Get fresh with your local butcher by shopping your local independent business.
Shopping your local independent retailers helps the local economy and strengthens your community while making for a more enjoyable consumer experience.
What does your musical taste say about your personality and lifestyle?
Survey shows that personality traits are correlated with your musical taste. Blues, jazz, classical, opera, heavy metal or punk. Who are you?
Less massive trucks on our roads; we need to invest in our rail network
Transport by rail has fallen to 6.1%, which means the number of massive trucks going to and from the Port of Melbourne has significantly increased.
Local shops are vital for age-friendly communities
Local shops play an important role in older people’s daily lives and, for many, are an integral part of their social network.
The suburbs are the future of post-covid retail
Nomic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the required physical distancing measures will force many firms to introduce telework on a large scale.
More than milk and bread, corner stores could rebuild neighbourhoods.
Once an icon of suburban Australia, many neighbourhood corner stores vanished in the face of unrelenting competition from large supermarkets.
Third Spaces can be an effective remedy to urban loneliness.
Third places can help alleviate urban loneliness by creating or enhancing a sense of community on a smaller, more human scale.
Hipster gentrification. a defence: suburbs lack inner city’s third places.
Hipsters have an uneasy place in our cultural landscape, not least their role in gentrification.
Here’s where all our summertime Australian slang came from.
When we grab that snag, swag or esky, we’re doing more than celebrating summer. Let’s celebrate Australian slang.
Women gamers account for half of Australia’s gamers; but what about it?
Half of Australia’s gamers are women, but we know very little about mothers who game.
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