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The Australian city of Melbourne was named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, the then-serving British Prime Minister, whose seat was Melbourne Hall in the town of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England. Permanent European settlement of the area on the Yarra River had unofficially started some two years before it was recognised as a Crown settlement in March 1837. It was variously Read more...
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A person who is a long-time resident or native of Melbourne is called a Melburnian. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. Read more...
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation studios are located in the Southbank Centre at the corner of Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard in Melbourne’s Arts precinct. First opened in 1994, ABC brought all of its Melbourne-based TV and radio operations under one roof at the Southbank in 2017, having previously also had studios in Elsternwick and Ripponlea. The Southbank facility has multiple Read more...
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Australian actor Dieter Brummer was found dead on Saturday, 24 July 2021, at his family home in Glenhaven, a northwestern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, having committed suicide at the age of 45. Police attended after receiving a report of concerns for the welfare of a person, and discovered his body at the property. Brummer was most well-known for Read more...
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Sixteen men died during the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge between 1923 and 1932. Seven were employed on the bridge structure itself, of whom two died falling from the bridge, seven worked at associated workshops, and two died in accidents at the rock quarries in Moraya supplying granite for the bridge pylons. Many more workers were left with injuries Read more...
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Coffin Bay was named by British naval explorer Lieutenant Matthew Flinders after Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, the Resident Commissioner of Sheerness Naval Dockyards in England, where Flinder’s survey ship, HMS Investigator, was fitted out. The bay was identified in 1802 by Flinders and his crew on board the Investigator during the first ever circumnavigation of Australia by ship. Originally named Read more...
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Dirk Hartog Island, off Western Australia’s Gascoyne coast, can be reached by vehicle-carrying barge, boat or small plane. The privately-operated landing barge operates daily on-demand for transporting one four-wheel-drive vehicle and trailer at a time from Shelter Bay, Steep Point. Pre-booking the barge in advance is advisable as the island has a limit of 20 vehicles at any one time. Read more...
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The memorial plaque for the workers killed in the West Gate Bridge collapse is mounted on one of the bridge’s supporting pedestals at the accident site, where Hyde Street runs under the bridge in Spotwood, Melbourne. During construction on 15 October 1970, a 112-metre steel box-girder span gave way and fell into the mud and water of the Yarra River. Read more...
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The Camfield pub is located next to Optus Stadium in the Perth suburb of Burswood. Claiming to be Australia’s largest pub, The Camfield has five bars, 175 beer taps, an onsite microbrewery, and a large beer garden. Burswood railway station is the closest station on non-event days, and on game or event days, Perth Stadium station is open for both Read more...
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Australian Olympic snowboarder Alex Pullin died, aged 32, on 8th July 2020 while diving on an artificial reef at Palm Beach in Gold Coast, Queensland. He was pulled unresponsive from the sea and attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. The cause of death was drowning. Read more...