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5 Tips to Help Keep Your Kids Safe This Summer
5 Tips to Help Keep Your Kids Safe This Summer
Happening at Australia
After a long year of staying indoors, we can finally start to safely venture outside just in time for the warmer summer months. But this doesn't mean we can just throw caution to the wind when it...

Afterpay Day | Returning August 2025
Afterpay Day | Returning August 2025
Happening at Australia
Afterpay Day is a bi-annual shopping event, and the second one of 2025 is expected to take place in August, with the first one having already occurred in March 2025. Afterpay Day is FOUR days of...

Anthony Douglas: 2022 World Barista Champion
Anthony Douglas: 2022 World Barista Champion
Happening at Melbourne
Anthony Douglas of Axil Coffee Roasters was crowned World Barista Champion at 2022 Melbourne International Coffee Expo. Shih Yuan Hsu (Sherry) from Taiwan won the World Brewers Cup. Thank you...

Australia Dominates Most Liveable Cities 2024
Australia Dominates Most Liveable Cities 2024
Happening at Australia
Australia continues to dominate placings in the Economist's Global Liveability Index with 5 Australian cities in the top 20. The EIU's 2024 report released this week places Melbourne 4th in the...

Australia's Favourite Instagram Spot 2024
Australia's Favourite Instagram Spot 2024
Happening at Australia
MortgageBroker have analysed hashtags on Instagram and pins on Pinterest to see the spots that are snapped and posted all over social media, determining Australia's most beautiful and most...

Baby Pig On Wheels
Baby Pig On Wheels
Happening at Kilmore
Introducing Leon Trotsky, the once broken piglet now breaking hearts. He was a regular farm pig until an accident involving his mum killed two of his siblings and crushed Leon's little...

Coming To Melbourne: What's on NEXT Week
Coming To Melbourne: What's on NEXT Week
Happening at Melbourne
Check out what's coming to Melbourne and Victoria next week. Monday 21st July 2025 - Sunday 27th July 2025 Current Week Here (or scroll down for next week) Click on the event link to see...

Coward Punch Campaign
Coward Punch Campaign
Happening at Australia
Stop The Coward Punch We are on a mission to eliminate the coward punch from our society and save lives in the process. Spreading awareness about the devastating effects the coward punch has on...

Do Not Knock | Sticker
Do Not Knock | Sticker
Happening at Melbourne
The national Do Not Knock campaign aims to stop unwelcome dishonest and intimidating door-to-door salespeople. Being visited by salespeople at home can be an unnerving experience particularly for...

Heart Health Check | 45+ Free
Heart Health Check | 45+ Free
Happening at Melbourne
Australia has introduced a Medicare-funded Heart Health Check for all Australians at risk of developing heart disease. Are you at risk? Do you need a Heart Health Check? Every day 51...

I Touch Myself | Breast Cancer Awareness
I Touch Myself | Breast Cancer Awareness
Happening at Melbourne
CHRISSY AMPHLETT (Christine Joy Amphlett) October 25, 1959 - April 21, 2013 She sang it. She shouted it. And we couldn't help but listen. Now Chrissy wants us to hear her words again. For...

Julian Assange: Bring Him Home
Julian Assange: Bring Him Home
Happening at Australia
This World Press Freedom Day, May 3, supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are out in full force to show candidates in the Australian Federal Election where they stand. Assange remains...

Kindness Factory
Kindness Factory
Happening at Australia
The Kindness Factory started from one person's incredible story of courage, hope and adversity and has now become a global kindness movement, touching the lives of hundreds of thousands of people...

Melbourne City Rooftop Honey
Melbourne City Rooftop Honey
Happening at 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Melbourne City Rooftop Honey is a project to bring bees back to the city and suburbs of Melbourne supporting a world wide effort to help save the honey bee. Vanessa Kwaitkowski and Mat Lumalasi...

Melbourne Water Saving Rules | 2011 > Current
Melbourne Water Saving Rules | 2011 > Current
Happening at Melbourne
Melbourne now has Water Use Rules (previously Stage 1 water restrictions). They are no longer 'restrictions' but permanent Water Use Rules to help manage our drinking water efficiently. These...

Melbourne's Best Kept Secrets
Melbourne's Best Kept Secrets
Happening at Melbourne
Shhhh, keep this to yourself, don't tell a soul.. Melbourne's Best Kept Secrets Melbourne is well-known for its hidden things; concealed bars, secret cafes, quirky museums, or undiscovered...

One Tree Per Child | National Tree Day
One Tree Per Child | National Tree Day
Happening at Australia
The aim of One Tree Per Child is to get every child to plant at least one tree before they leave school. The One Tree Per Child campaign has already planted hundreds of thousands of trees and...

Recalls: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Recalls: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Happening at Melbourne
View products like the compulsory Takata airbag recall Product Safety Australia - Recalls The ACCC's role is to identify and address the risk of serious injury and death from safety hazards in...

SafePL8: Anti-theft screws to keep your number plates safe
SafePL8: Anti-theft screws to keep your number plates safe
Happening at Victoria
With numberplate theft at record highs, Victoria Police is urging owners to fit anti-theft screws to their vehicles, Across the state, numberplate thefts have surged by 50% to the highest number...

SAMSN | Supporting Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
SAMSN | Supporting Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Happening at Ground Floor, 8-10 Palmer Street, Parramatta
Survivors & Mates Support Network (SAMSN) is Australias leading organisation for male survivors of child sexual abuse and their supporters All male survivors of child sexual assault should know...

Secret Yarra River plan revealed
Secret Yarra River plan revealed
Happening at Melbourne
The Victorian Government has agreed to participate in a historic project to improve Melbourne's appearance and encourage tourists to view the city as an environmentally progressive centre for...

Sky High: Australia's Best Views
Sky High: Australia's Best Views
Happening at Melbourne
Looking out a plane window is one thing but if you really want to see the most iconic parts of Australia from a higher persepctive, here are 8 of the best views in the nation.. 1. Adelaide Oval...

Support free sports for all Australian's
Support free sports for all Australian's
Happening at Australia
No aerial? No free sport. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Prominence and Anti-siphoning) Bill 2023 is in Parliament now. But it needs to be changed to ensure all Australians can...

Tradesman: Genuine or Fake
Tradesman: Genuine or Fake
Happening at Australia
Sadly a growing issue in Australia is the emergance of fake / bogus tradies. Gauging by the number of posts on the issue, we should be calling them TRADIES (not tradesman) so as not to offend...

TV Reception Issue? | How to Fix
TV Reception Issue? | How to Fix
Happening at Australia
Experiencing picture loss, poor reception, pixelation or not able to receive a channel? Common issues include: only one channel doesn't work, some channels work, only mornings or only nights are...

Unfinished OZ
Unfinished OZ
Happening at Melbourne
Ten years ago, over 30,000 Australians showed their support for reconcilliation by walking as one over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It was a momentous gesture of unity, but at its heart, true...

What's On In Bendigo
What's On In Bendigo
Happening at 51-67 Pall Mall, Bendigo
Every corner you turn in Bendigo reveals another living treasure; another vivid reminder of the city's glorious and heady past - whether it is the outrageous opulence of a boomtown hotel, or the...





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