Editorials

MELBOURNE'S SLIPPING

First to seventeenth in a decade

Melbourne has not been the most liveable city in the world since last century when it was #1 on Mercer's
Most Liveable City In The World list.

In 2004 a Melbourne newspaper used a U.K. Expat lifestyle survey to call the city number one, while Mercer's have us slipping.

The Mercers study shows what all Melbournians know. The living is not getting easier. With traffic congested, trains that can’t handle the heat, and ongoing water restrictions due to a lack of planning by the most over-governing politicians in the world.

The least the press can do is report the facts correctly. First to seventeenth in a decade. That should be the headline. And a plan to arrest the decline should be implemented.

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