The night flight from Singapore to Melbourne is not for the faint hearted. You board at eight o clock and eventually get a slot to take off . The pilot's first announcement was that Melbourne was three hours in front of Singapore and would passengers like to alter their watches to Melbourne time.
Immediately it becomes eleven o clock, with an arrival time in Melbourne of six thirty, time is suddenly short.
A meal was served at one o clock after which,as any fairly intelligent person might do,one tried to sleep. Two women to our right decided to maintain a all night conversation making decent rest almost impossible. At three o clock you are offered a banana by a stewardess which as an act in  its own right seems to have no other purpose than to annoy. At five o clock all the lights are turned on and a sort of breakfast is served, in this case a cheese and mushroom "scroll" which was basically two pieces of puff pastry pushed together to make a figure of eight. It was not, in any way, a pleasant breakfast.
As son as breakfast was cleared we landed in Melbourne.
Luckily an advantage of arriving so early is that there are very few people about, so we were straight through immigration and customs and off to get our hire car. We stopped on the way for a very welcome cup of coffee.
Using the tour director's phone we navigated our way out of Melbourne and headed for Bright three and a half hours to the north. The journey was relatively uneventful although as we meandered through Australian countryside I found myself wondering what it must have been like for early settlers who had to clear  the land to achieve what is essentially a European landscape albeit with native trees. I also pondered on the bountiful land this must have been for the indigenous population who were cleared off the land in much the same way as the trees were.
We arrived in Bright at a little after twelve to a warm welcome,, and after lunchroom to our beds for some much needed sleep. Unknowingly we had both come to the same conclusion that if we do this again we will leave Singapore I the one or ignored have a hotel in Melbourne for the first night.
We didn't know it but it was my siter's thirty second wedding anniversary so I the evening she and her husband took us out for a Thai meal which was excellent, and very kind of them and almost as soon as we got home we retired to bed exhausted.