Melbourne, Australia Travel News

AFL star Dane Swan has been penalised after failing to pay his chunk of a $100,000 settlement on time to a cleaner he brutally bashed at Melbourne's Federation Square in 2003.

TIGER Airways Australia has expanded its national network to include Brisbane, giving the Melbourne-based airline a foothold in the nation's five biggest cities.

Victorian Premier John Brumby says Melbourne has the edge when it comes to arts, sport and romance / File Melbourne voted most liveable city - poll Victorians 'envy of the rest of Australia' 'Sydney used to be ahead, but not anymore' VICTORIANS were the "envy" of other Australians and Melbourne was the most liveable capital city in Australia by a ...

Not only did it boom on the heels of an 1850s gold rush, it's set on a bay and has gems of Victorian and Edwardian architecture.

I'm standing at the corner of King and La Trobe streets in central Melbourne, facing the Flagstaff Gardens across the road.

Victoria's RACV motoring association has won a contract to roll out a European-style bike hire system in central Melbourne.

Our friends at TeleRead.org let us know about a new digitization manual from Cornell University Library.

Tiger Airways passengers were stranded in Hobart for three days after a flight attendant became ill / Supplied TIGER Airways has defended its handling of a flight cancellation that saw some passengers stranded in Hobart for three days.

A DECISION to ban all tour buses from Swanston Street has not taken the impact on tourism or the state's ''billion-dollar bus and coach industry'' into consideration, the head of Victoria's bus lobby group says.

From left: Robert Chippindall, David Jurss , Geoff Kennedy, Kaye Jurss, Karen Brown, Robert Gwyne, Jean Shore, Tony Carauana, Cheryl Chippindall, Bill Shore and David Brown.

Australia might be better known for its sunburnt croc hunters than its vibrant art scene, but it's not all shrimp on the barbie in the Land Down Under.

The man fell out of a carriage onto the tracks in a tunnel between Melbourne Central and Parliament Stations / File Man falls from Melbourne train Body found in tunnel Police say death an accident A MAN has died after falling from a train inside Melbourne's underground rail loop.

MELBOURNE band the Temper Trap leads the nominations for this year's EG Awards. The band, whose members met at Wesley College and Dundas clothing chain at Melbourne Central, is nominated for Best Album, Best Single, Best Band and Coopers' Best Homegrown New Artist.

'The train left with a heartbreaking clanging familiar from old Hollywood movies' Photo: GETTY "Minimum dress standard will be clean and tidy casual clothing with suitable footwear." I read the rail ticket with dismay.

Ride to Work cyclists soaked Melbourne's cyclists brave wet conditions as they descend on Federation Square for Ride to Work Day.

After zipping around the countryside on my third day in Melbourne, Australia, Day Four was to be a decidedly urban affair--a self-guided tour of some of the city's architectural marvels with stops ranging from the ultra-modern to some of Victoria's foundational buildings.

VICTORIAN Premier John Brumby received cheers and applause last night when he told the state's Indian community the Government was taking steps to make its streets safer and more harmonious.

A VIBRANT festival full of fireworks, lights, food and cultural activities will celebrate the Indian New Year in Horsham on October 31.

The flight was epic, and though a good book and a couple films were surely necessary, from the standpoint of design the best thing going on the Qantas flight was by the Marc Newsomdesigned dishes.

October 5, 2009: The Honda Foundation and Robert Lane Honda in Melbourne, have delivered the residents of Bayley House's Lubrano Street accommodation with a new set of wheels - a Honda Odyssey.