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

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…