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[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think that's Jeffs Shed - opposite the Casino.

[โ€“] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes. The abbreviation is MCEC, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Not to be confused with the old Exhibition Building in Carlton.

[โ€“] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why's it called an MCC/Jeff's shed?

[โ€“] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I reckon MCC was a mispront. It's called Jeff's Shed after our fearless leader Jeff Kennett (premier of Victoria from 1992 to 1999), whose likeness adorns the south west corner of St Patrick's Cathedral as a gargoyle. Kennett was an arrogant arsehole, who did a hell of a lot to make people's lives worse. He also commissioned the MCEC building which has been known as Jeff's Shed ever since.

EDIT: Mr Kennett is also responsible for the phrase "I got Jeffed at work", meaning sacked without warning or reason. He had a real down on unions of any kind, and was responsible for setting up the whole Enterprise Bargaining arrangement. So instead of award wages and conditions being consistent across whole industries, enforced by powerful unions, wages were set within individual enterprises where workers had a lot less power and unions were banned. Basically the death knell of unions. In this he was greatly encouraged by his fellow Liberals who look back on the Kennett era as a kind of golden age.