Melbourne is an Australian city known for its culture and society. This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ...

The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne's largest war memorial built from money raised by public contributions.

The National Gallery of Victoria

The Princess Theatre

It has thrice shared top position in a survey by The Economist of the World's Most Livable Cities on the basis of its cultural attributes, climate, cost of living, and social conditions such as crime rates and health care, in 2002,^[1] 2004 and 2005.^{[2] [3]} The city celebrates a wide variety of annual cultural events, including Moomba (a celebration of the Yarra River's recreational use), the Melbourne Fringe Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Gay and Lesbian Midsumma festival. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1046, 445 KB) Melbourne War Memorial Source: Own Photo File links The following pages link to this file: Melbourne ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1046, 445 KB) Melbourne War Memorial Source: Own Photo File links The following pages link to this file: Melbourne ... The Shrine of Remembrance, located in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, is one of the largest war memorials in Australia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 121 KB) Summary Author: Vincent Pac Soo, Website: www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 121 KB) Summary Author: Vincent Pac Soo, Website: www. ... National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3456x2304, 4292 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): William Pitt (architect) Spring Street, Melbourne User:Matnkat Australian architectural styles Princess Theatre, Melbourne Metadata This... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3456x2304, 4292 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): William Pitt (architect) Spring Street, Melbourne User:Matnkat Australian architectural styles Princess Theatre, Melbourne Metadata This... Princess Theatre The Princess Theatre is a theatre in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd and edited in London, UK. It has been in continuous publication since September 1843. ... The Worlds Most Livable Cities is an informal name given to any list of cities as they rank on a reputable annual survey of living conditions. ... A cost-of-living index measures differences in the price of goods and services over time. ... This graph shows the rate of non-fatal firearm-related crime in the United States from 1993 to 2003. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... For the fictional creature Moomba from the final fantasy series, see http://en. ... The Melbourne Fringe Festival is an annual alternative arts festival held in Melbourne, Australia. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Midsumma is an annual lesbian and gay festival held during January and February in Melbourne, Australia. ...

Federation Square, with its distinctive architecture, large digital screen and public space, has become one of the city's main hubs, attracting congregations, rallies and public viewing of sports events. It is also home to the city's tourist centre. A traditional meeting spot in Melbourne is "under the clocks" at Flinders Street Station. ^{[citation needed]} Many of the city's parades, marches and rallies are conducted in the main thoroughfares of Swanston Street and Bourke Street. Federation Square (or Fed Sq) is a cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Australia. ... Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia. ... Swanston Street, looking north from the corner of Bourke Street Swanston Street is a major thoroughfare in the centre of Melbourne, Australia. ... Bourke Street Mall The newly redeveloped Bourke Street Mall East Bourke Street Mall during redevelopment Bourke Street is a major street in the central business district(CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Arts and entertainment

Melbourne has a vibrant arts and cultural scene, hosting the annual Melbourne International Arts Festival as a celebration of its artistic tradition. The Arts is a broad subdivision of culture, comprised of many expressive disciplines. ... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ... The Melbourne International Arts Festival (MIAF) is held each October in a number of venues across Melbourne, Australia. ...

Performing Arts

Melbourne is strong in the performing arts. It is home to the Australian Ballet. The National Theatre in St Kilda is the oldest ballet school in Australia. Ballet regularly features at the Victorian Arts Centre and the National Theatre. Melbourne is the second home of Opera Australia after it merged with 'Victoria State Opera' in 1996. The Victorian Opera had its inaugural season in 2006 and operates out of various venues in Melbourne. The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artists own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some... The Australian Ballet was founded in 1962. ... St Kilda is a inner city suburb of the Victorian capital of Melbourne, Australia. ... For other uses, see Ballet (disambiguation). ... The Victorian Arts Centre spire The Victorian Arts Centre is a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Southgate precinct of Melbourne, Australia. ... Opera Australia is Australias major opera company, formed by the merger of the Australian Opera and the Victorian State Opera companies in 1996. ... In November 2005, it was announced that the State of Victoria would support the establishment of a Victorian Opera Company under the musical direction of Richard Gill. ...

The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic was formed in 1853, making it Australia's oldest continuously existing musical organisation and the only orchestra in Australia to be bestowed 'royal' status. The Victoria Orchestra, based in Melbourne was Australia's first professional orchestra and performed during 1888–91. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, first assembled in 1906, is now the city's premier orchestra and tours internationally. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was founded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1934 as one of its radio orchestras. ...

Melbourne has more theatres than any other city in Australia. Live venues include David Marriner's Princess Theatre, Regent Theatre, Forum Theatre, and the Comedy Theatre; the Athenaeum, Her Majesty's Theatre, Palais Theatre and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. Several professional theatre companies operate in Melbourne, of which the Melbourne Theatre Company, the oldest professional theatre company in Australia, has the most institutional support of any in Australia. There is also a range of smaller professional theatre companies in Melbourne, including the Malthouse, La Mama in Carlton, the Red Stitch Actors Theatre and Theatreworks in St Kilda and an array of amateur companies that produce a professional standard of musical and straight theatre, such as, The Malvern Theatre Company, CLOC, Catchment Players of Darebin, Altona City Theatre, Windmill Theatre Company and Dandenong Theatre Company. Princess Theatre The Princess Theatre is a theatre in Melbourne, Australia. ... Recent Theatre The Regent Theatre is a theatre in Melbourne, Australia. ... Forum Theatre The Forum Theatre (formerly known as the State Theatre) is a theatre located on the corner of Flinders Street and Russell Street in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... The Athenaeum or Melbourne Athenaeum is the oldest public institution in Victoria, Australia, founded in 1839. ... Her Majestys Theatre is a theatre in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Palais Theatre is a a former picture theatre now functioning as a live performance venue located in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. ... The Australian Centre For Contemporary Art (ACCA) is a contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Melbourne Theatre Company, which is the oldest professional theatre in Australia, known popularly as MTC, is based in the Ferrars Street complex in Southbank, Victoria, which serves as its administrative, costuming and rehearsal base. ... La Mama Theatre, Carlton The La Mama Theatre is a theatrical venue located at 205 Faraday St, Carlton, Victoria. ... Altona City Theatre, or ACT, is a small community based production company residing at the Altona Civic Theatre in Altona, Victoria, Australia. ... Windmill Theatre Company Inc is an Australian non-professional theatre company based in the outer-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne in the state of Victoria. ...

