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Melbourne’s Restaurant Monopoly: The Rising Dominance of Corporate Groups

July 30, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

Melbourne Restaurant Monopoly

Melbourne’s inner-city restaurant scene, with the emergence of dominant corporate groups, is starting to resemble a game of Monopoly.

Why You’ll Probably Take a Dozen Oysters with Your Toilet Paper

July 1, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

The now more expensive Australian Oysters in the window (at the South Melbourne Market)

Consumers beware! Why in addition to any actual impacts COVID has on markets for goods and services, the current conditions are perfect for savvy salespeople to deploy the most persuasive tricks in their bag. And they’re already on show.

Australia’s need for an impressive COVID-19 Mental Health response

June 2, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

Covid-19 mental health issues and resources

Being myself someone who utilises various resources to manage my mental health, I guess I have a particular interest in how the government responds to the mental health implications of COVID-19 over the next few years. Given the prevalence and indiscriminate nature of mental health issues across our society, I think we all do. Mental […]

Things I didn’t think were possible until COVID-19

May 2, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

Tom Pelphrey's character in Ozark, Ben. pictured upset

I’m definitely not a prolific Netflix binger. That said, one series that has commanded my devotion is Ozark – a US drama about the moral debasement of a well-to-do family that suddenly becomes less 2.4 kid, white-picket fence, and more murder-plotting money launderers. Think Breaking Bad at the lake-house.  The latest instalment (season three) has […]

How nuzzling a bum enlightened Flume

April 16, 2020 by Tom McCarthy

Flume aka Harley Streten, the music producer

If you’re anything like me, isolation has led to a much wider casting of the net for stimulating content. I’ve even ventured into the shark-infested waters of Twitter, where all-comers feel totally uninhibited to share titillating ideas, claims and accusations. Most of which are wildly unsubstantiated. And so should probably be taken more in the […]

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The now more expensive Australian Oysters in the window (at the South Melbourne Market)

Why You’ll Probably Take a Dozen Oysters with Your Toilet Paper

July 1, 2020 By Tom McCarthy

Melbourne Restaurant Monopoly

Melbourne’s Restaurant Monopoly: The Rising Dominance of Corporate Groups

July 30, 2020 By Tom McCarthy

Covid-19 mental health issues and resources

Australia’s need for an impressive COVID-19 Mental Health response

June 2, 2020 By Tom McCarthy

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Tom McCarthy, through Mr Double Speaker, is discovering his voice in a less intermediated way – the century old format of blogging.

Averse to labels (including writer, lawyer and retail business-owner) and scared of being pigeon-holed, might he find solace through blurring the lines of writer, editor and publisher? Or will this bastardised model prove too powerful?

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