What we learned today, Friday 5 September
And with that, we’ll close the blog for today. I hope you have a great weekend and, as always, thank you for reading. Here’s a recap of today’s top stories.
Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, who allegedly led an attack on a sacred Indigenous burial site, was refused bail in the Melbourne magistrates court.
Two men were arrested over the alleged malicious damage at the Anzac Memorial in the Sydney CBD, police said, after the force publicly released CCTV footage of the alleged vandals in an effort to find them.
The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, responded to a controversial photo of former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews in Beijing with a group of people that included Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, along with leaders of Iran and Belarus.
Alan Joyce secured a final bonus worth $3.8m, two years after the prominent Qantas chief executive left the airline after a series of corporate decisions sparked a reputational crisis.
The New South Wales treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, said the Indian-Australian community would welcome an apology from Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price after her “utterly wrong” comments about their migration here.
The massive search for alleged Porepunkah gunman Dezi Freeman in Victoria’s high country was to continue over the weekend, after thousands of people gathered to farewell one of the men he allegedly killed, Vadim De Waart-Hottart, at a funeral in Melbourne.
A skull found by a bushwalker was formally identified as the missing remains of Julian Story. Former reality TV star Tamika Sueann Rose Chesser has been charged with his alleged murder.
And more than 700 people had signed an open letter requesting that the vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne (UoM), Prof Emma Johnston, sacrifice 10% of her current salary to save the literary journal Meanjin, which is to be shut down after 85 years.
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Two men arrested over alleged vandalism of Sydney’s Anzac Memorial
Two men have been arrested over the alleged malicious damage at the Anzac Memorial in the Sydney CBD, New South Wales police say.
Police have just released a statement saying they arrested the men about 5.45pm today after they attended the Auburn police station in the city’s west.
About 12.20pm yesterday, two unknown men were allegedly seen spraying “a substance” on the walls and steps of the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park, police said.
Police said the men were then seen leaving the memorial and walking north together through the park.
Earlier today, police released CCTV footage of the two men who allegedly vandalised the memorial to help find them.
Police have estimated the cost of the alleged vandalism to the Sydney Anzac memorial is about $10,000.
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