Melbourne has a large number of buskers (also known as street performers) that perform in the CBD and surroundings. A variety of musical styles and entertainment acts give the CBD a colourful atmosphere. Melbourne’s musical buskers cater to a wide variety of tastes, from rock to world music and indigenous Australian traditions. However, not all buskers are musicians. There are also living statues, street artists and jugglers. Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... Indigenous Australian music includes the music of Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, who are collectively called Indigenous Australians; it incorporates a wide variety of distinctive traditional music styles practised by Indigenous Australian peoples, as well as a range of contemporary musical styles both derivative of and fusion with European... A living statue at EPCOT. The term living statue is often used to refer to a type of mime artist who poses like a statue or mannequin, usually with realistic statue-like makeup, sometimes for hours at a time. ... Juggling is a form of skillful, often artful, object manipulation. ...

Melbourne is known throughout Australia and the world as a centre of comedy. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival is one of the three largest stand-up comedy festivals in the world.^[4] The city is also home to many of Australia's top rating comedy television shows and several of the country's leading comedians either come from the city or call it home. ^{[citation needed]} The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer speaks directly to the audience, with the absence of the theatrical fourth wall. ...

Music industry

Melbourne's lively rock and pop music scene has fostered many internationally renowned artists and musicians. The 1960s gave rise to many performers including Olivia Newton-John, John Farnham, Graeme Bell, and folk group The Seekers. The 1970s and 1980s saw many acts getting their first big breaks on Melbourne's Countdown, including Nick Cave the Little River Band and Crowded House who later wrote a song about the city of Melbourne called Four Seasons In One Day. Successful Melbourne artists include Hunters & Collectors, Nick Cave, Flea (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers), Weddings Parties Anything, TISM, Dead Can Dance, Snog, Jet and Something for Kate. Melbourne is also the home of rock "guru" Ian "Molly" Meldrum. Olivia Newton-John AO OBE (born 26 September 1948) is a Grammy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated English-born Australian pop singer, songwriter and actress. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Graeme Bell MBE (born September 7, 1914) is an Australian jazz pianist and composer. ... This article is about the Australian music group. ... Countdown was a long-running popular weekly Australian music television show broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from late 1974 until July 19 1987. ... Nicholas Edward Cave (born September 22, 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. ... Crowded House is a rock group formed in Melbourne, Australia, and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. ... Four Seasons In One Day is a 1992 single released by rock group Crowded House. ... Hunters & Collectors, often referred to as the Hunnas by their fans, were an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1980. ... Nicholas Edward Cave (born September 22, 1957) is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. ... Michael Peter Balzary, better known by his nickname/stage name Flea (born on October 16, 1962, in Burwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia), is the bassist for the alternative rock/funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as a frequent session musician and occasional actor. ... Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. ... Weddings Parties Anything is an Australian rock/folk band formed by Mick Thomas in 1985 and continuing until 1998. ... TISM (an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) is a seven piece anonymous alternative rock band from Melbourne, Australia. ... Dead Can Dance is a band comprising Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. ... Snog is a band formed by Australian musician David Thrussell, along with Tim McGrath and Julia Bourke, in 1988. ... For other uses, see Jet. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... From video The Ultimate Kylie 2004 Ian Alexander Molly Meldrum OAM (born January 29, 1946 in Orbost, Victoria) is a popular Australian popular music critic, journalist, record producer, and musical entrepreneur, best known as talent co-ordinator, on-air interviewer and music news presenter on the seminal popular music program...

More recent notable Melbourne acts include Jet, Rogue Traders, Taxiride, The Cat Empire, Missy Higgins, Madison Avenue, Anthony Callea and The Living End. Melbourne television shows Young Talent Time and Neighbours gave many singers a launching pad to international success. Local talents to come from these shows include Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Tina Arena, Jamie Redfern and Jason Donovan. For other uses, see Jet. ... Rogue Traders are an Australian electro pop band consisting of James Ash (keyboards), Danny Spencer (guitars), Cameron McGlinchey (drums) and Natalie Bassingthwaighte (lead vocals). ... Taxiride is a rock band from Australia. ... The Cat Empire is a six-piece band, based in Melbourne, Australia. ... Missy Higgins (born Melissa Morrison Higgins on August 19, 1983[1]) is an award-winning Australian singer-songwriter, best known for her hit singles Scar and The Special Two off her debut album The Sound of White. ... Madison Avenue is an Australian dance music and pop duo. ... Anthony Cosmo Callea (born December 13, 1982 in Melbourne to Italian parents) is an ARIA Award winning Australian singer and was the runner-up in the 2004 season of Australian Idol. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Young Talent Time was an Australian television variety program screened on Network Ten. ... This article is about an Australian soap opera. ... Kylie Ann Minogue (IPA: [1]) (born May 28, 1968) is a Grammy Award-winning Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ... Not to be confused with Dan Minogue. ... Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on November 1, 1967, in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Australia) is an ARIA award winning singer/songwriter. ... Jamie Redfern was an early member of Young Talent Time, who later had success as a pop singer. ... Jason Sean Donovan (born June 1, 1968, Malvern, Melbourne) is an Australian actor and singer. ...

