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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:
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Melbourne is home to some of Australia's biggest sports events including: the Australian Formula One Grand Prix, the Australian Tennis Open, the Melbourne Cup horse races, and the AFL Grand Final. Melbourne hosted Olympic Games in 1956, as well as the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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Melbourne has an exceptionally vibrant live music scene. Many bars and pubs will have copies of the free magazines "Beat" and "Inpress" which provide local gig guides. Fitzroy, Collingwood and St. Kilda are generally your best bets for seeing some of the great local talent Melbourne has to offer. Venues where you generally can't go wrong include: "The Tote", "The Evelyn" and "The Esplenade".
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Unlike the rest of the world, which has four seasons in a year, Melbourne has four seasons in one day. In fact Crowded House (who New Zealanders bleat and whinge about being from New Zealand, when in actual fact they were founded in Melbourne) even wrote a song about it. Melburnians are extremely proud of this, and will never shut up about it, causing Melburnians to be rated as "the most boring [but world-class] conversationalists on earth" for their compulsive obsessiveness when it comes to talking about the weather and sport. Melburnians ... have a clever phrase "if you don't like the weather in Melbourne, just wait five minutes and it will change!". And of course, if it doesnt change, you can always just paint your fingernails black and/or go Emo. Or maybe you should go and have a look at its basements where all "Resident Evil" zombies are hidden. You can't tell if the zombies are emos or emos are zombies. They all looked pretty much the same!
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The settlement of Melbourne commenced in 1835 when settlers from Tasmania "purchased" land on Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River from the local Aboriginal tribes. The streets of central Melbourne were carefully laid out in 1837, with some streets 30 metres wide. The first British lieutenant-governor, Charles La Trobe, arrived in 1839 – his cottage still stands and can be visited in Kings Domain. The year 1851 was a landmark for Melbourne - the colony of Victoria was separated from New South Wales and very soon after gold was discovered in Victoria, sparking a huge goldrush. Aspects of goldrush history can be seen at the Gold Treasury Museum, housed in the Treasury Building built in 1858. Gold was the catalyst for several decades of prosperity lasting through to the late 1880s and examples of the ornate Victorian-era structures built during this time still stand.
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The University of Melbourne marked its 150th anniversary in 2003. The University was established in 1853, making it older than all the universities in England except Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and London, and older than most in the British Empire. In the early twenty-first century, Melbourne maintains its pre-eminent position among Australian universities and is increasingly international in its outlook and its reputation. With a current annual enrollment of approximately 40,000, Melbourne continues to follow its motto "to grow in the esteem of future generations." Learn more at: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
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