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City of Melbourne

January 01, 1970

This article is about the local government area. For the metropolitan area, see Melbourne. For the city centre of Melbourne, see Melbourne central business district. For other uses, see Melbourne (disambiguation).

The City of Melbourne is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central city area of Melbourne. In 2021, the city has an area of 37.7 square kilometres (14.6 sq mi) and had a population of 149,615.[3] The city's motto is "vires acquirit eundo" which means "we gather strength as we go".[4]

City of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria
Aerial view of the Melbourne skyline (May 2020)
Location in Greater Melbourne
Coordinates37°48′49″S 144°57′47″E / 37.81361°S 144.96306°E / -37.81361; 144.96306
Population149,615 (2021 census)[1]
 • Density3,969/km2 (10,279/sq mi)
Established12 August 1842
Area37.7 km2 (14.6 sq mi)[2]
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10)
 • Summer (DST)AEDT (UTC+11)
Lord MayorSally Capp
Council seatMelbourne CBD (Town Hall)
RegionGreater Melbourne
CountyBourke
State electorate(s)
Federal division(s)
WebsiteCity of Melbourne
The city flag of Melbourne.
The Melbourne City coat of arms
Melbourne Town Hall on Swanston Street built 1870–1887

The current Lord Mayor is Sally Capp, who was elected in a by-election following the resignation of Robert Doyle on 4 February 2018. The Melbourne City Council (MCC) holds office in Melbourne Town Hall.

History edit

Melbourne was founded in 1835, during the reign of King William IV, following the arrival of the schooner Enterprize near the present site of the Queen's Wharf. Unlike other Australian capital cities, Melbourne did not originate under official auspices, instead owing its origins to non-indigenous settlers from Tasmania.

Having been a province of New South Wales from its establishment in 1835, affairs of the settlement had been administered by the Parliament of New South Wales. With the growth of the settlement there had been an increasing demand by the inhabitants for greater autonomy over their own affairs. On 12 August 1842, Melbourne was incorporated as a town by Act 6 Victoria No. 7 of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales.[5]

The town of Melbourne was raised to the status of a city by Letters Patent of Queen Victoria dated 25 June 1847, five years after its incorporation as a town. The Letters Patent also constituted the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne and declared Melbourne a cathedral city. A motion was tabled at a meeting of the Town Council to alter the style and title of Melbourne from a town to a city, a draft Bill was approved and transmitted to the Government for introduction to the Legislature. On 3 August 1849, Act 13 Victoria No. 14 was finally assented to as "An Act to effect a change in the Style and Title of the Corporation of Melbourne rendered necessary by the erection of the Town of Melbourne to a City".[6]

The city's initial boundaries, as set down in Act 8 Victoria No. 12 (19 December 1844) extended from Point Ormond in Elwood up Barkly Street and Punt Road to the Yarra River, along the river to Merri Creek at Abbotsford, then west along Brunswick Road to Moonee Ponds Creek, then south past Flemington Bridge to Princes Pier in Port Melbourne.[5] The Act imposed on the Mayor a duty to set up "permanent and conspicuous boundary marks of iron, wood, stone or other durable material" along or near the line of the Town's boundaries—this was undertaken by Mayor James Frederick Palmer and Town Clerk John Charles King on 4 February 1846.[7]

During the 1850s, Collingwood, Fitzroy and Richmond seceded from Melbourne (all are, since 1994, part of the City of Yarra), as did South Melbourne, whilst other parts became parts of the neighbouring districts of St Kilda and Port Melbourne, and the border between Brunswick and Melbourne moved south one block to Park Street.[5]

On 18 December 1902, King Edward VII conferred the title "Lord Mayor" on the mayor of the City of Melbourne.

On 30 October 1905, Melbourne absorbed two neighbouring council areas. Now included in the City was the Borough of Flemington and Kensington, which had been formed in 1882 when it broke away from the City of Essendon. The second, the Town of North Melbourne, formerly known as Hotham, had been established on 30 September 1859 and been granted town status on 18 December 1874. Both town halls are still in use today as public buildings—the former in Kensington near the present-day Newmarket railway station; the latter in Errol Street, North Melbourne.

The Melbourne and Geelong Corporations Act 1938 allowed for three councillors for each of the eleven wards, with a general election held on 24 August 1939.

