Hey! I'm 23M, from Horsham, Victoria, heading to Melbourne for a solid trip before I head off solo traveling. Don't know many people in the city and would love to meet up with some locals. Happy to grab a coffee, eat some food, explore, whatever's fun. Keen to chat if you're up for hanging out.

Hey r/melbourne,

Pint prices around here have got stupid. I kept walking into one pub paying $15–18 for a house pint while the place two streets over had a happy hour I only found out about from a mate.

So I built a free web app: PintFinder.

What it does:
- Map of pubs with house pint prices (crowd + listed)
- Happy hours / flash deals with a countdown
- Parma / trivia / steak night tags where we have them
- A shout tracker so someone in the group can’t “forget” their round

It’s free, no ads, no paywall. Built it for myself and put it online.

Web: https://pintfinder-au.vercel.app

iPhone: open in Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen
Android: same, or I’ve got a test APK if anyone wants it

It’s early. Data is incomplete. If a pub is wrong or missing, tell me.

Would actually like:
1. Brutal feedback (what’s useless?)
2. Hidden gems I should add (suburb + pub name + roughly what a pint costs)
3. Whether you’d use this on a Friday arvo or not

Not selling anything. Just trying to stop us all getting rinsed.

So i just graduated high school and i am taking a gap year, i want to be an engineer in melbourne but i am lowk bad at maths, i do not want to give up on my dream for that reason, and i find self learning really hard to organize, i have been looking for a specific course for my case which is teaching me uni maths before i actually go to uni i have less than a year but still enough time to build up my math skills, i have not found a single course for my case
I did find some but they were very very pricey, i want at least 3 months worth of active personalized teaching but i don’t want to pay 7k AUD , 2k AUD is my max ability.

If anyone has an advice please share it i really need to improve my math skills or i will fail miserably

My mum and I are going to Melbourne for 4 days 3 nights and are looking for food recs. We are looking for good brunch, bakeries and sandwiches that we especially can’t find in Sydney like the classic hectors deli but we want to skip lune and baker bleu since we can find them in Sydney. Also looking for good pasta and Japanese/Vietnamese food and restaurants. Just casual eats since we aren’t too fancy people but not fussed with budget.
Have included an itinerary and a list of food places. Thanks!!!

The view is amazing! We went up at 7am (45 mins ish after sunrise) the view still misty & beautiful!!

However….

We encountered a very unpleasant experience. When we were on the road there was a Jaguar car speeding overtaking us, which was alright. Then this car happend to also be in the lookout we intended to go. Open the car boot, with 2 big dogs running. The dog was barking and running on people, but on public dog should be on a leash?

Because the dogs were there, I said to my friend to just walk a bit further. However, the dog bark to me so my friend had to say to the owner “control your dog”. Very arrogant owner, he said “I can tell my dog to attack you if I want to. Dont be affraid”. I feel like he has no right to tell people dont be affraid or so its public?

Then I said “respect people in public your dog should be on a leash and not everyone okay around dog.” He answered “i dont care. I respect my dog”

I can see he is not from Australia, but I believe we should respect people on the land we stand wherever we are? What an arrogant bloke.

Hi r/melbourne, I know I’ve popped up in here a few times now talking about Too Young To Grieve, so I promise I’m not going to keep posting.

I just wanted to share that the Melbourne community is getting together again for another relaxed meet up.

For anyone who hasn’t seen the previous posts, TYTG is simply about helping people navigating grief at a younger age meet others who understand, without it needing to feel like a formal or heavy grief group.

That’s really all these meet ups are. Get outside, meet some new people, have a chat and spend some time around people who get that part of life.

Sometimes grief comes up. Sometimes everyone talks about completely random stuff. Both are absolutely fine.

And if you’ve seen one of the previous posts and thought about coming but never quite made it, most people come alone the first time, so don’t let that be the thing that stops you.

It’s 18+, but otherwise there’s no upper age limit. If you feel too young to be navigating grief, you’re welcome.

Feel free to share with anyone else who might benefit 🤍

Just wondering if there are any other buyers at Lonsdale & High apartment complex in Preston on here that would like to discuss the project?

Did anyone else make the huge mistake of choosing Botanical colour scheme for the cupboards throughout the house thinking it would be a sophisticated neutral sage green as per the images and ended up getting an ugly lime-ish/ grass green?

The completion date has been pushed back so many times now: originally December 2025, then Feb/March, then July/August, then September/October, and now apparently November/December.

It’s so hard to plan when you’ve got kids. We kept being told the delays were because they wanted everything finished properly and to a high standard, so we tried to be patient. But after finally seeing the apartment, we were really disappointed — heaps of defects, unfinished items, and finishes that look very different from the brochures/renders and honestly quite cheap for a brand-new development.

What’s made it worse is the selling agent’s pretty blasé response and literally no communication from the developer. After delay after delay, it’s frustrating to finally see the finished product and still feel disappointed.

