November 2021
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- Victoria votes
Liberal MP Tim Smith ‘pushed out’ by internal rivals
The Victorian thought he could survive in politics – until fellow Liberals demanded he leave Parliament.
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- Aaron Patrick
A basilica of light: Venetian duo unveil Melbourne pavilion
Husband-and-wife architects Francesco Magnani and Traudy Pelzel have designed a homage to the city’s culture and the Australian sun.
- Stephen Todd
May 2021
From Boston with love: The stories behind the NGV’s winter blockbuster
Behind the once-radical works of French Impressionism going on show are the real-life histories of artists who hung out and collectors who hung on.
- Jane Cornwell
January 2021
Open-air love letter to Melbourne
The curators of the ‘Uptown’ exhibition have used the windows, billboards and restaurants of a seminal haunt for their celebration of the city post lockdown.
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- Stephen Todd
March 2020
Your guide to the perfect (post pandemic) weekend in Melbourne
When this is all over, Victoria's chic capital offers it all: fantastic food, an easy pace, history and culture.
- Justin Bergman
February 2020
From crack cocaine addict to top chef
The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival guest attraction talks as candidly about his years of drug addiction as he does about his restaurant empire.
- Necia Wilden
December 2019
Men's and women's payday at Australian Open, as prize money tops $71m
Both the men's and women's singles champions at next month's Australian Open will earn 13.6 per cent more than the last winners, and players who lose in the first round will get $90,000.
November 2019
One in the eye for the colonial myth of terra nullius
The NGV's architectural commission ‘In Absence’ is a towering affirmation of Australia's first nations.
- Stephen Todd
A golf fan's dream - Tiger faces off with Ernie
It doesn’t get any better for golf lovers – the Presidents Cup tees off in Melbourne on December 12, with the stakes sky high for the Internationals.
- Richard Allen
Meet the Warhol superstar behind the NGV’s summer blockbuster
Baby Jane Holzer wishes she’d listened when Warhol told her to spend a mere $20,000 on a Basquiat – but at least she got into Haring early.
- John McDonald
August 2019
Nature by design: the Rain Room
For Louis Li, the wunderkind behind Jackalope hotel, Melbourne’s coolest installation reminds us of the value of life’s greatest luxury.
- Stephen Todd
April 2019
What I learnt working 16 hours a day at Noma
The new executive chef at Melbourne's Vue de monde says working at the best restaurant in the world may have been brutal, but it only fed his culinary passion.
- Necia Wilden