South Melbourne is a state of mind. Once you live there, you don't want to shift. Doris Condon, South Melbourne resident from 1942 until her death in 1979, Mayor 1969 to 1970. The first of Melbourne's suburbs to adopt fuoll municipal status, South Melbourne has also been at the forefront of many of the forces that have shaped both the local and national landscapes. Having seen its Aboriginal inhabitants displaced by European settlers, what became of one of Melbourne's first industrial suburbs then underwent a shift from manufacturing to commercial industry after the Second World War before...