PM Edition: ‘Bash me or what?’: Thu g wields machete in Belmont

Email A chilling video has emerged on social media of a thug wielding a huge machete outside a popular shopping hub in Geelong, just weeks after the sale of the deadly knives were banned in the state. SEE THE VIDEO.

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