Prahran (), also pronounced colloquially as Pran, is an inner suburb in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria
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* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
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,
Australia
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, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's
Central Business District
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, located within the
City of Stonnington
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Within twenty years ...
local government area
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. Prahran recorded a population of 12,203 at the
2021 census.
[
Prahran is a part of Greater Melbourne, with many shops, restaurants and cafes. ]Chapel Street
Chapel Street is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, running along the inner suburbs of South Yarra, Prahran, Windsor, St Kilda and St Kilda East.
Route
Chapel Street is essentially straight and runs for over 4.14 kilometres along an approxim ...
is a mix of upscale fashion boutiques and cafes. Greville Street, once the centre of the Melbourne's hippie community, has many cafés, bars, restaurants, bookstores, clothing shops and music shops.
Prahran takes its name from Pur-ra-ran, a Boonwurrung
The Boonwurrung people are an Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who are the traditional owners of the land from the Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory in the Australian state of Victoria. Their territory includes part of what is now the c ...
word which was thought to mean "land partially surrounded by water". When naming began the suburbs spelling was intended to be Praharan and pronounced Pur-ra-ran, but a spelling mistake on a government form lead to the name Prahran. More recently the word Pur-ra-ran has been identified as a transcription of "Birrarung", the name for the Yarra River
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The lower stre ...
, or a specific point of it.
History
In 1837 George Langhorne named the area Pur-ra-ran, which was thought to be a compound of two Aboriginal words, meaning "land partially surrounded by water". The word has more recently been identified as a transcription of "Birrarung", the name for the Yarra River
The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, (Kulin languages: ''Berrern'', ''Birr-arrung'', ''Bay-ray-rung'', ''Birarang'', ''Birrarung'', and ''Wongete'') is a perennial river in south-central Victoria, Australia.
The lower stre ...
or a specific point of it.[ When Langhorne informed the Surveyor-General ]Robert Hoddle
Robert Hoddle (21 April 1794 – 24 October 1881)
was a surveyor and artist. He is best known as the surveyor general of the Port Phillip District (later known as the Australian state of Victoria) from 1837 to 1853, especially for creation o ...
of the name, it was written as "Prahran".[John Butler Cooper On-line](_blank)
– see Chapter 1 section 5
Prahran Post Office opened on 1 April 1853.
Describing Prahran, as it was in the mid 1850s, F.R. Chapman remembered:
Between the 1890s and 1930s Prahran built up a huge shopping centre, which by the 1920s had rivalled the Melbourne Central Business District. Large emporiums (department stores) sprang up along Chapel Street. Prahran also became a major entertainment area. The Lyric theatre (also known as the fleahouse), built on the corner of Victoria Street in 1911, burnt down in the 1940s. The Royal was the second old theatre built. The Empress (also known as the flea palace), another popular theatre on Chapel Street, was destroyed by fire in 1971. The site was operated by the cut-price clothes and homewares chain Waltons for the next decade and was later developed into the Chapel Street Bazaar.
In the 1960s, in an effort to boost the slowly growing local population and inject new life into the suburb, the Victorian Government
The Victoria State Government, also referred to as just the Victorian Government, is the state-level authority for Victoria, Australia. Like all state governments, it is formed by three independent branches: the executive, the judicial, and th ...
opened the Prahran Housing Commission estate, just off Chapel Street, together with a larger estate, located just north in South Yarra
South Yarra is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas. South Yarra recorded a popul ...
. Further complementing the high rise developments was a low density development between Bangs and Bendigo Streets.
In the 1970s, the suburb began to gentrify
Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses. It is a common and controversial topic in urban politics and planning. Gentrification often increases the econ ...
, with much of the remaining old housing stock being renovated and restored. The area had a substantial Greek population and many took advantage of the rise in property values during the 1980s, paving the way for further development and a subsequent shift in demographics.
During the 1990s, the population increased markedly, with demand for inner-city living fuelling a medium-density housing
Medium-density housing is a term used within urban planning and academic literature to refer to a category of residential development that falls between detached suburban housing and large multi-story buildings. There is no singular definition of m ...
boom, which continues in the area, as part of the Melbourne 2030
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planning policy. It was during the 1990s that solidification of the area's gay community occurred, with many gay and gay-friendly businesses (including the last of these closing around 2012).
Demographics
In the 2016 census, there were 12,982 people in Prahran. 57.6% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 4.5%, New Zealand 3.7%, Greece 3.0%, China 1.7% and India 1.5%. 68.5% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Greek 5.0%, Mandarin 2.0%, French 1.2%, Spanish 1.1% and Italian 1.0%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 42.5% and Catholic 15.9%.
