Reid Butler
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Reporter with @9newsmelb . Lover of news, dogs and beer. DMs open. You can also email me if you like: rebutler @nine .com.au
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That moment when a voxie gets crashed by an absolute legend. 🍻
#wodonga
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Little bit in awe of this.
@WesternHealth
has set up this Pfizer vaccination hub at Al Taqwa for staff students and their families. This was done in EIGHT hours. Incredible.
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This is disturbing. One of many ugly moments from a day of chaos in Melbourne.
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Melbourne. The sun is shining…the sky is blue…and this is the longest vaccine queue I’ve ever seen. Happy Tuesday!
@9NewsMelb
☀️
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We’ve got confirmation that some locked down AO players have been breaching the rules in quarantine. They face big fines.
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Looking like a big crowd at Parliament for the Melbourne Invasion Day rally. It’s about to start.
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This woman - who deliberately breathed heavily in my face at Saturday’s anti-vax rally - is an aged care worker with
@Baptcare
. I feel for the residents she supposedly looks after. Sickening.
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Finished my live cross and the staff at Jeff’s Shed came out and asked if we wanted a Pfizer shot because 20% of bookings didn’t show up today. They’re now asking others. They desperately don’t want wastage. Show up!
Hundreds of people are booking-in to get vaccinated but not showing up for their appointment, sparking calls for an overhaul of the system.
@reid_butler9
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Porsche driver Richard Pusey verbally abused a cancer patient and was accused of ripping off a string of tradies in 2016 (see ACA promo from my story at the time). Now he’s at the centre of an unimaginable tragedy. More on
@9NewsMelb
and
@ACurrentAffair9
tonight.
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New cases are in Mentone, Hallam and Mitcham. Believed to be linked to NSW clusters.
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The Premier wants the infamous Nadia Bartel incident to be treated just like the Caulfield engagement party. $5k fines for everyone involved.
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Premier
@DanielAndrewsMP
is king of the kids at Mount Eliza today. He’s announced a huge funding boost for school camps and sporting programs in 2022.
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A big turnout of Victorians marching against a planned neo-Nazi gathering in Sunshine West. They’re heading to the gym where the meeting is being held.
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First and hopefully last time I cop a face full of bird poo midway through a
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live cross. 🐦 Going to buy a lotto ticket. Also, camo Trav is a legend for cleaning me up while the grab was playing. 🙏😂
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This is just the best. Sitting down and having a coffee ☕️ The owner of this South Melbourne cafe says he’s brought the Amalfi Coast to South Melbourne with his terrazza outdoor dining set-up.
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Eerie scenes at St Pat’s Cathedral. Upside down crosses and the words “no justice” among the messages vandals have left on the doors and gates.
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This is the vehicle that ploughed into beer garden pub patrons at The Royal Hotel in Daylesford tonight. At least three killed. Witness told me immediate aftermath of incident was “gruesome”. Driver remained in car for at least ten minutes after crash, motionless.
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Beloved
#Richmond
trader Soner Kurtoglu died of COVID last night in hospital. He was 54. Had booked his first jab but never made it to the appointment.
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Volume on. Singing has erupted at a “Sack Daniel Andrews” protest in South Yarra today. Protestors claim the lockdown was an “absolute failure”.
@9NewsMelb
🎼🎤
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BREAKING - 3 new confirmed cases of COVID19 identified in Melbourne. In the community, not in hotel quarantine.
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Kim took her pet dog to the Rochester vet yesterday after he suffered a stroke and the decision was made to put him down. The floods meant she was cut off from the clinic but the incredible vet braved the water, so Kim could say goodbye.
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Confirmation five people have died in Daylesford after a BMW drove through a street facing beer garden at The Royal Hotel. A 6yo boy and a teenage girl are among the dead. Police waiting to speak to driver who is in hospital.
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Had to look twice when I saw this street sign. This is the hotel where international arrivals showing symptoms or other health issues will spend their quarantine in Melbourne.
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There are 72 children aged 9 and under infected with
#COVID19
right now in Victoria.
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How good is this?
@UniMelb
domestic and international students back on campus after two years. These kids are excited!
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@VictoriaPolice
photograph the words “Rot in Hell Pell” on the doors of St Patrick’s Cathedral. Vandals struck overnight.
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The bollard and sign
@VicGovDoT
installed on Sunday to improve pedestrian safety at the Power Street corner in
#Southbank
has ALREADY been hit by a truck. Locals say this proves these measures were insufficient.
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I’m told all three of Victoria’s new coronavirus infections are linked. This is good news.
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Future of Melbourne dining 👀 Venues taking over the streets for COVID-safe outdoor options when restrictions ease.
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This is the beautiful little boy killed by a falling tree in Blackburn South. 4yo Ayan Kapoor was struck while out walking with his little sister and father.
