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How we celebrated
Melbourne Day Oration cocktail soiree: Book your tickets
And three more milestones
Flying high with pride
Up she goes: Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood (middle), Junior Lord Mayor Sienna Koop and Melbourne Day chairman Campbell Walker (right) hoisting the Melbourne flag at Enterprize Park on Melbourne Day.
Enterprize Park, on the north bank of the Yarra River at the bottom of William St, is where the first Europeans landed on 30 August 1835 to start the first permanent settlement of Melbourne.
'Let's be proud of Aboriginal people': Aboriginal artist Stan "Yarramunua" Dryden held a Welcome to Country and called for Melburnians to be proud of their city and not to change historical monuments amid a national debate on the issue.
She's up: The Melbourne flag atop the 20m flagpole at Enterprize Park, where Melbourne began.
Special broadcast: Neil Mitchell broadcast live his 3AW program from the flag-raising ceremony, with Victoria Police Pipe Band passing by (top), Neil trying to resist (left), on air with Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood and the mobile studio (bottom right).
Lord Mayor's Melbourne Day Oration
7 September 2017
Join Melbourne Business Network's corporate celebration of Melbourne Day at a Cocktail Soirée and hear the Melbourne Day Oration, delivered by Lord Mayor Robert Doyle on the topic of "Doing business in the world's most livable city".
Where: The Trust, 405 Flinders Lane, city (rear of Immigration Museum and adjacent to the historic Port Building in Flinders Lane).
When: 5.30pm to 7.30pm, Thursday, 7 September 2017.
Tickets: $40 (MBN members) and $55 (non-members).
We got named Melbourne 180 years ago
Forget the previous names: Batmania, Barebrass, Bearport, Dutergalla and Bareheep.
They all got rejected, even Glenelg.
But on 4 March 1837, 180 years ago, Melbourne became officially "Melbourne", after the British Prime Minister.
And just as well. Can you imagine us being called Thatcher? Major? Blair? Brown? Cameron? May?
Happy 20th birthday, Enterprize
City icon: Enterprize arriving at last week's Melbourne Day concert and family festival in the Docklands, where she lowered the gangplank for free tours.
Founded by Enterprize, built on enterprise. It's in our DNA
She was launched at Hobsons Bay on 30 August, 1997, and has since become a much-loved attraction around Port Phillip Bay.
Enterprize is a replica of the original schooner that brought from Tasmania the first settlers to Melbourne 182 years ago.
We got the Hoddle Grid 180 years ago
Soul of the city: Melbourne's oh-so gorgeous lanes, like Block Place above, were born 180 years ago.
Surveyor Robert Hoddle arrived in 1837 - less than two years after the first settlers - and quickly started work on the classic pattern of wide and narrow streets we love.
When Hoddle arrived there were more than 350 people and 55,000 sheep.
Just like today, Melbourne was growing fast!
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