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 […]
Melbourne’s public transport runs on a small plastic card called Myki, and in recent times, it has quietly become a lot more tourist-friendly. Under-18s now travel free, Apple Pay finally works on some train lines, and the Free Tram Zone has stretched out to the MCG. But the rules still trip up visitors daily, and […]
Melbourne’s west has always done its own thing. While the inner east earned its reputation on coffee and gallery openings, the west was busy building the city’s actual industrial backbone, absorbing wave after wave of migration, and quietly developing a character that no amount of gentrification can smooth away. The result is a stretch of […]
The north starts as a postcode and ends as a personality. From the inner-ring energy of Northcote and Brunswick, where every second building hosts a record store or a wine bar, through the mudbrick-and-bushland calm of Eltham, the multicultural sprawl of Coburg and Broadmeadows, and out to the half-built greenfield estates of Mernda and Wollert, […]
Four local government areas, roughly 160 square kilometres, and some of Melbourne’s most coveted postcodes. The Inner South East stretches from South Yarra’s boutique strips and Hawthorn’s elm canopy across Boroondara’s private-school belt, through Glen Eira’s culturally layered residential grid, and out to Bayside’s Port Phillip foreshore where painted bathing boxes have become shorthand for […]
Melbourne’s Eastern Region stretches from the leafy inner-suburban fringe of Whitehorse and Manningham all the way out to where the city stops pretending to be a city and becomes something else entirely: wine country, mountain villages, steam-train territory, and one of Australia’s great wildlife sanctuaries. Six local government areas make up the region: the City […]