The first woman in 125 years to be elected to the council was local businessperson Clare J. Cascarret in 1967. The election was said to have cost her over half a million pounds.[8]

Following a recommendation by the Local Government Advisory Board in 1978, an Order in Council (27 February 1979, effective from 19 May 1979) reduced the wards from eleven to eight. In December 1980, the Hamer Government dismissed the council, and appointed three Commissioners to determine how the boundaries could best be altered to produce more effective local government, with special regard to Melbourne's central business district and its importance to the state, as well as to advise changes needed to the constitution, structure, functions and administration. However, in 1982, with the election of a new Labor government under John Cain, the Act establishing the commission was repealed, and the Melbourne Corporation (Election of Council) Act 1982 established six wards, for which an election was held on 4 December 1982. Three years later, an additional ward was added.[5]

Between 1993 and 1996 the City was again led by Commissioners, along with every local Council in Victoria, while all boundaries were comprehensively reviewed, more than halving the number of Councils.

In 1993, the City of Melbourne Act specified changes to the boundaries which saw Melbourne gain Southbank and the Victorian Arts Centre on 18 November 1993, and the city was resubdivided into four wards – Flagstaff, University, Hoddle and Domain. The wards were abolished in 2001, with the council having a directly elected Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor, and seven other councillors.[7] In 2012, the number of Councillors was increased to nine, in addition to the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor.

Also in the 1990s, local government control of the docks area on the west side of the city was given to Victorian Government's Docklands Authority.[9]

In 2005, the council announced the construction of a new 6-star environmental office building, Council House 2, in Little Collins Street.

On 2 July 2007, the City of Melbourne almost doubled in size when the suburb of Docklands was re-added to its jurisdiction.

On 1 July 2008, a section of Kensington and North Melbourne was transferred to the City of Melbourne from the City of Moonee Valley.[10]

In July 2009, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle unveiled a new corporate identity for the City of Melbourne, costing $239,558.[11]

Building on the council's longstanding interest in environmental issues, on 16 July 2019, the council voted to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency in line with similar declarations made elsewhere.[12]

Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the City of Melbourne caused controversy and breached protocol, by failing to lower the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to half mast, whilst the Australian flag was lowered in mourning.[13]

Council edit

Main article: 2020 Melbourne City Council election
 
 
Town Hall Chambers (left) in 1968, just before its demolition and in the same location: Council House 2, Little Collins Street (right), completed 2006, the world's first 6 star green rating building; it features a louvred façade, natural and recycled materials, solar panels and thermal mass cooling.

The City of Melbourne is an unsubdivided municipality, consisting of a directly elected Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor, and nine Councillors.[14] Since 2008, all Victorian councillors serve a four-year term. The most recent general election was held on Saturday 24 October 2020. The next general election will be held in October 2024.

During a general election, the City of Melbourne holds two simultaneous elections – one to elect the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor (leadership team) and the other to elect the nine councillors.[14] All residents are entitled to vote in the election, as well as up to two of each of the following: non-residential owners and occupiers of rateable property. If a corporation solely owns or occupies rateable property in the municipality, then the corporation must appoint two company officers (director and/or company secretary, or equivalent) to represent it and vote on its behalf.

Current composition edit

The current makeup of the Council is:[15]

Party Councillors
  Team Sally Capp 4
  Greens 2
  Team Arron Wood 1
  Labor 1
  Bring Back Melbourne 1
  Team Hakim 1
  Back to Business 1
Total 11
Party Councillor Notes
  Team Sally Capp Sally Capp Mayor
  Team Sally Capp Nicholas Reece Deputy Mayor
  Team Sally Capp Kevin Louey
  Greens Rohan Leppert
  Team Arron Wood Jason Chang
  Labor Davydd Griffiths
  Team Sally Capp Roshena Campbell
  Greens Olivia Ball
  Bring Back Melbourne Philip Le Liu
  Team Hakim Jamal Hakim
  Back to Business Elizabeth Mary Doidge

