Yesterday when I was eating lunch at the Central Square food court I noticed, for the third time, a security guard standing outside the Dymocks book shop that got closed down a couple of weeks ago.
Two middle-aged guys went over to peer through the galss doors. The security guard started moving towards them and they left.
The day it got closed there were people inside taking seemingly-random books off the shelves and putting them into plastic bags. The rest of the books are still there. So are the hand-written '30% Off Sale' signs that were placed in the shop windows shortly before the stores closure.
Note that if you look at the Dymocks website's list of suburban and regional stores in Victoria, there is no mention of a Ballarat store. It's as though it ¡never even existed!
But. Through a cunning search I managed to find this, and thus the e-mail address of the late Dymocks store. I have sent a message enquiring about this case.
Lobby your local member of Parliament to come out in the open about this issue.