Melbourne
About Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia. The city's name generally refers to a 9,993-square-kilometre (3,858 sq mi) area, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local government areas. The name is also used to specifically refer to the local government area named City of Melbourne, whose area is centred on the Melbourne central business district and some immediate surrounds.
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In 1908, the Aussie Rules League in Australia had a team from Melbourne University join the league. You could only play for them if you'd matriculated or if you had a higher class degree — otherwise, you weren't allowed to play for the team.
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As we are, living evidence of, of course. So what about food waste? That's a big problem, isn't it? Yep, yeah. In Australia, you discard 3.1 million tons of food every year. that includes 5 million bananas, which if laid end to end would go from Sydney to Melbourne. Okay. Shame on you. Is that a better use for them, do you think? It would be quite funny, but anyone walking and slipping all the way.
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It was a thing called persuasive cartography, which is quite cool. You produce a map showing something that you desire or something that you don't want. Yeah. I read about, we were recently in Melbourne, and I read about a group of friends who almost had the equivalent of a map. It was the yellow pages of Melbourne, and it had every single pub listed in it, as you would. This was back in the early 90s.
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A blooming event at the Bogor not Bogna I assume Bogor Botanic Gardens in 2012 I've never heard of Bogar that's so cool I was nearly I nearly got to see one of those flowers blooming when we were on tour in Melbourne there was a thing there was a museum and it was about a two-hour drive out of Melbourne, I think, and it had one on display, one of these amazing corpse flowers that opens up once every 10 years or whatever it.
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Wilf was really into it, because he was like, wow, it's me in a suit when I'm older. This is amazing. There's the Sun Theatre. It opened up in Melbourne in 1938, and it was a single-screen theatre. It had 1,050 seats, and it was really massive. It was a big deal, and then over time, people stopped going as much, and they had to sell, and new owners turned it into smaller screens.
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