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The Vibe in Victoria, Maryborough (2026)

03/01/2026

Says it all, really… 🤦🏻‍♂️

20/12/2025

Sh*t Towns of Australia has officially crowned Melbourne 'Sh*t Town of the Year' for 2025, and honestly… who’s shocked anymore? 🏆

A whopping 23.1% of voters slammed Melbourne to the top of the dunny, ending Queensland’s long brown reign and handing Victoria the trophy it’s been working toward for years. 🇦🇺

Under Jacinta Allan's Victorian Labor Government, the city’s vibe has shifted from “liveable” to “lock the doors and keep moving.” 💩

Youth crime’s out of control, violence is routine, and machetes have become a casual accessory for feral teens who seem to know the system won’t touch them. 🔪

Courts hand out slaps on the wrist, cops look frustrated, and ordinary people cop the mess. 🚨

Then there’s the cost of living – rents that feel like a prank, groceries priced like luxury goods, and power bills that read like ransom notes. 💸

Work harder, pay more, get less. Rinse and repeat. 😠

Public confidence is shot, services are stretched thin, and the city feels permanently on edge. 😬

The old brag about “world’s most liveable” has quietly died – replaced with a daily game of dodge-the-chaos. 😮

So yeah, congratulations Melbourne! 👏🏻

A brown crown years in the making, forged by soft policing, exploding living costs, and a government that still looks surprised by the result. 😐

Wear it proudly! 💩

10/12/2025

Victoria's much-publicised machete amnesty bins – a $13 million initiative launched by Premier Jacinta Allan earlier this year – have now been photographed lined up at a Melbourne scrapyard, awaiting destruction.

Around 40 bins, promoted in August as a groundbreaking tool to curb youth violence, are now being prepared for recycling only months after installation.

The program, which relied on the assumption that offenders would willingly surrender illegal weapons under CCTV surveillance, was widely criticised at launch as symbolic politics rather than meaningful crime prevention.

Official documents show the bins were constructed using prison labour at approximately $2,400 per unit, yet taxpayers were billed $325,000 per bin under the final project costings – a discrepancy the government has yet to fully explain.

Despite their multimillion-dollar price tag, the amnesty bins collected minimal material before being quietly retired from service.

Critics argue the bins have now become a physical emblem of a government increasingly accused of prioritising high-visibility announcements over effective outcomes.

With state debt at record levels, the optics of a $13 million project ending its life in a metal shredder is unlikely to strengthen public confidence in the Allan Government’s financial stewardship.

For now, Victoria’s short-lived machete amnesty ends where many observers predicted it would: not as a crime-fighting success, but as another costly experiment literally headed for the scrap heap.

09/12/2025

On behalf of the people of Victoria, Labor Premier Jacinta Allan has delivered a formal apology to Aboriginal Victorians as part of the state’s new treaty agreement, following a smoking ceremony on the steps of Parliament. 🔥

05/12/2025

Detectives from the Sexual Crimes Squad have dropped yet another truckload of charges on 27-year-old Point Cook man Joshua Brown, and honestly, the whole state is running out of words for how cooked this situation is.

Eighty-three new charges today, pushing the total up to a sickening 156. That’s not a crime spree, that’s a full-blown catastrophe, the kind that leaves entire communities hollowed out.

Cops have been working closely with the Department of Health and the Chief Health Officer, who’s again said no further testing is needed for kids at the affected centres.

And in a rare sliver of stability in this absolute horror show, the number of centres isn’t growing. It stays at twenty-three childcare centres Brown worked at between 2017 and 2025.

Today’s charges bring in four new victims, along with more offences tied to the original eight. Those new victims were linked to centres in Point Cook, Williamstown and Keilor, across several years.

Their families have already been notified, sat down, supported as best anyone can support parents hearing news that would break a steel pipe.

And the charges? Strap in.

More sexual pe*******on of kids under twelve. More production and transmission of child abuse material. More online predatory behaviour. More sexual assaults. More attempts at pe*******on. More physical harm. More psychological harm. More everything.

And then the gut-punch that sent the whole state stumbling back: twelve be******ty offences, totally separate to the childcare allegations but somehow adding yet another layer of horror to a case already drowning in it.

