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I've been fairly lucky everywhere I've lived in melbourne. Where I am in the inner NW we have 2 bus stops about a 1 minute walk away and the bus comes right past my house. That runs from 6am to 9pm on a 10-30 minute frequency. Otherwise there's also a smartbus stop a 10 minute walk away that runs every 10-20 minutes from 5am until midnight.
My last area had a bus stop a 5 min walk away that ran every 30-50 minutes from 7am until 8pm. I did live in Albanvale for a while in 2019 and we didn't have a usable bus there. Nearest bus stop was about a 25 minute walk away so I never used it.
That used to be pretty standard (well they tended to stop around 7pm, depending on the operator), there was a point in the 90's where you basically knew if you had an original green and white grenada or original ventura line you were absolutely sweet on the timetable but any modernish bus with orange on the branding meant you were fucked.