Cultural Partners
Old Melbourne Gaol
The site where 135 people, including infamous bushranger Ned Kelly were hanged. The prison was also a focus during some of Australia's most significant historical moments, including the Gold Rush and World War II. Expereince what life behind bars was like for some of our most notorious villians and step into the shoes of a hangman
The Arts Centre
The Arts Centre is the home of performing arts in Victoria, and the focal point of Melbourne's cultural precinct.
The Arts Centre hosts a variety of performances and cultural entertainment with Australia’s top performing arts companies and international companies.
The Arts Centre also offers tours and exhibitions and has a wide range of food and beverage outlets to appeal to every age, taste and budget.
If you are a lover of the arts, then join up to get all the privileges of an Arts Centre membership. As part of the Arts Centre family you can enjoy comedy and the latest musical to a theatre, ballet or classical music while benefiting from an array of discounts and special offers.
Membership benefits include:
- access to members only dining lounge
- 25 % discount on parking at the Arts Centre
- access to members only personal ticket booking service
- regular communication about future events
- special offers across the Arts Centre precinct, including 15 % discount at Café Vic.
Yearly Membership
- 1st Year Single $176 | Double $286 (prices include the GST).
- Subsequent Years Single $170 | Double $242 (prices include the GST).
- Please enquire on 03 9281 8453.
More information and membership application— http://www.theartscentre.com.au/get-involved/membership/individual-membership.aspx
Bayplay Adventure Tours and Accommodation
Bayplay is your one stop adventure shop situated directly across the road from the beach! Bayplay offers everything from sea kayaking to scuba diving.
Bayplay’s tours enable visitors to explore the Port Phillip Bay Coastline and view gorgeous beaches with opportunities to get up close and personal with the marine life unique to the area. At Bayplay we ensure that visitors always have lots of fun whilst getting active & meeting new people!!
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The MSO is the premier orchestra for Victoria and one of the best orchestras in the Australia.
Our home in 2011 is the Melbourne Town Hall, placing it right in the middle of the city, accessible from every direction.
Circus Oz
Circus Oz is an internationally acclaimed contemporary circus, with a distinct Australian style and humor. Their spectacular shows are full of dare-devilry, wit, grace and the renowned collective mayhem that never stops.
Circus Oz was born in Melbourne in 1978 and tours nationally and internationally celebrating the diversity of the Australian people, the wonder of our landscape and the spirit of Australlia.
Circus Oz Big Top is located at Birrarung Marr every year, lighting up the city skyline, creating a carnival-like atmosphere during Melbourne's winter.
Melbourne Open House
Melbourne Open House unlocks your city. You’ll be able to explore 75 incredible buildings for free.
Residents, visitors, families, design buffs, architecture fans – absolutely anyone who loves Melbourne is invited to explore great contemporary, historic and sustainable buildings and spaces.
Healesville Sanctuary (Zoos Victoria)
Healesville Sanctuary is home to many of Australia’s native and some endangered species.
Visitors can see up close a variety of beautiful and special Australian mammals, reptiles, birds and marsupials and discover the beautiful original bushland, Coranderrk, surrounding Healesville Sanctuary in the beautiful Yarra Valley
Melbourne Aquarium
The Melbourne Aquarium is home to thousands of aquatic animals in four worlds that visitors can discover.
At the Melbourne Aquarium, see up close Australia’s only King and Gentoo penguins swim, slide and play in Antarctica, then experience 360-degree views of sharks, stingrays, turtles and hundreds of schooling fish in Sharks Alive
Daily feeds and diver presentation complete the marine adventure at the must-see Melbourne Aquarium.
Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC): National Sports Museum and Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)
More than just a museum, the National Sports Museum captures the spirit of Australian sporting life and relives the moments that have shaped Australia’s rich sporting traditions.
The National Sports Museum showcases the achievements of our sportsmen and women in Australia’s only dedicated sports museum.
Visitors can combine a visit to the museum with a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the MCG and relive more than 150 years of sporting excellence at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Highlights of the 75 minute tour include the Ponsford Stand, players' change rooms, cricket viewing room, the Long Room, Cricket Victoria Bill Lawry Centre and a walk on the arena (subject to availability).
Melbourne Golden Mile Guided Walk
The Melbourne Golden Mile Guided walk is a walking tour around Melbourne that tells how gold created early Melbourne.
