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Mei Calloway

Mei Calloway writes our community safety, road safety and family violence coverage. She is a former social worker and brings a community-first lens to every story. Mei is particularly interested in prevention programs, harm reduction and the lived experience of victim-survivors.

Road Safety
Mei CallowayMay 4, 2026
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The 2026 Victorian road toll: where the numbers stand at the start of May
A check-in on Victoria's road toll three months into 2026, the categories of road user being killed, and the trend…
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Community Safety
Mei CallowayMay 2, 2026
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Neighbourhood Watch in Victoria, fifty years on
Neighbourhood Watch in Victoria has been running since the 1980s. We look at the evidence on whether it actually reduces…
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Community Safety
Mei CallowayApril 30, 2026
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Mental health and policing in Victoria: what’s working and what isn’t
The mental-health and policing reform program in Victoria — what is delivering and what isn't.
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Road Safety
Mei CallowayApril 27, 2026
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Inner Melbourne motorcyclist fatalities: where they happen and why
The inner-Melbourne intersections that have claimed motorcyclist lives, and the Vulnerable Road User strategy targeting them.
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Crime
Mei CallowayApril 15, 2026
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Victorian cybercrime in early 2026: scams, ransomware and what changed
The latest Scamwatch and ACSC data on cybercrime affecting Victorians, and the trends to watch.
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Tobacco Wars
Mei CallowayApril 9, 2026
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From the counter: what Victorian retailers say about the arson campaign
Legitimate Victorian retailers caught in the crossfire of the tobacco-shop firebombing wave talk about insurance, staff safety and the precincts…
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Road Safety
Mei CallowayApril 8, 2026
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How serious-collision investigations work in Victoria
How Victoria Police's Major Collision Investigation Unit reconstructs serious-crash scenes and the legal threshold for charges.
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Community Safety
Mei CallowayApril 5, 2026
Assaults against international students in Victoria: the long view
A long-view look at the Victorian response to assaults on international students, from the 2009 wave to today.
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Crime
Mei CallowayMarch 30, 2026
Animal cruelty in Victoria: how the law works and how cases are investigated
The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, the RSPCA Victoria inspectorate, the penalties and the recent prosecutions.
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Community Safety
Mei CallowayMarch 29, 2026
When police are first responders to a mental-health crisis: 2026 reforms
The 2026 mental-health-and-policing reforms changing how Victoria responds to people in crisis.
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