Melbourne’s GPO on film part 3

Like Duran Duran’s infamous girls, we are now “on film” too! As the Melbourne International Film Festival is in full swing we will be holding our own online mini-film festival. Students from the Photography Studies College have assembled a series of short stories which we will publish in coming days.

Here is the third by Antony Baxter featuring the hustle and bustle of a typical day of shopping in the heart …

Melbourne’s GPO on film part 1

Like Duran Duran’s infamous girls, we are now “on film” too! As the Melbourne International Film Festival is in full swing we will be holding our own online mini-film festival. Students from the Photography Studies College have assembled a series of short stories which we will publish in coming days.

Here is the first by Louise M Cooper which looks lovingly at the colourful characters we often find on our …

Strategies of Desire

Have you visited the State Library of Victoria’s ’til you drop: shopping – a Melbourne history exhibition yet? The month of June sees another special new reason to take a look. With the televisual phenomenon of Mad Men renewing interest in classic …

WIN tickets to Melbourne: the making of a shopping mecca

The State Library of Victoria is offering 5 lucky Lovers of the GPO a free double pass to Melbourne: the making of a shopping mecca. Sign up for our Lovers of the GPO e-news by clicking here before February 3rd for your chance to win. *Please note all passes have now been won. But feel free to sign up anyway…our next competition will be L’Oreal Melbourne …

’til you drop: Shopping – a Melbourne History

If you are one to regularly find yourself defending your shop-o-holism as “retail therapy” here is a new way to intellectualise and justify your favourite pursuit. Shopping is a crucial part of a Melburnian’s way of life.

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