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1. Melbourne
   The Melbourne Social Forum is a self-sustaining event run entirely by volunteers. All proceeds from this year's ticket sales will be used to fund next year's MSF. Tickets for the 2007 MSF will be priced as follows:
2. Melbourne -- Melbourne City
   Melbourne was the Allied Pacific Headquarters from 1942 to 1944 as General Douglas MacArthur established Australia as a launch base for Pacific operations. During World War II, Melbourne industries thrived on wartime production and the city became Australia's leading manufacturing centre. After the war, Melbourne expanded rapidly, with its growth boosted by an influx of immigrants and the prestige of hosting the Olympic Games in 1956. Australia's mining boom between 1969 and 1970 proved beneficial to Melbourne, with the headquarters of many of the major companies (BHP and Rio Tinto, among others) based in the city. Nauru's booming mineral economy fuelled several ambitious investments in Melbourne such as Nauru House. Melbourne remained Australia's business and finance capital until the late 1970s, when it began to lose this primacy to Sydney.[12]
3. Melbourne -- Cities
   Melbourne was one of Australia's first planned cities. With a grid CBD plan originally laid out by colonial surveyor Robert Hoddle in the 1830s, Melbourne architects have embraced the wide boulevard streets, grand gardens and prominent street corners to create lasting impressions on the urban landscape. As a result, Melbourne is a collection of landmarks, not relying on a bridge, statue or harbour for character, but instead directly on the streets themselves.
4. Stewart Ginn -- Royal Melbourne
   Stewart first began caddieing at Royal Melbourne at age 10 and fell in love with the game after watching the old Canada Cup competition in 1959 from his backyard. The Ginns were not a golf-playing family, although they lived behind the 12th green at famed Royal Melbourne Golf Club. He played Australian Rules Football as a youth, but chose to pursue a career in golf on advice from his uncle, turning professional at age 20.
5. Mark Philippoussis -- Hopman Cup
   Former U.S. Open and Wimbledon finalist Mark Philippoussis said Wednesday he requires right knee surgery after tearing cartilage during a Hopman Cup match. The injury rules out the 30-year-old Australian as a potential wild-card entry into the Australian Open beginning Jan. 15 in Melbourne.
6. Kate Ritchie -- Australian Television
   In addition to 20 years on Home and Away, Ritchie has appeared in commercials, a mini-series and an Australian film. In 1986 she was cast as Molly, the child lead in the Nine Network-PBL mini-series, Cyclone Tracy, starring Chris Haywood and Tracy Mann. In 2006 Ritchie played Nicole in the ABC film Stepfather of the Bride.[3] She has ... been involved with the Campbelltown Musical Society.[4]
7. Gold Coast -- Buildings
   Behind the beaches and development of the Gold Coast are smaller bungalow type houses wrapped around series of lagoons giving these houses their own personal stretch of sand. Further inland are areas of lush hinterland providing spectacular views with bush-walking and animal parks. Lamington National Park is Australia's largest reserve of subtropical rainforest and offers nearly 160km of walking tracks.
8. Galileo -- Moons
   Galileo was the first to report lunar mountains and craters, whose existence he deduced from the patterns of light and shadow on the Moon's surface. He even estimated the mountains' heights from these observations. This led him to the conclusion that the Moon was "rough and uneven, and just like the surface of the Earth itself," rather than a perfect sphere as Aristotle had claimed. Galileo observed the Milky Way, previously believed to be nebulous, and found it to be a multitude of stars packed so densely that they appeared to be clouds from Earth. He located many other stars too distant to be visible with the naked eye. Galileo ... observed the planet Neptune in 1612, but did not realize that it was a planet and took no particular notice of it. It appears in his notebooks as one of many unremarkable dim stars.
9. Horses -- United States
   Horses first came to Australia in the pioneer days and have been used for business and pleasure ever since. Some broke loose and became brumbies, the legendary tough wild horses that have formed part of Australian legends such as the Man From Snowy River from Banjo Paterson’s thrilling epic poem. Horses carried settlers throughout Australia as they founded the important towns, rounded up cattle on Outback stations and thrilled millions in great races like the Melbourne Cup.
10. The Veronicas
    The Veronicas: Mtv.com Live EP is an EP by the Australian pop rock duo The Veronicas. It was released on August 1,2006 through the Urge website. It is only available for download and contains 4 live tracks including a new track, "Stay".

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