Melville Rotary Markets

Melville Rotary Markets has been trading every Sunday morning at Melville Plaza Shopping Centre in Bicton since 1984, making it a four-decade institution in Perth's southern suburbs. The Rotary Club of Melville run it as a fundraiser, and it marked its 40th anniversary in 2024.

A first-come, first-served bargain hunt

Sellers start setting up before 5am to claim a spot, and the market runs on a first-come, first-served basis rather than allocated sites, which gives it a genuinely informal, car-boot-sale character. The mix leans toward secondhand goods, vintage clothing, plants and homewares, priced for bargain hunters rather than curated stallholder ranges.

Every dollar of stallholder fees and sausage sizzle sales funnels back into Rotary's local and international projects rather than any commercial operator, which is part of why the market has kept going for so long: it is run by volunteers with a fundraising purpose rather than a profit motive.

Good to know before you go

Come early if you want the best of the secondhand finds, since sellers are set up before 5am and the good stock moves fast in the first hour. The market wraps up by 10am, well before most other Sunday markets in Perth get going, so it suits an early riser's itinerary rather than a lazy Sunday brunch crowd.