Vegas end of Elizabeth

When it comes to traffic planning, Melbourne isn’t very liveable at all. The city council recently announced it’s putting “pedestrians first” (sigh) and may ban cars from certain parts of the city. And it’s getting rid of longstanding free parking on Sundays and evenings. Now, Lord Mayor Sally Capp says they want to build a…

World’s most liveable city

Apparently, Melbourne will soon overtake Sydney as Australia’s largest city. I’m not saying this is a good or bad thing, but that’s certainly a lot of bike lanes, green paint and ‘shouty white arrows to nowhere useful’ we need to construct by 2030. Melbourne City Council needs to get cracking and maybe put the anti-Invasion…

Believable science

But in amongst the haze of booze and cobwebbed aviation fuel I’m feeling oddly patriotic in a Dr Strangelove-kind of way. I’ve just finished reading another insightful, impartial academic piece in the Conversation about why Scott Morrison is evil and now turning to a story about our world-class Monash University scientists making embryos out of…

Travels with Tricky Dicky

A recent visit to the States leads to this travel piece on the Richard Nixon Museum that ran in The Age/Sydney Morning Herald Traveller liftout.

Roccagorga

Once upon a time I wrote a piece about a trip to the home village of the wife’s family – the very beautiful Roccagorga in the Latina region of Italy. Must go back there one day….