Skydeck88 at Australia's Melbourne. By Uncle Monty.

Skydeck88 at Australia's Melbourne.

Story By Uncle Monty.

Photos By Alex Albion.

^^^

A modern skyline city, Melbourne is the capital

of the State of Victoria with a population of

4.8 million people. It has a mix of old Italian

and Greek immigrants from the 1950's and

later in the 1980's a large inflow of Lebanese

and Pacific Island people. The most recent and

newest immigrants are Sudanese and Somalians,

who are being blamed now for the latest skyrock-

ing crime rates at Melbourne, at Victoria, and

at South Australia's capital of Adelaide. Reading

the Andrew Bolt column in Australia's local Sun

Herald newspaper with his story "Race Offense

Against Truth," it seems that to say something

bad about bad immigrants is fround upon here

much like in England at where almost 2 million

Africans have been allowed to flood the country

under New Labour's policy of mass immigration

of the scale unseen ever before in the UK. But

looking around Melbourne in the past two days

looks to me to be pretty mild of the numbers of

African immigrants here compared to London.

In fact, the numbers of Asians far outnumber

the Africans I have seen on the streets here.

But no matter at wherever they show up,

African immigrants invarably bring trouble

and bad news with them. It seems at Oz,

they've done pretty much the same although

their numbers here are a trife compared to

those found in Britain and Europe itself.

^^^

Elsewhere at Melbourne there stands the

tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere

that is named The Eureka Tower (shown

above) with its 88-floor high magnificent

structure that confirm's Melbourne's

status as indeed a modern skyline city

that rivals the biggest and best of any

American city today, architectually

speaking. The street layout of Mel-

bourne is much like an American city,

too, with the city centre of straight-

lined streets and town blocks.

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Known simply as Skydeck88, the Eureka

Tower's panoramic view from the top deck is

truly awesome and a photographer's delight to

be able to capture, like I did, the Aussie city

in all its true size and modern shape.

Although with that said, I don't consider

Melbourne to be a beautiful or grandly state

territorial capital by far. In some ways, it's

rather unattractive to the eye at first.

At least to me ...

^^^

Here's alittle more about Skydeck88.

It's the world tallest residential tower.

The facade consists of glass and alumin-

ium panels covering an area of 40.000

square meters. And, 24 carat gold-plated

glass is found at the top 10 of the 88

floors. It has 3.680 stairs and the build-

ing cost AUS$500 million when it opened

in 2006 after over 4 years to complete.

My panoramic photos of Skydeck 88 will

be uploaded once I have access to do so.

^^^

Today at Melbourne as turned out to

be a very hot summer's day after being

damp and dreary yesterday. The heat

now is enough to give me a nice and

needed sun tan ... I'm now off to

Australia's capital of Canberra that is

a 9 to 10 hour drive and not a 5 or 6

hour one that I first believed was

the case.

^^^

Must rush again to be off elsewhere in

The Land of Oz, which I am enjoying so

much just being here for the first time in

my life. It also mean I have now visited

ever continent in the world, except Antar-

tica, by my visit here to Australiasia ...

^^^

Cheers, Uncle Monty.

+St. Richard, 2oo8.

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