Tarneit’s population grew 63.10% in five years, from roughly 34,560 in 2016 to 56,370 at the 2021 Census, and every piece of infrastructure in the suburb is still catching up. A new train station is under construction two kilometres from an existing one. Road duplications sit half-finished next to duplications that haven’t been funded yet. […]
Bundoora is what happens when you build one of Victoria’s biggest universities on top of a suburb and never quite finish deciding whose suburb it is. It’s split across three councils, has zero train stations of its own, and its median age matches the state average only because a huge 20-something student cohort is cancelling […]
Moonee Valley City Council hosts its biggest-ever community planting at Boeing Reserve, Strathmore Heights, on Sunday 26 July for National Tree Day’s 30th anniversary.
Aunty Jeanie Mason’s Bakandji Fashion Collection is still on display at St Albans’ Bowery Gallery until 12 July 2026, after an earlier closing date was revised. Entry is free.
Melbourne’s original beach bohemia refuses to be one thing. St Kilda has been a gold rush playground, a glamour resort, a red-light district, a punk stronghold, an LGBTQIA+ heartland, and a gentrifying coastal precinct. Often all at once. That contradictory character is precisely what makes it work. The suburb carries layers that comparable destinations shed […]
Free screening of the documentary “Our Warrior: The Story of Robbie Thorpe” in Richmond on 3 June, preceded by community films from North Richmond estate residents and The Deadlys, followed by a talk with the activist.
The free service, started by Aunty Dot Peters AM in 2006, returns to the Shrine of Remembrance on May 31 to honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans.
Gunditjmara-Djabwurrung artist Hayley Millar Baker presents six series of photographic, video and film works in her first hometown exhibition at Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, until 14 June 2026.
Whitehorse City Council holds its free Sorry Day flag raising at Nangnak Gardens on 26 May, followed by a film screening at The Round the same day.
Here is the thing nobody tells you before you fly in: Melbourne has no airport train. Not yet, anyway. Unlike Sydney, Brisbane, London, Hong Kong or just about any capital you have landed in recently, the 23 kilometres between Tullamarine and the CBD must be covered by bus, taxi, rideshare or your own wheels. The […]