Tag: Local Government
Councils want Oz Day talks
The Victoria Local Governance Authority has urged the federal government to work with local councils on the issue of citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day,...
Councils call for bill change
The Victorian Local Governance Association wants three changes to the new local government bill currently before Parliament, with rate caps and mayoral powers among...
A new rule book for councils
A bill introduced into state Parliament last week is shaping as the biggest change to local government laws in nearly 20 years.
The Local Government...
Western push for capital ideas
Brimbank leaders were among western suburbs officials who travelled to Canberra to lobby for co-ordinated investment in infrastructure across Melbourne’s west.
Brimbank mayor John Hedditch...
No rates cap variation for Brimbank
Brimbank council will not apply for a variation on the rates rise cap set by the state government, forcing it to find savings of...
Candidate urges public access to mayor’s diary
The public should be able to access the daily schedule and diary of future mayors of Brimbank.
This was one idea thrown up at a...
Watson raises councillor demerit system
A penalty system that could throw councils and councillors out of office without appeal has been suggested by Brimbank’s chief administrator.
In a submission to...
Time for ‘fresh faces’ on council: Natalie Hutchins
The next Brimbank council needs some “fresh faces”, according to Local Government Minister Natalie Hutchins.
In an interview with Star Weekly, Ms Hutchins said the...
Councillors will return in 2016: Hutchins
Local Government Minister Natalie Hutchins has promised the return of democratically elected councillors to Brimbank next October, despite calls to keep administrators.
Possible council candidate...
Call for independent council bloc to curb ALP influence
A prominent community advocate and potential council candidate has called on community active Brimbank residents to create an “independent ticket” to curb Labor Party branch...
Green and clean focus for council candidate
More parks and tackling a “shameful” attitude towards littering will be key issues at elections, a Brimbank council candidate says.
Five potential candidates turned up...
Brimbank council candidates begin to emerge
At least 12 potential Brimbank council candidates will emerge later this week.
With council elections less than a year away, the council will hold two...
Rates capping “idiotic policy” says key union
The Australian Services Union has described the state government’s Fair Go Rates bill as a “dog’s breakfast”.
The union representing public servants has called on...
Ardeer man overcomes abuse to run for council
An Ardeer mental health worker who says he was locked in a cage from the age of seven, will draw on his past to...
Brimbank Greens slam council’s park plan
Brimbank Greens party members have slammed a move to update the council’s parks blueprint as “resurrecting a failed plan to sell parks and gardens”.
Consultation...
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Midwife mums Jess and Carolyn
March was a record month of births at the Bacchus Marsh Maternity Hospital. Among the babies born was Henley, who has a very special...
