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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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