Election results edit

2020 edit

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Victorian local elections § Councillors.[edit]
2020 Victorian local elections: Melbourne (councillors)[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Team Sally Capp 1. Kevin Louey (elected 1)
2. Roshena Campbell (elected 5)
3. Mark David McMillan
4. Tania Davidge
5. James Young
6. Tina Kuek 		24,395 26.73 −10.72
Greens 1. Rohan Leppert (elected 2)
2. Olivia Ball (elected 6)
3. Emily Corcoran
4. David Jeffery
5. Nakita Thomson
6. Charlotte George 		14,602 16.00 −4.16
Team Arron Wood 1. Jason Chang (elected 3)
2. Peter Clarke
3. Beverley Frances Pinder
4. Abdirahman I. Ali
5. Beverley Honig 		12,187 13.35 +13.35
Labor 1. Davydd Griffiths (elected 4)
2. Mary Delahunty
3. Hamdi Ali 		10,626 11.64 +11.64
Bring Back Melbourne 1. Philip Le Liu (elected 7)
2. Serena Lu Jiang
3. Lauren Sherson
4. Darin Schade 		6,683 7.32 −1.77
Back To Business 1. Elizabeth Mary Doidge (elected 9)
2. Charles Pick
3. Moti Visa
4. Bedri Sainovski 		6,572 7.18 +7.18
Liberal Democrats 1. Paul Silverberg
2. Faith Newman 		5,064 5.55 +5.55
Morgan-Watts Team 1. Jackie Watts
2. Michael Kennedy
3. Haya Aldaghlas
4. Dashi Zhang 		1,541 1.69 −3.22
Victorian Socialists 1. Christopher di Pasquale
2. Jesse Lambourn 		1,441 1.58 +1.58
Sustainable Australia 1. Richard Belcher
2. Bettina Terry 		1,361 1.49 +1.49
Animal Justice 1. Rabin Bangaar
2. Rod Whitfield 		1,251 1.37 −1.07
Residents First 1. Janette Corcoran
2. Mary Masters
3. Samantha Tran 		1,110 1.21 +1.21
Innovate Melbourne 1. Andrew Rowse
2. John Daniell 		817 0.89 +0.89
Team Hakim 1. Jamal Hakim (elected 8)
2. Safaa Hakim 		379 0.41 +0.41
Melbourne - We All Matter 1. Sainab Sheikh
2. Fatuma Ali 		374 0.41 +0.41
Artemis Pattichi - Independent Local Voice 1. Artemis Pattichi
2. Adriana Mendieta Nino 		351 0.38 +0.38
Ungrouped Scott Robson
Luke Downing
Philip Jonathan Bateman
Andrew Ward 		332 0.36 +0.10
Your Melbourne Team Get It Done 1. Mary Poulakis
2. Fiona Sweetman 		291 0.32 +0.32
It Will Be Okay Melbourne 1. Joseph Burke
2. Michael Mach 		203 0.22 +0.22
Total formal votes 88,434 96.62 −1.42
Informal votes 1,686 3.38 +1.42
Turnout 91,531 66.73 +11.54

2016 edit

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2016 Victorian local elections § Councillors.[edit]
2016 Victorian local elections: Melbourne (Councillors)[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Quota 7,240
Team Doyle 1. Kevin Louey (elected 1)
2. Nicholas Reece (elected 3)
3. Tessa Sullivan (elected 5)
4. Susan Riley (elected 9)
5. Beverley Pinder-Mortimer
6. Sue Stanley
7. Hope Wei 		27,116 37.45 −0.03
Greens 1. Rohan Leppert (elected 2)
2. Cathy Oke (elected 4)
3. Apsara Sabaratnam
4. Jenny Pitts
5. Ben Curnow 		14,593 20.16 +4.54
Together Melbourne 1. Philip Le Liu (elected 6)
2. Tony Penna
3. Barbara Yerondais
4. Alice Poon 		6,578 9.09 +9.09
Phil Cleary Means Business 1. Michael Caiafa
2. Suzanne Vale
3. Sebastian Saggio 		5,667 7.83 +7.83
Stephen Mayne T.I.A.E. 1. Stephen Mayne
2. Johanna Maxwell 		3,666 5.06 −0.95
Team Morgan - A City That Works 1. Jackie Watts (elected 7)
2. Michael Kennedy
3. Farida Fleming 		3,557 4.91 −4.69
Strengthening Melbourne 1. Robin Matthews
2. Wesa Chau
3. Roger Smith 		1,905 2.63 +2.63
Animal Justice 1. Bruce Poon
2. Fiona Creedy 		1,770 2.44 +2.44
Listening To Locals 1. Richard Foster
2. Bridie Walsh 		1,718 2.37 +2.37
An Indigenous Voice On Council 1. Brooke Wandin
2. Nicolas Frances Gilley (elected 8) 		1,534 2.12 +2.12
Serving Melbourne With Integrity 1. Marcus Fielding
2. Sallyann Wilson 		1,519 2.10 +2.10
The Light On The Hill Team 1. Jim Ward
2. Sergey Sizenko 		960 1.33 +1.33
The Heritage Agenda 1. Adam Munro Ford
2. Luke Downing 		816 1.13 +1.13
Melburnian Voice 1. Joseph Sarraf
2. Miroslav Zverina 		808 1.12 +1.12
Science Luke James 82 0.11
Independent Neil Pringle 57 0.11
Independent Jing Li 62 0.07
Total formal votes 72,398 98.04 +0.2
Informal votes 1,451 1.96 −0.2
Turnout 73,849 55.19 −4.82

