Moorabbin

Moorabbin is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km south-east of Melbourne's focal business district. Its neighborhood government region is the City of Kingston. At the 2016 statistics, Moorabbin had a populace of 5,895. A large portion of the eastern side of Moorabbin has been a mechanical region since the primary advancement in the mid-1960s. Significant businesses with a nearness in the territory incorporate Philip Morris and Coca-Cola.

Moorabbin is likewise outstanding locally for its neighborhood worked after World War II. The word Moorabbin is accepted to have originated from the Aboriginal word moorooboon meaning a resting place. The Post Office opened on 1 September 1857 as South Brighton, was renamed Brighton South around 1886 and Moorabbin in 1909. The Moorabbin East Post Office close Chesterville Road opened in 1960. In August 1998, Moorabbin was the scene of the Silk-Miller police murders.

The rural area has an Australian Rules football group, Moorabbin Kangaroos Football Club, contending in the Southern Football League. The football and cricket scene in the rural area is Moorabbin Oval, situated in Linton Street. The ground was utilized by the St Kilda Football Club in VFL/AFL recreations somewhere in the range of 1965 and 1992, and kept on filling in as its preparation and authoritative home ground until 2010. St Kilda Football Club is booked to return in 2018.