July 7, 2026 — 5:00amWell, that’s one less thing to worry about for Opposition Leader Jess Wilson. As she surveys the latest Moira Deeming-dominated headlines, at least she knows her forklift-driving social media stunt has survived the scrutiny of WorkSafe investigators.WorkSafe swung into action, as first reported by CBD, after questions were raised whether the Victorian Liberal leader was appropriately licensed to operate the vehicle in a video that was featured on her social media platforms in late May heralding Wilson as being “in the driver’s seat”.Liberal leader Jess Wilson drives a forklift in a social media post.InstagramIn the short video, Wilson was shown manoeuvring a forklift in a large industrial shed and lowering its front forks as she blasted the Labor government over wasteful spending and budget blowouts, and, if elected in November, promised to lower taxes and give Victoria a fresh start.While clever and catchy, the stunt almost ran off the road when WorkSafe launched an investigation in response to a complaint about the activity featured in the footage relating to workplace health and safety.In Victoria, a High Risk Work Licence is required to legally drive a forklift. The penalties for doing so without an appropriate licence can be fines of up to $3000 for an individual and $10,000 for a business, depending on the circumstances.After looking into Wilson’s possible forklift faux pas and speaking with the business, Waverley Forklifts, where the footage was filmed, the matter was parked.“WorkSafe inspectors made inquiries and have determined not to take further action at this time in relation to the matters raised,” a WorkSafe spokesman told CBD.Both Waverley Forklifts and Wilson’s office were contacted on Monday. The video is still on Wilson’s social media feed.Superhero whispers for Melbourne A superhero, of sorts, CBD hears, is heading to town.Award-winning American actor Brie Larson, best known for playing Captain Marvel in the feature film universe built around the Marvel Comics characters, is tipped to be on location around Melbourne in the not-too-distant future working on a new international movie.Brie Larson played Captain Marvel in several Marvel superhero movies.While the project has not been announced locally, a quick dive into the Deadline movie news website shows Larson’s next project is a modern take on the creature horror film titled Skeletons.Along with Larson, who is also an executive producer, Willa Fitzgerald, Ione Skye, Kyle Gallner and Daithí Ó Haragáin are among the cast.Interestingly, no location has been announced. If the whispers CBD is hearing are right, Melbourne could well be filling that gap. Watch this space …By the way, Larson is no slouch in the film stakes – she won an Academy Award in 2016 as Best Actress for her role in the film, Room.Melbourne is going to resemble something like one big film set in a couple of weeks, should Skeletons land.Fog City is filming at various locations around town – CBD stumbled across the production in Collins Street the other day – as well as at Docklands Studios, while the smaller-scale Written in the Stars starring Menik Gooneratne, who was most recently seen in Pluribus, is also shooting in the city. Get ready for your close-up!Spinning outIt’s not uncommon for politicians and big companies to try to get ahead of major news events by briefing journalists in a bid to secure friendly coverage, particularly when they expect to get flayed.Enter the spinners at Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. On Sunday, the flacks were reliably available to remind journalists of all the stuff that the company run by the free speech-loving Mark Zuckerberg was doing to curb antisemitism on its platforms ahead of its appearance at the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion the next day.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Bloomberg“Meta takes the issues of Antisemitism and Social Cohesion seriously, and acknowledges the important role of the Commission in these matters. As a result, we have: Produced approximately 650 documents within two weeks of being given a Notice to Produce, [and] Provided three statements and committed two witnesses to appear,” read the self-congratulatory briefing memo shared with journalists, who were instructed to treat the information as background “not for direct quotation or attribution”. (Conditions we never agreed to, of course.)“Meta Platforms Inc’s participation, including the witness statements of Ben Good and Jordana Cutler, is voluntary. The Commission does not have an inherent statutory power to compel foreign persons or entities. Meta Platforms Inc chose to participate as a demonstration of good faith and its commitment to assisting the Commission.”Meta went on in the briefing note, as it would in the royal commission the following day, to cover off all the steps the company has taken to curb hateful content on its platforms, and how it’s a good corporate citizen. Left out, of course, was the Holocaust denial content that remained live on Instagram for four years despite the company’s policy changes, as the royal commission heard the next day.Fiona Byrne is the CBD columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via email.John Buckley is a CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect via email.From our partners