Doncaster is an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located 12km east of the CBD, in the Manningham City Council area and is centred around Doncaster Hill which is a housing project designed to create an apartment mecca. The suburb is home to around 18,000 people. Manningham City is part of the Valley of the Arts, a loose knit region bound by 'the fine tradition of living the arts and the art of living'.

Artists' trails, modern, traditional and indigenous art galleries, pottery studios, museums and historic sites link past and present in a wide array of things to see and do. The region was first settled in the 1860s and 1870s predominantly by German settler orchardists and has a rich German history. Doncaster was the location of the first electric tram to run in Melbourne in 1889. Combine all this with major shopping centres, state parks flanking the Yarra River, fine restaurants and wineries and the Valley of the Arts promises an enriching and irresistible experience, all within 30 minutes of the centre of Melbourne which can be accessed by train and arterial roads.