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Facilities and Restaurants in the Local Area
During normal business hours, you should be able to meet most of your needs on campus. Union House has a small supermarket and a chemist. There is a post office on campus as well as branches of the National Australia Bank and the Commonwealth Bank. Nearby Lygon Street has a Safeway Supermarket between Faraday Street and Elgin Street.Lygon Street also has a large range of restaurants and cafés open for dinner. Simply follow your nose down Faraday Street for two blocks after you exit the Asia Centre, and Lygon Street stretches out to your left and right. We suggest the Italian restaurant Tiamos (just on your left) as an inexpensive and decent quality option for dinner.
Other nearby locations of interest (for shopping, eating, exploring) might include the CBD, Brunswick Street and Smith Street.
For those wishing to explore further a field, see the links below and we will include a tourist guide to Melbourne in the conference pack.
Computer Access (email, printing)
Reasonably priced internet and printing facilities can be found near the university at Scott's Copy and Print Express on Swanston Street. Animal Orchestra, a café on Grattan Street, also offers customers with laptops free wireless access.Transport from Melbourne Airport (Tullamarine)
If you are arriving from the Melbourne airport you can take a taxi from the ranks outside the arrivals gate (around $30-40 to the CBD) or catch a red Skybus to Spencer Street in the City (around $15 one way, $24 return), leaving every 15 minutes with a journey time of about 20 minutes. For more details on this service and the hotel shuttle service go to www.skybus.com.au/Public Transport - General Information
Melbourne has an integrated public transport system including trams, trains and buses. Metcard tickets can be pre-purchased from most newsagents and 7-Eleven stores for short trip, two-hour, all day or weekly fares and can also be purchased from coin only ticket machines on the trams. Inner Melbourne has an extensive tram system and further details of fares, maps and timetables can be found at www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/Taxi cabs may be hailed anywhere in the city or phone to book ring 13 2227
Public Transport to the University of Melbourne Campus
Public transport access to the campus is by tram along Swanston Street on the eastern boundary and Royal Parade on the west. The following tram routes from the city centre run to the campus:Swanston Street 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 16, 22, 64, 67, 72.
Some of these routes terminate adjacent to gate 4 on Swanston Street and others continue past the university to the northern suburbs.
Royal Parade 19.
Tickets may be purchased from coin-operated machines on the trams.A map of the tram network, including a detail of the city centre and covering the University, can be found here. [pdf 115kb]
Maps of individual tram routes in pdf format can be downloaded here.
Car Parking
Prior to 4:00 pm on weekdays parking on the campus is restricted to permit holders only. After 4:00 pm on weekdays and all day Saturday and Sunday limited public parking is available on campus in the main car park, located under the South Lawn in the centre of the campus - Building 195 on the campus map above. The cost is $4.00 in coins per entry by machine and access is via gate 4 on the east side of the campus from Swanston Street (at the main tram stop and intersection with Faraday Street) or alternatively via gate 10 from Grattan Street on the south side of the campus (opposite University Square).Car parking may also be found in adjacent streets and is usually for specified periods and controlled by parking meters or ticket machines.
There are several commercial parking stations in the area, including the Royal Women's Hospital car park on the north-east corner of Grattan and Cardigan Streets, one block to the east of the campus.
Further details of car parking on and around the campus can be found at www.pb.unimelb.edu.au/parking/whereyoushouldpark/ when the page opens select the 'Car Parking' button.
General Touring Information
For general touring information see Tourism Victoria www.visitvictoria.com/This site provides information on events in Melbourne as well as trips around Victoria, some of the highlights being the Great Ocean Road and the Goldfields. The site can also be used to find alternative accommodation, currency conversion and details on the weather to expect during your time in Melbourne. The drop down menu of Travel Info will provide you with details on hire cars.
Local Attractions
For information about the exhibitions and events at Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Centre at the Melbourne Museum see museumvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka/For information about the Koorie Heritage Trust and its Cultural Centre see www.koorieheritagetrust.com/
During the spring and summer months Aboriginal Heritage Walks take place in the Royal Botanic Gardens www.rbg.vic.gov.au/rbg_melbourne/visitorinfo/whats_on