68 Facts About Melbourne Victoria

Melbourne Victoria consistently ranked as the world's most liveable city for much of the 2010s.

Melbourne Victoria Airport, known as the Tullamarine Airport, is the second-busiest airport in Australia, and the Port of Melbourne Victoria is the nation's busiest seaport.

Exponential growth ensued, and by 1865 Melbourne Victoria had overtaken Sydney as Australia's most populous city.

Melbourne Victoria quickly became a major finance centre, home to several banks, the Royal Mint, and Australia's first stock exchange.

Melbourne Victoria acquired its first public monument, the Burke and Wills statue, in 1864.

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In 1885, visiting English journalist George Augustus Henry Sala coined the phrase "Marvellous Melbourne Victoria", which stuck long into the twentieth century and has come to refer to the opulence and energy of the 1880s, during which time large commercial buildings, grand hotels, banks, coffee palaces, terrace housing and palatial mansions proliferated in the city.

Melbourne Victoria's land-boom peaked in 1888, the year it hosted the Centennial Exhibition.

The Melbourne Victoria financial crisis was a contributing factor in the Australian economic depression of the 1890s and in the Australian banking crisis of 1893.

At the time of Australia's federation on 1 January 1901 Melbourne Victoria became the seat of government of the federated Commonwealth of Australia.

Melbourne Victoria remained Australia's main business and financial centre until the late 1970s, when it began to lose this primacy to Sydney.

Melbourne Victoria experienced an economic downturn between 1989 and 1992, following the collapse of several local financial institutions.

Since the mid-1990s, Melbourne Victoria has maintained significant population and employment growth.

Melbourne Victoria sustained the highest population increase and economic growth rate of any Australian capital city from 2001 to 2004.

In 2009, Melbourne Victoria was less affected by the late-2000s financial crisis in comparison to other Australian cities.

In 2020, Melbourne Victoria was classified as an Alpha city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.

Out of all major Australian cities, Melbourne Victoria was the worst affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and spent a long time under lockdown restrictions, with Melbourne Victoria experiencing six lockdowns totalling 262 days.

Melbourne Victoria extends along the Yarra River towards the Yarra Valley and the Dandenong Ranges to the east.

Melbourne Victoria has a temperate oceanic climate, bordering on a humid subtropical climate, with warm summers and mild winters.

Melbourne Victoria is well known for its changeable weather conditions, mainly due to it being located on the boundary of hot inland areas and the cool southern ocean.

Melbourne Victoria is prone to isolated convective showers forming when a cold pool crosses the state, especially if there is considerable daytime heating.

Melbourne Victoria is typical of Australian capital cities in that after the turn of the 20th century, it expanded with the underlying notion of a 'quarter acre home and garden' for every family, often referred to locally as the Australian Dream.

Much of metropolitan Melbourne Victoria is accordingly characterised by low-density sprawl, whilst its inner-city areas feature predominantly medium-density, transit-oriented urban forms.

Melbourne Victoria's parks are often considered the best public parks in all of Australia's major cities.

Several national parks have been designated around the urban area of Melbourne Victoria, including the Mornington Peninsula National Park, Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park and Point Nepean National Park in the southeast, Organ Pipes National Park to the north and Dandenong Ranges National Park to the east.

The extensive area covered by urban Melbourne Victoria is formally divided into hundreds of suburbs, and administered as local government areas 31 of which are located within the metropolitan area.

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Melbourne Victoria has minimal public housing and high demand for rental housing, which is becoming unaffordable for some.

Melbourne Victoria is experiencing high population growth, generating high demand for housing.

City features the Shrine of Remembrance, which was built as a memorial to the men and women of Melbourne Victoria who served in World War I and is a memorial to all Australians who have served in war.

State Library of Melbourne Victoria, founded in 1854, is one of the world's oldest free public libraries and, as of 2018, the fourth most-visited library globally.

Between the gold rush and the crash of 1890, Melbourne Victoria was Australia's literary capital, famously referred to by Henry Kendall as "that wild bleak Bohemia south of the Murray".

Melbourne Victoria has Australia's widest range of bookstores, as well as the nation's largest publishing sector.

Melbourne Victoria has been called "the live music capital of the world"; one study found it has more music venues per capita than any other world city sampled, with 17.

Melbourne Victoria remained a world leader in filmmaking until the mid-1910s, when several factors, including a ban on bushranger films, contributed to a decades-long decline of the industry.