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City crane horns blare at 11:50am as workers commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Westgate Bridge collapse. Special moment.
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Seeing families lining-up to enjoy the Myer Christmas Windows is bringing me plenty of joy today. 🥰
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Organisers now demanding the Nazi group leave the gym and face them. No question those inside can hear.
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Despite community concern over the positive AO cases - the Premier, Health Min, Tourism Min, Quarantine Min, CHO or any DHHS rep won’t be holding a media conference today to answer questions. Energy Min
@LilyDAmbrosioMP
left to deal with it
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This happens as many as 50 times a day at the clinic run by
@DrMukeshH
in Altona. Completely unfair for these teams who work so hard.
Anti-vaxxers are targeting vaccine clinics, booking en masse and then not showing up.
Doctors and nurses fear the deliberate meddling in the system will mean people who want the jab are in danger of missing out.
@reid_butler9
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Mounted police are making sure these St Kilda beach-goers stay inside their grass-painted social distancing circles. (There’s a tweet I’d never thought I’d write...peak 2020)
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The beautiful little girls killed in a house fire in Glen Waverley last night. Aged three, five and seven. Their mum also died. Man connected to family under police guard.
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He was extremely popular. These are the tributes out the front of his Bridge Road deli.
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I can confirm Greg Lynn has been charged with two counts of murder over the disappearance of Russel Hill and Carol Clay.
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Gotta say it was satisfying to watch
@VictoriaPolice
leap into action after she did this. Great job by officers all round in very trying circumstances.
NAME AND SHAME: this disgraceful thing was filmed breathing on a camera crew at today’s anti-lockdown/anti-vax protest in the city. Police witnessed it and took her into custody. “You can’t breath on someone, that’s disgusting!” 🤢🤮
#whatiswrongwithpeople
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Came across Hughie the Shiba dog today. Think his face sums up how Melbourne’s feeling right now. No new cases and no deaths for seven straight days! 🥳
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#BREAKING
There’s a new case linked to the Australian Open. A member of the broadcast team. Four in total now.
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Fabulous media conference this morning with
@MartinFoleyMP
announcing details on Melbourne’s Summer of Pride.
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The Cranbourne couple with the pet piglet didn’t want to go on camera for a voxie but they did allow me to play with their pig and my Friday has been made. ❤️
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Proud of my mum and nanna. They’ve made the trip down to Sydney to march today. ❤️
#March4Justice
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#BREAKING
Victoria Police has located human remains in bushland near Dargo as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Russell Hill and Carol Clay.
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13yo Hawk from Highett captured the Anzac spirit when he ran 7.5kms to make it to his away game in Murumbeena after his lift didn’t show on Sunday. Meet him at 6 on
@9NewsMelb
tonight.
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@VictoriaPolice
has intelligence that there’ll be another protest tomorrow. Officers will use different tactics but won’t say what. Message to protestors: “Stay home.”
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Not long now until this 787 is again filled with Australian tourists. Watch our exclusive with
@JetstarAirways
CEO tonight on
@9NewsMelb
. Good chance we could be flying quarantine-free to Bali by Christmas!
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CQV Commissioner Emma Cassar reveals details about the
@AustralianOpen
quarantine breaches. One involved a bloke shouting his mates in the corridor some Uber Eats then boating about it.
@VictoriaPolice
now involved.
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The ED at St Vincent’s Hospital has been exposed. A positive case was there all day on Saturday 14th of August. Now a Tier 2 site and 24 ED staff in quarantine.
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Yay! There were 15 active cases yesterday. 11 today...four recovered. How good.
Yesterday there were no new cases reported. 6,972 test results were received. Got symptoms? Get tested -
#EveryTestHelps
.
More later:
#COVID19Vic
#COVID19VicData
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I might just be emotional (because...lockdown) but hearing this bloke rave about his new girlfriend gave me all the feels. They met just before Melbourne’s first lockdown. ❤️
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This bride and groom are gate-crashing today’s
@michaelobrienmp
media conference. Or it may be the other way round? 👰
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This is the print out passengers arriving from Sydney into Melbourne Airport are being given. 47 flights from Sydney arriving today.
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Fans of
#NovakDjokovic
sing outside the Federal Court as they await the decision on the Serbian’s visa.
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When the boss of Kmart Ian Bailey doesn’t even know whether stores can reopen on Monday...you gotta feel for the thousands of small businesses in the dark too. More of this exclusive interview on
@9NewsMelb
tonight.
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My dad made his
@9NewsAUS
debut tonight. 🦈
A Mid-North Coast fisherman has found himself smack bang in the middle of a feeding frenzy... and tonight he has a "big fish" story to tell.
