In May 2015 publisher News Corp decided to shut down the free âmXâ newspaper after years of falling circulation. Targeted at commuters in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane â the newspaper had for years had saved money by sharing content between the three markets, with only slight modifications appearing in each local edition.
Despite my love of the Melway, there are some days when I can’t be bothered walking over to my bookshelf full of them and looking up a street, so instead I turned to the “electric street directory” that is Google Maps. However on this occasion, I was searching for a street so new I couldn’t find it on the map.
One thing you might not know about this site is that I don’t actually wake up each morning and type up a new blog post – I actually write them ahead of time, and then they get pushed out to the site at a time I decide. Unfortunately this doesn’t always work, such as what happened to me a few weeks ago.
This is the story about the day I took my cat to the vet, and found a lost dog along the way.
In recent years Bendigo have been the recipient of many dubious rail upgrades – first was a few million on a new station at Epsom, followed by the promise of Bendigo Metro Rail. So why are these ‘upgrades’ on such shaky ground?
