A few queries re things Australian

I'm in the finishing stages of the novella in my sig, and I'm asking a few questions to avoid striking wrong notes, especially for any Australian readers I might have. The novella is almost all set in the UK but the protagonist has an Australian (specifically Melburnian) mother and that introduces a fair amount of Significant Australian Content. The things I'm about to ask are nuance things and I doubt non-Aussie readers would bat an eyelid at them, but I do like to get these things right.

(Yes, this is the same project which last year I asked for examples of Australian TV programmes the mother would have watched growing up. The mother is the central character of a short story called "Spinning Fast" which I asked at the end of last year for Australian betas for, and many thanks to the four who volunteered. That story sold to the anthology it was written for: punkPunk! edited by Andrew Hook, out in early 2015 and up for preorder on Amazon.) Anyway...

1) Neil Armstrong first setting foot on the moon happened just before 1pm Melbourne time on Monday 21 July 1969. Would it be feasible that a school would be watching this live on (black-and-white) TV? As far as I can tell, this could have been a school day. The mother character would have been six at this point. (That was the early hours of the morning in the UK and I was four. I do remember a TV being on continuously in infants' school with live coverage of the later moon landings.)

2) I describe the protagonist's grandmother (aged about sixty) coming off a plane from Melbourne to London Heathrow wearing a Country Road blouse in 2003. Just wondered if this is likely to be worn on a long flight.

3) Please could someone suggest a likely suburb of Melbourne where a professional couple with two children would live.

4) Following that one, if you were to drive from there out of the city far enough that you could see the stars of the Southern night sky without light pollution getting in the way, in which direction would you most likely be travelling, and does that road have a name?

5) Finally, a question about the slang word "root" (as in "have sex with"). Can this be an intransitive verb as well as a transitive one - i.e. can two people root or can it only be that someone roots someone else? And is it used interchangeably for both sexes - if a man can root a woman, can a woman root a man? (Over thirty years of watching Australian films has not provided me with the answer to this question. If the answer to both is "yes", then "root" is exactly equivalent to the British "shag". And that's enough of me asking AW about sex.)

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, ajaye. This family (protag's uncle (mother's brother) and his family) would be living in whichever part of Melbourne around now. The drive out to see the stars in the night sky, while the protagonist visits, takes place in 2011.

(I visited Australia - Melbourne and Sydney - in 2010 and I didn't see the Southern night sky at all because of the light pollution. Hopefully I will when I visit next, hopefully in a year or so from now.)

I saw The Dish when it came out, but don't remember it in too much detail now. (As an aside, a week ago the BFI in London showed a copy of the Our World multi-country broadcast from 1967 which included a bit about the Parkes Observatory. Also a live broadcast from a Melbourne tram depot at 5am on what was a winter morning.)

I'll do that Googling, thanks, ajaye - though in the morning as it's coming up to midnight my time. I wanted to avoid the kind of wrong note I'd get if I read something set in London and you had someone who wasn't a millionaire owning a house in Belgravia, say.

Thanks, everyone! Much appreciated.