{"id":654579,"date":"2026-05-07T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654579\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:23:09","slug":"antisemitism-royal-commission-into-bondi-shootings-fourth-day-begins-with-jewish-australian-testimony-hantavirus-cruise-ship-traveller-returns-to-australia-israel-strikes-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654579\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitism royal commission into Bondi shootings fourth day begins with Jewish Australian testimony; Hantavirus cruise ship traveller returns to Australia; Israel strikes Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has intervened to allow Socceroos matches to be shown on big screens at Fed Square in central Melbourne during the World Cup, overturning a decision by the body that manages the precinct to block the idea due to crowd safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, Melbourne Arts Precinct decided that Fed Square won\u2019t show Socceroos matches on the big screen,\u201d Allan said in a statement on Thursday. \u201cI disagree with that decision \u2013 and I am overturning it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matildas star Sam Kerr and former Socceroo Craig Foster were among people who criticised the MAP\u2019s decision, which it said was made because of misbehaviour by a small number of people at previous screenings of soccer games in the square.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always a risk of bad behaviour from a few dickheads at every public gathering, but police and security will be on-site, and there\u2019ll be zero tolerance for it,\u201d Allan said. \u201cThe World Cup should bring us together, not keep us apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19. The Socceroos\u2019 first game, against Turkey, is on June 14 in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has intervened to allow Socceroos matches to be shown on big screens at Fed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-654579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}