Melbourne Airport Tullamarine
A History
$42.50
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2026
Summary
Melbourne Airport, better known to locals as ‘Tullamarine’ or ‘Tulla’, was the first purpose-built Airport City in the world. Its facilities in 1970 were unsurpassed by any international airport; it had a golf course, hotel, conference centre, art gallery, cinema, bottle shop, exhibition centre, multiple bars and a VIP lounge, and a fine-dining restaurant headed by an executive chef on his way to being awarded three Michelin stars. These facilities were built into Tullamarine’s plan by its pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761170805 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761170805 |
| Author: | Arun Chandu, Matt Harvey |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 190mm |
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About The Author
Arun Chandu
Arun Chandu is a member of the Professional Historians’ Association and is Senior Research Fellow with the Civil Aviation Historical Society and Airways Museum. He holds MBBS (Hons), BDSc, MDSc, and PhD degrees and is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Arun is currently Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne. In his spare time, he enjoys a variety of music and anything vintage, particularly Australian muscle cars.
Matt Harvey is a senior lecturer in law at Victoria University Melbourne and a practising lawyer. He holds a BA (Hons) and LLB from the University of Melbourne and a PhD on the Constitution of the European Union from Monash University. Matt has lived under the southern approach to Essendon Airport for 25 years.
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