Demographics edit

Selected historical census data for City of Melbourne local government area
Census year 2001[18] 2006[19] 2011[20] 2016[21]
Population Estimated residents on census night 60,745 71,380 93,625 135,959
LGA rank in terms of size within Victoria 30th   25th   18th
% of Victoria population 1.32%   1.45%   1.75%   2.29%
% of Australian population 0.32%   0.36%   0.44%   0.58%
Cultural and language diversity
Ancestry,
top responses		 Chinese 17.1%   22.8%
English 16.8%   14.1%
Australian 12.7%   9.7%
Irish 7.3%   6.0%
Scottish 5.6%   4.5%
Language,
top responses
(other than English)		 Mandarin 4.7%   8.1%   10.4%   18.7%
Cantonese 4.7%   5.6%   4.9%   3.9%
Indonesian 3.1%   3.1%   2.7%   2.2%
Italian 1.8%   1.4%
Vietnamese 1.3%
Korean 1.2%   1.4%   2.1%
Arabic 1.5%
Spanish 1.7%
Religious affiliation
Religious affiliation,
top responses		 No religion 21.1%   26.6%   33.8%   44.5%
Catholic 20.2%   18.6%   17.2%   12.9%
Anglican 11.9%   8.4%   6.5%
Buddhism 6.2%   7.5%   7.6%   6.9%
Uniting 4.0%
Islam 3.5%   4.5%
Hinduism 4.0%
Median weekly incomes
Personal income Median weekly personal income A$566 A$711 A$642
% of Australian median income 121.5% 123.2% 97.0%
Family income Median weekly family income A$1627 A$1962 A$2062
% of Australian median income 138.9% 132.5% 118.9%
Household income Median weekly household income A$1081 A$1352 A$1354
% of Australian median income 105.3% 109.6% 94.2%
Dwelling structure
Dwelling type Separate house 5.6%   3.7%   5.1%   2.9%
Semi-detached, terrace or townhouse 21.1% 16.6%     16.7%   12.7%
Flat or apartment 70.4%   79.2%   77.9%   83.4%

Townships and localities edit

The 2021 census, the city had a population of 149,615 up from 135,959 in the 2016 census[22]

Population
Locality 2016 2021
Carlton 18,535 16,055
Carlton North^ 6,300 6,177
Docklands 10,964 15,495
East Melbourne 4,964 4,896
Flemington^ 7,719 7,025
Kensington 10,812 10,745
Melbourne CBD^ 47,285 54,941
North Melbourne 14,940 14,953
Parkville^ 7,409 7,074
Port Melbourne^ 16,175 17,633
South Wharf 106 71
South Yarra^ 25,147 25,028
Southbank^ 18,709 22,631
West Melbourne 5,515 8,025

^ - Territory divided with another LGA

Population of the urban area edit

Year 1954 1958 1961 1966 1971 1976 1981 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006 2011 2016 2021
Population 93,172 89,800* 76,810 75,709 75,830 65,167 59,100* 56,100* 38,504 45,253 60,745 71,380 93,625 135,959 149,615

* Estimates in 1958, 1983 and 1988 Victorian Year Books.

Railway stations edit

For a complete list, see List of Melbourne railway stations.
 
Flinders Street station

Schools edit

Public edit

Private edit

Catholic edit

Sister cities edit

 
The Tianjin Garden on Spring Street serves as a symbol of Melbourne's close friendship with its sister city Tianjin.[23]

The City of Melbourne has five sister cities:[24]

Between 1989 and 2022, the City of Melbourne had a sister city relationship with Saint Petersburg, Russia; this sister city relationship was indefinitely suspended on 1 March 2022, then terminated on 30 May 2023, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[25]

