Melbourne's The Age commented that the show was " as a ' highly original ' and ' unrestricted ' cross of Friends and Seinfeld ", while The Guardians Mark Lawson similarly said, " British commissioners have long dreamed that some local comedy lab would clone Friends or Seinfield.

With an eclectic mix of programmes and a commitment to independence and integrity, 3RRR has been cited as a model for community radio stations in other cities ( such as Sydney's FBi Radio ); it has been said that it is a cornerstone of Melbourne's alternative / underground culture.

Graeme Bell was an important contributor to Melbourne's 1940s traditional jazz boom and in 1947 his band was a great success when they played at the World Youth Festival in Prague, Czechoslovakia, going on to tour Europe and finally basing themselves in England where they are said to have exerted a strong influence on the European traditional jazz revival of that era.

Lime obtained from the site is said to have been used in the building of Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station.

West has made several appearances on the AFL Footy Show and appeared on a pizza ad with Melbourne's David Neitz.

Melbourne's Southern Cross Hotel was built and named in 1962 and was one of the city's foremost hotels during the decade.

Melbourne's Spencer Street Station was rebuilt and renamed " Southern Cross Station " in 2006.

In 1999, Kehilat Nitzan, Melbourne's first Conservative ( Masorti ) Congregation was established, with foundation president Prof John Rosenberg.

Notable pub-rock venues include the Largs Pier Hotel and the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide, the Royal Antler Hotel in Narrabeen, Sydney and the Civic Hotel in Sydney's city centre, the famous Star Hotel in Newcastle NSW and the Station Hotel in Prahran, Melbourne, which was one of the premier pub-rock venues in Australia for more than two decades, Poyntons Carlton Club Hotel in Carlton Melbourne's first Sunday night Live pub-rock venue.

Menzies was admitted to the Victorian Bar and to the High Court of Australia in 1918 and soon became one of Melbourne's leading lawyers after establishing his own practice.

The competition garden was the entry of Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens.

The Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board was formed in 1919 to take control of Melbourne's cable tram network, six of the seven electric tramway companies and the last horse tram, by 1940 all cable and horse tram lines had been abandoned or converted to either electric tram or bus operation.

Melbourne's first tram was a horse tram from Fairfield railway station to a real estate development in Thornbury, it opened on 20 December 1884, and was closed by 1890.

The Zoo line was Melbourne's last horse tram and the only line still in operation at the formation of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board ( MMTB ), but it was destroyed by fire during the 1923 police strike.

This was Melbourne's only non-MTOC cable tram, built by local land speculators and was operated as an independent line, feeding the Clifton Hill line.

Due to demand for better public transport in Melbourne's inner suburbs of Prahran and Malvern the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust Act 1907 was enacted.

On 1 July 1997, in preparation for privatisation of the Public Transport Corporation, Melbourne's tram network was split into two businesses — Met Tram 1 ( later renamed Swanston Trams ) and Met Tram 2 ( later renamed Yarra Trams ).

In 2003 the marketing and umbrella brand Metlink was introduced to co-ordinate the promotion of Melbourne's public transport and the communications from the separate privatised companies.

Compromise was the key to many of Melbourne's actions.

Nonetheless, as historian Boyd Hilton concludes, " it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problematic.

Over the next four years Melbourne trained her in the art of politics and the two became friends: Victoria was quoted as saying she considered him like a father ( her own had died when she was only eight months old ), and Melbourne's daughter had died at a young age.

Tutoring Victoria was the climax of Melbourne's career — the prime minister spent four to five hours a day visiting and writing to her, and she responded with enthusiasm, and grew in wisdom.

In 2001 he was named as centre half-forward and captain of North Melbourne's Team of the Century and in 2008 was named as Australian football's greatest ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book The Australian Game of Football, which was released by the League to celebrate 150 years of Australian rules football.

The spaces between buildings were specifically designed as shop-filled laneways, pointing to Melbourne's historic lanes and arcades, many of which no longer exist due to the amalgamation of plots to build office buildings.

They include William Pitt's Venetian Gothic style Old Stock Exchange ( 1888 ), William Wardell's Gothic Bank ( 1883 ) which features some of Melbourne's finest interiors and A. C Goode House designed by Wright, Reed & Beaver ( 1891 ).

It was named after Robert Hoddle, the surveyor who designed Melbourne's Hoddle Grid and some of its inner suburbs such as Carlton.

