According to an ABC report on November 9, 47-year-old Chinese food delivery rider Feng Jianming and another rider discovered someone tampering with their bicycles in Melbourne. A confrontation ensued after they approached the individual, resulting in Feng being stabbed to death on the spot, while the other 34-year-old rider was injured.
On November 9, a HungryPanda delivery rider in Melbourne reported to dispatch that their order had been stolen by a homeless person and that they had been spat on. The dispatcher's first reaction was to ask if the food could be retrieved, urging the rider to try to get it back, before eventually telling them to give up and complete the order. Netizens claim that failing to retrieve the food could result in a deduction from the rider's pay.
On November 9, 51-year-old Roberto Urbano, the suspect in the murder of Melbourne food delivery rider Feng Jianming, appeared in court via video link facing charges of murder and intentionally causing serious injury. During the hearing, he repeatedly interrupted the proceedings, stood on a chair, and dropped his trousers to expose himself. The court cut off the link, and his defense attorney stated he suffers from schizophrenia and requested an assessment.
After a delivery rider was stabbed to death, a large number of netizens flooded the social media comment section of HungryPanda, demanding a response and accountability from the platform. HungryPanda subsequently adjusted its comment permissions to allow only followers to comment.
On November 7, after a Chinese delivery rider for the Panda Food platform was murdered in Melbourne, Australia, local Chinese residents spontaneously gathered at the State Library of Victoria to hold a memorial, placing flowers and candles at the scene and displaying slogans demanding severe punishment for the perpetrator. [Follow-up · November 7, 2026] On the evening of November 7, local time, two members of the Victorian State Parliament in Australia posted videos on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) to express their condolences for the deceased following the murder of the Chinese delivery rider.
Xiaohongshu user 'Archengist', who initiated the Melbourne memorial event, was questioned by some netizens for 'smuggling private agendas' (suspected political demands). However, most netizens were unaware of his specific remarks and kept asking around, with one netizen jokingly calling it a 'Mbappé-style mystery'. [Follow-up · November 9, 2026] The individual involved, Archengist, responded via social media, stating that in his speech at the Sydney rally, he accused the Labor government of cutting public housing, which led to a surge in homelessness and random violence, and claimed that HungryPanda is unscrupulous because it is backed by a 'red family'. He mentioned that his speech was interrupted when someone in the crowd heckled him while he was speaking about transnational repression.
On the evening of November 6, a 47-year-old Chinese HungryPanda delivery rider in Melbourne, Australia, was stabbed to death by a homeless person after a dispute over protecting a stolen meal, which he was required to compensate the platform for if lost.
In Australia, a Chinese delivery worker for HungryPanda died after being attacked with a knife by a homeless person while refusing to give up the food, as the platform's policy requires delivery workers to compensate for lost or damaged meals.
On October 31, residents in Sydney, Australia, held a rally to support "Wangwang," a stray dog, and her puppies who were brutally killed in Jieyang, Guangdong. Participants brought their pets to the scene, with banners demanding justice for Wangwang, accountability for the abusers, and the criminalization of animal abuse.
According to a post by X account @jichunsheng on October 14, 2026, Australian Ambassador to the United States and former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has returned to Beijing. The related developments have drawn outside attention and discussion.
The Sydney chapter of the Chinese Democracy and Progress Alliance announced that it will hold a protest rally from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm on October 25, 2026 at Sydney Town Hall (Sydney Town Hall, Sydney Square), aimed at opposing the Chinese Communist Party's transnational repression and calling attention to the human rights situation in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
An experiment by Australian researchers in which 52 programmers learned to code from a library showed that the group using AI scored an average of 50 points, while the do-it-yourself group scored an average of 67 points.
On the evening of October 5, residents in Sydney, Australia, held a 100-day memorial for Wangwang, the dog killed in Jieyang. They laid flowers, purple balloons, and memorial posters, and used candlelight to spell out "100 DAYS WANG WANG," calling on people not to forget.
On October 3, Knews published a video on Douyin reporting that a Chinese couple who had obtained Australian permanent residency died in a car crash in Australia; some netizens in the comments section demanded that "Chinese couple" be changed to "Australian couple".
On October 2, several volunteers gathered in the rain outside the consular service hall of the Chinese Consulate-General in Melbourne, holding umbrellas and placards and setting up posters to speak out for the stray dog "Wangwang" and her puppies, who were brutally killed, and demanding that China enact laws against animal abuse.