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| Coordinates:37°59′06″S145°04′08″E / 37.98500°S 145.06889°E /-37.98500; 145.06889 | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| City | Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 4.7 km2 (1.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 21 m (69 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 13,197 (2021 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 2,808/km2 (7,270/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 3194 | ||||||||||||
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Mentone is a suburb inMelbourne,Victoria,Australia, 21 km south-east of Melbourne'sCentral Business District,[3] located within theCity of Kingstonlocal government area. Mentone recorded a population of 13,197 at the2021 census.[2]
It is known locally forMentone Beach, which extends alongsideBeaumaris Bay from the cliffs inBeaumaris and ends atWarrigal Road where it meetsParkdale.
Mentone is associated with theHeidelberg School of Australian artists.
Mentone was founded as a resort town named after the Italian spelling of the formerly-Italian French townMenton. In order to keep with the Italian resort theme many streets in Mentone were named after Italian cities for example,Cremona Street,Florence Street,Venice Street andMilan Street and Naples street
The development of Mentone began in the late 1800s, the Post Office opening on 16 May 1884.[4]
Tom Roberts andFrederick McCubbin were painting on the beach at Mentone one day in the summer of 1886-87 when they noticed a young man painting nearby. This wasArthur Streeton who they asked to join them.[5] They, and others, later became known as theHeidelberg school of artists.
The original Mentone Fire station was located on the corner of Brindisi Street and Mentone Parade, Mentone in 1906 and after the new fire station was built it was relocated toLalor in 1957.[6]
Mentone is home to a lively shopping area along Como Parade West, Balcombe Road, Mentone Parade and surrounding streets and laneways. This shopping strip offers a wide range of restaurants, cafes, bakeries, clothing stores, supermarkets, travel agents, fancy dress, craft, home, book stores and more. A second commercial area has grown alongNepean Highway; this may expand as the former Nylex factory site between Nepean Highway and Warrigal road is redeveloped into a bulky goods retail precinct.[citation needed]
Neighbouring suburb,Cheltenham, includes one of the biggest shopping centres in Australia –Westfield Southland. This shopping mall incorporates a two-level bridge that spans the six lanes of Nepean Highway. It is the main shopping centre for people of Mentone and surrounds. A newtrain station opened in 2017 on the west side of Southland near Bay Street.
In late 2010, Thrift Park shopping centre between Lower Dandenong Road and Nepean Highway just east of Warrigal Road went through with a $35-million redevelopment. The redevelopment included demolishing the original centre that was "ageing" and building a larger Woolworths supermarket plus additional stores. The centre officially opened in December 2010.[7]
In terms ofstate andfederal government Mentone is situated in theElectoral district of Mordialloc andSandringham for state parliament and theElectoral district of Isaacs in the federal system. In the 2018 Victorian State election and the 2019 Australian Federal Election, every booth in Mentone reported a majority of votes for theLabor Party.[8]
| 2022 Federal Election, "Mentone" polling booth,Division of Isaacs, primary votes. | ||
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| Liberal Robbie Beaton[9] | 28.43% | |
| Labor -Mark Dreyfus | 38.31% | |
| Greens - Alex Breskin | 19.91% | |
| Others | 10.87% | |
| Informal | 2.53% | |
Mentone is located on theNepean Highway. Mentone is serviced by a variety ofPublic Transport Victoria buses, which are the 903 bus fromMordialloc, 811 and 812 fromBrighton andDandenong, The 708 toHampton andCarrum and the 825 andMetro Trains Melbourne services, focused on theMentone railway station, a station on theFrankston train line. The station opened on 19 December 1881 as Balcombe Road.[11]
A new railway station was built at Mentone in 2020 as part of the Victorian government's removal of the level crossing previously on Balcombe Road.[12]
The Mentone Beach and Mentone Lifesaving Club provide leisure space and activities, as do the parkland and oval near the council offices. Mentone is also home to numerous sporting clubs including cricket, football, tennis, swimming, field hockey, and lawn bowling.
Mentone Bowling Club was established in the early 1900s.[13] The club is next to the train station in the centre of the suburb. Mentone were promoted to the Premier Division in 2010.
In late 2013 it was announced the iconic Mentone Tenpin Bowl on the corner of the Nepean Hwy and Warrigal Rd would close by the end of that year after fifty years of operation in order to make way for a new multi-storey residential apartment and retail complex.[14]
The Mentone Hotel was a historical hotel building overlookingPort Phillip Bay.[15] It has been renovated into a number of apartments. The Mentone RSL is housed in a building dating to 1884–1886.[16]
One of Australia's lastBlockbuster Video stores was in Mentone but has since closed down.[citation needed]
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