Melbourne woke up to the smell of accelerant again. Just after 2am, someone smashed the front window of a GP clinic in Moonee Ponds, poured something in and lit it up. Less than an hour earlier in Brighton, offenders rammed a front gate and set fire to two cars parked in a driveway. Nobody was hurt in either attack, which is about the only good news in this lot.

Up in south-east Queensland, a shop at Flagstone was badly damaged in a fire police believe was deliberately lit. NSW and SA were quiet overnight, but the man charged over the Fulham mansion fire fronts court today. Here's what happened while you were asleep.