Something is rotten in the state of Victoria. It has been for a very long time. A visit to the city once dubbed Marvellous Melbourne is no longer possible because Melbourne is not marvellous at the moment and also because it now goes under the miserable monicker ‘Naarm’ which apparently means ‘place’ in Woiwurrung, the language of the Kulin people.
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