Melbourne
Melbourne is a city of over 5 million people on Australia’s southeast coast, and also my hometown. It was founded in 1835 shortly before a gold rush, rapidly grew to be the second-largest city in the British Empire during the “Marvellous Melbourne” era, and also served as Australia’s first capital before Canberra took over in 1927. The modern metro area sits on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong and (in the outer west) Wathaurong people of the Kulin nation. The city is also sometimes known as Naarm, after the Indigenous name for the area where Melbourne’s inner core now stands.
Wiki
- : 🚊 buses: For large swathes of outer-suburban Melbourne, buses are the only form of public transport available, and even in the …
- : 🚊 Robert Risson: As chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board between 1949–1970, Robert Risson played a critical role in …
- : 🚊 Suburban Rail Loop: The Suburban Rail Loop is a public transport project in Melbourne to build a new railway line running through the middle …
Posts
- : ⏰ Melbourne Time: Tonight we set our clocks back to return to standard time, and as such here’s a discovery I made through Twitter: …
- : 🏙 Melbourne's Property Development Crisis: Like many people, I think, I have an instinctive contempt for property developers. It’s not that I object to new …
- : 🚌 Micro post: The Victorian DoT is starting to review (external link) Melbourne’s bus network, which I hope will result in …
- : 🧺 Laundry in Winter: A couple of years ago, I think, I put out a tweet that went along the lines of, “So sick of hanging out the same …
- : 🗒 Micro post: Just a few minutes ago we had a minor earthquake! Gidget was freaking out, while the neighbour’s dog was just …
- : 🚊 Photo post: This past week I had some work that took me to the southern part of the Frankston line, a section of which has just been …
Links
- : 🚊 Link: “Building Melbourne's Useful Network Part 101: Suburban connection points - the secret to useful & versatile trains?” by Peter Parker
- : 🔍 Link: “Melbourne suburb names etymology”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “It could be last drinks at famous John Curtin Hotel as owners put iconic pub up for sale”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “Melbourne’s Fitzroy hides a past as a hub for the Aboriginal civil rights movement”
Jessica Smith is a left-wing feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also very interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.