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Beautiful Story | 65th Wedding Anniversary
Beautiful Story | 65th Wedding Anniversary
3905 Frankston-Flinders Rd Shoreham
My name is Kathy Sutterby. I work as an Activities Co-ordinator with a dynamic, loving and caring Diversional Therapy Team at Shoreham House, Mornington Peninsula. We have been caring for a...

Bikes Ban On Trains - Truly Folded!
Bikes Ban On Trains - Truly Folded!
Melbourne
It was a controversial decision that began with a bang and had many cyclists whimpering, but with a recent announcement lifting a ban that prohibited cyclists from taking their bikes on to trains,...

Biomedical discovery by Melbourne Team!
Biomedical discovery by Melbourne Team!
Melbourne
September 2002 - A team of Australian scientists has won the race to determine the three dimensional structure of an important protein molecule in humans. The protein - the epidermal growth factor...

Can you identify these 6 Melbourne locations? 1974
Can you identify these 6 Melbourne locations? 1974
Melbourne
Can you identify these 6 Melbourne locations filmed in 1974? *Footage from Crawford Productions: Division 4. 1) Milk Bar 2) Servo 3) Footbridge 4) Silos 5) Railway Station 6) Corner...

City Traffic in Variable Moods
City Traffic in Variable Moods
Melbourne
Want to see how Melbourne drivers became the road hogs that they are today? This is a whimsical item from a newsreel segment that shows the road and pedestrian traffic around the Flinders and...

Drive through Melbourne 1985
Drive through Melbourne 1985
Melbourne
An in-car video I shot in 1985 from my Fiat 125 as we drove north along Kinsgway through King Street Melbourne and onto the Tulla freeway. ...

Fitzroy Street Boulevard: Name Change
Fitzroy Street Boulevard: Name Change
Fitzroy Street St Kilda
Locals including Alex Theatre are calling for one of Melbourne's best known streets to be renamed. Current: Fitzroy Street Proposed: Fitzroy Street Boulevard The original plans of Melbourne,...

Free Hugs
Free Hugs
Cnr Swanston Street and Bourke Street Melbourne
Welcome to the home of Free Hugs Australia... We are organising a large group hug Melbourne, Australia (we need 16,000+ to beat the world record). The Short Story Free Hugs are offered to...

Happy from St Kilda
Happy from St Kilda
St Kilda
Pharrell Williams Happy from St Kilda Melbourne - Australia The people of St Kilda in Melbourne join the Happy craze and dance through their village and beaches. Check out the locals...

Herald Sun Turns 30
Herald Sun Turns 30
Melbourne
Parochial and purposeful, we're for you, Victoria THE Herald Sun has always been unashamedly parochial - the first edition of the newlyminted paper in 1990 celebrated the end of the...

HeraldSun's 30 Biggest Scandals
HeraldSun's 30 Biggest Scandals
Melbourne
Part of it's fabulous Herald Sun Turns 30 series, the HeraldSun's 30 Biggest Scandals is a fabulous insight into the city of Melbourne. Sex, drugs and polictics dominates 30 years of headlines and...

Home of Sport - MELBOURNE
Home of Sport - MELBOURNE
Melbourne
Congratulations to GEELONG and MELBOURNE STORM for winning their respective grand finals over the weekend. GEELONG annihilated Port Adelaide in a powerful display of Australian Rules Football,...

Johnny Di Francesco | #1 Pizza World Champion
Johnny Di Francesco | #1 Pizza World Champion
99 Lygon St Brunswick
Johnny Di Francesco, owner of 400 Gradi in Brunswick, has taken out the #1 spot at the 2014 Campionato Mondiale della Pizza (Pizza World Championship,) in Parma, Italy. Fresh on the back of his #3...

Life in a Melbourne Market
Life in a Melbourne Market
Melbourne
Sibling rivalry is a big party of Fay Konstantinidi's life. The rivalry is not over the usual things such as favouritism or pocket money, but over cheese, olives and cured meats. Members of her...

Lorne Foam Day | May 2012
Lorne Foam Day | May 2012
Lorne
The amazing Lorne Foam Day footage was taken on Tuesday 5th May, 2012 by Alexander Cleland. The combination of strong and persistent south easterly winds, a raw swell agitating the water, and a...

Luna Park Videos
Luna Park Videos
St Kilda
Video scenes from Luna Park in St Kilda outside of Melbourne... Luna Park has been the iconic face of fun in Melbourne for over 100 years! Previously this page featured videos of Port Phillip...

Marvellous Melbourne | Queen City of the South
Marvellous Melbourne | Queen City of the South
Melbourne
An early documentary film about Melbourne, then the interim capital city of Australia. Made in 1910, it shows early 1900's that includes Richmond Station, St Kilda Road, Collins St, Treasury,...

