Australia has real expensive laws about pirate radio, but there are some good community radio stations.

Technically, stations always have a '3' in front ('2' in Sydney, etc.), but some drop it.

• 3CR | 855AM
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• PBS | 106.7FM
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• RRR | 102.7FM
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Useful information for people new to Melbourne.

Getting to and from the airport is typically done via the SkyBus airport shuttle. But it's expensive (like twenty-and-a-half bucks). It goes express between Tullamarine Airport and Southern Cross Station.

But you can get a regular bus (so you can use a Myki [see §Myki]) that connects with the regular train system. It's a bit less straight-forward than the SkyBus, but if you're confident in navigating the PT network, it's a great way to save some money. Also great if you live / are staying on a train or tram line that the bus connects to, because the only place the Skybus stops is at Southern Cross Station.

The buses all leave from outside Terminal 4, and are:

• 478 Airport West SC | Map
• 479 Airport West SC - Sunbury Station | Map
• 482 Airport West SC | Map
• 901 Frankston | Map
  This one's the most useful, generally, and stops at a bunch of train stations, including Broadmeadows, Epping, Greensborough, Blackburn, Dandenong, and Kananook. Getting off at Broady and getting the train to where you want is probably the quickest option.

• Airport Buses on the Public Transport Victoria website.
• Melbourne Airport on Wikivoyage.

If arriving from the airport you can either buy a Myki at:

• The arrivals section in Terminals 2 and 3, or the baggage area at Terminal 4 | more info
• Numerous places mentioned in this thread: Is there anywhere at Melbourne Airport to buy a Myki?

• Melbourne Sexual Health Clinic offers free (even for tourists) sexual health checks.
• The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne and others offers free dental care to low-income people if you go on the waiting list (last time the wait time was about six months), or $30 emergency (same-day) dental care.

• Rise - 'Refugee and Asylum seeker organisation in Australia to be run and governed by Refugees'.
• Pets of the Homeless - Help homeless people's pets. Accept food donations.

• Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio - Synth library.
• Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West - Library and exhibition space focused on Melbourne's western suburbs.

• Melbourne Cinémathèque - 'Dedicated to screening rare & significant films in their original format.' Weekly.
• Melbourne International Film Festival ≈ August.
• Melbourne Filmoteca - 'Melbourne Filmoteca is a volunteer-driven, non-profit organisation hosting monthly screenings of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American films.'
• Static Vision (Facebook) - 'Self-funded, fully-independent film screening collective and occasional distributor.'
• Cinemaniacs (Facebook) - 'Melbourne Film Collective. Screening retrospective films across all genres'. They also have a shop.
• Unknown Pleasures
• Brunswick Bulleke-bek Bootleg Cinema - 'Films you can’t see anywhere else since 2021'
• Composite

Volunteering opportunities.

• Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (Footscray)
• Melbourne's Living Museum of the West (Maribyrnong)

• Lore - Really twee vibe, but a good range and helpful staff.
• Libertine - A bit more at the too expensive/pretentious end of niche perfume. Both Libertine and Lore and pretty good with throwing in free samples with orders.
• Mecca - Good range, shops are nicely normal.

• Melburniana - Melbourne films.
• Melbourne - Monoskop wiki, art info.
• Melbourne Playgrounds on Youtube