Hear the stories of the many nationalities that joined the race to be rich and see the amazing buildings of that era and hear of the surprising characters behind boom town from prima donnas and prime ministers to bushrangers and architects.
Learn how the many different cultures have shaped Melbourne of today.
Melbourne Outlet Shopping Tours
Melbourne is Australia's Shopping Capital. Enjoy a relaxed and fun day of discount retail therapy without the worry of carrying bags or finding directions. Your Melbourne Shopaholic Tour Host will help you to discover lots of bargains while providing interesting city cultural & historical commentary. Visit back street discount outlets & discover warehouse sales. We stop for a cafe lunch and various cafés available through the day for a famous Melbourne coffee. Do you need Christmas presents, shoes, bags/leather goods, chocolates, books, clothing...?
Eureka Skydeck 88
Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the awe inspiring views from the highest viewing platform in the Southern Hemisphere at Melbourne’s iconic Eureka Tower. Skydeck 88 entertains all with a host of activities about Melbourne & fascinating facts.
Only Skydeck 88 can give you the world’s only “Edge Experience” – a switchable glass cube which slides out from the building – with you inside!
Queen Victoria Market
The Queen Victoria Market is more than just Melbourne’s shopping mecca – it is an historic landmark, a tourist attraction and an institution for Melburnians.
For more than a century, this vast and vibrant centre of trade and commerce has served the needs of more than 200,000 shoppers a week. Spreading over some seven hectares, it is a true reflection of Melbourne’s cosmopolitan make-up, selling everything from exotic Australian fruit and vegetables and gourmet produce to hardware, clothing and souvenirs. Almost 1,000 traders sell their goods in vast open-sided sheds and lofty-roofed halls, five days a week.
Royal Botanic Garden Cranbourne
The Royal Botanic Gardens -Cranbourne- is located 45 minutes by car from the CBD of Melbourne.
The Royal Botanic Gardens -Cranbourne- is one of Melbourne’s hidden treasures offering two uniquely Australian experiences: the 366 hectares of native bushland and the spectacular Australian Garden.
Royal Botanic Garden Melbourne
The Royal Botanic Gardens- Melbourne- is home to diverse plant collections, year-round events and guided tours. The picturesque setting of the gardens extend over 36 hectares and displays more than 50,000 plants.
Holding a reputation as one of the world's finest gardens has made the Royal Botanic Gardens one of Melbourne's most popular tourist attractions.
Shrine of Remembrance
The Shrine of Remembrance Victoria is a permanent memorial to the Australian and New Zealand armed forces who served and died in the Great War (World War One) of 1914 - 1918 as well as further armed conflicts and peacekeeping duties since.
The Shrine of Remembrance is Victoria’s largest war memorial and one of Melbourne’s most recognised landmarks.
Museum Victoria
Museum Victoria incorporates the Melbourne Museum, Immigration Museum and Scienceworks.
Melbourne Museum is the largest museum complex in the Southern Hemisphere and gives a memorable insight into Australia.Explore Melbourne’s rich history, learn about Aboriginal cultures and discover how gold and Federation made this city boom.Take a close look at over 100 species of live insects. Have some prehistoric fun exploring dinosaurs and enter the world of emotions, thoughts, memories and dreams.
Immigration Museum is home to the moving stories of people from all over the world who have migrated to Australia. Explore Australia's rich multicultural history
National Gallery of Victoria
Since 1861, the National Gallery of Victoria has been displaying art works for the enjoyment of the community.
The National Gallery of Victoria has been home to Victoria’s and some of Australia’s most significant international and national art collections for the public to see.
The NGV’s collections are split between The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia for Australian art and NGV International for international art.
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Australian Football League (AFL)
Australian Football League, also known as ‘Aussie Rules’, was formed in Victoria in 1857.
The game was developed by T. Wills, H.C.A. Harrison, W.J. Hammersley and J.B. Thompson to provide a winter sport between Rugby and Cricket seasons to maintain fitness.
The first match occurred in 1958 between two prominent boys’ schools in Melbourne, Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar. The sport became official in 1869 and the League was established.
Currently there are 17 clubs which represent districts throughout Victoria and other states. They play 22 rounds of 176 matches a year mainly on weekends.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is the home of the AFL, but matches are played at many sport stadiums throughout Victoria and Australia.
Locations and times of games are match-specific. To find out where and when matches are played please click here to see the 2010 fixture guide
Hawthorn Football Club
Hawthorn Football Club is one of the 17 professional Australian rules football teams.
