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Speaker 1: Don Demayo's with us out of Australia. Don a good morning,

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Speaker 1: good morning to you. Now you've got a snap ban

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Speaker 1: on machetes in Victoria. This is the violent brawl that

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Speaker 1: we've seen in the shopping center.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so from tomorrow you can no longer purchase the

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Speaker 2: machete in Victoria. And that does follow that vicious brawl

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Speaker 2: in the shopping center in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.

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Speaker 2: Now two teenagers sixteen and fifteen years old are alleged

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Speaker 2: to be the main offenders. They were both on bail

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Speaker 2: at the time. The skirmish was between rival gangs, it's

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Speaker 2: understood and as you can imagine, shoppers going about their

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Speaker 2: business on a Sunday afternoon were left scurrying for safety,

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Speaker 2: absolutely petrified as to what was going on there. And

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Speaker 2: now four mails have been charged. Police are still looking

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Speaker 2: for three others. But the government has introduced this snap

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Speaker 2: ban on the sale of machetes from midday tomorrow. And

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Speaker 2: the police say that there's three machetes that had been

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Speaker 2: seized and a total of four is believed to have

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Speaker 2: been used in the brawl. So the Premier has come

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Speaker 2: out and said these knives have no place on our streets.

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Speaker 2: So these laws will get these dangerous weapons off the streets,

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Speaker 2: according to the Premier, and they've moved as quickly as possible.

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Speaker 2: And in her words, we must never let the places

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Speaker 2: we gather, where families shop and enjoy the peace of

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Speaker 2: their weekend, become places that we fear.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's true. But once they just use something else,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? But what are you going

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Speaker 1: to do? I hope not baseball bats, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. I suppose it's a reaction, isn't it. Hey?

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Speaker 1: You yes? What about this guy in Bali with the

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Speaker 1: drugs chargers charges? Pretty major?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. There's an Australian man who's from Sidney, Lamar Aaron Acchi.

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Speaker 2: He could face the death penalty for allegedly smuggling one

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Speaker 2: point eight kilos of cocaine in Bali. The forty three

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Speaker 2: year old was arrested. He was presented to the media,

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Speaker 2: let's say, in an orange jumpsuit and black block clava yesterday.

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Speaker 2: We know that the police believed the drugs, estimated to

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Speaker 2: be worth about one point one million dollars, were imported

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Speaker 2: to Indonesia disguised as would you believe linked chocolates in

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Speaker 2: two separate packages. They arrived from the UK allegedly. Now

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Speaker 2: we have heard from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs

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Speaker 2: that they are providing consular assistance, but there's no actual

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Speaker 2: charges being laid yet, so we're waiting to hear. Police

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Speaker 2: don't believe that mister Archo was the mastermind. They say

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Speaker 2: he was promised around four thousand, seven hundred Aussie dollars

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Speaker 2: to pick up the packages.

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Speaker 1: That's a raw deal deal for him, isn't it. Donna,

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Speaker 1: thank you for that. Appreciate your time. Dona Demo, our

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