Melbourne also has a successful independent music industry. A variety of factors — including a relative abundance of venues and independent labels, a thriving street press and strong support from community radio (such as PBS and 3RRR) — have made the city an attractive base for both homegrown artists and those from around the country. ^{[neutrality disputed] [citation needed]} Melbourne's independent music industry was the subject matter of the 2006 documentary film, Sticky Carpet. This decade has seen a large amount of indie artists from Melbourne gain international attention including Augie March, Architecture in Helsinki, Grinderman, Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males, British India (band), Midnight Juggernauts and Cut Copy.^{[citation needed]} In popular music, indie music (from independent) is any of a number of genres, scenes, subcultures and stylistic and cultural attributes, characterised by perceived independence from commercial pop music and mainstream culture and an autonomous, do-it-yourself (DIY) approach. ... Street press is a term used to describe a certain type of publishing, between zines and magazines/newspapers in terms of distribution. ... Sticky Carpet : Melbournes Underground Rockumentary is a 2006 documentary film by Mark Butcher, Glenn Waterworth and Pip Stafford. ... Augie March is the name of an Australian rock band. ... For architectural structures in Helsinki, Finland, see Helsinki#Architecture. ... Grinderman is a garage rock band formed by Nick Cave (vocals, electric guitar, organ, piano), Warren Ellis (electric bouzouki, Fendocastor, violin, viola, acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Martyn P. Casey (bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals) and Jim Sclavunos (drums, percussion, backing vocals); all members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. ... Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males are an Australian band from Melbourne, Victoria. ... British India is an alternative rock band based in Melbourne, Australia. ... Midnight Juggernauts are an indie-electro-synth group from Melbourne, Australia. ... Cut Copy are a band from Melbourne, Australia. ...

Visual arts

Melbourne is strongly associated ^{[neutrality disputed]} with the establishment of Australia's visual arts. ^{[citation needed]} The city was the birthplace of the Heidelberg School, an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. The school, being largely the work of Melbourne-based artists, was perhaps the first distinctly Australian school of Western art. ^[clarify] Many of its most significant works are held in the National Gallery of Victoria, one of Australia's premier collections of visual art. The strong art community culminated in significant artist colonies such as Heidelberg and Montsalvat. Melbourne is home to a large array of public artworks, statues and sculptures. Sculptors such as Deborah Halpern and Bruce Armstrong have played a large part in enhancing many of the city's public spaces with their iconic and larger-than-life works. In more modern times, the city has become well known for stencil graffiti,^[5] public art that thrives in the city's numerous laneways. The Heidelberg School was an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. ... The Art of Australia refers to both Australian Aboriginal art and Post Colonial art. ... National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. ... Montsalvat is an artists colony in Eltham, Victoria, also used for conferences, seminars and receptions. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Deborah Halpern is a mosaic artist from Melbourne, Victoria Australia. ... Stencil graffiti makes use of a paper, cardboard, or other media to create an image or text that is easily reproduceable. ... The term public art properly refers to works of art in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. ...

The city is home to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, an organisation dedicated to the moving image in all its forms, from film to animation to video games and television. The city has major film festivals including the Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne Underground Film Festival and Melbourne International Animation Festival, featuring several of the city's major cinemas. The Central City Studios in Melbourne Docklands, constructed in 2005, has seen the production of several big budget films. This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ... “Computer and video games” redirects here. ... A film festival is the presentation or showcasing of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues. ... The Melbourne International Film Festival, or MIFF, has been running since 1951. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Melbourne Underground Film Festival or MUFF was formed out of disagreements over the content and running of the Melbourne International Film Festival. ... The Melbourne International Animation Festival or MIAF is an annual animation festival held in Melbourne. ...

Melbourne is also known for fashion. The city, once a leader in the textile industry, retains a small manufacturing base, but has diversified into the more creative areas of the fashion industry. ^{[citation needed]} The Melbourne Fashion Festival is an annual event held in the city. The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, Logies and Brownlow Medal dinner are among the biggest annual red carpet events in the country. For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Textile manufacturing. ... The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is a period during spring in Melbourne where major thoroughbred horse races take place. ... The Gold Logie Award The Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. ... The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal, is the medal awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League during the regular season (ie not including finals matches) as decided upon by umpires. ... The red carpet at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival; to the left is Rachael Harris A red carpet is a strip of carpet in the colour red, which is laid out to welcome VIPs such as dignitaries and celebrities at formal events. ...

Melbourne has some of the best street art in the world (see Melbourne street art). With many international visitors coming to see and participate in the street art culture. Many suburbs of Melbourne now protect large areas of what was previously thought of as vandalism. Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, in the streets — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. ... Owl on a wall in Melbourne. ...

Melbourne has a wide variety of architectural design. Australia's oldest architectural firm, and one of the world's oldest, Bates Smart, is from Melbourne. The city is home to Australia's only building on the World Heritage Register, the Royal Exhibition Building. ^{[citation needed]} Melbourne has also been home to some of Australia's most prolific architects including Joseph Reed, William Wardell, John James Clark, Charles D'Ebro, Charles Webb, William Pitt, Nahum Barnet, Harry Tompkins Harry Norris, Sir Roy Grounds, Robin Boyd and Frederick Romberg. In recent years, Melbourne has produced some of Australia's best current architectural firms, including international firms Denton Corker Marshall, Fender Katsalidis, Daryl Jackson and Peddle Thorp as well as local award winning trendsetters Edmund & Corrigan, Ashton Raggatt McDougall and Wood Marsh.^[6] This article is about building architecture. ... Bates Smart is Australias oldest architectural firm, and one of the worlds oldest, established in 1853 by Joseph Reed as the practice Reed and Barnes. ... Joseph Reed (1823?-1890), a Cornishman by birth, was probably the most influential Victorian era architect in Melbourne, Australia. ... William Wilkinson Wardell 1824 - 1899 ASN Co Building , The Rocks, Sydney. ... John James Clark, also known as J. J. Clark (1838–1915), was an Australian architect, notable for his grand public buildings and successful design competition entries. ... Charles Abraham DEbro was a London-born architect who designed many important buildings in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. ... Charles Webb (born 26 November 1821, Sudbury, Suffolk England - 23 January 1898 was an architect working in Victoria, Australia during the 19th Century. ... William Pitt (1855-1918) was an architect working in Melbourne, Australia in the later part of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. ... Nahum Barnet (1855-1931) was an architect working in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. ... Harry Norris (1888-1966) was an Australian architect working in Melbourne during the mid 1920s and 1930s. ... Sir Roy Burman Grounds (18 December 1905 - 7 March 1981), was one of Australias leading architects of the modern movement. ... Robin Boyd (1917 - 1971) was an influential Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator, the foremost Australian proponent for the International Modern Movement in architecture. ... Denton Corker Marshall (DCM) are a major Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne in 1972. ... Fender Katsalidis (FKA) is an architecture firm in Melbourne, Australia. ... Peddle Thorp is an architecture firm based in Melbourne that has designed many of Australias landmark buildings. ... Ashton Raggatt McDougall or ARM is a firm of architects based in Melbourne, internationally renowned for their design work. ...

