Victorian shadow police minister Brad Battin has warned the fatal stabbing of a good Samaritan at a suburban train station was the inevitable result of a worsening crime crisis.

A leading motoring organisation has warned against tapping into the country’s strategic fuel reserves as Australians start panicking about a petrol shortage.

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