When I moved into my art deco apartment in St Kilda, one of the first things I noticed was an old managers bell in the foyer that had long since been glued up. It inspired me to ask around among the older tenants and I later discovered that my building had been a popular block of holiday…
When asked this week about the housing affordability problem in Australian cities that is effectively locking two generations of Australians out of the urban housing market, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce offered up a simple solution: “People have just got to realise that houses are much cheaper in Tamworth,” he said, before suggesting that if…
As the sharing economy permeates further into our daily lives – whether it be Uber, Deliveroo, Car next door or a growing list of others – a spate of new companies are emerging to feed off the extraordinary growth in these disruptive new online platforms. Airbnb has proven to be one of the fastest growing…
A venue for the much-anticipated fight between Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn – which is being billed as the biggest bout in Australian boxing history – is yet to be confirmed, but if it goes ahead at Suncorp Stadium as expected, or any other location in Australia, it runs a very real risk of sending the wrong message…
Engagement with neighbours in apartment buildings can be a tricky, fraught business, and while it can be tempting to keep to yourself, diplomatic and respectful engagement is generally better than no engagement at all. That’s why after purchasing my first apartment in 2014 – a 1920s’ art deco block in St Kilda – I wanted to let my neighbours know personally…
In a prescient indicator of the future of retail, Amazon this week opened its first Amazon Go store in its home town of Seattle, an 167-square-metre grocery store that requires no checkout lines – not even self-checkout. Instead, customers can just grab whatever items they want and leave the store – the order gets logged through…
Melbourne has a love/hate relationship with its beaches. As a recent exile from the northside back to the southside of Melbourne, I’m tired of hearing people putting down St Kilda beach as too polluted, too cold, or perhaps the most common refrain – “well, it ain’t Bondi”. Of course it isn’t. But Melbourne’s beaches have their…
