Hellbourne the new Mega City One

Monday 26 May 2025

Mega City One, otherwise know as Hellbourne, is Australia number one example of what a bad economic model does to living standards.

Since when did Aussie cities deal with this?

The Victorian Labor government will introduce an interim ban on machete sales across the state following a violent brawl involving 10 people at Melbourne’s Northland Shopping Centre on Sunday.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.