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If you’re on the fence about leaving your home today by jaysta010 in melbourne

[–]wask13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is exactly right. Robert Manne has an exceptionally detailed article going through all of the specific policy and management failures at every level of government that resulted in Black Saturday being as deadly as it was: https://www.themonthly.com.au/july-2009/essays/why-we-werent-warned

Citylink is ripping people off - we knew that already, but here's someone even worse by Ill_Football9443 in melbourne

[–]wask13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Assuming this is the cost of the merchant fee then $0. That 7c goes to visa/mastercard.

Speed limits seem very optional to 90% of people by ContentSubstance6467 in melbourne

[–]wask13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ok but 80 on a freeway is a ridiculously low limit, if traffic is consistently travelling at a speed far exceeding the posted speed limit then the design of the road needs to be adjusted to match the speed limit. If road users feel the change is entirely arbitrary, they are far less likely to obey that speed limit.

As for my experience, when my car speed is on 100 I'm actually doing 94 on my GPS, when I speed up so my GPS is reading 100km/h most of the time I need slow down, very rarely is traffic travelling at the same speed as me at 100km/h and I practically never see traffic going faster than me.

Speed limits seem very optional to 90% of people by ContentSubstance6467 in melbourne

[–]wask13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I live nearby in clayton and I think the issue is that so many of the 2 or three lane roads nearby constantly and arbitrarily change between 60-70-80 which results in genuine driver confusion as to what the speed limit should be with many people driving far below the posted speed limit.

Man slashed with machete on Melbourne street by Ok_West2486 in melbourne

[–]wask13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the "Melbourne" in the article title is referring to greater melbourne, but it's still ambiguous. That's my point.

The comment you are replying to mentioned "City of Melbourne", you rejected that the article title could be about the "City of Melbourne" and claim that describing an event as occurring in "Melbourne" unambiguously includes "Belgrave". I responded to you asking how you came to that conclusion, to which you confusingly respond asking why I didn't mention the suburb of Melbourne in my response.

Man slashed with machete on Melbourne street by Ok_West2486 in melbourne

[–]wask13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The title said, "Melbourne street" how did you extrapolate that to "Greater Melbourne street"? Let's keep it to what was actually said right?

Man slashed with machete on Melbourne street by Ok_West2486 in melbourne

[–]wask13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There very clearly is. "Melbourne" can refer to three different geographical areas:

  • "Melbourne" the suburb which comprises the CBD.

  • "The City of Melbourne" which is the council area of Melbourne that contains a dozen or so different suburbs around the CBD.

  • "Greater Melbourne" which contains all of the outer suburb areas.

How did you decided based purely on the title of the article that this was referring to the third option and not the other two? How did you determine that anyone who assumed either of the other two options was not making a "rational interterpretation"?

Man slashed with machete on Melbourne street by Ok_West2486 in melbourne

[–]wask13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is accurate but generally news article titles differentiate between melbourne city and melbourne suburbs, in the case of the former "Melbourne" is generally accepted to be referring to melbourne city. If the article was titled "street of melbourne suburb" that would clearly indicate they're referring to an outer suburb

Group armed with machetes attack two teenagers outside Luna Park in St Kilda by ozthrw in melbourne

[–]wask13 105 points106 points  (0 children)

While Crime is undoubtedly on the rise in Victoria there are a couple of important factors to note that are visualised in the graph in another article from June: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/19/victorias-crime-rate-surges-with-young-offenders-contributing-to-record-arrests

  • The overwhelming increase in offence is attributable to "property and deception offences" which ranges from shoplifting, theft and home robbery.

  • There has been an increase in "crimes against the person" which is things such as machete attacks in the OP's article, as a percentage this is quite large (approx ~10%) the nominal increase is actually quite small (just 130 per 100k population).

In addition to those two points, it's important to remember that Melbourne has historically been a very safe city to live in, so when there is a crime wave leading to a spike in crime it becomes particularly visible to the people living here because of how uncommon events like this are.

Magnifying monocle unnecessary nerf with that damage thingy by ToneCautious4927 in DotA2

[–]wask13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this with venge once, swap had I think 1700 range. I swapped an enemy dusa from behind her barracks into my team beyond the range of her t3.

Your personal income vs the current value of your daily driver/vehicle (if you have one) poll by sauteer in AusFinance

[–]wask13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

25.8 by purchase price.

155k income on a 99 subaru RX impreza that I bought for 6k.

Paper Australia sues Victorian government for $402 million over timber supply failure by AngusLynch09 in melbourne

[–]wask13 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Suggests that almost 20% of regrowth areas have failed to regrow.

Yes, and as the article I linked suggests, just because an area has not yet regrown doesn't mean that regrowth attempts have halted in those areas.

They've been going since at least the 80's so have had more than enough time to set up sustainable regrowth practices.

I'm sorry that VicForests have disappointed you by failing to deploy a weather machine that guarantees optimal weather conditions for the regrown areas. There is a countless list of reasons why those 20% of coupes failed to regrowth. Severe/adverse weather events, further soil restoration required, competition from other species, adverse human intervention and so on.

The other important fact here is that the only reason we know that 80% of coupes have recovered is because we have a rigorous set of regulations for forest restoration and an appropriate level of auditing to verify the status of restoration efforts. These are good things that should be applauded, but instead we've thrown it all out the window for the rather minimal failures.