@ccroucher9
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Myki about to cost $10 a day and network feels so shoddy. So many buses replacing trains tonight. Frankston line stuffed, been waiting 30 minutes for a bus from Flinders and no-one can even tell me when it will arrive. Disappointing
@ptv_official
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The “feels like” temp at Mt Buller right now is -12.7! Video captured from the warmth of the crew car. 🥶
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EXCLUSIVE Qantas corporate workers enjoyed wellness festival at HQ in lead up to airport chaos.
@9NewsMelb
#9News
can reveal Qantas executives and corporate staffers were enjoying a wellness festival involving yoga, pilates, and meditation, as airports along the East Coast began to crumble under travel pressure.
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The anti-Nazi protestors have now disbanded. They’re claiming the fact no-one came out to face them as a win… a sign they are outnumbered by demonstrators.
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The Judges at the Novak Djokovic deportation hearing have told lawyers for both parties they want the matter resolved by lunch time.
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Police deployed capsicum spray at pro-choice demonstrators in the CBD. They’re attempting to intercept the anti-abortion rally happening a block away.
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New legislation will make sure tough public health directions can still be enforced well after the State of Emergency ends.
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Plan is to make as much noise and light as possible in the hopes William comes out. Locals joining in the search too. Warburton bushland is dense and temp is dropping.
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Traffic already building outbound off the Westgate. Melburnians can’t wait to get out of town it seems. No more ring of steel!
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#BREAKING
@9NewsMelb
can confirm the driver of the truck that killed four police officers on the Eastern Freeway is right now being questioned at West Melbourne Police Station. I’m told he was reluctant to speak at first but that has now changed. More details in 9’s late news.
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Myer confirms to
@9NewsMelb
its beloved Bourke Street Mall Christmas windows will be axed this year in light of the Premier’s “road map to recovery” announcement on Sunday.
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Happy to hear on
@RossAndRussel
the Myer Christmas windows are officially back on. The
@cityofmelbourne
has helped the retailer make it happen.
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Most traffic I’ve seen outbound on the Westgate in awhile. Melburnians making the most of the 25km wall coming down and heading to the Surf Coast for the weekend?
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Attempting to shoot a PTC while emerging from a tank’s manhole is harder than I anticipated.
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Passengers from Adelaide arrive at Melbourne Airport. They’ll be tested here and should quarantine at their accommodation while they await results.
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#BREAKING
- A body has been found in the Maribyrnong River this morning. Heavy police presence, including water police.
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Breaking news: baby has been found safe and well and offender is in custody. Live update on
@9NewsMelb
shortly.
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Students partied on campus at La Trobe University last night while the rest of Melbourne stuck to the
#COVID19
rules. Full story on
@9NewsMelb
tonight at 6 o’clock.
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DAYLESFORD: Tributes are growing at the scene of Sunday’s crash. Beautiful to see the huge response from the community here.
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Victorians can dance! Dance floors - including weddings and nightclubs - can host up to 50 people. 💃🏻
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Police arrive at Novak’s lawyer’s office telling media to move. We’re expecting the tennis champ to leave any moment now.
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SES prepare for a long night ahead. Searching for missing 14you autistic teen William Wall. Missing since 7am. Last potential sighting in Warburton.
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John Setka has finally left CFMEU HQ after being holed up for hours. See the vision in the late edition of
@9NewsAUS
tonight. Industry-wide shutdown from midnight.
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This morning the pot of gold is at Carlton & United Breweries and I’m not surprised 🍺 Happy Friday!
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The
#NovakDjokovic
hearing has been adjourned. Judges say they hope to deliver a decision later this afternoon.
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COVID cleaners wipe down Market Lane Coffee at Prahran Market. A confirmed case visited this store on Saturday. Entire market now a tier 1 site.
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Great news. After a series of stories on
@9NewsMelb
highlighting the absurdity of this COVID19 rule, the Murray is finally back open for business. NSW Health Minister personally intervened and the paddlesteamer whistles will be ringing again today. Get up there for a visit!
Not all regional communities are benefiting from the relaxed restrictions, with tourist attractions in border towns still unable to operate.
As
@reid_butler9
explains, paddle steamers on the Murray aren't allowed to accept passengers, jeopardising hundreds of jobs.
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A message to the grieving families of the four officers killed on Wednesday...from someone who knows what it’s like. The father of slain
@VictoriaPolice
officer Damian Eyre says they should call him if they need guidance or support. Full story on
@9NewsMelb
tonight.
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This international arrival has been taken to the Novotel South Wharf. It’s a “health hotel” where passengers who displayed symptoms of COVID at the airport undergo further testing.
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Plenty of public order response vehicles at the Shrine of Remembrance today. No protestors though, despite planned demonstrations this morning.
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