#victoria
Poll Finds Dan Could Poison Dogs In Fitzroy Gardens And Voters Would Still Prefer Him Over Victorian Libs
Beetoota Advocate
XD it's true
#LOLs #yoks #satire #humour #humor #Victoria #DictatorDan #TeflonDan #oz
#Music on #Yellow-Galactic-Seed
#RayDavies 6/21/1944 #Birth English musician (The Kinks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GHlcwlT1Y
#TheKinks - #Victoria
oh. Father Bob, friend of the unloved and unlovely, has died.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/father-bob-maguire-catholic-priest-dies/101814184
the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion's Peace Park
a bit more about the Stupa's history and "but why"
"December 2021: Bendigo’s Great Stupa of Universal Compassion has made further progress with the installation of a powerhouse battery power convertor. The converter was specifically made for the Great Stupa’s lights in partnership with Arvio Australia, which specialises in sustainable energy solutions."
Victoria Connections (State government site)
#peace #compassion #buddhism #inter-faith #education #harmony #beauty #garden #sustainability #Bendigo #Victoria #oz
ABC News: Logging regulator not adequately detecting illegal logging, Victorian Auditor-General's Office finds.
Not only do we have issues with legal logging destroying native habitat, there's plenty of illegal logging going without regulation. One more reason to support the Greens in Victoria's election.
brewing up over Coleraine
#photo #happysnaps #dratted-El-Nina #thrice #TheWeather #clouds #storms #rural #oz #Victoria #myphoto #mwork
Victorian opposition vows to shelve Suburban Rail Loop.
Matthew Guy (lobster with a mobster) reckons he'll can the public transport expansion in favour of health care. He doesn't mention that it was Jeff Kennett who brought in the case mix system to Victoria's health care which has been a bane for funding ever since.
from Premier Dan
"Starting today, workers in casual and insecure work in eligible industries will be able to access five days of sick pay per year.
Workers in hospo, food preparation, cleaning, security, laundries, supermarkets, retail, as well as aged and disability care will all be able to take time off if they're sick, or to take care of a loved one.
The Government is doing all the admin for the program, and making payments directly to workers - meaning no extra paperwork for businesses.
It means that more than 150,000 Victorians will no longer have to choose between being able to pay rent and looking after their health.
Because no one should have to go to work sick because they can't afford not to.
And now - they don't."
#YAY #gig-work #side-hustles #survival #employment #workers-rights #Victoria #oz
Denton Corker Marshall designs metal-clad cube for Shepparton Art Museum in Australia
Architecture practice Denton Corker Marshall has completed an art museum in Victoria, Australia, with a cubic glass form shielded by large metal-clad plates on its facades.
Won by the local practice via an architectural competition in 2017, the new 5,300-square-metre Shepparton Art Museum sits overlooking a lake at the edge of a nearby nature reserve.
As the site is a floodplain, the museum's footprint was kept small – extruded upwards to create five floors containing four galleries, children's spaces, and the Kailua Arts Aboriginal community arts centre.
The Shepparton Art Museum in Victoria was designed by Denton Corker Marshall
Denton Corker Marshall referenced the natural surroundings to conceive the museum as a "land sculpture". The project comprises the museum itself and an adjacent Art Hill, which conceals the building's services and parking beneath stepped concrete seating.
"Sitting between the lake and the main road into town from Melbourne, it presents a strikingly bold signal – a new contemporary building added to the fabric of the city," said John Denton, co-founder of Denton Corker Marshall.
The practice wrapped the art museum in a metal facade
This sculptural form is defined by the four metal-clad plates that appear to shift as you move around the building's exterior. Three are clad in powder-coated silver aluminium, while a fourth faced in contrasting weathered steel demarcates the main entrance.
L-shaped in form, these plates extend with small canopies to created sheltered, verandah-like spaces around the museum's entrances, and feature perforated areas and cut-outs that give glimpses into the interior.
Different metal volumes make up the Shepparton Art Museum
"From a distance, the plates give virtually no indication of the interior life to be discovered and explored," said the practice.
"At their base, they float seemingly unsupported over an open, visibly accessible and highly activated ground plane...each plate is an object in its own right and an integral part of the whole," it continued.
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The museum's entrance leads into a full-height atrium, alongside the community arts centre and administrative spaces on the ground floor.
On the first floor, level with the Art Hill, a large cafe space opens onto a terrace that leads out onto the amphitheatre-style seating area.
Concrete was used throughout the interior of the museum. Photo is by Tim Griffith
"The Art Hill creates an upper ground level, enabling the museum cafe to enjoy an elevated outlook whilst being directly connected to, and accessible from, the park," said the practice.
A central, open staircase connects to the museum's four gallery spaces, designed to show a mixture of international exhibitions, permanent collections and new commissions.
Parts of the museum are directly accessible from a nearby public park. Photo is by Tim Griffith
"The interior design [features] interconnected multi-level spaces, materials, texture, with intuitive way finding by Studio Ongarato," said the practice.
"[This is] overlaid with contrasts of drama, reflection, outlook, information and discovery, all of which are conceived as integral elements of the museum experience," it continued.
Gallery spaces are designed to show a mixture of international exhibitions, permanent collections and new commissions. Photo is by Tim Griffith
Previous projects by Denton Corker Marshall include the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, a cluster of cubic forms clad in contrasting metal finishes.
In 2015, the studio built a "mysterious black box" for Australia's contribution to the Venice biennale.
The photography is byJohn Gollings unless stated otherwise.
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