Melburnian

A FILM showing Melbourne’s infamous 70K Crew graffiti gang hanging off trains and buildings has been pulled from a city film festival.
They’re brazen, forthright and absolutely convinced that scrawling their names on billboards and trains is going to change the world, experts say.
But the prolific 70K Crew are also criminals and the censors don’t […]

A TRIBUNAL will decide whether pub owners and managers are responsible for brawling, vomiting and noisy drinkers after they have left their bar.
 
Yarra Council will this week file papers at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal against the Peel Hotel in Collingwood, saying its music is too loud and patrons are causing trouble outside.
Yarra […]

 
EIGHT months after being stabbed twice in his left knee, 25-year-old accounts manager Amrish Jusrut is about to run the race of his life.
Jusrut, set upon by two young men on a train in February, has since undergone an operation and several painful months of rehabilitation. He will tackle all 21.1km of the half-marathon […]

 
THEY should have been in school but these students thought it was more important to stand up for others.
About 300 secondary school and university students walked out of class last Wednesday and rallied at the steps of Flinders St Station to protest againstUS President George Bush’s visit to Sydney for Apec.
But they weren’t just […]

How did the Spring Racing Carnival come to be more about fascinators than bookies? Why do fashion and horseracing go together hand in hoof?