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Melbourne Events

Melbourne 2012 events

March
04
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

Over two weeks each year, this international Festival showcases Melbourne’s infamous love of great food and fine wine. With about 250 events...

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March
24
Australian Grand Prix (Formula 1)

The Australian Grand Prix kicks off the Formula One season annually. The streets and parklands of Melbourne’s suburb of Albert Park becomes...

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March
28
Melbourne International Comedy Festival

One of the world's largest comedy festivals, each year the Melbourne International Comedy Festival features comedians and performers from all over...

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April
01
Australian Rules Football (AFL)

A game of footy – Aussie Rules football that is – is as Melbourne as it gets. Melbournians’ thirst for a local derby between two...

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June
01
Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Each year this cosmopolitan city hosts the fantastic Melbourne International Jazz Festival. Over the course of the 11-day event, visitors are...

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August
02
Melbourne International Film Festival

For three weeks each winter, Melbourne hosts this major film festival featuring hundreds of films from over 50 countries. One of the oldest film...

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September
22
Royal Melbourne Show

A country show is an icon in any Australian country life. Sadly, although shows are few and far between elsewhere in Australia these days, the...

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October
10
Melbourne International Arts Festival

Enjoy a smorgasbord of music, dance, theatre, opera visual arts, multimedia and outdoor events during this 17-day arts festival. Held annually,...

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November
06
Melbourne Cup

Billed as the “race that stops a nation”, the Melbourne Cup is the country’s biggest horse race, occasioning a public holiday in Melbourne and...

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Melbourne 2013 events

January
14
Australian Open

The Australian Open attracts the world’s best tennis players to Australia’s sunny shores. From humble beginnings in 1969, when the...

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