Archive for the 'Making News' Category
No, it can’t be true. I must be dreaming, hallucinating. For a brief moment (on the TV news) I think I saw a picture of the Minister of Transport, Lynne Kosky, actually riding on a train. It must have been a very strange experience for her. It certainly looked like a very surreal one as […]
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 […]
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 […]
Those invited to the launch of this year’s Melbourne International festival of the Arts on Tuesday night were instructed that the function began at 6.30pm SHARP. And they dutifully obeyed - and were in their seats on time. They then waited, and waited, and waited - and were advised that “we are awaiting the arrival […]
