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Yes, Melbourne has a group of blue wearing men and women that are one part protecting us from ...
POPO
In Yarra Junction, Camp Eureka is a space built in the mid 1970s by Eureka Youth League, the ...
Camp Eureka
Rose is an Invisible. There's a secret door at the back of her shop.
Rose Chong Costumiers
the Upfield train line has a bike path almost all the way to ... Upfield. Not quite though ...
Bike Paths
Long strip. Good for locals.
Sydney Rd
A hang over from 1950, still does the cheapest breakfast in town - and it tastes like it. ...
Golden Shower
Melbourne is served by both the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and the Country Fire Authority (CFA). Melbourne's summer ...
Firies
Currently Melbourne's best Lebanese according to this person who has only ever eaten Lebanese in Melbourne. Honest mob. ...
Tibas
For the cheapest and best herb pizza with salad (still $3.50!), Tabet's is your eatery.
Tabets
Long time cheap and cheerful mainstay. Fast and furious - don't be put off by a long queue, ...
Laksa King
No one really knows what it's about, tbh. But people seem to have a good time, and that's ...
Moomba
Expect to queue to get in. Does amazing looking cakes and a Devonshire Tea. In the rather swanky ...
Hopetoun Cafe
On the Pakenham line, long disused. Barren wasteland. Perfect space to film a zombie apocalypse film, if that's ...
General Motors Train Station
Traditionally held in Federation Square, it features an array of food and produce stalls, cultural performances, live music, ...
Thai Culture and Food Festival
Industrial non suburb with a train station that looks like a Star Destroyer that has crashed into the ...
West Footscray
The most central of the Melbourne radical bookstores. Friendly, informed, staff, excellent sales when they are on, great ...
The New International Bookstore
We love the Trades Hall, the Bella Union Bar it hosts, the Radical Bookshop and the history. In ...
Trades Hall
A quick history of Chinatown from Asia Rising (audio, pdf)
Chinatown
An award winning artist, illustrator, and film-maker, Shaun is based in Melbourne. Shaun has a blog, where he ...
Shaun Tan
Not much of a mall. Has pretty paving, and is the location of the Public Purse. Home to ...
Bourke St Mall
Every week The Wheeler Centre hosts talks by smart, intelligent speakers across a range of topics. Over more ...
The Wheeler Centre
Knowledge Melbourne, is an initiative designed to enhance and promote Melbourne’s knowledge sector so that it is more ...
Melbourne Knowledge Week
Brunswick Music Festival, incorporating the Sydney Road Street Party. Golden Plains Music Festival Meredith Music Festival Melbourne Ukulele ...
Music Festivals
Held at the end of summer in the most glorious Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre. A three day, one stage ...
golden-plains-music-festival
HAHA was a Kiwi that came to Melbourne for the greater opportunities available to street artists. By virtue ...
HAHA
The Australian Football League is an 18 team ball sport that plays from April until September every year. ...
AFL
The Zinesters. They get together and trade their wares, their tips and their stories. Unseen Art think highly ...
The Festival of the Photocopier
The Mechanics Institute
Live Venues
Andy Griffiths Author of excellent books for children. Usually pretty gross ("The Day My Bum Went Psycho"), always ...
Personalities
Culture. This is it's apex. So far up in the artistic stratosphere that it has, indeed, disappeared up ...
The Arts Centre
Flies under the contemporary radar. Specialises in teaching young theatrical students radical ideas. Has probably done more for ...
Lynne Ellis
tilde is Melbourne’s international film festival created to showcase and support the work of trans and gender diverse ...
tilde: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival
The Metropolitan train system in Melbourne is not to a German or Japanese standard. Consistently deprived of infrastructural ...
Trains
A sport for people who remember landlines. A televisual broadcast for same and/or those that will settle in ...
Boxing Day Test (Cricket)
Notables Franco Cozzo - every Melbournian's favorite childhood multicultural television moment, Franco's sing song "Megalo!, megalo!, megalo!" stuck ...
Imagined
Because it happens outside the confines of the inner city, the Castlemaine State Festival is a somewhat mystical ...
Castlemaine State Festival
They used to do a pizza. There was a semi fine dining restaurant on site. I worked there ...
The Station Hotel (Prahran)
Melbourne's first and foremost tea towel shop.
Third Drawer Down
Australian comedian. Was in the Hifi Bar when it was stormed by the SWAT during a nazi gig. ...
Aamer Rahman
Tullamarine - Melbourne's main airport - is world class in so much as it is contains lowest common ...
Tullamarine Airport
Does excellent, well priced, dumplings and central Chinese cuisine. The seats in the Flemington restaurant and grandiose and ...
I love dumplings
Mental Health Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 ...
Health
A huge park on the edge of the Maribyrnong River that the local punks sometimes use for a ...
Footscray Park
Melbourne has a "second airport". Especially if you ask people from Geelong.
Avalon Airport
Users/raeline
Those on the north side have known and loved Piedamontes for many years. A good range, if priced ...
Stupor Markets
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Chinese Museum Heidi Museum of Modern Art Immigration Museum Melbourne Steam ...
Museums
Little Vietnam. Lot's of Asian grocers and restaurants. Plenty of smack too, if that's your thing,
Victoria St, Collingwood
Beautiful to look at, offensive in execution. Consistently busy, largely due to high floor staff turnover. Disturbing gender ...
Common Galaxia
Lot's of Lebanese and Middle Eastern culture - Melbourne's best falafel and hummus is at the Half Moon ...
Coburg
Dark, brooding musician. Works hard. Music is so-so.
Nick Cave
A scene of the annual Unseen Art bacchanalia. A sedately wild affair, with confetti to mark the death ...
La Trobe Reading Room
Enviropark, Farm, Market, Cafe. You can't do it too often, and the wet days are gnarly, but it's ...
Ceres
Right in the centre of Footscray, across from the train station, this market is predominantly known for meats, ...
Footscray Market
Australia's foremost curated discussion group, Cherchez la Femme is a monthly forum on Feminism. Inevitably sells out, get ...
Cherchez La Femme
Probably Australia's pre-eminent sound collage artist.
Buttress O'Kneel
The Tote has been a mainstay of Australian rock for over 20 years. Recently forced to close, until ...
The Tote
Andrew Bolt - Arch conservative commentator. Excels at distracting the masses, a master magician. On-sight. Malcolm Fraser - ...
Powerful
Simply divine Indian food, which is priced accordingly. An expensive night, but the food is worth it. Seriously ...
Aangan
A Melbourne version of the South East Asian food court, it's a breath of fresh air in the ...
Ong Food Court
Erinsborough is a leafy outer suburb of Melbourne. It is also entirely fictional. This is the setting for ...
Erinsborough
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