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The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment , The Age primarily serves Victoria , but copies also sell in Tasmania , the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales .
Pre-European settlement. Aborigines on Merri Creek by Charles Troedel. The area around Port Phillip and the Yarra valley, on which the city of Melbourne now stands, was the home of the Kulin nation, an alliance of several language groups of Aboriginal Australians, whose ancestors had lived in the area for an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years. [ 1]
Melbourne ( / ˈmɛlbərn / MEL-bərn, [ note 1] locally [ˈmæɫbən] ⓘ; Boonwurrung / Woiwurrung: Narrm or Naarm[ 9][ 10]) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney. [ 11] Its name generally refers to a 9,993 km 2 (3,858 sq mi) metropolitan area ...
Jerilderie Letter. The handwritten document known as the Jerilderie Letter was dictated by Australian bushranger Ned Kelly to fellow Kelly Gang member Joe Byrne in 1879. It is one of only two original Kelly letters known to have survived. [1] The Jerilderie Letter is a 56-page document of approximately 8,000 words.
The Family, also known as the Santiniketan Park Association or the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian New Age group formed in the mid-1960s under the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne (born Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards; 30 December 1921 – 13 June 2019). [ 1][ 2] The group taught a mixture of Western and Eastern religious doctrines ...
The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse. It is a 3200-metre race for three-year-olds and older, conducted by the Victoria Racing Club that forms part of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. It is the richest two-mile handicap in the world and one of the richest ...
Chart of Melbourne's current and projected population growth. Melbourne is Australia 's second-most populous city and has a diverse and multicultural population. Melbourne dominated Australia's population growth for the 15th year in a row as of 2017, adding 125,424 people between 2016 and 2017, and boomed past 5 million people in 2019.
The culture of Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, encompasses the city's artistic, culinary, literary, musical, political and social elements. Since its founding as a British settlement in 1835, Melbourne has been culturally influenced by European culture, particularly that of the British Isles.