Archive for August, 2007
Only a few weeks after installing a ramp for wheelchairs and pushers outside its new Child Welfare Centre in the old police station in Bridge Road, Richmond, workmen are today ripping it out and digging holes in the ground. I’ve as yet no idea why they are doing it but it does make one wonder […]
The consoling fact about the revelation that some two million people switch on to watch Kath & Kim on a Sunday night is that this means 18 million people have the good sense NOT to watch this lamentable pretence at humour.
As if the cafes spreading their tables into the path of pedestrians wasn’t bad enough, we now have pubs and bars taking over our footpaths. Nowhere is this more evident than in Bridge Road, Richmond, where our way is blocked by carousing, beer-toting louts (and loutesses) who show no regard for the right of passsage […]
Waste no time in getting along to see Hannie Rayson’s world premiere play The Glass Solider, which opened at the Playhouse in Melbourne’s Arts Centre last night. It’s a startling, innovative, enthralling piece of theatre, based very closely on the story of an amazing local survivor of the first World War. The cast of 12 - […]
What a pity non-Transport Minister Lynne Kosky took matters into her own hand and dumped the idea of issuing our ticket inspectors with handcuffs to help them deal with difficult non-paying customers.
Ther use of handcuffs would make their job so much easier and eliminate those nasty fights and scuffles when dealing with fare evaders. After […]
