Contents include: Setting the scene: the idea of the sixties p vii. Personal and public life in Melbourne in the 1960s p1. The Melbourne theatre scene p17. Melbourne 1968-70 as seen from the margins p31. Youth culture in 1960s Melbourne p45. Beatlemania: the Beatles in Melbourne 1964 p58. Jean Shrimpton, the 'four-inch furore' and perceptions of Melbourne identity in the 1960s p72. Aspects of Jewish music culture in Melbourne in the 1960s p87. Some notes on the place of the Melbourne University Film Society in 1960s film culture p101. Living with the motor car p117. Experts and the working mother in 1960s Melbourne p131. Food availability and the maintenance of Greek-Cypriot migrant food cultures in Melbourne in the 1960s p148. Commodity, desire and the transformation of dining out in 1960s Melbourne p160. The end of six o'clock closing and the 'post swill' pub p174. Camp Melbourne in the 1960s [homosexuality] p188. Melbourne City Council in the 1960s p203. 1960s urban activism in inner-city Melbourne p218. The alternative press in Melbourne in the 1960s p231. Greek-Australian activism in 1960s Melbourne p245. Aboriginal rights [aborigines] p260.