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... wanna go see some Melbourne Fringe shows, um, you'll catch me haunting Trades Hall in Carlton.

Okay.

Um, what are you doing this weekend?

Welcome to Bogan Intel for a very special live episode today at Kathleen Syme Library in Carlton.

I'm joined by Ambassador John Lander, who's returning to the program to expand a little bit on Australia's role essentially as a colony or a vassal under US empire.

For those that don't know John, he was part of the first diplomatic team to go over and establish relations with China in 1972.

But here's something to cheer us up a little bit.

Got an email from Leisha in Carlton, there in Melbourne.

She says that she's just moved back from London after being away for seven years.

You and your partner, you say, have been listening to us for the last two months and you're in the lucky position, more lucky than most, in that you have managed to save with the pound currency and you're going to be buying a property before the end of the year, I like this part.

She didn't speak a word of English.

And so my dad sold, he had a lovely little terrace house in Grattan Street, Carlton.

And he sold that up.

And they took a boat back to China.

Maybe, and then when I think I realised I didn't have the talent for either, then I dropped just thinking I could be a journalist, but I ended up being a schoolteacher.

What was social life for young Chinese Australians back in those days?

Well, for me, my social life was centred around the family and other Chinese families similar to ours from that same district and they all settled, you know, in areas very close to each other like West Melbourne, North Melbourne and so that little community of Chinese people stuck together and we had a little Chinese community mission church called the Chinese Church of Christ Mission Church in Queensbury Street, Carlton.

And my social life was in that little church.

Okay.

Yeah, I think there's a BP in Fitzroy, but I think the one you're talking about is actually in Carlton, that part of Johnson Street.

It's actually, I think it's Elgin Street by then.

All right, look, thank you, Danny.

So we've got a rubbish skip on fire intersection of Eldon Street and Johnson Street in Carlton.

And Danny, you can find yourself at the end of the program today in the running for the weekly prize for Word on the Street, a $1,000 voucher to spend at Imp Jewelry.

Then there's the yearly prize to consider, $60,000 towards a Mercedes of your choice, thanks to Mercedes-Benz Brighton, where if you trade in before September 30, you'll receive a genuine and guaranteed $5,000 bonus.

They're all decked out in their... their 49ers gear, the

Del Monte, is that correct, Cara?

Del Monte is correct, a.k.a. Italian Disneyland, also known as the restaurant inside the old King and Godfrey Dali in Carlton.

Now, gents, this is...

Corner of

That's great.

The

famous Carlton Corner.

And this is a modern Italian love letter to Melbourne.

Regarding this call on the Victorian Government, go to the Human Rights Law Center website at hrlc.org.au. We're now going to do our events, uh, wrap-up for the week.

So, uh, today, Tuesday, the 8th of September at 6:00 PM, um, there's an event, the Eureka Sta- Stockade: Why It Matters Today, taking place at 251 Queensberry Street in Carlton South.

Um, and then, um, on the 11th of September, which is Friday, at midday, there's gonna be a disability workers rally at 109 Burwood Highway in Hawthorn.

Uh, but we've had a really massive show today.