Melbourne - the next global knowledge capital
Melbourne - the next global knowledge capital
Melbourne
Thursday, 23 August 2007 - Melbourne will be positioned as 'the Boston of the southern hemisphere' under a landmark collaboration between the city's eight metropolitan universities and the City of...

Melbourne - Worlds Most Liveable City Volume II
Melbourne - Worlds Most Liveable City Volume II
Melbourne
Here is a collection of timelapses that I have been collecting over the past three years!! Hope you enjoy it & please feel free to share it around! Daniel Johnson Photography Published...

Melbourne Airport Rail Link
Melbourne Airport Rail Link
Melbourne
Daniel Andrews announced today that the long-awaited Airport Rail Link would be built and operational by December 2015. Part of the Melbourne Metro Rail Project, the new link will transform...

Melbourne City | E-Double-D
Melbourne City | E-Double-D
Melbourne
A pre-release music video the track called "Melbourne City"which pays home-age to the City of Melbourne Nightlife, and how it is to party with E-Double-D. A very comical witty style which...

Melbourne Dribblers Set Australian Record
Melbourne Dribblers Set Australian Record
Melbourne
7 April 2009 | DRIBBLERS SET AUSTRALIAN RECORD The basketball community was out in force in Melbourne's Federation Square today as 1,623 people came out to break the Australian record for people...

Melbourne Star | Observation Wheel Reopens 2011
Melbourne Star | Observation Wheel Reopens 2011
Docklands Drive Docklands
1st April 2011 | The Docklands Wheel re-opened today, ahead of schedule and boasting a revolutionary new design and name. But following unforeseen technical problems, the new wheel has been...

Melbourne Underground Rail Loop
Melbourne Underground Rail Loop
Melbourne
Produced by the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority, this documentary promotes the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop as a way of meeting Melbourne's growing public transport needs. It...

Melbourne: A Guide to Living
Melbourne: A Guide to Living
Melbourne
Did you know that dinosaurs existed in Australia right up until 1905 when they finally hunted to extinction for their skeletons? Or that Melbourne was named after cultural icon Mel Gibson? One...

Message To My Girl | Split Enz
Message To My Girl | Split Enz
Melbourne
Why we love this video so much.. besides being a beautiful song it opens with a cleverly integrated skyline view of Melbourne in 1984. enjoy... Message To My Girl Message To My Girl...

Name Our New City Bridge
Name Our New City Bridge
Melbourne
The City of Melbourne has invited Melburnians to name the new cycle and pedestrian bridge over the Yarra River at the South Wharf precinct. The opportunity to enter was open to all members of the...

Networking Effectively
Networking Effectively
Melbourne
Effective business networking is the bringing together of individuals who, through trust and building relationships, become walking, talking advertisements for each other. However, there is a right...

Old Advertisements
Old Advertisements
Melbourne
Not really a Melbourne topic but you will find this collection of old newspaper and magazine adverts fascinating. It requires Microsft PowerPoint to view... Right click on the link below, and...

Peregrine Falcons | Melbourne CBD
Peregrine Falcons | Melbourne CBD
367 Collins Street Melbourne
A group of Peregrine Falcons considered to be the fastest bird in the world have been found nesting on a window ledge outside the Optus Centre in Melbourne's CBD. Three years after poison claimed...

Quibi: Quick bites. Big stories
Quibi: Quick bites. Big stories
Melbourne
Quick bites of captivating entertainment, created for mobile by the best talent, designed to fit perfectly into any moment of your day. Quibi has landed: The long-hyped, mobile-centric streaming...

Random Acts of Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness
6, 130 High St, Woodend
renovation fails animal shelter A Random Act of Kindness may spell a death sentence for a struggling animal welfare shelter that rescues and rehomes animals otherwise destined to die. Pets...

Seagull | Channel 9 News
Seagull | Channel 9 News
Melbourne
Ahhh too funny! A giant seagull stole the show during Melbourne's Channel Nine News on Wednesday 21st October 2009. The massively magnified seagull walked across a real-time projection of the...

Seen to be believed VIDEO
Seen to be believed VIDEO
Melbourne
We have watched it a hundred times and still cannot believe it.. PS: You will not believe it!...

Springvale Road Rail Separation
Springvale Road Rail Separation
Springvale Road Springvale
This is a YouTube video of the Springvale Road Rail Separation which will move the rail line under Springvale Road ending one of Melbourne's most congested road and rail crosssings. The video was...

