{"id":225774,"date":"2025-05-29T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=225774"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T23:18:13","slug":"the-interstate-laws-sly-thinks-are-far-more-practical-than-victorias-machete-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=225774","title":{"rendered":"The interstate laws Sly thinks are \u2018far more practical\u2019 than Victoria\u2019s machete ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sly of the Underworld has outlined the laws which have been implemented interstate which are \u201cfar more practical\u201d than Victoria\u2019s machete ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ban on the sale of machetes comes into effect at midday today, but the veteran crime writer thinks it won\u2019t achieve much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou do realise that most of these offenders are criminals, and you do realise that mostly they steal them,\u201d Sly told Ross and Russ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear the interstate laws he thinks are \u2018far more practical\u2019 than the machete ban<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The interstate laws Sly thinks are &#039;far more practical&#039; than Victoria&#039;s machete ban\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-breakfast-with-ross-and-john\/the-interstate-laws-sly-thinks-are-far-more-practical-than-victorias-machete-ban\/embed#?secret=ej1baSpnq4\" data-secret=\"ej1baSpnq4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are laws that are not made up by Victoria Police or me, these are laws that are working and exist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ban on the sale of machetes comes into effect at midday today, but the veteran crime writer thinks it won\u2019t achieve much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":225775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,921],"tags":[8054,16886,993,8],"class_list":["post-225774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-3aw","tag-machete-ban","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225776,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225774\/revisions\/225776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}