Add in the reckless conduct, the assaults, the drugs – and you start to wonder whether there was a single safeguard in this state that actually worked. Because if these allegations are proven, the system didn’t just fail – it face-planted so hard it left a crater.

Brown’s been in custody since May and won’t face court again until February 2026, which feels like a lifetime away for the families waiting for justice, answers or even a moment of peace.

Meanwhile, detectives are still going full throttle, working with every agency imaginable – health, education, child safety, hospitals, oversight bodies – all scrambling to pick up the pieces of a case that should never have needed this kind of response in the first place.

The Victorian Government has set up a website listing every centre Brown worked at, complete with dates and support links.

That list hasn’t changed, but the shock waves sure have. They’re still rolling, still breaking on families, still shaking confidence in the systems meant to protect the most vulnerable kids in the state.

Childcare providers are cooperating, but let’s be honest – cooperation is cold comfort when parents are asking themselves the ugliest question of all: how many red flags were missed? How did this bloke slip through two dozen centres? How the hell did this happen on such a scale?

Across Melbourne, across Victoria, the emotions are a hot mess – grief, fury, disbelief, heartbreak. Parents are shattered. Workers are shattered. Communities feel gutted.

This isn’t just a criminal investigation – it’s a cultural wound. One of those cases that changes everything because it forces every parent, every educator, every regulator to look in the mirror and ask whether any system they trusted is actually bulletproof.

Police are still urging anyone with information – no matter how small – to get in touch. Because this nightmare? It’s not over. Not even close.

30/11/2025

Victoria’s fire-mitigation contractors say they’ve been left high and dry, warning the government has gutted the very workforce meant to keep the bush safe.

Machinery sits idle across the state, while protest messages ask the question no one in power seems willing to face: Who will fight the bushfires?

Contractors were told workloads wouldn’t change and that new funding wouldn’t cut into existing operators. Then came the “temporary” excuse.

Now, internal briefings show government machinery must be used first, leaving long-time contractors sidelined and, in some cases, with no work at all.

Many have gone from full seasons of hazard-reduction work to virtually nothing, despite the bush needing more management than ever. Some invested heavily on the promise of stability, only to watch their income evaporate.

Contractors are now demanding the government restore the promised workload, and release five years of allocation data to show how deep the cuts go.

With harsher fire seasons looming, slashing the workforce that protects regional communities isn’t just shortsighted – it’s dangerous.

14/11/2025

Victoria Police are celebrating Trans Awareness Week! 🏳️‍⚧️

“It is an opportunity to celebrate trans and gender diverse pride and raise awareness of the issues faced by the communities,” reported the force.

11/11/2025

Victoria has once again been crowned the worst state in Australia for doing business – and under the Victorian Labor Government, it’s become a painfully familiar headline.

The Business Council’s latest report ranked Victoria dead last for the second year in a row, weighed down by crushing taxes, endless red tape, and bloated licensing systems that choke small business.

Opening a café or shop anywhere from Bendigo to Ballarat now means navigating a maze of permits and fees that other states ditched years ago.

While South Australia leads the nation with low taxes and streamlined planning, Victoria’s government keeps inventing new ways to squeeze the very people keeping the economy alive.

The state now boasts the highest stamp duty in Australia, soaring land taxes, and regulatory requirements nearly double those of Queensland.

Premier Jacinta Allan brushed off the ranking, blaming “commentators from Sydney” instead of facing the facts – that Victoria’s business environment is collapsing under her government’s weight.

Regional operators are struggling, shops are closing, investors are fleeing, and families are tired of watching their tax dollars disappear into bureaucracy instead of job creation.

After years of spin and excuses, it’s clear Labor’s priorities lie with control, not growth. Victoria doesn’t need more slogans or press conferences – it needs relief.

09/11/2025

More than a decade on from that awful night in Blairgowrie, the ghosts of 2013 are back at the doorstep of Victoria’s most polarising political figure.

And this time, former Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews isn’t walking away unscathed by a press conference or a party-room grin.

Fifteen-year-old Ryan Meuleman’s life changed forever when his bike collided with the Andrews family’s Ford Territory – a crash so violent he was airlifted to the Royal Children’s Hospital with broken ribs, internal bleeding, and a ruptured spleen.

