Ashburton is Boroondara’s most down-to-earth corner: a village-style shopping strip on High Street, two stops at the quiet end of the Alamein line, and streets of interwar and post-war homes running down to Gardiners Creek. Houses sit around $2 million, well below Glen Iris and Camberwell, and prices actually rose over the past year. The […]
Caulfield North is where Melbourne’s Jewish community, Boom-era mansions and three tram routes meet around a former swamp that is now Glen Eira’s biggest park. It is leafy and close to the city, with multiple synagogues, a sought-after state primary zone and a Hawthorn Road shopping strip known for its bakery. The trade-offs: houses cost […]
Caulfield East is less a suburb than a crossroads. Fewer than 1,300 people live here, squeezed between the Caulfield Cup’s racecourse, Monash University’s second-biggest campus and a busy train interchange where the Metro Tunnel meets the City Loop, with a strip of noodle bars and cafes on Derby Road feeding the students in between. It […]
Everything you need to get from Melbourne to Warrnambool in 2026: driving times and hazards, the V/Line train (and its current overcrowding issues), whale season at Logans Beach, EV charging, tolls, and a straight answer on which mode actually suits your trip.
Preston Victoria has spent 150 years turning food into its identity, first as market gardens and dairy farms feeding early Melbourne, then as a bacon-curing and tannery town built on migrant labour, then as the home of Preston Market, and now as a High Street and Plenty Road strip that runs from Vietnamese pho to […]
For one week in August, Melbourne Zoo’s award-winning Keeper Kids team runs free Nature Play and Storytime sessions, backed by research showing real gains for little ones.
Point Cook went from 1,737 people in 2001 to 66,781 by the 2021 Census, one of the fastest suburban transformations in the country, yet somewhat oddly, it still doesn’t have a train station. This is one of Australia’s largest suburbs by population, genuinely bigger than Geelong, and every resident who wants to catch a train […]
Matt and Leni Purbrick have opened a neighbourhood wine bar, grocery and community space in a Northcote winery, pouring organic Minimum Wines with simple snacks and free venue hire for locals.
Greensborough doesn’t behave like a suburb still finding its shape. It’s spent more than forty years as the working commercial heart of Melbourne’s north-east (Greensy, the mall in the middle of it, has been the regional shopping fix for the area since 1978), and it isn’t chasing a rezoning to become relevant. What’s happening to […]
Williamstown Town Hall’s grand 1927 ballroom opens for one day on 26 July with free tours and live orchestra performances ahead of its centenary next year.