{"id":252197,"date":"2025-10-26T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252197\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:03:14","slug":"allan-says-victoria-machete-ban-is-working-despite-brawl-at-community-sport-event-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/252197\/","title":{"rendered":"Allan says Victoria machete ban is working despite brawl at community sport event | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has said the state\u2019s machete ban is working, despite reports of a brawl on Saturday night in Melbourne\u2019s north and the discovery of a teenager with serious injuries nearby.<\/p>\n

Police were called to respond to a large group of males, aged in their late teens, fighting with machetes on Saturday evening, Det Sgt Matthew Feben told reporters on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Feben said a group of more than 1,000 people were leaving the area after a community rugby event when a brawl broke out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quite heavily populated, the area, at the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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They found a 19-year-old male with serious stab wounds in his torso. He has been uncooperative with investigators, Feben said, and was in a stable condition in hospital on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

No arrests were made, as alleged suspects fled in vehicles before police arrived.<\/p>\n

Detectives were investigating whether the fight was linked to another incident on Friday night when youths armed with machetes were spotted running through the three-day Harmony Cup event.<\/p>\n

The Harmony Cup is a nine-a-side competition that gives players and volunteers a chance to represent their country of origin or local community.<\/p>\n

Allan on Sunday said the state\u2019s recent machete ban was working, with more than 5,000 weapons handed in at disposal bins and thousands more taken off shelves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are getting more of these dangerous weapons off our streets than any other state,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe machete ban is here and it\u2019s staying. When the amnesty concludes, in a few weeks\u2019 time, there will be severe penalties for anyone found carrying a machete.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statewide ban on machetes came into effect on 1 September. An amnesty allowing people to surrender the weapons at 45 disposal bins located in police stations<\/a> is in place until 30 November.<\/p>\n

After the amnesty window ends, those who carry machetes will face up to $47,000 in fines or up to two years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Allan said machetes and other dangerous weapons were \u201ccausing so much grief and concern in Victoria\u201d but were being removed from the streets.<\/p>\n

The opposition leader, Brad Battin, said it was \u201csimply not good enough\u201d that young offenders had allegedly ran through a sporting event, creating fear in the community.<\/p>\n

Feben said the vision of Friday\u2019s incident was \u201cappalling\u201d and police were very concerned.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople that are just trying to go about an event in their community, who want to feel safe. They don\u2019t want to experience this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s completely unacceptable in any location for youths or anyone to be armed with a machete, especially \u2026 in relation to a peaceful community event.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice are putting lots of time and energy into getting these weapons off the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feben said over the past 12 months, police had seized 13,000 edged weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has said the state\u2019s machete ban is working, despite reports of a brawl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-252197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}