory answer from China as to the question of the notice," Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles told Weekend Today.

Last week, a Chinese jet released flares just meters in front of an Australian surveillance plane.

The same week, the defence department made public that they were monitoring three Chinese warships sailing in the Coral Sea.

Those ships made their way down the East Coast and on Friday, forced the diversion of passenger planes mid-flight after radio warnings that live fire drills would be conducted in the Tasman Sea.

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"Mild and diplomatic rebukes by the Australian Government whenever one of these incidents happen, is not deterring the Chinese from doing it again and again and again," defence analyst Malcolm Davis told 9News.

Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie shared a similar view.

"I think what we've seen from the prime minister and his defense minister is a pattern of weakness over the last two years," he said.

However, New Zealand's PM, Christopher Luxon, echoed his Australian counterpart.

"They are in international waters," he said.

"They are completely within the bounds of international law."

On Saturday night, new details of a deal struck between China and the Cook Islands to build more ports and ships, reinforcing that our biggest trading partner continues to be our biggest security challenge.

Marles also told Weekend Today, usually the Royal Australian Navy would give between 12 to 24 hours' notice if they were performing live firing exercises in international waters.

He said he was ensured an "unprecedented level" of assets to shadow the ships to figure out what the Chinese task group are doing.

"This is an unusual mission that we are seeing with this task group… what we have done is put in place an unprecedented level of surveillance in respect of it," Marles said.

"They are not breaching international law, but nor are we in terms of the surveillance that we're putting in place."

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A man's face was slashed and a woman's hand cut, in random machete attacks in Melbourne's south east.

The two offenders fled the scenes in a white Subaru, which was stolen during a terrifying home invasion in Prahran.

The bloody aftermath of the random daylight attack remained today at a Cheltenham car wash, after a 37-year-old woman was slashed with a machete.

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The woman was confronted at Ezy Bay Wash while vacuuming her hatchback.

"She was quite distressed, you could see she was going into shock when she started shivering," witness Jarod told 9News.

"She had a slash on her wrist which was bleeding quite heavily. She also looked like she'd lost the tip of her finger and her finger-nail, so she was in a lot of pain."

The male and female offender took off with her handbag and phone.

It's understood the same armed pair targeted a 73- year- old man in Keysborough on Friday night, slashing him three times.

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Neighbour Lina Te said the elderly man's wife told her he'd suffered a cut to the neck and face, across his cheek.

The thugs fled both scenes in a car stolen during a terrifying home invasion in Prahran on Friday afternoon.

"They were asking where's Adam? Where's Peter? Where's my 20k?," the home invasion victim told 9News, not wanting to be identified on camera.

"[I] tried to tell them we didn't know an Adam, you've got the wrong house.

"Then she puled out a machete."

9News understands police were also called to Patterson Lakes this morning where the stolen Subaru was spotted driving around suspiciously.

Despite concerns, nothing was stolen from the area.

"I honestly feel like crying knowing that it's my car that they're in and that someone actually got hit with the machete," the woman said.

The offenders remain on the run.

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New claims have emerged about a key piece of evidence that could help solve South Australia's long-standing Beaumont Children mystery.

It has been revealed that a key suspect in the children's disappearance was related to the family by marriage, potentially explaining why the children might have trusted him.

The Adelaide property that man once owned is now being excavated again by a private group.

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"I think all of Australia want to see closure," Independent MP Frank Pangallo said.

A fresh search got under way today in Adelaide's Western Suburbs for the bodies of Jane, Arna and Grant Beaumont, who disappeared from Glenelg Beach in 1966.  

The privately organised dig is a last chance to see if anything can be unearthed at the former Castalloy factory site before a housing development is built on top. 

It's land once owned by the deceased wealthy industrialist Harry Phipps.

The organisers of the dig believe he is the prime suspect in the disappearance of the three siblings.

The factory site was identified by two men, who were boys at the time and say they were paid to dig a grave-like hole there three days after the children disappeared.

The people who've been investigating Phipps believe he was a paedophile.

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Today they revealed that just this week, a key new link between him and the Beaumont family has come to light.

Harry Phipps had a niece who married a cousin of Jim Beaumont, the children's father.

There's been a long-standing theory that the children knew their abductor they were seen playing with a mystery man at Glenelg and appear to have gone with him willingly.

"So we've been searching for that link, or that possible link, all that time, and now we've got one," retired detective Bill Hayes said.

The excavation company is doing the work over the next week for free.

9News understands there was also an anonymous donation of $10,000 to help clear the site.

South Australia Police is not involved in this dig having previously said it did not believe it will succeed, but it is monitoring the outcome.

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The family of a Queensland mum who's been missing for three weeks have issued a heartfelt public appeal for help to find her. 

Tayla Spies was last seen in the tiny town of Surat, but the search area is so vast police say even they don't know where to start.

Twenty seconds of CCTV captured in a dusty carpark 80 kilometres west of Roma are Tayla Spies' last known movements.

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"She's been missing since the second of February and we've been working with the family to try to locate Tayla," Queensland police services spokesperson Garry Watts said.

Her 2017 Toyota Hilux was spotted passing the Cobb & Co Changing Station in Surat just after 11am, then the 29-year-old Queensland mum vanished, sparking a missing persons investigation spanning the Maranoa region that has left experienced police baffled. 

"Unfortunately with the nature of the investigation at the moment, we have no starting point," Watts said.

"And with an area so vast of 9000 square kilometres, we're unable to put feet on the ground to commence a proper search, so we've utilised police assets and aerial assets.

"We are frustrated that we have been unable to locate the vehicle, and Tayla."

Three weeks after her disappearance, Tayla's family are pleading for the public's help.

The pain and enormity of her absence increases with each day that passes and the worry is consuming us all," Tayla's sister Rebecca said.

"Sissy, if you're watching this, I want you to know that you are so loved and cherished by so many people."

Police are urging farmers in the area to join the search asking them to check their land for any sign of Tayla or her ute.

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