The sun goes down on Sunshine. Grasslands. Cricket grounds. Smashed beer and wine bottles. Discarded nangs. Dumped shopping trolleys. Filled with rubbish. But the graffiti has a message. Fighting for a Free West Papua. A footnote on the silos The Sunshine Barley terminal was completed between 1965 and 1977, with a total capacity 64,000 tonnes […]
Vandalism is a problem that rail operators across Victoria have to deal with, but the spate of graffiti attacks on V/Line trains at Albury station take the cake. Browsing the archives of The Border Mail shows the extent of the problem.
If you are a regular user of Melbourne’s rail network, you might have noticed that the number of graffiti murals covering in-service trains has exploded over the past few years. So why has the vandalism become so visible, compared to the ‘old days’?
Welcome to Melbourne Central station, where on Wednesday night the first of Ted Baillieu’s Protective Services Officers started duty, protecting passengers from the hoards of evildoers who descend on the station after 6 PM. Meanwhile at the next station over, some vandals managed to make their way into Parliament station after the last train, and spray paint the walls with graffiti. So how the hell did they get in there?