Media

Main article: Melbourne media

Melbourne has two major daily newspapers, Rupert Murdoch's Herald Sun and the Fairfax owned The Age , as well as the free afternoon tabloid mX which is published by Murdoch. A national newspaper, The Australian has a Victorian issue and is also published by Murdoch. Several weekly magazines are published by Mudochs' News Corp. As News Corp holds over 50 million shares in Fairfax^[7], there is no daily newspaper in Melbourne free of Rupurt Murdoch's media empire. There are three commercial television networks: Seven, Nine and Ten; and three public: the ABC, SBS and a community channel, C31. Melbourne media is unusual in its size and diversity. ... The Herald Sun is a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that is published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... mX (metro eXpress) is a Melbourne and Sydney-based free newspaper, published on weekday afternoons. ... The Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Screenshot of a promo, displaying the Channel 7 logo Seven Melbourne is a television station in Melbourne, Australia. ... GTV-9 is the Melbourne, Australia station in the Nine television network and was one of the first two commercial TV stations in Melbourne. ... ATV-10 is a television station in Melbourne. ... British Independent Television (ITV) (commercial television) contractor on Saturdays and Sundays in the Midlands and North of England between 1956 and 1968. ... The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is one of two government funded Australian public broadcasting radio and television networks, the other being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). ... The phrase community television has been used somewhat differently around the world. ... Channel 31 Melbourne is a non-profit community television station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

Melbourne's commercial radio industry is dominated by the DMG Radio Australia, Austereo and Southern Cross Broadcasting networks – all Melbourne-based. DMG Radio Australia stations include Nova 100 and Vega fm, Austereo stations include FOX FM and Triple M. 3AW is consistently the city's highest-rating commercial radio station. Melbourne also boasts a number of community radio stations, of which the best known are SYN FM, 3RRR, 3PBS and Joy Melbourne, the first Australian full-time gay and lesbian radio station. Public broadcasters include 774 ABC Melbourne. The radio industry is a generic term for any companies or public service providers who are involved with the broadcast of radio stations or ancilliary services. ... DMG Radio Australia operates commercial radio networks in metropolitan and regional areas of Australia. ... Austereo is a national commercial radio network in Australia. ... Southern Cross Broadcasting is a diversified Australian media company. ... DMG Radio Australia operates commercial radio networks in metropolitan and regional areas of Australia. ... Nova 100 (often known locally as just Nova) is a commercial radio station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, broadcasting on 100. ... Vega FM is a network of Australian commercial radio stations operated by DMG Radio Australia. ... Fox FM is a radio station broadcasting to Oxfordshire, United Kingdom on the frequencies 102. ... Triple M is a network of radio stations owned by the Austereo Radio Network. ... 3AW is a radio station in Melbourne, Australia on 693KHz AM. It began transmission in February 1932 as Melbournes fifth commercial radio station. ... Commercial broadcasting - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Community radio is a type of radio service that caters to the interests of a certain area, broadcasting material that is popular to a local audience but is overlooked by more powerful broadcast groups. ... For the Wikipedia editing policy, see Wikipedia:Three-revert rule. ... 3PBS 106. ... JOY Melbourne began its first test transmission on December 1, 1993 (World AIDS Day) in Melbourne on 90. ... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... The radio station 3LO began transmission in October 1924 as Melbournes second radio station, behind 3AR. The callsign LO was taken from Londons second radio station, 2LO, which stood for London Orchestra. ...

Sport

See also: Sport in Victoria

A view of the MCG's Great Southern Stand during the 1998 Boxing Day cricket Test match

The "Big Men Fly". Australian rules Football at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

In a country that is often labelled 'sports mad', Melbourne has a reputation among Australians for being the countries second sporting capital behind 2000 Olympics host Sydney.^[8] The 2006 Australian Open at Melbourne Park Cricket at the MCG Australian rules football has a long history in Victoria, shown in this nineteenth century junior football team from Geelong Phar Lap winning the 1930 Melbourne Cup Sport in Victoria is of high cultural importance. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1795x1024, 1668 KB) Summary Photo by Paddy Briggs. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1795x1024, 1668 KB) Summary Photo by Paddy Briggs. ... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ... A Test match between South Africa and England in January 2005. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (400x759, 299 KB)[edit] Summary Jeff White of the Melbourne Demons attempts a mark while the Sydney Swans Darren Jolly tries to spoil. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (400x759, 299 KB)[edit] Summary Jeff White of the Melbourne Demons attempts a mark while the Sydney Swans Darren Jolly tries to spoil. ... “MCG” redirects here. ... (Redirected from 2000 Olympics) Categories: 2000 Summer Olympics ...

The city hosts many major sporting events including the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival (featuring the 'race that stops the nation', the Melbourne Cup), the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, the Australian round of the MotoGP, the Australian Open Tennis Championship and the AFL Grand Final. Melbourne hosted the first Olympic Games in the southern hemisphere in 1956, as well as the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Melbourne also played host to the 12th FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2007. In 2008 the city will host its first Asia Pacific Outgames which are set to take place between January 30 and February 3. The Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is a period during spring in Melbourne where major thoroughbred horse races take place. ... The Melbourne Cup is Australias major annual thoroughbred horse race. ... Promotional poster for the first Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide in 1985. ... Grand Prix motorcycle racing refers to the premier categories of motorcycle road racing. ... The Australian Open is held each January at Melbourne Park. ... Part of the pre-match entertainment at the 2006 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ... The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ... The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations. ... The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Australia between March 15 and March 26, 2006. ... FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are held every two years. ... is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Melbourne is where Australian rules football originated — the most popular sport in Australia by attendance and viewership.^[9] The city is home to nine of the sixteen teams that constitute the Australian Football League (AFL), whose five Melbourne games per week attract an average 35,000 people per game. The AFL Grand Final, one of the biggest sporting events in Australia, is played on the last Saturday of September at the world famous Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG),^[10] The city also is home to nine out of the thirteen teams of the professional state wide Victorian Football League. High marking is a key skill and spectacular attribute of Australian rules football Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Australian rules football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of... This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ... Part of the pre-match entertainment at the 2006 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. ... “MCG” redirects here. ... For other uses, see VFL (disambiguation). ...