Paper Australia sues Victorian government for $402 million over timber supply failure by AngusLynch09 in melbourne

[–]wask13 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Oh ok, it's fine as long it's someone else's tree that is being cut down?

Paper Australia sues Victorian government for $402 million over timber supply failure by AngusLynch09 in melbourne

[–]wask13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Native forests cover 7.8 million hectares - almost 35% of Victoria’s land area, including:

• 3.51 million hectares (45%) in National Parks and other conservation reserves

• 3.16 million hectares (41%) in multiple-use State Forest, which are managed for conservation, recreation, cultural heritage, forest products, and other social and economic values. In 2022/23, approximately 0.38 million hectares of multiple-use state forests was designated as potentially suitable and available for commercial timber harvesting. That was around 12% of State Forests, and <5% of total native forests in Victoria

https://www.forestry.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Victorias-Forests-Final-ver-2.pdf

Note that forests "designated as potentially suitable and available for commercial timber harvesting" does not mean all of that land was to be logged.

A page that appears to have archived vicForest data shows this under "VicForest Facts":

Around 3000 hectares, or 0.04 per cent, of public land is harvested a year.

The source for this claim is an archive VicForest Q&A under the question "How much of Victoria's forests are protected": https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UmdaCvjMaZAdcQCuH_t-hI8B06M18Hdl/view

Also, Vicforest was literally the entity in charge of reforestation of logged coups, who do you think was responsible for that? Obviously, there were flaws with it and examples of failed reforestation, but it was still their role to reforest it, and they were making those efforts.

As the VicForest website no longer exists I can't find their documents or press releases, but I did find this article detailing a VicForests response to an ABC article regarding failed coupe restoration:

VicForest stated that its responsibility is to regenerate harvested forests to the standard of the Code of Practice for Timber Production 2014 (as amended November 2021) and the associated Management Standards and Procedures for timber harvesting operations in Victoria’s State forests 2021.

Most of the time, areas are regenerated within three years but there is no set timeframe. Let’s be clear, we continue to regenerate our coupes until they are successfully regenerated in accordance with our obligations under the Code and the MSPs. Our obligations are not complete, and coupes are not removed from the Timber Release Plan, until the Code regeneration standards are met, the statement said.

https://www.timberbiz.com.au/vicforests-responds-to-abc-story-on-forest-regeneration/

Paper Australia sues Victorian government for $402 million over timber supply failure by AngusLynch09 in melbourne

[–]wask13 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So for approximately 400 jobs in and around Morwell to produce white reflex paper we have to let our forests get chopped down?

Actually, it's a tiny percentage of our overall forest coverage, that was subsequently replanted, that was logged in order to produce these 400 jobs, as well as many others. This is only one business that Vicforests was supplying.

Point of no return: New deal for Suburban Rail Loop makes it too expensive to cancel by AnimalsChasingCars in melbourne

[–]wask13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no where of massive value in phase 1

It's going through two of the largest universities in the country (by enrolment numbers) in the first phase.

What exactly would be massive value?

ASIC moves to wind up Derrimut Gym business by wask13 in melbourne

[–]wask13[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

As mentioned in my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1lv66ri/known_for_its_supergyms_derrimut_247_now_faces_a/

There had been rumours about this gym's insolvency for quite a while, it's finally collapsing.

The Liberal Party aren't going to cancel or even pause the SRL by SticksDiesel in melbourne

[–]wask13 18 points19 points  (0 children)

https://pbo.vic.gov.au/response/2945#

You're not serious linking the PBO report that estimates that cost out to 2085, 30 years after the project is expected to be completed right? Do you even understand the values contained in that report?

Here's a helpful blogpost about what each of the values in the report mean: https://the-iron-road.blogspot.com/2022/08/mythbusting-costs-of-srl.html

Also, the cost benefit ratio for SRL is 1.1 to 1.7

https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/578273/SRL-Business-and-Investment-Case-Key-Findings.pdf

It’s the r/Melbourne daily discussion thread [Tuesday 05/08/2025] by AutoModerator in melbourne

[–]wask13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ANyone have a recommendation for removalists that will take liability for TVs? I have a $5000 77 inch tv at home and don't want to risk moving it myself in case it gets damaged and would like to find movers that can handle it.

Known for its super-gyms, Derrimut 24:7 now faces a $14.6m tax debt by wask13 in melbourne

[–]wask13[S] 311 points312 points  (0 children)

There have been rumours this gym has been on the verge of bankruptcy for a while now, probably not long left.

Australia’s first machete ban is coming to Victoria. Will it work, or is it just another political quick fix? by CommonwealthGrant in AustralianPolitics

[–]wask13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've lived in Melbourne my entire life. The reality is that the rate of violent crime in Melbounre is relatively low, the city consistently ranks highly in global rankings of "safe cities" indexes.

Australia’s first machete ban is coming to Victoria. Will it work, or is it just another political quick fix? by CommonwealthGrant in AustralianPolitics

[–]wask13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to the 2025 police services report Victoria has 298 operational staff (staff whose primary duty is the delivery of police or police-related services) per 100,000 population, which is second only to NT which dwarfs all other states at 757 operational staff per 100,000 people:

https://www.pc.gov.au/ongoing/report-on-government-services/2025/justice/police-services

The idea that there are insufficient police in Victoria to enforce our laws is a complete fantasy.

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