• So Primo Ministerio Rudd thinks the 'Bloody Hell' tourism campaign was a 'rolled gold disaster'. Without bothering to figure out what the hell that means, I'm betting that if we'd had a tourism campaign featuring two beautiful people having sex on a beach with fireworks in the background and a big slogan saying 'COME TO AUSTRALIA, YOU'LL GET FUCKED' we'd show the same tourism losses. Sometimes no matter how much money you throw at marketing, if the targeted consumers can't afford the product you're not gunna get a favourable result. Besides, if the fucken idiots can't abide the words 'bloody hell', we don't want the cunts here anyway!
• Car prices are going up. Something that's always mystified me is the amount of new cars on the road. Surely people have better things to spend money on. I'll admit it does make me giggle when a truck of crushed cars goes by when I'm on the tram. It makes me wonder just who'll buy these flat cars, and what kind of obstacles require the thinnest transport possible
• Speaking of cars, the places in Victoria where road funding is of the most import are receiving the least. If the contract holders for public transport in Melbourne think it's expensive and difficult to run a service here, imagine trying to extend that to the 19,000 kilometres of spiderweb that covers the rest of the state.
• In a shocking display of clear thinking, the Melbourne City Council has withdrawn its support for a tunnel linking the eastern and western suburbs. While I'd like to think it's the start of the end for the road link, they've probably been successfully lobbied by someone wanting to build a glittering new bridge instead, taller than all the buildings in the city, spanning the business district and finally giving Melbourne an icon of its own.