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I'm posting this here because I didn't want to start a new thread for it.

This afternoon I went to Vermont South Shopping Centre, which is small by most standards. Westpac closed their branch which was on the front corner of the centre. New signage and shop fittings indicate that it will open as an Asian grocery, fifty metres from an existing Asian grocery.

Spacey, take a look at the attached map of Melbourne's tram network. At least in the somewhat inner suburbs, you are more likely closer to a tram than a train station. Outer suburbs use the train and there is usually free parking available. As for the tram their stops are more or less at every traffic light, and on longer runs, between traffic lights. Many stops now have raised platforms for disabled access. If you are not close to a tram stop, there are busses which will take you to one.

Tram network map.

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

I think there's an overhead sign approaching those intersections showing how to do it..

This is the sign. The cross street is where the van is approaching the tram.

If it doesn't have supervisory or veto powers it's a miillion dollar lame duck.

There are and have been aboriginal members of parliament and forner national president of the ALP who have had an opportunity to be the voice, and are recommending a No vote. Good enough for me.

On 21/07/2023 at 8:25 AM, old man emu said:

an offence in a National Parks to collect fallen branches to make a campfire (all other precautions having been followed)

Bushfire fuel.

22 minutes ago, willedoo said:

If the yes vote wins, at some time in the future you will know one way or the other.

And if it's wrong you're stuck with it. It's enshrined in the constitution.

21 minutes ago, willedoo said:

Everyone is entitled to differing opinions.

Not on this forum. Fall in line or piss off.

https://au.yahoo.com/news/detail-in-airport-photo-leaves-aussie-travellers-bloody-confused-050704048.html

•  Ukraine shot down eight Iranian-made Shahed drones in the wider Odesa region

Russia unleashed a series of intense drone and missile attacks on ports in southern Ukraine yesterday.

The bombardment crippled parts of the grain and oil export facilities in Odesa and nearby Chornomorsk, destroying 60,000 tons of grain, according to Ukraine’s farms ministry. At least 12 people were wounded, officials said.

It came days after president Vladimir Putin pulled Russia out of its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a wartime deal that enabled Ukraine’s exports to reach many countries facing the threat of hunger.

It also followed a vow by Putin to retaliate against Kyiv for an attack Monday on the crucial Kerch Bridge linking Russia with the Crimean Peninsula, which the Kremlin illegally annexed in 2014. 

‘Such attacks by Russian terrorists are not only affecting our country but also global stability,’ Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said.

More story and photos here.

When Albo releases, then we may be able to research properly.

Like the menu that said "Food".

When asked for details, the waiter said, "It's good for you and you'll like it. Can't tell you more."

A wish to live forever

I met a magical fairy yesterday who said she would grant me one wish.

"I wish to live forever," I said.

"Sorry," said the fairy, "that is the only wish that I'm not allowed to grant."

"Fine," I said. 

"Then I want to die the day after Parliament is filled with honest, hard-working, bipartisan men and women who act only in the people's best interests!"

"You're a crafty little bastard," replied the fairy.
 

A cowboy, who just moved to Montana from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud.
He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.
When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy,
"You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it.
It would taste better if you bought one at a time."
The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers.
One is in Arizona, the other is in Colorado.
When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.
So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself."
The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way.
He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs.
All the regulars take notice and fall silent.
When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my
condolences on your loss."
The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
"Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains.
"It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."
“It hasn't affected my brothers though." 

If it's going to cost that much, who made the initial assessment? How could they be so far wrong? 

He's still going ahead with providing the sporting infrastructure promised to regional areas, with stadiums for a major function like the Commonwealth Games, for local crowds. And they will still build the competitor village, which will ease the accommodation shortage in Ballarat. On the old cattle saleyards, with lots of toxic soil.

Seems the way to get everyone on this forum to agree on anything is for me to post something opposing it.

1 minute ago, old man emu said:

Get out ov it! You can't fool me. You just walked up the street a bit.

Take another look. The distant objects are compressed closer together. They were both taken as I leaned against my daughters red car, foreground photo 1.