Sherryn Groch

At least one person was arrested and glass containers were thrown at police as anti-immigration and counter-protesters rallied in the city.

Anti-immigration rallies that have drawn tens of thousands of Australians are being secretly controlled by neo-Nazis – part of a co-ordinated “fraud on the public”.

New details of the horrific double ambush in Melbourne’s outer north-west have emerged as the police chief commissioner backs a senior cop’s calls for tougher penalties for youth crime.

A trove of internal documents uncovered by this masthead reveal childcare giant Affinity instructs its staff to consider reputation damage before notifying police about child safety allegations.

A decade before he was accused of child abuse, Joshua Brown was studying childcare in high school to fast-track his path into a job just weeks after graduating.

Parents say the accused child abuser was working with children at an Essendon daycare centre months before authorities say he started there.

Youth crime waves aren’t new, but experts warn street violence has been gamified. And it’s escalating, with more teens from middle-class backgrounds involved.

Gangland bosses are recruiting disaffected youths for “freelance” crime, and rewriting the rules of the underworld.

The far-right agitators who disrupted Anzac Day want to form a political party as part of a plan to exploit legal loopholes and take on the next federal election.

They came asking politicians “reasonable questions”, but they’re really working with a network of extreme-right agitators.