On my recent trip to Auckland I decided to catch a ferry across Waitematā Harbour to Devonport, but as I set off on my journey I noticed more and more things that felt like back home in Australia. I set off from the CBD at C̶i̶r̶c̶u̶l̶a̶r̶ ̶Q̶u̶a̶y̶ the Ferry Building. The ferry set off across […]
That’s not my Box Hill railway station… the backdrop is too green. That’s not my Seddon railway station… the building is too wooden. And that’s not my Spotswood railway station… there isn’t a station there at all! So were are they? Melbourne’s Box Hill railway station has three platforms located beneath a shopping centre in […]
January 26 is Australia Day – a pretty shitty excuse for a national celebration given it marks the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney and the dispossession of indigenous Australians from their land. However something much more fun is this Cantopop cover of an Australian classic. The track is titled 一於少理 (“Yi Yu Shao […]
When people travel interstate or overseas, one of the things they love to point out is how the public transport system is much better than the one they use at home – a case of “the grass is always greener”? If so, what would a person who has travelled on rail systems all over the world think of the Melbourne network?
A few days ago ABC News published a piece titled “Calls for ‘backpacker au pair’ visa and industry regulation as parents seek affordable child care”, detailing how a group called the “Indonesia Institute” was suggesting that migrant workers should be allowed to enter Australia to work as low-cost childcare providers.
