Business
A new network of Italian professionals in architecture, design and construction has been launched in Melbourne, with the aim of strengthening collaboration and promoting Made in Italy in Australia.
World Cup
Twenty-five years ago, the Italian cricket team pulled out of World Cup qualifiers because the ICC ruled their four foreign-based players ineligible. This year, Italy made global headlines by winning their first ever T20 Cricket World Cup match—with a multicultural motley crew.
Features
Behind every gelato there’s a story. Sometimes simple, sometimes spanning war, migration and continents.
News
Pope Leo XIV on Monday blasted the use of technological developments for war during an audience with employees of ITA Airways and Lufthansa.
News
Dame Helen Mirren has been made a member of the Order of the Star of Italy, the highest honour the Italian Republic can award to foreign nationals, by President Sergio Mattarella.

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History
During the Italian Business Awards Gala 2025, a remarkable announcement captured the attention and admiration of those present: a major exhibition is about to transport Melbourne into the heart of ancient Rome.
History
A border city shaped by centuries of trade and shifting sovereignties, Trieste was at the centre of one of the most complex migration stories of post-war Italy. It’s a chapter that profoundly changed the city’s identity, yet for decades remained overlooked or misunderstood.
History
From November 7 to December 23 this year, Co.As.It.’s Museo Italiano will host the European Union’s travelling exhibition ‘Inside Pompeii: Origins of a European Way of Life – Photographs by Luigi Spina’.
History
The Commodus Passage, the name given to the corridor through which Roman emperors gained unseen access to the Imperial box in the Colosseum, has been opened to the public for the first time after a major restoration of its glistening marble walls.
History
A Greek shipwreck dating back to between the 6th and 5th centuries BC, lying at a depth of six meters, has been almost completely uncovered off the coast of Santa Maria del Focallo in Ispica, Sicily.
Interviews
Italian cuisine was officially recognised just months ago as part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The honour is not only about recipes and ingredients, but about a way of living: gathering around the table, sharing stories and recognising one another through food.
Restaurants
Fresh bread, quality ingredients and simple recipes: this is the philosophy of Francesco Procopio, founder of Mr Panino, a new eatery in Barangaroo.
Restaurants
The new sign is the first thing you notice. The colours have changed; the graphic mark has shifted. Alba now presents itself differently, and not by accident.
Restaurants
On January 8, the Federation of Apulian Associations of Australia, in collaboration with GLOBAT festival of Trani and restaurant Antico Sapore, organised a special event centred on Spaghetti all’Assassina, featuring renowned Bari-born chef Celso Laforgia.
Restaurants
Over the many years I’ve spent living abroad, a comment I come across often is that Italians are a living paradox.
Attività commerciale
Quando si parla di qualità e uso esclusivo di ingredienti locali, genuini, Frank Panzera, al timone dell’azienda con la moglie Antonella e i figli Stephen e Dean, non ha dubbi.
Attività commerciale
Italo-australiana di seconda generazione nata a Melbourne da genitori calabresi, deve il suo successo come agente immobiliare alle proprie radici e dell’esempio ricevuto dalla famiglia.
Attività commerciale
L’incontro con un mastro pastaio in Italia ha influito sul metodo di lavorazione, più tradizionale, semplice, e sano.
Attività commerciale
Chef italiano con tanta voglia di mettersi in gioco, uno tra i primi a Melbourne che, durante il periodo del Covid, ha anticipato un fenomeno che è sempre più in forte crescita: quello del "private chef".
Attività commerciale
In un seminario organizzato dall’ICCI di Melbourne, si racconta dell'essenza di una città che ha attraversato secoli.