The photos of the SUV told a story of their own: a shattered windscreen, a crumpled bonnet, and a young boy barely clinging to life.

Back then, the Andrews family’s version of events was neat, tidy, and quickly wrapped up by police. No charges. No accountability. Case closed.

But now, Ryan – no longer the terrified teenager on a stretcher – has filed Federal Court documents that could reopen one of the most haunting and uncomfortable chapters in Victoria’s political history.

Through his lawyer, Ryan and his team has gathered new evidence that will soon be presented to the Chief Commissioner of Police.

That alone is remarkable – not just for what it may reveal, but for what it says about persistence. After years of silence, the young man who once couldn’t even speak for himself is finally being heard.

Meanwhile, the Andrews camp has already fired back, calling an independent review of the crash “so-called” and “commissioned by lawyers chasing money.”

But the words of retired Assistant Commissioner Dr Raymond Shuey tell a grimmer story – impact speeds estimated at around 45 km/h, the car allegedly on the wrong side of the road, and the couple’s explanation labelled “improbable and implausible.”

Behind the political headlines and the legal jousting is a young man who spent his teenage years recovering from injuries that should’ve killed him – watching the state’s most powerful man move on, shielded by influence and reputation.

And it’s not the first time Andrews has faced questions of judgement and accountability. Victorians haven’t forgotten his Draconian lockdowns that dragged on for months and months – against medical advice, as it turned out.

Or the relentless pressure on vaccine compliance that divided communities and families. Andrews ruled by command, not consensus – and for many, the scars of those years still linger.

If Daniel Andrews’ legacy is one of control, secrecy, and spin, then Ryan’s fight is its complete opposite – raw, human, and painfully honest.

Because at the heart of it all isn’t politics or power. It’s a kid who lost almost everything and is still chasing the one thing no Premier, past or present, should ever fear: the truth.

And whatever that truth turns out to be, it’s long overdue.

02/11/2025

Two boys aged, just 13 and 15, have been charged after a man was attacked with a machete on a quiet suburban street in Melbourne’s outer east – a shocking crime that has again raised questions about safety and justice in Victoria.

The 27-year-old victim and a woman were down a street around 7pm on Wednesday when they were confronted by the two teenagers. CCTV footage captured the terrifying moment one boy swung a machete while the other struck with a separate weapon.

The pair fled in a stolen white BMW, which police later linked to a petrol theft in Ballan earlier that same day. Both boys, from the Moorabool region, have since been charged with intentionally causing injury, assault with a weapon, and theft of a motor vehicle.

The man was taken to hospital, with the incident leaving the community shaken. It’s the latest in a series of violent youth crimes that have become alarmingly frequent across Victoria, where children as young as 12 are now regularly involved in armed assaults, car thefts, and home invasions.

The bigger question now is what happens next. Will these young fellas be back on the streets within days? Under Victoria’s increasingly lenient bail laws, it’s a real possibility – and one that has many residents worried about the future of public safety.

Once seen as Australia’s most liveable state, Victoria is fast becoming the country’s cautionary tale – where ordinary people no longer feel safe walking their own streets after dark.

29/10/2025

St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne is in hot water after quietly introducing a policy that tells staff to treat Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients before everyone else – a move that’s now sparking outrage across the state.

Under the directive, Indigenous patients must be seen within 30 minutes of arriving at the emergency department, effectively jumping the queue ahead of others who may be in just as much pain or worse condition.

“We just want to be treated like everyone else,” said Indigenous leader Warren Mundine, stressing that emergency care should depend on urgency, not race. “Governments try to do nice things and you wind up with idiotic outcomes.”

Shadow Health Minister Georgie Crozier called the rule divisive, saying Labor’s social engineering is creeping into hospitals now too. “This is discrimination – pure and simple,” she said. “Under Labor, fairness depends on what group you belong to.”

But Premier Jacinta Allan defended the policy, calling it a “good example” of leadership, brushing off accusations of racial preference, and not explaining how prioritising one group over another fits into the principle of “treating the sickest first.”

The Labor Government appears to be blurring the line between equity and favouritism. And with Jacinta Allan continuing to push her divisive statewide Treaty, many see Victoria as a state where your background will decide how the system treats you.

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