The city is also represented by professional teams in Rugby Union (the Melbourne Rebels playing in the Australian Rugby Championship), Rugby League (the Melbourne Storm playing in the national rugby league competition), Soccer (the Melbourne Victory playing in the A-League, the national soccer competition and two for Netball (the Melbourne Phoenix and the Melbourne Kestrels who play in Commonwealth Bank Trophy). For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ... Union website www. ... The Australian Rugby Championship (ARC) is a domestic rugby union football club competition in Australia. ... Wally Lewis passing the ball in Rugby League State of Origin. ... The Melbourne Storm are a professional rugby league football club based in the city of Melbourne, Australia. ... The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Melbourne Victory FC is a football (soccer) club based in Melbourne, Australia. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A Netball game in Australia Netball is a sport similar to and derived from basketball, and was originally known in its country of origin, the United States, as womens basketball. Invented by Clara Gregory Baer[1], a pioneer in womens sport, it is now the pre-eminent women... The Melbourne Phoenix are an Australian netball team. ... The Melbourne Kestrels are an Australian netball team. ... The Commonwealth Bank Trophy is the elite national competitition in Australian netball. ...

Including the MCG, Melbourne is home to over 29 stadiums with a capacity of over 10,000 people. Some venues, such as the Albert Park Formula One track and the Calder Raceway, have large capacities but only temporary structures, while there are numerous suburban horse racing tracks and Australian Rules ovals. In 2000 construction was completed on the Docklands Stadium, capable of seating up to 56,000 people. The stadium was the first in the world to host cricket and football matches under a roof. Telstra has since bought the naming rights to the stadium, now called Telstra Dome. “F1” redirects here. ... Telstra Corporation (ASX: TLS, NZX: TLS, NYSE: TLS) (formed from Telecom Australia) is an Australian telecommunications and media company under private ownership, with a dominant position in landline telephone services, a large share of mobile phone services, domestic consumer (including dial-up access and Broadband internet broadband cable modem, satellite... This page is for Telstra Dome, Melbourne. ...

The city also has large State Cycling, Hockey, Baseball/Softball and Netball centres, and an Ice centre (National Ice Sports Centre, hosting the Australian Olympic Winter Institute) is being constructed in Melbourne Docklands.^[11] The Melbourne Docklands is a new inner city suburb and Urban renewal project in Melbourne, Australia. ...

The city has hosted several major international sporting events. Annually, Melbourne hosts the Australian Open tennis tournament, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments and the AAMI Classic; the famous Melbourne Cup horse race; the 'Boxing Day' cricket test match held each year from 26 December to 30 December at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; and the Australian Formula One Grand Prix. The Wallabies, Australia's national rugby union team, and the Socceroos usually play at least one game annually in Melbourne. Since 1999, the city has been the biennial host of the International Rules series involving the Australian national team and the Irish national team. The city hosted the 2002 and 2005 Australian Football International Cup. The Australian Open is held each January at Melbourne Park. ... In tennis, a singles player or doubles team that wins all four Grand Slam titles in the same year is said to have achieved the Grand Slam or a Calendar Year Grand Slam. ... The AAMI Kooyong Classic is an international mens tennis tournament held in Kooyong, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. ... The Melbourne Cup is Australias major annual thoroughbred horse race. ... Monmouth Racetrack in New Jersey in May 2005. ... A Test match between South Africa and England in January 2005. ... is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... “MCG” redirects here. ... Promotional poster for the first Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide in 1985. ... The Wallabies are the Australian national rugby union team. ... For other uses, see Rugby (disambiguation). ... First International New Zealand 3 - 1 Australia (Dunedin, New Zealand; June 17, 1922) Largest win Australia 31 - 0 American Samoa (Coffs Harbour, Australia; April 11, 2001) Worst defeat Australia 0 - 8 South Africa (Adelaide, Australia; September 17, 1955) World Cup Appearances 2 (First in 1974) Best result Round 1, 1974... International rules is a rhetoric sentence used by the governments of United States and Great Britain when pointing at countries that they regard as rogue states because of their political inclinations or because they do not voluntarily align to Washington or Londons international policies. ... The Australia international rules football team is Australias senior representative team in international rules football, a hybrid of Australian rules football and Gaelic football. ... The Ireland international rules football team is the representative team for Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland) in international rules football, a compromise between Gaelic football and Australian rules football. ... 2005 International Cup logo The Australian Football International Cup is an international Australian rules football competition hosted by the Australian Football League. ...

Since the 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, the city has hosted numerous sporting events which rotate host cities. Melbourne co-hosted the 2003 Rugby World Cup, including many pool matches as well as a quarter final – all of which were played at the Telstra Dome; hosted the 2002 World Masters Games; broke new ground as the first city outside the United States to host the World Police and Fire Games in 1995, and the Presidents Cup golf tournament in 1999; and was the first city in the Southern Hemisphere to host the World Polo Championship in 2001. The city has hosted FIFA World Cup qualifiers in both 1997 and 2001. Most recently, the 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne. Seventy-one Commonwealth nations competed in the Games. The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations. ... The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth rugby union world cup. ... The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport tournament for athletes of ages beyond young adulthood. ... The World Police and Fire Games (WPFG) are an annual athletic event open to active and retired law enforcement and fire service personnel throughout the world. ... See also: 1994 in sports, other events of 1995, 1996 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Sterling Marlin won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Jeff Gordon CART racing - season championship won by Jacques Villeneuve Indianapolis 500 - Jacques Villeneuve. ... Presidents Cup official logo Presidents Cup redirects here. ... This article is about the sport. ... See also: 1998 in sports, other events of 1999, 2000 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Athletics Hicham El Guerrouj sets the new World Record in the mile at the World Championships in Rome. ... southern hemisphere highlighted in yellow (Antarctica not depicted). ... The World Polo Championship is held every three years by the Federation of International Polo (FIP). ... See also: 2000 in sports, other events of 2001, 2002 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Michael Waltrip won the Daytona 500, a race that also saw the death of seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt in an unspectacular crash during the... For the club competition, see FIFA Club World Cup. ... The 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Australia between March 15 and March 26, 2006. ...

