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State Basketball Centre

2012 establishments in AustraliaBasketball venues in AustraliaDandenong RangersMelbourne BoomersNational Basketball League (Australia) venues
South East Melbourne PhoenixSport in the City of KnoxSports venues completed in 2012Sports venues in Melbourne
The State Basketball Centre before Phoenix vs The Hawks 7 Feb 2021
The State Basketball Centre before Phoenix vs The Hawks 7 Feb 2021

The State Basketball Centre is a sports arena located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia which is mainly used for basketball. However, the centre has been used for several other events. The stadium features six courts, including one basketball show court with seating for 3,200. Facilities cater primarily for basketball, with five courts being able to be configured for netball. The stadium houses the offices of Basketball Australia, Basketball Victoria, Knox Basketball Incorporated, South East Melbourne Phoenix and hosts WNBL games for the Southside Flyers and Melbourne Boomers. The stadium also hosts a select number of Phoenix home games each NBL season. In March 2021, the State Basketball Centre hosted four games as part of the NBL Cup.In September 2022, the State Basketball Centre hosted the NBL1 National Finals.

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State Basketball Centre
George Street, Melbourne Wantirna South

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Knox Regional Sports Park

George Street
3152 Melbourne, Wantirna South
Victoria, Australia
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The Australian Jazz Museum (AJM), incorporating the Victorian Jazz Archive (VJA), is located in Wantirna, Victoria. It is an incorporated association arising out of a meeting held in Sydney on 23 June 1996 to address the growing concern among the jazz community that the rich Australian jazz heritage was at risk of being lost.The inaugural meeting of the Australian Jazz Museum was held at the then Whitehorse Hotel, Melbourne, on Sunday 18 August 1996. Approximately sixty invitees including representatives from Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney attended. The living MAP-accredited museum that is the Australian Jazz Museum is now achieving its goal to Proactively Collect, Archive & Disseminate Australian Jazz by collecting, exhibiting, preserving and storing on a "permanent basis all material and memorabilia of whatever nature pertaining to jazz music, performed and/or composed by Australian jazz musicians, covering the period from the 1920s through to the present day."Accredited by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) as being part of the national distributed collection of audio-visual material, AJM is also a member of the Australian Jazz Archive National Council (AJANC). The Museum also has as part of its charter the further development of its collection by saving recordings of jazz produced outside Australia, to be used as a reference source. In 2007 the Australian Jazz Museum received the Victorian Community History Awards (Best Exhibit / Display) for its Jazz Spans the Decades – A History of Jazz in Victoria exhibit. Its extensive collection includes discs, audio cassettes, posters, books, photographs, instruments and ephemera includes works by such Australian Jazz luminaries as Graeme Bell, Bob Barnard, Ade Monsbourgh, Smacka Fitzgibbon and Frank Traynor together with magazines, periodicals and newspaper articles on Australian jazz musicians and many international performers. The Australian Jazz Museum also houses the Australian Jazz Convention's extensive collection of material within its premises.The Australian Jazz Museum is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays and also by appointment for tours of the facilities. There is an extensive research library and the Australian component of the sound collection is listed on the Museum's Collections database.