Our Liveable City
Melbourne's most liveable suburbs and a little secret revealed
Clay Lucas She calls it the United Nations by the sea. And until recently it was one of Melbourne's little secrets. Beaches. Parks. Community. Half an hour to the city by train. Jennifer Williams grew up here and - after a few years slumming it in more fashionable suburbs - she came home to stay.
Living the dream: East Melbourne named city's most liveable
Shane Green The Liveable Melbourne study rates East Melbourne as the most liveable suburb but where does your postcode rank?
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Towards an even more marvellous Melbourne
Access to public transport is one of the most fundamental elements of liveability in any major city. The lack of it in many outer parts of Melbourne is one of our biggest public policy problems.
Find your perfect suburb
What's most important to you when deciding where to live? Use the sliding scales on our liveability calculator to find your ideal place from Melbourne’s 321 suburbs.
A tale of two Melbournes
Daniel Terrill and Adam Terrill Our city's much-lauded liveability masks some disturbing trends.
The shades of Melbourne leave much to be desired
Clay Lucas In the 1960s, an avenue of trees along Geelong Road in Footscray was torn down for a road-widening project. Now the city of Maribyrnong is replanting the entire road, bringing back the shade to the sun-bleached arterials of the west.
What life's like in Melbourne's most liveable suburb
Lucy Battersby Don't hate me for this, but one of my favourite things about living in East Melbourne is listening to the morning traffic report on the radio and knowing it is irrelevant. Instead I get a real sense of freedom and power that comes from living within walking and cycling distance of the office.
Congestion map a case of stuck in the middle with you (and everybody else)
Adam Carey Few suburbs in Melbourne are as rich in public transport as Northcote.
Sunshine, Frankston North and Jacana among Melbourne's most affordable liveable suburbs
Christina Zhou Melbourne's cheapest suburb ranking high on the liveability list is a small pocket wedged between Glenroy and Broadmeadows.
Fixing Melbourne's problems: What would you do?
Michael Short Today, we are giving you, the audience, a community forum to share and debate ideas about making Melbourne a better place in which to live and work. It is a fundamental element of our series about the quality of life in a metropolis that, despite repeatedly being names the world's most liveable city, has problems that if left unsolved will hurt hundreds of thousands of people as the population continues to surge and age.