In July 2006, the Rugby League State of Origin, often considered the flagship event of Australian rugby league, was played at the Telstra Dome. The Rugby League State of Origin has been held several times before in Melbourne (most recently in 1997), and has attracted over 87,000 spectators at the MCG, even though Victoria is not actually one of the states involved. In 2006, the Kangaroos, Australia's national rugby league team, played a Tri-nations test at the Telstra Dome, the first rugby league test in the city for 14 years. In December 2006, the 100th cricket test was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as part of The Ashes series attracting a sell-out crowd with as many as 40,000 English. ^{[citation needed]} Players are selected to play for the state in which they played their first senior football, hence the name state of origin. Prior to 1980 players were selected for interstate matches on the basis of where they were playing their club football at the time. ... Wally Lewis passing the ball in Rugby League State of Origin. ... “MCG” redirects here. ... “VIC” redirects here. ... Australia team jersey The Australian national rugby league side represents Australia at rugby league. ... The Rugby League Tri-Nations (also known as the Gillette Tri-Nations for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby league tournament involving the top three nations in the sport: Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. ... “MCG” redirects here. ... The Ashes is a Test cricket series, played between England and Australia - it is international crickets most celebrated rivalry and dates back to 1882. ... This article is about the English as an ethnic group and nation. ...

The Victorian government recently won the right to host the Bledisloe Cup rugby union Test in 2007 and 2011 at the MCG. The Australian Football International Cup returns in 2008 to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football, as well as a much anticipated return to the AFL State of Origin series.^[12] The Bledisloe Cup Rugby Unions Bledisloe Cup is contested between Australias Wallabies and New Zealands All Blacks. ... High marking is a key skill and spectacular attribute of Australian rules football Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Australian rules football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of...

In 2006, a report by London-based research and consulting firm ArkSports named Melbourne as the best city in the world in which to hold a sporting event, lending some weight to the city's claim of being the 'Sporting Capital of the World'. Out of twenty of the world's top sports cities, Melbourne ranked top for public interest in events, facilities, and number of major events hosted, and was first overall.^[13] This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

The tennis arena of Rod Laver was converted in to the Susie O'Neill pool for the 2007 Swimming World Championships.

Recreation and leisure

Apart from the culture of attending sports events, Melburnians participate in a wide range of recreational and leisure activities.

Australian rules football, cricket and netball are the most popular participation team sports in Melbourne^{[citation needed]}. Womens Australian rules football is a team sport. ...

Cycling in Melbourne is a popular pastime, as one can tell from the bevy of cyclists and paths that lie all throughout the city, as well as a spectator sport. Melbourne's flat terrain and extensive off-road paths in green wedges are conducive to riding. Beach Road combines with the Nepean Highway to form a 90-kilometre stretch from Port Melbourne to Sorrento, incorporating the Bayside Trail. It is the city’s most popular training route and attracts cyclists from around the world. Thousands of commuters cycle the roads, bike lanes and bike paths daily. Bicycle Victoria's annual events, Around the Bay in a Day and Ride to Work Day, attract tens of thousands of Melburnians. Other events such as the Herald Sun Tour begin and end in the Melbourne area and there are many local cycling events of varying grades all year round. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. ... Cycleway, Bicycle street and Pedestrian/Cyclist bridge in Nuremberg, Germany Segregated cycle facilities may consist of separate roads, tracks, paths or lanes designated for use by cyclists and from which motorised traffic is generally excluded. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Green belt. ... Port Melbourne is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Sorrento is a township of Victoria, Australia, almost at the far tip of the Mornington Peninsula about 1 and a half hours south of the Capital, Melbourne. ... // The Bayside Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians which follows the coastline of Port Phillip Bay through the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Commuters on the New York City Subway during rush hour Rush hour at Shinjuku Station, Yamanote Line Traffic jam Commuting is the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work. ... This article or section should include material from Cycle path debate Segregated cycle facilities may consist of a separate road, track, path or lane that is designated for use by cyclists and from which motorised traffic is generally excluded. ... , Bicycle Victoria is a self-funded community organisation focussed on cycling, with offices located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Finish area of the 2006 event, in Melbourne Docklands. ... Ride to Work Day is an major annual event in Victoria, Australia run by Bicycle Victoria. ... The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). ...

Triathlon dominates the Beach Road area during summer, when hundreds of amateurs and professionals dive into Port Phillip Bay on Sundays. The three components of triathlon: Swimming, Cycling, Running A triathlon is an athletic event consisting of swimming, cycling and running over various distances. ...

Watersports are a big recreational activity in Melbourne. Rowing on the Yarra River is also popular with universities and schools, and there are many boat-sheds along the river. the Yarra is home to the Head of the River, first raced in 1868 and Australia's oldest. The Oarsome Foursome are also from Melbourne. On Port Phillip Bay, boating is popular, as is jetskiing, kitesurfing and windsurfing on St Kilda Beach. A water sport is a form of recreation where water (other than drinking water) is an essential aspect of the activity. ... A coxless pair which is a sweep-oar boat. ... The Head of the River is a name given to six annual Australian rowing regattas held in New South Wales, Victoria , Queensland , Tasmania , Western Australia and South Australia each year. ... The crew on the cover of Oarsome Foursome Fitness DVD The Oarsome Foursome are an Australian rowing crew who competed between 1990 and 1998 - winning two Olympic gold medals in the coxless fours. ... // Boating, the leisurely activity of traveling by boat typically refers to the recreational use of boats whether power boats, sail boats, or yachts (large vessels), focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or waterskiing. ... Pump-jet PWCs such as this Yamaha Waverunner are extremely popular for their speed and maneuverability. ... Power kites at Coche, Venezuela Kitesurfing in the Columbia River Gorge Kitesurfers use power kites tethered to harnesses to glide through water and air Kitesurfing, also known as kiteboarding, involves using a power kite to pull a rider through the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard (a wakeboard... A windsurfer with modern gear tilts the rig and carves the board to perform a planing gybe (downwind turn) close to shore in Maui, Hawaii, one of the popular destinations for windsurfing. ... St Kilda () is a inner city suburb of the Victorian capital of Melbourne. ...

