Probably because a lot of the free web hosting sites disappeared, and GitHub and knock-offs don’t place any requirements on licensing (unlike SourceForge, which requires you to use an OSI- or FSF-approved license and submit a project description for humans to review), so people abuse them as free hosting.

Naming Melbourne Central and Watergardens stations after shopping centres was always a stupid idea. Shopping centre branding changes, and people want to know where a station is located in terms of suburbs, roads, other landmarks, etc.

North Melbourne Station is also poorly named. It originally served the northern lines, when they still only had access to the CBD via the Inner Circle line, and was near the North Melbourne freight yard before that was closed. But it isn’t actually in North Melbourne, and the two reasons for calling it North Melbourne are no longer applicable. They were going to rename it to West Melbourne and call the new station on the corner of Arden and Laurens streets (which is actually in North Melbourne) North Melbourne, but now they’ve decided to keep the name for North Melbourne Station and call the new station Arden Station.

Renaming Spencer St Station to Southern Cross was always stupid, and I always said putting a roof on a station with diesel trains was going to be a health issue for workers and anyone else who has to spend substantial time there. But Bracks wanted a bigger monument to himself than Jeff’s Shed, so here we are.

So they list “bedroom area dimensions” as something the existing apartments fail on, yet the replacement buildings have smaller bedrooms. What a fucking joke.

From experience with this kind of thing when I was a teenager, all the incidents I knew of where people died involved poor planning and/or misunderstanding how to swim across a flooded river. It was always quite doable if you planned your entry, exit and backup exit points correctly, taking into consideration the water level and flow rate.

The most common way people would die was attempting to swim directly across a flooded river and exit opposite where they entered. It’s basically impossible, and people would get exhausted and drown. The second most common was to not plan an exit point. You need a place where the flow rate close to the bank at flood level is low enough that you can stop yourself and get out, and not get slammed into something and knocked unconscious and down. Also, you don’t want to do it anywhere there are submerged objects there’s a chance of getting snagged on.

Swimming in flooded rivers needs to be treated as an extreme sport. You need to be fit, you need to be aware of the risks, you need to plan carefully. Too many people just jump into a flooded river without thinking

The budget has been getting deeper into the red for years, while they continue to gut health services and fail to deliver on much-needed infrastructure (e.g. see all the transport improvements they’ve cancelled).

But where’s all the money going? 30% worse debt-to-GSP ratio than NSW, and nothing to show for it (besides highest-paid premier in the country).

Crown Resorts’ lawyers have warned the federal court that the casino operator would face “significant financial hardship” if forced to immediately pay its $450 million settlement with Australia’s financial crimes regulator Austrac.

Isn’t that the whole point of a fine? If it wouldn’t cause them any hardship, they’ll just treat it as the cost of doing business.