Melbourne Victoria filmmakers led the Australian Film Revival with ocker comedies such as Stork and Alvin Purple.

Melbourne Victoria is home to Docklands Studios Melbourne Victoria, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and the headquarters of Village Roadshow Pictures, Australia's largest film production company.

Melbourne Victoria has long been regarded as Australia's sporting capital due to the role it has played in the development of Australian sport, the range and quality of its sporting events and venues, and its high rates of spectatorship and participation.

Melbourne Victoria's sporting reputation was recognised in 2016 when, after being ranked as the world's top sports city three times biennially, the Ultimate Sports City Awards in Switzerland named it 'Sports City of the Decade'.

Rowing forms part of Melbourne Victoria's sporting identity, with a number of clubs located on the Yarra River, out of which many Australian Olympians trained.

Melbourne Victoria has a highly diversified economy with particular strengths in finance, manufacturing, research, IT, education, logistics, transportation and tourism.

Melbourne Victoria's suburbs have the head offices of Coles Group and Wesfarmers companies Bunnings, Target, K-Mart and Officeworks.

Melbourne Victoria Airport provides an entry point for national and international visitors, and is Australia's second busiest airport.

Melbourne Victoria has an important ICT industry that employs over 60,000 people, with a turnover of AU$19.

Melbourne Victoria has been attracting an increasing share of domestic and international conference markets.

Melbourne Victoria is the second most visited city in Australia and the seventy-third most visited city in the world.

Melbourne Victoria has now attracted the largest proportion of international overseas immigrants finding it outpacing Sydney's international migrant intake on percentage, as well as having strong interstate migration from Sydney and other capitals due to more affordable housing and cost of living.

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Melbourne Victoria is on track to overtake Sydney in population between 2028 and 2030.

Melbourne Victoria has the 10th largest immigrant population among world metropolitan areas.

Melbourne Victoria has a wide range of religious faiths, the most widely held of which is Christianity.

Muslim religious life in Melbourne Victoria is centred on about 25 mosques and a number of prayer rooms at university campuses, workplaces and other venues.

Furthermore, Melbourne Victoria was ranked the world's fourth top university city in 2008 after London, Boston and Tokyo in a poll commissioned by the Royal Melbourne Victoria Institute of Technology.

Melbourne Victoria universities have campuses all over Australia and some internationally.

In recent years, the number of international students at Melbourne Victoria's universities has risen rapidly, a result of an increasing number of places being made available for them.

Education in Melbourne is overseen by the Victorian Department of Education, whose role is to 'provide policy and planning advice for the delivery of education'.

Melbourne Victoria has many community run stations that serve alternative interests, such as 3CR and 3KND.

Governance of Melbourne is split between the government of Victoria and the 27 cities and four shires that make up the metropolitan area.

Major medical, neuroscience and biotechnology research institutions located in Melbourne include the St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Australian Stem Cell Centre, the Burnet Institute, the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Victorian Institute of Chemical Sciences, Brain Research Institute, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, and the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre.

Melbourne Victoria is home to the Royal Children's Hospital and the Monash Children's Hospital.

Today Melbourne Victoria has an extensive network of freeways and arterial roadways.

Out of Melbourne Victoria's 20 declared freeways open or under construction, 6 are electronic toll roads.

In Melbourne Victoria, tollways have blue and yellow signage compared to the green signs used for free roads.

Melbourne Victoria has an integrated public transport system based around extensive train, tram, bus and taxi systems.

Melbourne Victoria's trams are recognised as iconic cultural assets and a tourist attraction.

Avalon Airport, located between Melbourne Victoria and Geelong, is a secondary hub of Jetstar.

Melbourne Victoria has a significant general aviation airport, Moorabbin Airport in the city's southeast that handles a small number of passenger flights.

The Port of Melbourne Victoria is Australia's largest container and general cargo port and its busiest.

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Water storage and supply for Melbourne is managed by Melbourne Water, which is owned by the Victorian Government.

Melbourne Victoria has a moderately low crime rate, ranking 18th for Personal Security and 9th in the overall Safe City Index in The Economist 2021 Safe Cities Index, placing it in the second best category of "high safety" level.

Reports of crime in Melbourne Victoria fell by 13 per cent in 2021 to its lowest in three years, with 5,358.