St Kilda Jeep Cam
St Kilda Jeep Cam
330 Beaconsfield Pde St Kilda
This live camera is pointed at one of the most popular beaches in Victoria with lots of kite boarding and windsurf action. Sponsored by JEEP! View St Kilda Jeep Cam The Zu Boardsports Ivan...

Surf Coast Sports Hub
Surf Coast Sports Hub
Modewarre Recreation Reserve Modewarre
October 2020: World's elite targeted for training at Surf Coast hub A $350M sports hub aimed at the world's biggest stars will be built in regional Victoria in a boost to the state economy....

Talking UP Melbourne
Talking UP Melbourne
Melbourne
We always love hearing Melburnians talking up Melbourne, so it was a delight to read Thornton McCamish look at a city going gangbusters. Whether Melbourne has been revived, or refurbished, or...

Talking UP Melbourne 2
Talking UP Melbourne 2
Melbourne
Melbourne has the largest and most vibrant arts and cultural life in Australia. Annuals arts celebrations include Moomba, the Melbourne Arts Festival, the Melbourne Fringe Festival, the Melbourne...

The Children's Dance Festival 2005
The Children's Dance Festival 2005
Birrarung Marr Park Melbourne
Lieto Dance presents The Children's Dance Festival. Birrarung Marr, Melbourne. Click here to view Children's Dance Festival 2005 gallery....

The Ultimate Drunk Fails Compilation
The Ultimate Drunk Fails Compilation
Melbourne
We dare anyone to not laugh at the sad plight of these drunken bozo's.. Interestingly, the second last video (3:12) of the man trying to walk down a stairway was shot in the Melbourne Underground...

Tourism Victoria: Play Melbourne
Tourism Victoria: Play Melbourne
Melbourne
2011 - Tourism Victoria launches $14m 'Play Melbourne' campaign to lure younger visitors Melbourne was becoming predictable as a tourist destination; you new exactly what to expect: food, fashion...

Traditional Place Names
Traditional Place Names
Address Melbourne
We recognise that Australia always was and always will be Aboriginal land, and we want to learn more about Indigenous culture, history and language. 2021 AustPost In 2021, Australia Post...

un-CONVENT-tional
un-CONVENT-tional
St Hillier Street Abbotsford
On Sunday 27th August, 2006 the 10th Children's Dance Festival was peformed at the Abbotsford Convent with dancers from Carlton North Primary School, Elwood Performing Arts, Lieto Studios, Mangala...

Victoria's Worst Job
Victoria's Worst Job
Melbourne
THINK your job is the worst in Victoria? Think again. No matter how much stress you are under or how little you are paid, chances are you don't have to wade through faeces, handle internal...

Victorian Heritage Register: Quirky Items
Victorian Heritage Register: Quirky Items
Victoria
The Victorian Heritage Register and the Victorian Heritage Inventory is full of interesting and quirky items as highlighted by Najma Sambul in an excellent article in TheAge. The Register is a...

Visit Melbourne: A Twist at Every Turn
Visit Melbourne: A Twist at Every Turn
Melbourne
The $12 million Victorian Government 2017 ad campaign 'A Twist at Every Turn' is designed to attract interstate and New Zealand visitors to Melbourne. Melbourne is a city with a twist at every...

Visit Melbourne: It's Easy To Lose Yourself In Melbourne
Visit Melbourne: It's Easy To Lose Yourself In Melbourne
Melbourne
Victoria Tourism ad - "It's Easy To Lose Yourself In Melbourne" Melbourne tourism ad with winding red ball of wool. ...

Visit Melbourne: Wander Victoria
Visit Melbourne: Wander Victoria
Melbourne
Visit Victoria launches $4.5 million campaign to encourage regional tourism A quirky ad campaign in which two friends "walk back"home after a lunch at a winery is the centrepiece of a $4.5 million...

War on the Streets
War on the Streets
War on the Streets by Ray Peace Melbourne
WHAT'S in a street name? Residents in many suburbs may wonder about the curious names of some of their streets and how they came to be. An area south of Riversdale Rd along Elgar Rd, opposite...

Winners of the Savour Australia 2007
Winners of the Savour Australia 2007
Melbourne
2007 Winners of the Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering Australia Awards for Excellence include Melbourne's Vue de monde and Koko. VICTORIA Restaurant of the Year, Fine Dining Vue de...

Working Dog Productions
Working Dog Productions
Melbourne
Working Dog is a film and television production company based in Melbourne whose productions include The Castle, The Dish and The Cheap Seats.. The team behind Working Dog Productions includes...

Yarraville: World's Coolest Suburb
Yarraville: World's Coolest Suburb
Yarraville
In 2020, Yarraville was named one of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world. Yes, it's true. The quiet westside suburb of Yarraville has been named the fifth coolest neighbourhood in the world...



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