Port Phillip's many beaches are home to a wide range of recreational activities

Looking north over Port Phillip Bay toward Albert Park and the Melbourne skyline from St Kilda Pier

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Parks and gardens

Main article: Melbourne parks and gardens

Melbourne is noted for its parks and gardens, with a ring of parks providing a green lung for the city centre. Perhaps the most notable is the Royal Botanic Gardens. Other notable gardens have been established on outskirts of Melbourne. In particular the Dandenong Ranges has the National Rhododendron Gardens, and several other public gardens. Residential gardening is a popular pastime in Melbourne, and Australia's Open Garden Scheme started in the city. One of many delightful vistas in Melbournes Royal Botanic Gardens. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... One of many delightful vistas in Melbournes Royal Botanic Gardens. ... The Dandenong Ranges are a set of mountain ranges, east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Subgenera Azaleastrum Candidastrum Hymenanthes Mumeazalea Pentanthera (Azaleas) Rhododendron Therorhodion Tsutsusi (Azaleas) Vireya Source: RBG, Edinburgh Rhododendron (from the Greek: rhodos, rose, and dendron, tree) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. ... A residential garden is the most common form of garden and is found adjacent to, around or near to a residence. ... Australias Open Garden Scheme is a non-profit organisation that began in Victoria Australia in 1987. ...

Entertainment

The Royal Arcade, just one of the arcades, lanes and malls that make Melbourne a shopping magnet for both locals and tourists.

Melbourne's restaurants are numerous and present a diverse range of cuisines. The city has a reputation as a culinary capital,^[14] celebrated by the annual Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. As well as the famous "Little Italy" of Lygon Street in Carlton, other favourite inner city dining locations for Melburnians include Fitzroy Street St Kilda, Brunswick Street Fitzroy, Victoria St Collingwood, the CBD, and the Docklands and Southbank precincts. Melbourne has many outstanding restaurants, some of which have been globally recognised for their excellence. In 2006, Jamie Oliver selected Melbourne as the location for "Fifteen Melbourne", the Australian restaurant for his reality television show Jamie’s Kitchen Australia. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... Shortcut: WP:CSD Current list: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion There are a few, limited, cases where admins can delete Wikipedia pages on sight. Non-admins can ask for an admin to delete such a page, either by listing it on speedy deletions, or by adding either a {{delete}} or... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixel Image in higher resolution (1536 × 1024 pixel, file size: 686 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Melbourne Metadata This... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixel Image in higher resolution (1536 × 1024 pixel, file size: 686 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Melbourne Metadata This... For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ... Lygon Street, of the suburb of Carlton, Melbourne, Australia, is the Italian food precinct of the city. ... Carlton is an inner city suburb to the north-east of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... St Kilda is a inner city suburb of the Victorian capital of Melbourne, Australia. ... Fitzroy is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Collingwood is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Central Business District of Sydney, Australia. ... The Melbourne Docklands is a new inner city suburb and Urban renewal project in Melbourne, Australia. ... Southbank, across the Yarra from Melbourne City Southbank is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia in the state of Victoria. ... James Trevor Oliver MBE (May 27, 1975), better known as Jamie Oliver and nicknamed The Naked Chef, is an English celebrity chef. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. ... Fifteen Melbourne Logo Jamies Kitchen Australia is an Australian television show which premiered Thursday, 14 September 2006 on Network Ten. ...

Dance music is a thriving part of the Melbourne scene; the city is considered the nation’s dance music capital. ^{[neutrality disputed] [15] [unreliable source?]} Dance parties take place most of the year, the city frequently attracting some of the world's best DJs. Some of the biggest nightclubs in the world are found in Melbourne, including the Melbourne Metro Nightclub (2500 capacity) and QBH (2100 capacity). Melbourne is the birthplace of the Melbourne Shuffle, a style of dance that has been exported to South East Asia and continues to evolve to date. For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... Laser lights illuminate the dance floor at a Gatecrasher dance music event in Sheffield, England A nightclub (or night club or club) is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...

Shopping

Shopping or "retail therapy" has been a big part of Melbourne's way of life since the late 19th century, when "doing the Block" was a sign of prestige.^{[citation needed]} Today, the city is home to some of Australia's best shopping strips, such as the famous Chapel Street which stretches many blocks through South Yarra and Prahran, while heritage arcades such as the Block and the Royal Arcade and the CBD's myriad lanes. The large Chadstone Shopping Centre markets itself as the "Fashion Capital". Strip shopping localities include Toorak Village, known for its exclusiveness, and Bridge Road in Richmond, known for its extensive factory outlets. Also there are major shopping centres throughout metropolitan Melbourne such as Westfield Airport West, Westfield Southland, Westfield Doncaster, and Knox City Shopping Centre. Retail therapy is shopping with the primary purpose of improving the buyers mood or disposition. ... Chapel Street, looking south toward toward the Commercial Road intersection Chapel Street is one of Melbourne, Australias best shopping, dining and entertainment precincts. ... South Yarra is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Prahran (pronounced puh-RAN), also known colloquially as Pran, is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... View of Block Arcade looking south toward Collins Street. ... View of Royal Arcade looking south toward Little Collins Street. ... Chadstone Shopping Centre (also known as Chaddy to local residents) is a shopping centre located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. ... Toorak Village is a strip of shops and cafes, located in the suburb of Toorak in Melbourne. ... Bridge Road near the junction with Lennox St, looking east Bridge Road is a major shopping strip in Melbourne, Australia. ... Richmond is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Westfield Airport West is a shopping centre in the suburb of Airport West in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Westfield Southland is a major shopping centre, owned by the Westfield Group and located in Cheltenham, a suburb of Melbourne. ... Westfield Doncaster is a shopping centre 50% owned by the Westfield Group and 50% owned by LaSalle Investment Management (as of August 2007) located in Doncaster, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Knox City Shopping Centre in Wantirna South, Victoria, Australia is one of the largest shopping malls in the southern hemisphere, and was first built in the 1970s. ...

Melbourne is also home to the Queen Victoria Market. This market contains both indoor and outdoor sections. A relief on the external façade of the Queen Victoria Market building. ...

