Real shame to the businesses around it, all nice people and good at what they do. The Mediterranean kitchen seemed to be having a hard time finding it's midweek crowd, but they put in the hard work on the weekends. Feel really sorry for them especially.

A landmark Captain Cook statue has been vandalised in Melbourne, the day before Australia Day.

The metal sculpture on Jacka Boulevard in St Kilda was sawn off at the ankles about 3.30am Thursday, with vandals also spray-painting “the colony will fail” on the statue’s granite plinth.

The statue of Cook was dumped at the foot of the plinth. Police were also told that several people were seen loitering near the statue close to the time of the incident.

The sad thing is these have been popping up more commonly in this area.

More than 100 e-bike riders have converged at Docklands at 2:45pm today (Saturday, 17 January), gathering behind the Melbourne Yard West tower near the intersection of Harbour Esplanade and Docklands Drive. 📹 Footage shows riders taking over the roadway, weaving in and out of moving traffic and causing disruption in the area. Motorists and pedestrians are urged to take care if traveling through Docklands this afternoon.

The REA has been awol to my emails for a month and I suddenly come home to find this on my table. Apparently someone has been inside the house without my prior knowledge or approval.

I am so mad at this. Should i do something?

Last night I went in to the city to have dinner with my girlfriend, right as we leave the train station at Southern Cross a crazy meth head starts pushing me and threatening to smash me while we wait for the pedestrian crossing. He ended up pushing me on to the road before walking off. Afterwards about 5 people came to see if we were ok, although no one steped in while we were getting attacked.

2min later we pass a huge guy off his face screaming about pedophiles or something while acting extremely aggressive kicking bins etc. We went another direction because we were already shaken from the previous experience.

Then we get to Elizabeth St near Flinders and there's groups of 20+ crackheads screaming and causing trouble for everyone in the area.

Why is NOTHING being done about this? We didn't see a single police officer the entire night and I'm sure they wouldn't give a fuck anyway.

The soft approach toward the homeless needs to end and something serious needs to be done before more innocent people get hurt by these maniacs.