Words by: Laura Walsh
Art by: Luca Maclsaac

It seems staying out late and partying is out and Melbourne has entered a new era of health and wellness.

Gen Zs appear more eager to wake up at 5am, lace up their Hokas and hit their local run club to smash out 10 kms than get sloshed with their mates and fall ill with a case of the Sunday scaries the next morning.

The decline in Melbourne’s clubbing culture has been looming since COVID. Compounded with the crushing cost-of-living crisis and the increasingly unattainable property market, people just aren’t going out and partying like they used to.