MELBOURNE, Fla. – Melbourne police arrested a juvenile after several signs, buildings and a church were vandalized with “hate speech, racial slurs, and other forms of insensitive language and ...

Rabbi Dovid Gutnick walks past damage to the exterior of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne, Saturday, July 5, 2025, after an arsonist set fire to the door. James Ross / AP ...

Statues are proposed of (from left) Melbourne pioneers Peter Wright, Wright Brothers and Balaam Allen. “These were all young men who were free. And they came here with their wives,” Jones said.

Last year in Melbourne, a Captain Cook statue was sawed off at the ankles, and a monument to King George V was beheaded. The Sydney Opera House, lit in celebration of Australia Day, on Sunday.