The Melbourne Star is back from the dead – but can it revive Docklands?

When Covid led to the closure of the beleaguered observation wheel in September 2021, I thought it was for good.

Five years on, I’m back to take a spin Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast I don’t see a single soul as I wander Docklands on a Thursday evening.

The only sounds I hear are my own footsteps as I trudge past dark, empty stores.

I clamber around garbage bags, upturned shopping trolleys, wooden pallets strewn across the ground.

In the distance a dodgy fluorescent light flickers on and off.

Then a horde of the undead break through a window and try to eat my brains.

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