Until 1966, harsh liquor licensing closed pubs at 6pm and caused rampant binge drinking and fights in the streets as Melbourne’s men knocked off work and threw back as many beers as they could in an ...

From the distinctive Sharpies of the sixties to the Dandy Turks of the early ’90s, gangs have long inflicted terror on Melbourne’s streets. And some of them are ...

THE current gangs crisis isn’t new and calls for authorities to “get tough on crime” are misreading the situation, writes Theo Theophanous. I grew up in Broadmeadows and in the late ’60s, groups of ...

Set against a backdrop of Melbourne Sharpie subculture in 1972, precocious teenagers and wannabe poets/sharpies, Adam Pescado and his unwholesomely close friend Cliff Marr are on the loose on the ...

MELBOURNE pubs once closed at six o’clock, women had to fight for the right to drink in bars, and we raved at superclubs in the ‘80s. Take a look back at our city’s changing nightlife. Until 1966, ...