Despite rising prices and a cost-of-living crisis,some Melbourne cafes and restaurants are defying inflation by keeping prices as low as $5 per meal,and in turn increasing their customer base.
Aged 16,I moved into a flat in Barkly Street,St Kilda. Thirty years later I returned to buy an art deco apartment in the same street.
The Victorian Pride Centre – or the ‘Gaudi of the south’ – is gearing up to host screenings for the Melbourne Queer Film Festival for the first time.
“Mick Jagger once came out here to this canyon with Marianne Faithfull in the 1960s – Vali had no idea who he was and said,‘Oh,do you play guitar?’”
In these climate impacted times,I just don’t want to blithely join throngs of Australian tourists circumnavigating the globe pointlessly,getting drunk in generic bars or lounging on beaches all day while the planet burns.