The Kennett government also embarked on a series of high-profile capital works projects, such as the restoration of Parliament House ( never completed ), construction of a new $ 250 million Melbourne Museum and IMAX theatre, and a new $ 130 million Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre ( still known colloquially as ' Jeff's Shed ').

* 1995 – 00: Grollo Tower project, Melbourne, Australia ( never built )

However, she was never the Viscountess Melbourne because she died before Melbourne succeeded to the peerage ; hence, she is known to history as Lady Caroline Lamb.

This year's contest was the first to be televised in Australia, via Channel 0 / 28 ( now SBS Television ) in Sydney and Melbourne, although that country is never allowed to participate.

In pitiful condition, King survived the two-month trip back to Melbourne, and died eleven years later, aged 33, having never recovered his health.

These reserves were never staffed by whites and were not permanent camps, but acted as distribution depots where rations and blankets were distributed, with the intention being to keep the tribes away from the growing settlement of Melbourne.

After marriage, Porteus attempted study at the University of Melbourne but with mixed success and he never graduated.

His international career got off to a sensational start in the Centenary Test at Melbourne in 1977 when he hit England captain Tony Greig for five consecutive boundaries, but a combination of circumstances ensured that he never became a regular in the Australian team.

* Marital Status-44. 6 % of the population have never married, compared to the Melbourne average of 34. 8 %.

Though the Kestrels had made the finals several times, they never played in a grand final, and were often been seen as a lesser cousin of the rival Melbourne Phoenix.

Butterfield never saw the site and the building work was frequently delayed by disputes between Butterfield in England and the church authorities in Melbourne.

Cutmore joined standover man Norman Bruhn, also originally from Melbourne, in a notorious razor gang who stole the illicit gains of their underworld peers, knowing their crimes would never be reported to the police.

In January 2011, Variety reported that another version of the film was scheduled to begin shooting in June in Melbourne and New York with new director Robert Connolly and a cast featuring LaPaglia, Vera Farmiga, Mia Wasikowska and Sam Neill, but it never went into production after Miller's daughter Rebecca rejected LaPaglia's request to extend the rights to the film that had expired on October 11, thus officially ending the project.

Barrington made 104 against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval ( a ground where he never failed to make 50 runs in the 10 innings he played there ), 219 not out against an Australian XI as the MCC made 633 / 7, the highest score by the MCC or England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and 183 not out against Queensland at the Gabba.

Wisden commented that " it is certain that such a piece of folly will never be perpetrated again " but the cause was rivalry between clubs in Melbourne and Sydney, who both wanted to promote an English team ; and Wisden recorded that the Melbourne venture returned a significant loss of revenue.

Since the law, cycling in Melbourne has never been able to recover its previous share of the transport split.

In 1311 Robert de Holand fortified the existing royal manor house to create Melbourne Castle, though the fortification was never completed.

These reserves were never staffed by whites and were not permanent camps, but acted as distribution depots where rations and blankets were distributed, with the intention being to keep the tribes away from the growing settlement of Melbourne.

Known as the " Sailor with a charmed life " because he never lost a man at sea, Rear Admiral Gillis died at Melbourne Beach, Florida.

However, the team never drew well, and when they only managed to attract 5, 000 fans per game, Kroc sold the team to a group who planned to move it to Melbourne, Florida.

Murnane was born in Coburg, Melbourne, and has almost never left the state of Victoria.

England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”

The club won successive premierships in 1911 and 1912 over Collingwood and South Melbourne respectively.

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.

Collingwood succumbed first as the Dons powered their way to an 82 point first semi final victory, and a fortnight later it was the turn of the North Melbourne Football Club as Essendon won the preliminary final a good deal more comfortably than the ultimate margin of 17 points suggested.

Geelong finally won its first VFL premiership in 1925, being the first club outside of Melbourne to achieve this.

Holt won a scholarship to Queen's College at the University of Melbourne and began his law degree in 1927.

He scored 71 in a rain-affected first test at Melbourne before a tense second test that South Africa won by 5 runs.

* 1992 – Pakistan national cricket team won the 1992 Cricket World Cup first time in the history of cricket, Final was played at Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The 1985 Melbourne Cup, won by " What a Nuisance ", was the first race run in Australia with prize money of $ 1 million.

In that year, North Melbourne won a third Minor Premiership with 16 wins and 6 losses for the season, but failed to make the Grand Final.

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

The first officially recognised Test match commenced on 15 March 1877, contested by England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ), where Australia won by 45 runs.

They finally won the first semi against Essendon, and the following year took out their only premiership so far, beating Geelong and then Melbourne in the 1954 VFL Grand Final.

Also, similar to his father's gold medals in rowing at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics, he competed in the sport at the 1948, 1952 and the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where, on November 27, seven months after his sister's Monaco wedding, he won a bronze medal, which he gave to her as a gift of the occasion.

In 2000, Australian actor Barry Humphries won the Special Tony Award for a live theatrical event at the 55th Annual Tony Awards for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, Dame Edna being his " Melbourne Housewife " alter-ego who was recently on Broadway in the show All About Me.

* Archer ( horse ), an Australian racehorse that won the first two Melbourne Cups in 1861 and 1862

Morrow then went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where he won three gold medals and was the leader of the American sprint team.

In a remarkable season, Carlton languished with a record of 3 – 6 after nine weeks, but won ten of the remaining eleven home-and-away matches to finish fourth ; Carlton then comfortably beat in the first semi-final, overcame a 28-point deficit in the final quarter to beat Collingwood in the preliminary final, then beat South Melbourne in the notoriously brutal and violent Bloodbath Grand Final.

St Kilda won its semi-final against South Melbourne and then defeated Fitzroy two weeks later 10. 10.

In 1900 Melbourne won its first VFL premiership, by defeating Fitzroy.

In that year Melbourne won its second flag.

At the end of the season, Melbourne finished 16th on the ladder and for a second year in a row won no more than four games which granted them a Priority Pick in the National Draft.