Influence on culture and media

Old Victorian architecture meets new architecture in Melbourne

See also: List of songs about Melbourne and List of movies filmed in Melbourne

Melbourne has been the setting for many novels, television dramas, and films. Fergus Hume's international best-seller Mystery of a Hansom Cab was set in Gold Rush era Melbourne. Frank Hardy's Power Without Glory tells the story of Melbourne businessman John West (based on the real-life John Wren) and is set in a thinly-disguised Collingwood, then a working-class suburb of Melbourne. Perhaps the best-known novel internationally is Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach. In 1959, it was made into a film directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Anthony Perkins. The film depicted the denizens of Melbourne quietly slipping off into eternity as the last victims of a global nuclear holocaust. Filmed on location in and around Melbourne, it is perhaps ^{[weasel words]} best remembered for a comment Ava Gardner never made, describing Melbourne as "the perfect place to make a film about the end of the world". The purported quote was invented by journalist Neil Jillett. Similar filming was undertaken when a 2000 television movie remake was produced. Image File history File linksMetadata Old_meets_new_architecture_in_melbourne. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Old_meets_new_architecture_in_melbourne. ... One of the unique characteristics of the Music of Australia and most particularly the rock, pop and indie rock music of Australia has been a fascination with the local environment be it urban or rural. ... A list of movies filmed in Melbourne, Australia. ... This article is about the literary concept. ... Ferguson Wright Hume (1859-1932) was born in England. ... [1]Frank Hardy (1917–1994) was a left-wing novelist and writer from Australia. ... Power Without Glory is a 1950 novel written by Australian writer and Communist Frank Hardy. ... John Wren, outside the Law Courts in 1951. ... Collingwood is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Nevil Shute (London, January 17, 1899 – Melbourne, January 12, 1960) (full name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. ... On the Beach is a post-apocalyptic end-of-the-world novel written by British author Nevil Shute after he had emigrated to Australia. ... Stanley Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was a Jewish-American film director and producer. ... Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. ... Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – February 17, 2001) was an Academy Award-nominated American screen actress who worked on film and television. ... Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an Academy Award-nominated American stage and screen actor best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho and its three sequels, Psycho II, Psycho III and Psycho IV: The Beginning. ... “Telefilm” redirects here. ...

The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was filmed in Melbourne in 1906.^[16] Some of the more famous Australian films include Mad Max and The Castle. Melbourne has also produced many talented film and television actors including Cate Blanchett, Guy Pearce, Eric Bana and is home to Geoffrey Rush. A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... The Story of the Kelly Gang (also screened as Ned Kelly and His Gang) is widely regarded as the worlds first feature length film. ... For other uses, see Mad Max (disambiguation). ... The Castle is a 1997 Australian film that gained widespread acclaim in Australia, but that was not well understood by those unfamiliar with Australian humour and values. ... Catherine Élise Blanchett (born on May 14, 1969) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. ... Guy Pearce in Memento (2000). ... Eric Bana (born Eric Banadinovich on August 9, 1968) is an Australian film and television actor. ... Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning Australian actor. ...

Australian audiences saw Melbourne portrayed in the 1960s–70s Crawford Productions police television drama series Homicide and Division 4. Perhaps ^{[weasel words]} better known to a contemporary audience is the soap opera Neighbours, which presents a microcosm of suburban Australian life. Other contemporary television shows set in Melbourne include Stingers (an undercover police drama staring Peter Phelps), The Secret Life of Us, Kath and Kim, Prisoner (known as Prisoner: Cell Block H for US and UK broadcasts), Halifax FP, and MDA. Crawford Productions is an Australian television production company founded by Hector Crawford. ... Title screen of Homicide Homicide was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network between 1964 and 1977. ... Division 4 is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... This article is about an Australian soap opera. ... Stingers (1998 - 2004) was an Australian TV police drama series. ... Peter Phelps (born September 20, 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian actor. ... The Secret Life of Us was a 2001 - 2005 television drama series set in the beachside suburb of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. ... Jane Turner and Gina Riley as Kath & Kim Kath and Kim is a satirical Australian television series shown on the ABC network. ... Halifax f. ... MDA is an Australian television show which aired on the ABC from 2002 to 2003, and will return in 2005 as three four-hour miniseries. ...

Singer Paul Kelly has written several well-known songs about aspects of the city close to the heart of many Melburnians, notably "Leaps And Bounds" and "From St Kilda To King's Cross", while Skyhooks also wrote some more tongue-in-cheek songs about Melbourne. "Balwyn Calling", "Carlton (Lygon Street Limbo)" and "Toorak Cowboy" are examples. Melbourne-originated indie-rock band The Living End wrote the song "West End Riot" about differences between eastern and western suburbs in Melbourne's inner city. Melbourne has produced many popular international vocalists and singers, including 1900s soprano Dame Nellie Melba, who took her name from her native city, who in turn had a suburb in Australia's capital city Canberra named after it (see Melba, Australian Capital Territory). Paul Maurice Kelly (born 13 January 1955 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter and is recognized as an icon of Australian rock music as a member of the ARIA Hall of Fame. ... Skyhooks was an Australian rock band of the 1970s, sometimes classified as a glam rock band, although this is mainly the result of the bands flamboyant costumes and makeup. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Dame Nelly Melba in role of Rosina from the Barber of Seville Dame Nellie Melba (May 19, 1861 - February 23, 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian opera soprano, the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form. ... For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ... Melba (postcode: 2615) is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. ...

Melbourne-born satirist Barry Humphries created his main character Dame Edna Everage as a comic version of a suburban homemaker. Through her, Humphries has written and performed cutting odes to Melbourne mores and the middle class suburbs of Moonee Ponds and Highett, among others. John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934 in Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australias foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. ... Dame Edna Everage featuring on a billboard at the Myer department store in Melbourne. ... Two homemakers. ... Mores are strongly held norms or customs. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... Moonee Ponds is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Highett is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

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See also

• Culture of Australia
• Melbourne
• Melbourne media
• List of songs about Melbourne
• List of movies filmed in Melbourne
• Melbourne parks and gardens
• Sport in Victoria
• Melbourne street art

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References

• That's Me!bourne - Melbourne tourism website