The design was further modified for use on Melbourne's broad gauge track, and its control system was designed specifically to allow in-service coupling and operation with Comeng sets.

ICI House, built on the edge of the Melbourne CBD on Nicholson Street between 1955 and 1958 and designed by Bates, Smart & McCutcheon, is notable as being one of the first curtain wall glass skyscrapers in the world and the first skyscraper to break Melbourne's strict height limits.

While notable terrace housing is predominant in the area, the suburb also has some fine remnant mansions, the oldest and largest in East Melbourne being the blue stone colonial mansion Bishopscourt ( designed by Newson & Blackburn ), which dates back to 1853, was used as Victoria's Government House in 1874 – 1876 and has been the residence for all of Melbourne's Anglican Bishops and Archbishops since its completion.

The building was designed by Charles D ' Ebro, one of Melbourne's premier architects of the time.

Route 2, or the Yarra Scenic Drive is one of Melbourne's few metropolitan transport routes which is not designed as a convenient route, but a tourist drive following the Yarra River as closely as possible.

* ( 1888 ) Princes Bridge, Melbourne's most significant was designed by D ' Ebro as a minor partnership in the firm Jenkins, D ' Ebro and Grainger.

FKA also designed Eureka Tower completed in June 2006 in Southbank, which has become Melbourne's tallest building and one of the tallest residential buildings in the world.

Initially designed to be held every two years, the trophy was first contested as a one-off match in 2000, with Australia winning the game 44-23 at Melbourne's Colonial Stadium.

Because of all this there has been much controversy over the construction of the North – South Pipeline, which will pipe 70 billion litres of water annually to Melbourne's water supply.

White played all but one of Melbourne's matches in 2001, and after a commanding performance against his former club in Round 21 where had 33 possessions, kicked two goals, and received three Brownlow Medal votes, then-Fremantle coach Ben Allan responded to a suggestion that White may leave Melbourne at the end of the season by saying " we'll have him back ".

Prior to its 2006 TV broadcast in Australia Sacha Molitorisz of The Age Newspaper reviewed the film saying ‘ This fresh documentary explores Melbourne's flourishing graffiti subculture .’ Other notable screenings include the 17 August 2008 event of documentaries programmed in the ' Street Art ' exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.

Trams have operated continuously in Melbourne since 1884, with the opening of a horse tram line in Fairfield, since then they have become a distinctive part of Melbourne's character and feature in tourism and travel advertising.

Historiacally RPH stood for " Radio for the Print Handicapped " and they began in Australia in 1975 on Melbourne's 3ZZ.

Because of the economic crisis of 2008, which led to large falls in share prices, many wealthy home owners in Melbourne's prestigious suburbs were forced to sell their homes to cover share margin calls or because they had lost their jobs in the finance and banking sectors.

From 1993 to 1999 they played their home games to Waverley Park in Mulgrave in Melbourne's east.

Doyle was criticised for sending in riot police to evict peaceful protesters who had gathered in Melbourne's City Square and failed to comply with an eviction notice he had ordered to be issued to them, stating on ABC radio they were " a self-righteous, narcissistic, self-indulgent rabble ( that ) tried to capture the city.

He played in all of Melbourne's 25 matches for the season as they reached the preliminary final, where they lost to.

In July 2008 there were reports that they are bidding to have the right to operate Melbourne's extensive metropolitan train network, aligned with United Group.

Leonski is known as both the " Brownout Strangler ", given Melbourne's wartime status of keeping low lighting ( not as stringent as a wartime blackout ) and also as the " Singing Strangler " due to his self confessed motive for the killings being a twisted fasination with female voices, especially when they were singing, and his claim that he killed the women to " get at their voices.

His debut was for Melbourne was in Round 8, 2001, when they met Essendon for the first time since Melbourne's 2000 Grand Final loss.

Tate's motivation for establishing the school was to allow students from state primary schools to continue their education, which would otherwise have ended if they could not afford to join one of Melbourne's private schools.

On June 25, 2009, it was announced that Transdev's contract for running Melbourne's tram network would not be renewed, they ceased operating Melbourne's trams on November 29, 2009.

Tonga competed as a seventeenth team, but as they were unable to commit to the full draw they played a series of matches against Team Asia and Team Africa, sides drawn from Melbourne's migrant communities.