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Victorian Railways finished the current Flinders Street Station building in Melbourne, replacing earlier structures with the Federation Free Classical terminus still in use today. The building was essentially finished in 1909, with the official opening the following year.

Gilbert Lau opened Flower Drum on 26 May 1975 in Melbourne's Chinatown and spent the following decades making the case that Cantonese cooking belonged at the top of Australian fine dining rather than in a separate category of it. It has been a fixture of the city's restaurant lists ever since, on Market Lane.

Hickory Group completed Melbourne's 57-storey, prefabricated Collins House in September 2019, a residential tower just under 12 metres wide at its narrowest point.

Australia 108 topped out at level 100 in Melbourne's Southbank, becoming the tallest building in Australia by roof height and the tallest residential tower in the Southern Hemisphere; construction was completed three months later, in September 2020.

Australia 108, a 316.7-metre residential tower in Melbourne’s Southbank district, is completed, three months after topping out as the tallest building in Australia by roof height and the tallest residential tower in the Southern Hemisphere.

The twin towers of Sapphire by the Gardens topped out, joined 46 storeys up by an oculus-floored skybridge over Melbourne.

A two-year, AUD $125M rail overhaul at Melbourne's Swanson Dock wrapped up, adding a new terminal so more shipping containers move by train instead of truck.

Melbourne's planned 366-metre STH BNK by Beulah tower, once set to be Australia's tallest building and a supertall vertical garden, collapsed after its developer defaulted on financing.

The women's singles final closes the Australian Open's second Saturday on Rod Laver Arena, a day before the men decide theirs. The winner lifts the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup.

The first Grand Slam final of the season closes the Australian Open on Rod Laver Arena. Melbourne Park's centre court seats about 15,000 under a roof that keeps the match on whatever the Melbourne heat does, and the winner takes the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup.

The championship reaches Melbourne, where public parkland roads around Albert Park lake become a circuit for the weekend.

The Bureau of Meteorology's official tropical cyclone season for the Australian region runs from 1 November to 30 April. An average season brings 10 cyclones, three or four of which cross the coast.

Victoria's largest road project, burying the missing link in Melbourne's ring road in twin three-lane tunnels. Estimated date.

The 2028 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be the eleventh edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket from 21 October to 19 November 2028. It will be the first time that New Zealand would host the event, while Australia had previously hosted the competition in 2022. The article names no venues, so this pin sits at Melbourne Cricket Ground, the lead host's flagship ground.

The National Gallery of Victoria's new contemporary art wing, The Fox: NGV Contemporary, is under construction in Melbourne's Southbank arts precinct with a targeted 2028 opening, part of a rivalry with Hobart's MONA.

A AU$12BN rail line to finally connect Melbourne Airport to the city, alongside a AU$4.5BN airport overhaul that adds a third runway and expands the international terminal.

Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop, a 90km orbital line built to connect Melbourne's suburbs without funnelling every trip through downtown, is aiming to open its first 26km stage in 2035. The state costs its first two stages at AUD $31-58BN; Victoria's Parliamentary Budget Office put the build at $125BN.