Local landmarks
Non-residential architecture
Prahran is home to a large collection of architecturally significant commercial buildings, with many on the Victorian Heritage Register
The Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) lists places deemed to be of cultural heritage significance to the State of Victoria, Australia. It has statutory weight under the Heritage Act 2017. The Minister for Planning is the responsible Minister. H ...
.
The Chapel Street section of Prahran is notable for its collection of turn of the century emporiums and large buildings, which include:
* ''Prahran Arcade'' – Built in 1889 on Chapel Street, is a richly detailed building both externally and internally. Retains the original arcade, but decorative roof was removed in the 1950s. Also known locally as "Birdland" due to pigeons which once bred in the recessed balconies of the building and the large eagles which adorn the facade, but are now screened by chicken wire. Was a Dan Murphy's
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cellar for many years, but currently a JB HiFi store. Now heritage registered.
* ''Read's Stores'' – Built in 1914 on the corner of Chapel Street and Commercial Road by architectural firm Sydney Smith & Ogg. The heritage-listed building is a prominent example of large department stores which once lined the west side of Chapel Street up to High Street. Its twin beacons, which sit atop large copper
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clad domes, were once visible like lighthouses for miles around, but no longer operate. During the 1970s, the site traded as a department store under the name ''Moore's'' before the lower stories were converted into shops in the 1980s and named Pran Central
Pran Central is a heritage-listed seven storey Edwardian baroque architectural style former department store, built in 1915 as Read’s Store, comprising a shopping centre with apartments above. The building is located on the corner of Chapel S ...
. The upper stories were restored and converted into fashionable apartments in 2005.
* ''Big Store'' – Built in 1902 and closed in 1968 on Chapel Street. A second store, almost as large as the main store, once stood in the carpark to the west, beyond Cato Street, linked by cross-over walkways. This large Edwardian building is currently used by Coles Supermarkets
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Founded in 1914 in Collingwood by George Coles, Coles operates ...
.
* ''Maples Corner'' – Built in 1910 on the corner of Chapel and High Streets. Converted into offices in the 1980s and many deteriorating decorative features were replaced with post modern elements.
* ''Love & Lewis'' – Built in 1913 on Chapel Street and converted into a mix of offices, retail and apartments in 2004. Now heritage registered.
Other significant Prahran emporiums include Conway's Buildings (1914) and the large Colosseum building (1897), which was lost to fire in 1914.
Other heritage buildings include the former Prahran Town Hall
Prahran (), also pronounced colloquially as Pran, is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area. Prahran recorded a ...
(now used as a library and council offices), the adjacent former City Hall (1888) (now used for special functions and as an exhibition space), the neighbouring police station (1887) and court house (1887) and Rechabite Hall (1888), in the Second Empire Second Empire may refer to:
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* Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)
* Second French Empire (1852–1870)
** Second Empire architecture, an architectural styl ...
style. The Prahran Fire Tower (1889) is on Macquarie Street. State School number 2855, formerly Prahran Primary School (1888), on High Street was converted into apartments in 2005. St Matthew's Church, a large bluestone church on High Street built in the 1880s, was converted into offices in the 1980s.
Residential architecture
Residential Prahran consists of mostly single storey Victorian and Edwardian terrace houses, with some larger double storey terraces closer to the main shopping strips.
Public space
Prahran features many small (largely hidden) gardens scattered throughout the suburb. The former Greville Botanical Gardens, now "Grattan Gardens", are off Greville Street, on Grattan Street. Subdivisions have caused incursions to what is now a narrow strip, with a playground and heritage pavilion. The Princes Gardens are a small garden, which features Chapel Off Chapel
Chapel Off Chapel is a theatre venue in Prahran, Melbourne. Located near Chapel Street and opened in 1995, the venue consists of the 255-seat Chapel Theatre, the 150-seat Chapel Loft and a visual arts gallery.
Chapel Off Chapel is particularly ...
, an old church converted into a theatre, as well as the Prahran skate park, home to the best vert skateboarding facilities in Victoria. Victoria Gardens, off High Street, is a Victorian era garden designed by notable landscape designer William Sangster in 1885. It features a sunken oval surrounded by London plane
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trees and a Victory bronze statue. The Orrong Romanis Park is the largest park in Prahran, although the Cato Street carpark has been converted into an urban square named Prahran Square.
