The Inspired Shopper

Ah, St Kilda - surely the place in Melbourne with the richest combination of social ingredients. Glorious, diverse, artistic and a little bit seedy, Melbourne's young bohemians started flocking to St Kilda and its bay beach after the Eastern Europeans who settled there after the war...

Are you trying to be more frugal? If so, you probably feel overwhelmed with all the advice about it. A good way to start is to look at how you think about spending and shopping, and about how much ‘stuff’ you actually want. The ancients knew a thing or two about budgeting....

The cute puppies frolicking in the window of your local pet shop seem happy. But there is a grim story to how they came to be there. Victoria’s puppy farms are cruel places. So cruel that the Victorian Coalition government went to the last election promising drastic improvements to...

Carlton is one of Melbourne's most treasured suburbs. On the fringe of the CBD, it is the city's Italian quarter but is so much more than that. Settled by the Jewish community in the early twentieth century, discovered by Melbourne's bohemians and uni students in the sixties and seventies...