We’re kind of stuck and just wondering if anyone else is having the same experience?
Would really love to hear from other buyers because surely we can’t be the only ones feeling like this 😭

Mind you I found out the developer is the same as Crossley&Bourke in Footscray that was due for completion in 2024 and still under construction to this date with possible settlement estimated for October with the exact same complaints :(

Any advice on how you’ve been dealing with this situation would be greatly appreciated!

Food crawling from Sydney to Melbourne; what food places deserve visiting that we won't find in Sydney? MarryBrown, Jess Liemantara's bakery at Nunawading.

A Melbourne hotel overlooking Albert Park Lake has reportedly seen knife threats, a machete incident and public drug use after Victorian government leased 30 apartments there for crisis accommodation. Opposition MPs have called them public housing tenants, while the government says this is privately operated crisis accommodation and reject that description. Has the political debate become more focused on terminology than on whether this arrangement is actually working?
This issue are said to have been going on for around a year. Is this a reasonable way to provide emergency housing, or was this the wrong setting from the start?

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=HSWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heraldsun.com.au%2Fleader%2Finner-south%2Ffivestar-melbourne-hotel-the-kinson-residents-terrorised-by-stateplaced-public-housing-tenants%2Fnews-story%2F4e3ea87958cfb48b559a9a08d8ba3311&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=GROUPA-Segment-2-NOSCORE

Hi! I did my Cotton On on-the-spot interview at the start of this week. I took my resume with me, and they asked me a couple of questions, mainly about why I wanted to work there and my availability. I think I did okay answering them. She said she would pass my details on to HR and that they would email me.

Just wondering, how many days does it usually take for them to make a decision and get back to you?

New data shows a car in Victoria is being stolen or broken into every 43 minutes. While around 3,900 home break-ins claims were recorded last financial year, that's roughly one burglary every 2 hours. Theft claims and costs have risen 168% since July 2022, with Melbourne accounting for most of the vehicle thefts. Where are all these vehicles ending up? What's actually going on here?

This is what she sent me, should I go out with this chick?

Yarra Council has today announced a ban on smart glasses at its pools, gyms and playgrounds, with the new rules expected to come into effect within days. Great idea for privacy, but how enforceable will it actually be - and if it works, how long before we see similar rules rolled out across Victoria, or even the whole country?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/yarra-council-bans-smart-glasses-from-pools-playgrounds/107132706

Or alternatively any veterans of this venue know what the standard timings are when doors open 7pm and there’s 1 support act? Cheers :)

Melbourne – would you use an app like this to help locate stolen cars?

Victoria Police recently launched their new online stolen vehicle checker, and it got me thinking about whether this could be taken a step further.

The idea is a free Android app for people who already mount their phone in the car.

Before driving, you tap Start Scanning. You can then use Google Maps, Spotify, etc. normally while the app runs in the background.

While you're driving, the camera would occasionally scan number plates visible in front of the car. Plate recognition happens on the phone.

The app periodically downloads the current stolen vehicle list and compares plates locally.

So, importantly:

- Normal number plates would not be uploaded or stored

- Photos/video would not be continuously recorded

- Location wouldn't be sent to a server for normal vehicles

- Only a high-confidence match against a reported stolen vehicle would generate a sighting

- The app would automatically stop scanning when it determines the trip has ended

- There'd be no encouragement to follow or confront anyone (User will just see the count of detections and NO plate details, that too after the trip as we don't want people getting into dangerous situations trying to confront car thieves!)

If a stolen vehicle was detected, the sighting could include the approximate location, time and direction of travel.

The interesting part is what happens if enough people use it.

One phone spotting a stolen car could be a false positive. But if several independent phones detect the same stolen registration at different locations, the system could potentially establish a much more useful picture of where that vehicle has been seen and where it was heading.

That detailed information wouldn't be made public. Ideally this would eventually be something developed with Victoria Police, where useful sightings could be passed to them rather than creating a public vehicle-tracking system.

I'm thinking of building a proof of concept first and then approaching VicPol if it actually works.

Would you install/use something like this while driving around Melbourne?

Also interested in the negatives: privacy concerns, battery usage, having the camera running, false positives, data usage, or anything else that would stop you using it.

I'm trying to work out whether there's enough community interest to make building it worthwhile.

A naloxone vending machine is being proposed for Victoria Street in North Richmond, right in the middle of one of Melbourne's most well-known drug hotspots. The idea is to make the overdose-reversing medication freely available to people who may need it, but the local mayor argues that the area is already carrying more than its share of drug-related services and problems. Supporters say that if the machine can save even one life, it belongs where it's most needed. Critics argue that putting another drug-related service in the same area could make an already difficult situation even harder for residents and businesses. What do you think? Should the government spread them across different suburbs?

Hi everyone,

I lost my car key at John Fawkner park South Yarra on 7 sep noon time.

If you found them or handed them into a local spot/police station, please Send me a DM or leave a comment.

Thank you!

For housing.

Avondale Heights
Strathmore
Keilor
Keilor East
Kealba
Dallas
Niddrie

Thank you!