Two men were arrested today after a rockface was vandalised at Paradise Falls in northeast Victoria. A 24-year-old Rosebud man was arrested in Melbourne’s CBD earlier this morning. Police from Whitfield charged the man with criminal damage, as well as charges against the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006. He was bailed to appear before the Wangaratta Magistrates’ Court on 29 September. A second man, aged 25 from Hastings, was arrested by Mornington detectives during a search warrant at his address. He will be charged at a later date with the same offences. The Paradise Falls waterfall, which has cultural significance to…
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MORNINGTON Peninsula Shire Councill will ramp up efforts to stem graffiti vandalism, as unsightly tagging continues to deface public and private buildings across the peninsula.At the end of July, the council will host a graffiti management workshop with stakeholders to identify graffiti issues across the peninsula and discuss mitigating graffiti through creative programs. A council spokesperson said graffiti was already “promptly” removed on shire assets, and the council actively encouraged graffiti to be removed from non-shire assets as soon as possible.For graffiti on non-shire assets the council recommends reporting it to the police, or when on public utilities (for example…