Of all the hundreds of blog posts I have written since 2003, the one that sparked the most interest was this one from ten years ago, about the closure of the milk bar at the corner of Barkly and ...
https://andrewnorton.info/2019/12/22/the-still-sad-story-of-my-local-ex-milk-bar/
I’m not sure that Carlton’s lone classical liberal has many Carlton readers (Alex Willemyns is one of the few), but someone has asked me to promote a local event, a debate on immigration on T...
https://andrewnorton.info/2010/08/09/visiting-classical-liberal-to-defend-migration-in-carlton/
A couple of weeks ago Tim Watts got a lot of coverage (here’s the Club Troppo version) for criticising the lack of response – from himself, and from others – to an incident on a tram, where...
https://andrewnorton.info/2010/01/23/public-transport-social-capital-not-dead/
Last Saturday, as I have almost every Saturday over the last decade, I went into the milk bar at the corner of Barkly St and Canning St in Carlton to buy the papers. On the verge of tears, the ow...
https://andrewnorton.info/2009/12/22/melbournes-disappearing-milk-bars/
Melbourne readers will probably have heard of a long-running occupation by squatters of Melbourne University-owned terrace houses in Carlton (disclosure: some of my colleagues have been involved ...
https://andrewnorton.info/2009/01/12/why-do-squatters-get-to-stay-so-long-in-university-property/
By far the most useful and important thing the Melbourne City Council does is to take away garbage, but for some reason the position of Chief Garbage Collector, aka Lord Mayor of Melbourne, is be...
https://andrewnorton.info/2008/11/24/the-confusing-choice-for-melbournes-chief-garbage-collector/
There doesn’t seem to be a caretaker period for the currently underway (by postal ballot) Melbourne City Council elections, because amidst the large quantity of campaign materials from the cand...
https://andrewnorton.info/2008/11/23/should-councils-second-guess-household-arrangements/
According to this Bankwest quality of life ranking, the Melbourne local government area, which includes Carlton, has the lowest quality of life in Victoria, and one of the lowest rankings in the ...
https://andrewnorton.info/2008/08/20/how-bad-is-my-quality-of-life/
Over Friday and Saturday, The Age (as commenter Brendan pointed out) ran its own version of the SMH‘s ‘white flight’ from government schools story, adding in refugees in Victoria to the Leb...
https://andrewnorton.info/2008/03/23/do-public-schools-create-melting-pots/
Some of my Liberal friends may feel envious that I can win a vote with just 13% support, to claim the title of ‘best solo libertarian blog in Australia’. As I do not use the label ‘libertar...
https://andrewnorton.info/2007/06/04/carltons-best-classical-liberal-blogger/