It is the most succesful team in the mdoern era having won a premiership in each of the last five decades.
The Club has a new home at Stadium Park, Waverley, which is the old Waverley Park Stadium, home to many big games of AFL over the year 70s, 80s and 90s.
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) celebrates, explores and promotes the cultural and creative richness of the moving image in all its forms - film, television and digital culture.
See award-winning Australian and international exhibitions, films, festivals, live events, creative workshops, education programs and Collection resources
Cricket Victoria
Since 1895 Cricket Victoria is the governing body of cricket in the state of Victoria. Cricket Victoria aspires to be the nation’s leading cricket state through success at both the elite and community level.
The DEC Bushrangers and VicSpirit are the senior male and female Victorian representative teams, and each compete in Australia’s domestic competitions.
Cricket Victoria’s game development strategy is to make cricket accessible to all. The iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) serves as the DEC Bushrangers’ home ground and annually hosts the Boxing Day Test and numerous other international fixtures.
Cricket Victoria and the Essendon Football Club work together through a program called GLoBALL.
GLoBALL, proudly presented by iPriumus, is a program for international students and their family and friends to interact with the broader Victorian community through free football and cricket activities year round.
GLoBALL Football Program
Coordinated by the Essendon Football Club (Community) and Cricket Victoria, GLoBALL enables international students and new migrants to interact with the broader Victorian community through Australian Rules Football and cricket related activities the whole year round. GLoBALL aims to promote a sense of belonging, social inclusion and celebrate diversity.
GLoBALL provides opportunities for international students and new migrants to interact with EFC members, staff and players.
Visit facebook www.facebook.com/globallprogram
Last Minute Day Tours Pty Ltd
Last Minute Day Tours is the source for individual travellers to find last minute offers for Day Tours. We specialize in identifying day tour products, where there is surplus capacity on a daily basis, and sell these seats at half-price (conditions apply).
The tours offered are the most sought after tours and include the Great Ocean Road, Philip Island Penguins, Grampians, Sovereign Hill & Ballarat and Melbourne City Sights.
Both Premium service tours and small group adventure tours are offered. All the tours operate on a daily basis.
All tours are conducted by Award Winning operators who share the common commitment to high standards of quality, service and safety.
Last Minute Day Tours specializes in scheduled Day Tours and more than capable of putting together "one off" itineraries for groups that require sole use of vehicles to any of the existing destinations or a destination of their choice.
International House Theatre Group
We are a student-run organization at International House, a University of Melbourne college with half of our student population hailing from abroad, which puts on a play or musical production annually.
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Rootvij Kadakia Foundation
Rootvij Kadakia Foundation was formed in memory of Rootvij Kdaakia who passed away in at Lake Tyers beach near Lakes Entrance in Victoria trying to help his friend who was caught in a rip.
The primary aim of the Foundation is to raise beach safety awareness amongst the community. Australia is blessed with one of the most beautiful coastlines and very beautiful beaches. However, like many other things, one needs to be careful and responsible when at the beach to ensure a safe and fun-filled time.
The Foundation via its Read The Beach campaign helps conduct programs that educate the participants on various aspects of beach and water safety. The Foundation is a not for profit organization.
Bunyip Tours
Proud winner of the 2008 and 2009 Best Tour/Transport Operator Victorian Tourism Award, Bunyip Tours has been operating tours to Victoria's premier destinations for over 12 years. Tours include the spectacular Great Ocean Road and Grampians, as well Philip Island and the penguin parade, Wilsons' Promontory National Park and the Mornington Peninsula Tours are operated in small coaches with a maximum of 24 people, ensuring personalised, educational and interactive experiences for all guests. Bunyip Tours is very proud of its standing as a 100% carbon balanced business, which encompasses its entire operation.
Australian Federation of International Students
AFIS is a community oriented organization aimed at assisting international students in maximizing the scope and potential of their experience living and studying in Australia.
International Student Legal Advice Clinic (ISLAC)
ISLAC provides free legal services to international students in Victoria. Students with a legal question or who face legal issues can get assistance at one of three clinics across Melbourne. These are staffed by lawyers, registered migration agents and paralegals- many of whom are or were once international students. ISLAC also provides community legal education that teaches students about how to avoid legal problems. ISLAC understands international students face difficulties accessing justice and are vulnerable to being marginalized and exploited. ISLAC is dedicated to serving this community to remedy this.
