Melbourne cafes ban customers ordering coffee while on their mobile phone
Melbourne's coffee queues are the new frontline in etiquette school, with some cafes banning customers from ordering their caffeine hit while using their mobile phone.
- by Suzanne Carbone
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Senior citizens working full time in their 80s and 90s are not the retiring type
When it comes to the Australian work ethic, there is one group that can't wait to retire and another that can't wait to go to work.
- by Suzanne Carbone
Fashion blogger Rozalia Russian targeted in Instagram hacking and extortion
Fashion blogger Rozalia Russian has been forced to rethink the security of her social-media platforms after a hacker staged a "takeover" of her Instagram account and extorted about $5000 for its return.
- by Suzanne Carbone
Moomba means 'up your bum' but is it up your alley as one of the world's daggiest festivals?
Bottoms up! It's time for Melburnians to get together and have fun.
- by Suzanne Carbone
Moomba monarchs Michelle Payne and brother Stevie set to reign in parade that stops St Kilda Road
It would be un-Melburnian to not line St Kilda Road on Monday to watch Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne and her brother Stevie wear their crowns and reign in the parade as Moomba monarchs.
- by Suzanne Carbone
Dance like no one is watching, vote (like no one is looking) for the new Wellbeing Party
Your nearest and dearest aren't the only ones who "hope you're well" in emails and life.
- by Suzanne Carbone
Bloggers battle to score front-row seats for Melbourne Fashion Festival
In a well-dressed game of musical chairs, about 450 bloggers compete against 200 journalists for the prime seats closest to the catwalk.
- by Suzanne Carbone
Six sleek Airstreams, $1m and a great big crane transform inner-city car park into a not-quite-a hotel
An unused rooftop in Flinders Lane will be a new place to stay overnight in Melbourne with half-a-dozen retro Airstream trailers corralled into what's being called the "Notel".
- by Suzanne Carbone
Cardinal Pell to give evidence at Rome hotel steeped in operatic drama
The ornate four-star Rome hotel where Cardinal George Pell will give video evidence in Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is steeped in drama because the property is connected to an opera house where human tragedy has been played out since 1880.
- by Suzanne Carbone
Miss World Australia contestants put brains before beauty in quest for the crown
I don't care if someone has a bottom two inches bigger than someone else's. We are really not looking at her bottom. We are really listening to her speak, Julia Morley said.
- by Suzanne Carbone
Harpist Michael Johnson switches on his instrument to help stressed and distressed minds switch off
He taught himself to play the harp by watching videos of Harpo Marx, now Michael Johnson is helping mental-health patients to relax.
- by Suzanne Carbone
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