
The InForum Group, run by two key lifestyle Sydney based professional industry figures Jenny Garber and Fiona Coogan, will present special guest speaker fashion and travel journalist Marion Hume as the business community gets back into gear to start the 2012 year.

The Melbourne city precinct from Federation Square to Bourke Street Mall has been transformed into a Christmas wonderland. From the precinct of St Paul’s Cathedral where Christmas light projections reflect on the original Christmas journey to the Docklands packed with tourists from around the country and overseas there is plenty of meeting and greeting, eating and drinking going on.

AAAAAAAgh, today I am living with so much noise around me that I fear I will become deaf soon and my only option is to complain loudly.

Do the protagonists on television’s real estate renovating reality show, The Block at Melbourne in 2011 face a renovating nightmare, or a restoration delight?

Fillies in fabulous frocks showing off their festival form and fine fetlocks usually happens at Melbourne in November at the horse racing event of the Australian calendar, the Melbourne Cup. But even the fastest of them would not finish ahead of the ferocious fashionista’s all clad in fantastic finery competing, clamouring and cramming into celebratory events all over the city during L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Week March 14 – 20, 2011.

Here at Melbourne, where the climate creates four full seasons, laying out parks and planting trees developed into an art form. Today with many over a hundred years old, it is the cities trees that are among its greatest assets.

Each of our capital cities around the coast of Australia has a distinct personality of its own and its share of shady characters. But is Melbourne Australia’s capital city for crooks? Well, I suspect no maybe the correct answer, because the headlines from other capital city newspapers have some pretty tawdry events happening too. In a city that promotes itself as a leader in the humanities, arts and culture and, as being very refined however, there is a temptation always to compare our Melbourne’s achievements to its reputed underbelly.

The Next Wave Festival of Melbourne presents an open invitation to take a leap into the unknown and answer the question ‘How can we act boldly and imaginatively, in both art and in life’?. Is no risk too great?

In Melbourne, between June and October this year, the sensational new Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) has secured a coup – and will present, exclusively, Tim Burton: An Exhibition featuring over 700 works, including paintings, drawings, puppets, costumes, storyboards and film.

It seemed poetic on Saturday that, as I was working on the production of the Roman epoch and destruction of Vesuvius in 79AD by the forces of nature, when wild storms unleashed their full fury on Melbourne.