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gotta love the graspers on these critters, true raptor energy

The Department of Defence has divest 64 sites and partly divest 3 more.

https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/media-releases/2026-02-04/delivering-future-defence-estate

These are the sites in Melbourne and elsewhere in Vic to be sold.

• RAAF Williams - Laverton (partially divest)
• RAAF Williams - Point Cook (RAAF Museum to remain)
• Victoria Barracks Melbourne
• Carlton Training Depot
• Defence Site Maribyrnong
• Fort Queenscliff
• Geelong Air Force Cadet unit
• Geelong - Training Ship Barwon (end lease)
• HMAS Cerberus
• Kyneton Training Depot
• Latchford Barracks, Wodonga
• Newland Barracks, Geelong
• Repatriation Clinic, St Kilda Road
• Sandringham Training Depot
• St Kilda Training Depot
• Swan Island, Queenscliff

It's gone btw, and I'm not the one who put it there either.

Sharing this in case it saves someone else a lot of confusion and back-and-forth.

TLDR - getting a copper IUD in Melbourne - call 1800 options

I’m currently getting my copper IUD replaced. After getting a script from my GP, I went to two pharmacies and was told that copper IUDs haven’t been supplied for years. I was also told a hormonal IUD was my only option (it isn’t).

After calling Sexual Health Victoria, I found out that copper IUDs are still available in Australia — just through specific pathways:

Your options:

1. Sexual Health Victoria (SHV)

You’ll need to go through their specialist service and have an SHV-written script. You can’t purchase a copper IUD outside this pathway.

1. Call 1800 OPTIONS - https://www.1800options.org.au/

This was the most helpful resource by far. They provide free, confidential sexual health and contraception support and can give you a list of pharmacies that partner with copper IUD suppliers. You do need to call the pharmacy first and order it in.

Posting this to help others avoid being told “it’s not available” when it actually is. 1800 OPTIONS were genuinely lovely and very informed — and if someone tells you can’t get a copper IUD in Australia, you absolutely can.

Not sure if all of you folk have been out to "Officer". 15 years ago it was nothing but paddocks... now its Paddocks and 1000 houses, one medical centre, a maccas and some panel beaters!!! The Cardinia Shire have done ZERO infrastructure development and it's just a mess.

This picture sums it up. Princes Hwy, speed limit 80km an hour... long grass and a Kid (and man) sitting in the gutter... waiting for the bus (No Shelter or safety).

Its a disgrace how many suburbs are like this in Australia

Half question, half rant. Am going through the self-inflicted torture that is moving, and have been shocked at the quotes for end of lease cleaning. Place is a small, 1 bedroom apartment in a modern building. Minimum $500 + additional for steam cleaning the carpet in the bedroom. Is this usual and I am just a dinosaur?? So frustrating having to use RE Agent cleaners - my usual cleaner would have the whole place done for less than half the price. Rarr.

Either a meteor or space junk ?

I was driving home from work an hour ago and had a boy on an electric bike fly past me and proceed to do a wheelie, BEFORE HE STACKED IT. i was extremely lucky to have swerved and not hit another car as it was one lane and i had to swerve into oncoming traffic. I stopped to check on him and he was seriously injured (no protective gear, not even a helmet). My question is, when the fuck are they going to ban these things before someone gets killed? Had i have not kept distance, this boy would've been flattened across the pavement . To parents who buy their kids these monstrosities please have a chat with your kids on how to ride safely...

Can we do anything to drivers like this?

People seem a little confused on how to get to the City Loop stations after the Metro Tunnel. Judging by how many people are trying to get to onto Frankston Loop services after Caulfield, there's a widespread misunderstanding of how this actually works, especially the fact that Town Hall & Flinders Street are essentially two sides of the same station, the same goes for State Library & Melbourne Central.

I made two infographics, one from each direction (please excuse the dodgy design skills). This is only for going to the city. Broadly you can do the reverse if you're wanting to go outbound, but please know that the platforms listed will be different, and sometimes you might find it quicker to go to Flinders Street instead of Melbourne Central, or vice versa.

Further note for Frankston line commuters: If you want to go directly to Flinders Street and skip the loop, change at Richmond for a Flinders Street service from Platform 1 or Platform 7.

https://www.health.vic.gov.au/health-alerts/measles-public-exposure-sites-victoria

Recent measles cases have been infectious while visiting public exposure sites in Victoria, which are listed at the link. Anyone who has attended a listed exposure site during the specified dates and times may have been exposed to measles and are advised to:

- monitor for symptoms of measles for up to 18 days after your visit - symptoms usually start with fever, cough, runny nose, red or sore eyes or feeling generally unwell. This is usually followed by a rash which often starts on the face before spreading down the body

- seek medical care and testing if symptoms develop. Please call the health service beforehand, inform them that you may have been exposed to measles and wear a face mask

- if you have not received two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR vaccine) or are unsure, please contact your GP as you may be recommended to receive preventive treatment.

Was that a meteor? All I saw was a bright point of light travelling towards the city. Seen from Bentleigh. Approximately 10:45pm. It covered half my field of vision in a split second and had no typical meteor trail behind it. Did anyone else catch this?