Details here: www.premier.vic.gov.au/more-trains-...

Used the free Victoria public transport to go to my dentist appointment today. The 510 bus was a bit busier than usual. #Melbourne

Seven Sisters London Underground station is named after a ring of 7 elm trees that were planted over 400 years ago. The 7 trees have been replanted a number of times, always by 7 sisters. The current sisters are Hornbeam trees & were planted in 1997 by 5 families of 7 sisters.

Yet watermelons and song lyrics are hate speech.

"One of the first things I noticed when I started driving less and walking or cycling more is how, at the end of a day, I often have an inexplicable sense of excitement, as if something remarkable has happened..." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Starts on Tuesday until the end of April www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Literally this

I wrote about the one actually great thing that happened this week

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

I kinda hate the "imagine if" gambit, but ffs, imagine if this sort of evidence had been accrued about attacks on synagogues and Jewish members of parliaments. The prime minister and all of officialdom would be bending over backwards (quite rightly) to find the perpetrators.

“Readers can make up their own minds about what they would like to attend.” Well said. A point basically ignored by most of the press in the Adelaide writers fiasco: no-one was MAKING audiences go to Randa’s session. The pro-Israel lobby decided no-one could see her, even if it ruined the festival.

Motherfuckers. #FreePalestine. #RiverToTheSea.

"How is it that people engaged in peaceful prayer can be moved on faster, more forcibly, than black-shirted Neo-Nazis standing outside NSW Parliament?" - Ed Husic

Really looking forward to Minns and the Chief of Police explaining the context of this beat down

Just caught a smidge of the press conference at Bondi and heard Herzog say demonstrations delegitimise the existence of Israel. Mate, they delegitimise GENOCIDE.

I confess I never thought I'd be watching a hockey podcast www.vulture.com/article/heat...

Even the British Museum is quoting Heated Rivalry www.instagram.com/p/DTkZ7yVDfv...

What is it about Labor politicians in this country & their utter capitulation to the Zionist lobby? What exactly are they afraid of? You keep giving into bullies and they only keep coming back for more. Malinauskus has just blown up his own state’s reputation for enlightened liberalism. What a hack.

Gotta say, the cancellation of Adelaide Writers' Week gives me some hope for Australia's ability to navigate this. A great loss for the literary community, but writers/thinkers/audiences aren't going to stand for the bullying and pressure. Unclear when the politicians are going to figure it out.

Few words. My @smh @theage cartoon

What is the end game here? No publicly funded cultural events that aren’t approved by Israel? No arts boards that aren’t pro-Israel? The sections of our political class and media who are active in this attempted gutting of our cultural landscape need to ask wtf they are doing here.

Adelaide Festival / Writers’ Week now the biggest collapse in South Australia since the state bank (probably)

Will there be calls for a Royal Commission into Islamophobia? Will Grant Hackett get involved? Will community leaders blast the Albanese government for not listening to the Islamophobia envoy? Will Pauline Hanson be castigated by Sky for causing this, as Mehreen Faruqi was castigated over Bondi?

Unfortunately for Malinauskas, the internet remembers. Instagram user beccilove dug out this quote from a few years ago.

Have a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career

Popped into the city to pick up my order at Beekeeper Parade followed by obligatory ride on the new Melbourne metro from Town Hall to State Library, then an easy connection to the Mernda line at Melbourne Central.

Find something you hate more than The Age hates passenger rail. You can't, it's simply impossible.

According to ABC news Melbourne, it seems Labor started the metro tunnel 10 years ago just to win the 2026 state election That Dan Andrews was a cunning devil

Announcement at Footscray that the first #metrotunnel train "has left Sunbury on time and is already full" #MelbourneTrains

Take that, SNCF! 🤣 European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night train from the spring of next year www.lemonde.fr/economie/art... There are hurdles - doing it by then isn’t simple - but this can happen.

The last sneak peak tour at State Library station before the Melbourne metro opens

The Dutch, naturally, have this sorted. At this #Delft intersection, people on bikes and pedestrians get a continuous green. The arrival of a car or truck sets off a sensor, which allows it to cross. The default is green for humans, red for cars. Video @modacitylife.com

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If the BCA hate it im all for it. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Exclusive: distinguished Prof Fiona Stanley was ‘ashamed’ after the hospital named after her abruptly cancelled an event featuring Palestinian-Australian doctors speaking about their experiences in Gaza, and says she even considered asking the hospital to remove her name

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com

Tomorrow's a big day for trains on Victoria’s Gippsland line. The timetable is changing, and passenger train frequency between Melbourne and Traralgon is increasing from one every hour to one every 40mins. Let’s take a walk down memory lane to put this in an historical context. (1/7)

We touched on with our mykis on the Arden station open day yesterday so this is my first official trip on the metro tunnel

At this moment, solar and wind are generating more power than coal in Victoria. Fossil fuels are going to become increasingly irrelevant, particularly when large batteries come on line. Coal=stranded assets

Victorian opposition will commit to building Suburban Rail Loop once ‘holes have been dug’

1/ Took a few days off to go biking and kayaking (and yes, eating and drinking in wine country. I thought at first I got lucky scoring a good room rate late, having bike tour to myself, ease of getting reservations. And then I started asking people. And the consensus was tourism was off by 25%-30%.

Sign for the new Town Hall station almost ready to unwrap #melbourne #metro

Walked through the reopened Campbell Arcade today, the direction sign to the new Town Hall station is already there, a little bit early

Went on a tour of the new Anzac metro station as part of the Open House Melbourne weekend.

Remember that odd story before the election about a neurosurgeon tearing down Monique Ryan’s campaign corflute, talking about burying the body under concrete? I decided to investigate. Turns out that behaviour did not exist in a vacuum. Watch #4Corners 8.30pm, ABC TV. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

The other day, I was telling friends and family how a housewife originated these Tokyo Metro transfer and exit guides, and they thought I was kidding. It used to be a well-known story. If you don't know it, here's a quick summary.

Newspoll confirms it: Victorians want the Suburban Rail Loop. The minority Liberal whinging will vanish long before Victorians discover they can't imagine life without the SRL. No global city regrets building infrastructure like this. They only regret waiting too long.

Station to station: first look at the Metro Tunnel set to revolutionise Melbourne travel