Education
Prahran was home to Prahran College
The Prahran College of Advanced Education, formerly Prahran College of Technology, was a late-secondary and tertiary institution with a business school, a trade school, and a multi-disciplinary art school that dated back to the 1860s, populated ...
, a secondary and tertiary technical college and trade school that originated in Chapel Street as, and continued to be associated with, the Mechanics Institute. It incorporated an art school which particularly from around the 1960s produced graduates who went on to become significant Australians. From 1968 it was situated in a multi-storey building in High Street, demolished in 2017 for the construction by the Andrews government of a $25 million 'vertical' secondary college, next to Melbourne Polytechnic and the National Institute of Circus Arts
The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) is a government-accredited tertiary-level circus school in Australia, located in Prahran, Victoria.
History
NICA was established in 1995 by Swinburne University of Technology after a study revealed t ...
, and which opened in 2019. Alumni include painters Howard Arkley
Howard Arkley (5 May 1951 – 22 July 1999) was an Australian artist, born in Melbourne, known for his airbrushed paintings of houses, architecture and suburbia. His parents were Australian, and had British ancestry.
Early career
John Brack wa ...
, Douglas Baulch
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Early life
Baulch was born at Malvern, Victoria, Australia, being the only son and youngest of three children of Ernest Stanley Baulch. He is com ...
, Christopher Beaumont, Peter Churcher, William Dargie
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, Robert Jacks
Robert Jacks (8 March 1943, Melbourne—14 August 2014, Castlemaine) was an Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker.
Born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied sculpture from 1958 to 1960 at the Prahran Technical College, Melbourne, and ...
, William Kelly, David Larwill; printmakers Basil Hadley and Merris Hillard; designers Mimmo Cozzolino
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Domenico Cozzolino was born 1949 in Ercolano, Naples, Ital ...
and Martine Murray; photographers Robert Ashton, Andrew Chapman, Susan Fereday, Bill Henson
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Art
Henson has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, the National Gal ...
, Carol Jerrems, Tony Maskill
Tony Maskill is an Australian photographer.
Biography
Tony Maskill was born in 1948 in Manchester, England. He worked as the hotel photographer in the Southern Cross in Melbourne while studying photography at Prahran College
The Prahran Co ...
, Leonie Reisberg, Stephen Wickham and sculptor Stuart Devlin
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.
Transport
Prahran is serviced by Prahran station, on the Sandringham line, as well as trams routes 5, 6, 64, 72 and 78.
Notable people
* Graham Berry – (1822–1904) Colonial politician, and 11th Premier of Victoria, was a grocer in Prahran in the 1850s.
* Maurice Blackburn
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...
– (1880–1944) Australian lawyer and Labor Party politician, who died in Prahran in 1944.
* Raelene Boyle
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– Australian athlete, who worked for the Prahran City Council as a landscape gardener.
* Keith Campbell, first Australian to win a Grand Prix motorcycle racing
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world championship in 1957.
* Barlow Carkeek
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– (1878–1937) Victorian and Australian cricketer died in Prahran in 1937.
* Walter Joseph Cawthorn – Soldier
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, diplomat
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and a former head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service
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Australia
* Australia, a country
* Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia
** European Australians
** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists
** Aboriginal Aus ...
(ASIS) was born in Prahran in 1896.
* Percy Cerutty
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The eccentric Australian pioneered a home-spun system of "Stotan" training, embracing a holistic regime of natural diets, hard train ...
– Eccentric athletics
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** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
coach of Herb Elliott
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was born in Prahran in 1895.
* Arthur Henry Cobby – Leading air ace in the Australian Flying Corps
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during World War I was born in Prahran.
* Paul Cox – film director who lived in Prahran and taught at Prahran College 1967–1980.
* John "Jack" Edwards – Test
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* ''Test'' (2014 film), ...
cricket
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er, was born in Prahran in 1860.
* Mark Evans (musician)
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– Bass guitarist with AC/DC
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from 1975 to 1977.
* Tony Gaze – WW2 fighter ace and first Australian racing driver to compete in an overseas Grand Prix, born in Prahran in 1920.
* Lisa Gerrard
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– Australian musician and singer, part of the music group Dead Can Dance
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, lived in Prahran.
* John Gorton
Sir John Grey Gorton (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002) was an Australian politician who served as the nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1968 to 1971. He led the Liberal Party during that time, having previously been a l ...
− 19th Prime Minister of Australia
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* Lachy Hulme
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Early life
Hulme was born in Melbourne, Victori ...
