Melbourne news:
The National Trust is looking into
listing Brunswick Street on its heritage register.
No idea whether this will forestall the gentrification of the area, or if it
would keep McDonalds from following 7-Eleven into the street. Though with
our rulers being as puritanical and reactionary as they are, we're just as
likely to see Brunswick St. (d)evolve into something like Singapore's
Bugis St., where all the colourful and unsavoury elements have been removed
and replaced with plastic tourist attractions and a mural of transsexual
prostitutes from the olden days.