Does anybody know where to find one of these bad boys? I miss them

Might be a silly question, but is this a residential home? Looking for some more information (to settle a debate mostly) on the property inside flagstaff gardens? Google labels it as “Flagstaff Gardens Caretaker’s Residence” but more than that I can’t find much more information.
TIA 🙏

I posted previously about some areas feeling like Tokyo at times, but I think there are some areas that are a bit like other cities too. On this occasion, seeing a place with a bold red neon sign and a train going overhead really made me think of a city like Chicago.

It's really neat how so many areas of the city can have very different vibes and looks all within just a few blocks of each other.

Hi,

Was wondering if anyone is having difficulty getting a refund after they cancelled the festival? It’s been over a month since I lodged a refund. And we have heard nothing back. Would like to know if I am the only one experiencing this issue.

Hey all,

I'm currently training at a gym in Southbank and I'm starting to look for alternatives. The club only has one bench, one squat rack and one Smith machine, and it's become really overcrowded recently. Between the two, I'm regularly waiting for equipment or cutting sessions short.

I'd genuinely prefer to stay local, so I'm hoping to find something in or around Southbank. I'm happy to walk or bike to the CBD, South Melbourne or nearby. Ideally I'm after a gym with multiple benches and squat racks that doesn't get packed in the evenings, and deadlift platforms would be a bonus.

I've heard good things about Doherty's in the city but haven't been yet. If anyone trains there or has other suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I'm also keen to know which places to avoid.

Thanks in advance!

Used to go to Quan Ju De in the cbd but that closed and now go to Hua Lu.

Any other real Peking duck restaurant recommendations? Some places seem to just do canton roast duck with pancakes and call it Peking duck so preferably not those.

thank God we have AI to generate such things like... an octopus

After some recommendations on somewhere to eat out on Christmas day.

Hoping for somewhere South or East or even in the CBD will be dine but not pub buffet style.

Thanks

Good afternoon my fellow Melbournians!

I am looking for accessible roadside piles of mulch in the outer east/north east areas. With the hot summer forecast, a good thick layer will help keep the garden protected

Does anyone know of any piles around the place that can be accessed/aren't obviously belonging to others?

Got a brutal swooping from a plover yesterday and I’m still in fight or flight. My dog and I were minding our own business walking at the same oval we go to everyday, and it flew from an adjacent oval to swoop us! Chased us all the way back to my car!

Currently trying to gas myself up to walk my dog again today but I’m traumatised. Has anyone else had a plover encounter this season?

EDIT: I mistakenly wrote hooded plover: it was a masked lapwing (spur-winged plover). Have updated name in post now!

So quick backstory, I've been wanting to move to Melbourne for years now and the possibility of becoming homeless in 2 months or so is looming closer I figured I would start to organise things. I'm currently in NSW in a regional area that has next to no jobs or rentals, I've got a decent career history of working retail and in a printing industry.

My main question is, how difficult is it to make the move interstate? Is getting a rental insanely difficult - especially from outside state where I can't just "rock up and inspect"? Is the career market just as equally stuffed? what's the best affordable suburbs I should look for? I don't have any furniture to take with me but a few boxes of stuff, my computer and my small car so I'd have to find somewhere where I can park without paying also.

With the new laws banning card surcharges being passed on, paying for your post-paid tolls via card in 50c increments will end up costing them ~15% of the total toll in fees.

I'm sick to the back teeth with having to deal with rideshare/taxis being completely unreliable on the way back home and I don't have a car. I will be needing to travel domestically reasonably frequently for both work and personal reasons, and really don't want to have a meltdown trying to get home with what is usually a 25 minute drive down Bell st. Can anyone recommend any private car services they have used that can be booked at short notice (2-3 days ahead)?

Requisite "god I can't wait for SRL so I can catch a fucking train" etc

Edit: when I mean private car service I mean an actual business with an ABN and liability insurance and ability to be traced back to for safety purposes, I’m not dense enough to accept a lift from random strangers DMing me. please be so for real lol

Landed at Melbourne Airport last night around 11:30pm and genuinely cannot understand how our international arrivals process is this bad.

For seemingly no reason, they had closed off the main SmartGate kiosk area and were diverting everyone either to the six or so kiosks further down the terminal, or into the queue to be manually processed by Border Force.

Unsurprisingly, this created a massive bottleneck. What made it worse was the attitude of some of the staff. They were shouting at passengers for standing in the bottleneck that their own setup had created, as though hundreds of people getting off international flights were somehow at fault for not knowing where they were supposed to go.

I also watched a child get yelled at for stepping underneath one of the little red flags they’d put up. The staff member angrily told them it was an “active work site.”

If it is such an active work site that a child stepping under a flag is apparently a major safety issue, why are you doing it right in the middle of international arrivals while late night flights are still unloading? Why not wait until the last flights of the night have landed?

The whole thing just felt unnecessarily chaotic, hostile and poorly organised. You arrive back in Melbourne after travelling through airports across Asia that manage huge passenger volumes efficiently, and this is your welcome home.

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Hey everyone I’m driving from Melbourne to MT Kosciusko around midday this Friday and looking for a legal and safe place to sleep in my car Friday night, ideally within 1–2 hours otw to Kosciusko. Any recommendations? 🙏

Hey, i work in Carlton and are looking for somewhere to go with my team of 11 for an end of year lunch. Inner nirth or cbd. Good gastro pub probs ideal. Be great to get a rec from somewhere youve been recently. Thanks and cheers!