– Australian actor and screenwriter, lives in Prahran.
* Herbert Hyland
Sir Herbert John Thornhill Hyland (15 March 1884 – 18 March 1970), storekeeper, investor, and politician, was born in 1884 at Prahran, Melbourne, second son of George Hyland, a Victorian-born painter, and his wife Mary, née Thornhill, from Ir ...
– (1884–1970) Investor and Country Party politician, was born on 15 March 1884 in Prahran.
* Sammy J
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– Musical Comedian
* Gertrude Johnson
Gertrude Emily Johnson (13 September 1894 – 28 March 1973) was an Australian coloratura soprano and founder of the National Theatre Movement in Melbourne.
Early life
Johnson was born in 1894 at Prahran, Melbourne. She was the seco ...
– (1894–1973) Soprano
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and founder of the National Theatre, born in Prahran in 1894.
* Chris Judd
Christopher Dylan Judd (born 8 September 1983) is a former professional Australian rules footballer and captain of both the West Coast Eagles and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Widely regarded as one of the bes ...
– Former Carlton
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* Carlton (singer), English soul singer Carlton McCarthy
* Carlton, a pen name used by Joseph Caldwell (1773–1835), American educator, Presbyterian ...
captain, has a luxury home in Prahran.
* George Hodges Knox
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Knox was born in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran on 17 December 1885 and educated ...
– Australian politician, after whom the City of Knox
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is named, was born in Prahran in 1885.
* Sam Loxton
Samuel John Everett Loxton (29 March 19213 December 2011) was an Australian cricketer, footballer and politician. Among these three pursuits, his greatest achievements were attained on the cricket field; he played in 12 Tests for Australia ...
– Australian Test cricketer, played for Prahran in Victorian Premier Cricket
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, later represented the area in the Victorian Legislative Assembly
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The presiding ...
.
* Rebecca Maddern
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Maddern is currently weekend presenter of ''Seven News Melbourne'' with Mike Amor and presents ''Seven Afternoon News'' in Melbourne.
She has worked a ...
– ex Seven News presenter and now AFL Footy show co host.
* Dr. John Marden – (1855–1924) Headmaster
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, pioneer of women's education, and Presbyterian
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elder, was born in Prahran in 1855.
* Gillon McLachlan
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– Chief Executive Officer of Australian Football League
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.
* Paul Medhurst
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In his 2008 season, he was selected in the All-Australian team and h ...
– Collingwood footballer, currently living in Prahran.
* John Safran
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– Documentarian and media personality.
* Daryl Somers
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– television personality
* Sir John Armstrong Spicer –(1899–1978) Attorney-General
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in the Menzies government
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Derivation and history
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, was born in Prahran in 1899.
* Henry Tate
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Born in White Coppice, a hamlet near Chorley, Lancashire, Tate wa ...
– Poet and musician, was born in Prahran in 1873.
* Brian Taylor – Former Australian rules football
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er and coach of Prahran Football Club in the VFA, present-day television commentator for Seven Network
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* Eliza Taylor
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– Actress
* George Tolhurst
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Born in Maidstone, Kent, George emigrated to Melbourne with his father, where he practised as a teacher of music. He returned to Engla ...
– (1827–1877) English Australian Composer. Composed the first oratorio ''Ruth'', in the Colony of Victoria and first performed in 1864 in Prahan.
* Keith William "Bluey" Truscott – World War II ace fighter pilot
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and Australian rules football
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er, was born in Prahran in 1916.
* Harry Frederick Ernest "Fred" Whitlam – Crown Solicitor
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and father of Prime Minister
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Gough Whitlam
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was born in Prahran in 1884.
See also
* City of Prahran
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– Prahran was previously within this former local government area.
* Electoral district of Prahran
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The electorate is the state’s smallest by area, ...
* Prahran College
The Prahran College of Advanced Education, formerly Prahran College of Technology, was a late-secondary and tertiary institution with a business school, a trade school, and a multi-disciplinary art school that dated back to the 1860s, populated ...
(1864–1992), a late-secondary and tertiary institution with a trade school, business school, and a multi-disciplinary art school.
* ''Prahran Telegraph
The ''Prahran Telegraph'' was a weekly newspaper published from 1860 to 1930 in Prahran, an inner-suburb of the city of Melbourne, Australia. No copy pre-1866 is known to have survived. From 1866 (or earlier) until December 1888, the paper was c ...
'', local newspaper from 1860–1930s
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Gay villages in Australia
LGBT culture in Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Stonnington