Hi! This website is a set of audio tours of local places and things in Melbourne, Australia.


Tour guides are let loose to choose both the topic and audience of their tour.

Most tours are of places in that have special meaning for their tour guides. Places people go to find quiet, places that inspire daydreaming, places where they do their grocery shopping. And some tours take us onto more abstract terrain – tours of attitudes, of fictional characters from another era, of laughter.

About half of the tours cater for a specific or niche audience on a hunch that we’re not all the same: you will find a tour for people with anxiety, a tour for people who want to see live local music and a tour for people scared to go north of Bell Street.

There is one thing that all the tours have in common - people telling stories. Have a listen...

Long history of a short river: The Maribyrnong

Long history of a short river: The Maribyrnong

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The Maribyrnong is a short river, only 50 km from tip to toe, but it has a long history.
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Carlton’s lesser known street art histories

Carlton’s lesser known street art histories

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Follow the cobblestone pathways of Carlton to find street galleries and remnant political markings from the 1970s to last week!
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Lock out the landlords! A tour of unemployment resistance in Brunswick 1929-35

Lock out the landlords! A tour of unemployment resistance in Brunswick 1929-35

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The sites of some of Melbourne’s fiercest anti-eviction battles in the Great Depression.
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A tour of attitudes to public housing

A tour of attitudes to public housing

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What passers-by think about “the flats” – as overheard by Rosanna Fuentes, a public housing resident.
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A tour of the Carlton Neighbourhood Centre

A tour of the Carlton Neighbourhood Centre

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What the neighbourhood centre means to Maria Ibrahim and the local Hararian community.
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