Venus Returning is the debut studio album by Australian pop band The Mavis's, released in May 1996 by record label Mushroom.

[1] It was produced by Kalju Tonuma (Nick Barker).

[3][4] Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described how it "highlighted the band's brash sound, which mixed the Thomas siblings' idiosyncratic, imperfect vocal blend, crashing guitars, sugar-frosted melodies, goofy keyboard embellishments and odd instrumentation (sitar, Tibetan bells and Indian banjo).

"[3] "Thunder" was listed on the national youth radio Triple J audience poll, Hottest 100 of 1996, at No. 92.

76 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart.