Melbourne, Australia Travel News Archives

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.

Melbourne Business School jumped nine places in world rankings to 17th in a list of top full-time MBAs / File.

Claims by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce that the latter is not going to be allowed to compete directly with the former are contradicted by the airline groupa s published timetable for this month.

Gerald Murnane is a writer's writer, disciplined yet experimental. He talks to Simon Caterson about his deeply autobiographical work AT 70, Gerald Murnane, one of Australia's most experimental writers of fiction, says he is looking forward to the hereafter: "I am not a religious person but I am absolutely convinced of the existence of the next ...

SAUCY senior citizens can receive a generous discount at Melbourne brothels next week.