Melburnians are finding creative ways to share what they love about their unique city on social media. Whether having a giggle at some of our worst parkers, funniest fences or hunting for Melbourne's best vintage treasures and tastiest chicken parmigianas, these are the Facebook pages we think will get people talking.

1. Sh-- brick fences of Melbourne

At first, badly constructed brick fences may seem an odd subject to document around our fine city yet Steve* couldn't stop noticing them. He mentioned it to friends.

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"People would then complain that I had them now distracted by something inane that they'd never bothered to think about," he said.

He then made a Facebook page so he could distract us all and has attracted more than 20,000 likes since April.

Steve thinks there is something quintessentially Melbourne about his page that features photos of brick fences with witticisms about each.

"The size of the suburban block, the strange insistence we have here in demarcating our plots, the proliferation of brick veneer houses in the seventies, and you can't get away from it but our Mediterranean friends gave us food, friendships and bricklaying in abundance," he said.

You'll never look at a brick fence the same way again.

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described the budget as a "fire brigade" putting out a fiscal fire, as he battles to sell the tax hikes and billions of dollars in spending cuts announced last week.

Mr Abbott has taken his post-budget sales tour to Victoria, where he cancelled a visit to Deakin University due to security concerns ahead of expected student protests.

Acknowledging the backlash to the budget measures which showed up in dire polls for the Coalition earlier this week, the Prime Minister said he intended to improve his Government's standing, but the budget was not about being popular.

"You see, we had a fire, and the budget is the fire brigade. And sure, sometimes the fire brigade knocks over a few fences in order to put out the fire. But if you've got a fire you've got to put it out," he told 774 ABC Melbourne's Jon Faine.

Later, he said the Government had put itself in "political jeopardy" to do what was right, even to the extent of losing the next federal election.

"First-term governments are not invulnerable and obviously governments can lose elections. No doubt about that," he told Fairfax Radio.

But he said the budget pain now may pay off in the form of tax cuts in a second-term Abbott government.

"I would like to be in a position to offer tax cuts in our next term," he said.

"At the moment I'm certainly not guaranteeing that or promising it, but the whole point of getting the budget under control now... is so that we can give tax cuts in the not too distant future."

Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen says the budget has revealed the Government's values, and Australians "don't like them".

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1st Equitation Round, Beg. Amateur Eq. Over Fences, May 17, 2014
In Stride May Madness Horse Show at the Colorado Horse Park May 17, 2014 Kim Harrison riding China #39;s Rose ("Janey") 1st Place Finish out of 6 (guess the judge missed when we broke to the trot?)

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1st Hunter Round, Beg. Amateur Hunter Over Fences, May 17, 2014
In Stride May Madness Horse Show at the Colorado Horse Park May 17, 2014 Kim Harrison riding China #39;s Rose ("Janey") 1st Place Finish out of 5.

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Of Electric Fences, Trash Pits and Hooligans
Here is a fun little metal detecting hunt I recently went on. In it, I find a Civil War trash pit, examine the sounds of an electric fence and relate the story of how I became a Hooligan. ...

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Sadler's Risk made an impressive winning debut over fences in the Follow Us On Facebook Beginners Chase at Roscommon on Monday evening.

Useful on the Flat and rated 143 over hurdles, all eyes were on Henry De Bromhead's six-year-old and there was never a worrying moment for those who backed him at 9-4.

He put in a nice round of jumping to come home six lengths clear of Busty Brown.

Rathpatrick (12-1) showed the benefit of his debut experience when recording a length and a quarter verdict over Bosman Rule in the Kepak Flat Race.

The mixed card began with four Flat races and Gentry (2-1jt-fav) narrowly held the late challenge of Benny Blanco in the opening Irish Stallion Farms E.B.F. (C & G) Median Auction Maiden.

John Oxx's charge took it up in the home straight but Jessica Harrington's charge was soon in pursuit and Declan McDonogh's mount was all out to score by a short head.

Connor King gave Abby Cadabby a fine ride as Andrew Oliver's three-year-old completed a hat-trick in the Roscommon Handicap.

The 3lb claimer stole a march on his rivals when sending the 9-2 shot to the front entering the run in and she had enough in the tank thwart the strong finish of Kabjoy by three-quarters of a length.

Toe The Line (4-6fav) was a warm order for the Irish Stallion Farms E.B.F. Fillies Maiden and didn't disappoint his supporters.

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THE time for talk is over its time for the Queensland government to bite the bullet and put the funds for vermin control provided as part of the federal governments drought relief package into hard infrastructure.

Thats the opinion of federal Member for Maranoa Bruce Scott who said that other wild dog control strategies were failing and that physical barriers were becoming increasingly relied on to manage the problem.

I have made representations to see if we can get something lasting with the money allocated, something like the fencing projects at Morven and Tambo.

I think we could look at a dozen cells or so.

They worked in the past and I see no reason why they wouldnt again.

Western shires have indicated their support for fencing as a control measure, giving in principle support to the proposed erection of wild dog fences around the regions mixed breeding country when they met at the recent Western Queensland Local Government Association conference at Tambo.

The motion from the Barcoo shire originally concentrated on support for the 1300km fence proposed to enclose sections of Blackall-Tambo, Barcaldine, Longreach and Barcoo shires, but was altered when delegates questioned the size and effectiveness of it.

Barcaldines deputy mayor Jenni Grey said her shires wild dog advisory group supported the honeycomb or cluster approach to fencing.

We feel this might encourage more landholders to get involved, she said.

Flinders mayor Greg Jones told the conference his shire had recently increased its levy to rural producers thanks to an increasing wild dog problem, and urged councillors to support the motion.

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Near the shore of Lake Ontario lies a mystery. Twenty massive limestone sculptures vanished from public view without a city noticing.

The sculptures, which weigh as much as six tonnes, havent moved in decades but now a fence enclosing a three-acre patio at the exclusive Muzik nightclub, which has hosted the likes of Justin Bieber and Mayor Rob Ford, blocks them from view.

Its outrageous. My dad would be turning over in his grave, said Kathy Sutton, daughter of the late Toronto artist, E.B. Cox, who created the sculptures. Initially, 17 sculptures were trapped, but after the nightclubs patio expanded last year all became fenced in.

But just how the fence went up around them is not clear. City staff in charge of public art say they were never consulted. There are no applications for a patio at Muzik on file with Municipal Licensing and Standards, which would have triggered a public process.

Now family and friends of the artist have taken notice. E.B. Cox envisioned his pieces, known as the Garden of the Greek Gods, to be a source of joy for children, not clubgoers and celebrities, they say.

He loved the fact that kids could climb on his art because its pretty much indestructible. Hed never like the idea of someone using it for an ashtray, Sutton said.

Its scandalous that a nightclub can just put its arms around these public works of art.

What the family wants is simple, said her sister Sally Fogel: The gods in a proper garden, not a beer garden.

Coxs work can be found across the GTA, including outside Victoria College, the Park Hyatt Hotel, McMaster University and a school in Milton.

Before his death in 2003, Cox hung around with author Farley Mowat and members of the Group of Seven, even carving the epitaphs for their granite tombstones. His own memorial service was held at the foot of Hercules. It now stands three metres tall amid patio tables.

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The Walking Dead Season 1 Episode 12 Cleaning The Fences
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