In addition to the sister cities, the City of Melbourne also cooperates with:[24]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Melbourne (C)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.  
  2. ^ "Residents Profiles". melbourne.vic.gov.au. City of Melbourne. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  3. ^ "2021 Melbourne, Census All persons QuickStats | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Coat of arms". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d Victorian Municipal Directory. Brunswick: Arnall & Jackson. 1992. pp. 275–278. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.
  6. ^ City of Melbourne. . Archived from the original on 28 August 2004. Retrieved 20 December 2007.
  7. ^ a b City of Melbourne (November 1997). "The History of the City of Melbourne" (PDF). pp. 40–43. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  8. ^ "First time in 125 years: MELBOURNE HAS LADY COUNCILLOR". Australian Jewish Herald. 31 August 1967. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  9. ^ Victoria, Development (30 October 2019). "Docklands". www.development.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  10. ^ "Outcomes of the Kensington Boundary Review" (PDF). City of Melbourne.
  11. ^ "A new icon for global Melbourne". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  12. ^ "Taking bold action on climate change". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  13. ^ [1]
  14. ^ a b "Council, mayor and lord mayor history". City Of Melbourne. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  15. ^ "Melbourne City Council election results 2020". www.vec.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 6 November 2020.
  16. ^ "Melbourne City Council election results 2020". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  17. ^ "Melbourne City Council election results 2016". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  18. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (9 March 2006). "City of Melbourne (C)". 2001 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 6 December 2017.  
  19. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "City of Melbourne (C)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  20. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "City of Melbourne (C)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 6 December 2017.  
  21. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Melbourne (C)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 15 November 2017.  
  22. ^ "Census | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. 11 January 2023.
  23. ^ "About Chinatown | Chinatown Melbourne - Welcome to Chinatown Melbourne". chinatownmelbourne.com.au. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  24. ^ a b "City of Melbourne — International connections — Sister cities". City of Melbourne. from the original on 10 March 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  25. ^ Cosoleto, Tara (30 May 2023). "Melbourne council cuts ties with Russian sister city over Ukraine war". The Age. Retrieved 4 June 2023.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to City of Melbourne.
 
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Melbourne's City Centre.
  • Official City of Melbourne website
  • What's On
  • Local history of the city of Melbourne
  • Enterprize – Melbourne's Tall Ship
  • Link to Land Victoria interactive maps 24 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine

January 01, 1970
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This article is about the local government area For the metropolitan area see Melbourne For the city centre of Melbourne see Melbourne central business district For other uses see Melbourne disambiguation The City of Melbourne is a local government area in Victoria Australia located in the central city area of Melbourne In 2021 the city has an area of 37 7 square kilometres 14 6 sq mi and had a population of 149 615 3 The city s motto is vires acquirit eundo which means we gather strength as we go 4 City of Melbourne Melbourne VictoriaAerial view of the Melbourne skyline May 2020 Location in Greater MelbourneCoordinates37 48 49 S 144 57 47 E 37 81361 S 144 96306 E 37 81361 144 96306Population149 615 2021 census 1 Density3 969 km2 10 279 sq mi Established12 August 1842Area37 7 km2 14 6 sq mi 2 Time zoneAEST UTC 10 Summer DST AEDT UTC 11 Lord MayorSally CappCouncil seatMelbourne CBD Town Hall RegionGreater MelbourneCountyBourkeState electorate s Albert ParkBrunswickEssendonMelbournePrahranFederal division s MacnamaraMaribyrnongMelbourneWebsiteCity of MelbourneLGAs around City of Melbourne Moonee Valley Merri bek DarebinMaribyrnong City of Melbourne YarraHobsons Bay Port Phillip Stonnington The city flag of Melbourne The Melbourne City coat of arms Melbourne Town Hall on Swanston Street built 1870 1887 The current Lord Mayor is Sally Capp who was elected in a by election following the resignation of Robert Doyle on 4 February 2018 The Melbourne City Council MCC holds office in Melbourne Town Hall Contents 1 History 2 Council 2 1 Current composition 3 Election results 3 1 2020 3 2 2016 4 Demographics 5 Townships and localities 6 Population of the urban area 7 Railway stations 8 Schools 8 1 Public 8 2 Private 8 3 Catholic 9 Sister cities 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksHistory editMelbourne was founded in 1835 during the reign of King William IV following the arrival of the schooner Enterprize near the present site of the Queen s Wharf Unlike other Australian capital cities Melbourne did not originate under official auspices instead owing its origins to non indigenous settlers from Tasmania Having been a province of New South Wales from its establishment in 1835 affairs of the settlement had been administered by the Parliament of New South Wales With the growth of the settlement there had been an increasing demand by the inhabitants for greater autonomy over their own affairs On 12 August 1842 Melbourne was incorporated as a town by Act 6 Victoria No 7 of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales 5 The town of Melbourne was raised to the status of a city by Letters Patent of Queen Victoria dated 25 June 1847 five years after its incorporation as a town The Letters Patent also constituted the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne and declared Melbourne a cathedral city A motion was tabled at a meeting of the Town Council to alter the style and title of Melbourne from a town to a city a draft Bill was approved and transmitted to the Government for introduction to the Legislature On 3 August 1849 Act 13 Victoria No 14 was finally assented to as An Act to effect a change in the Style and Title of the Corporation of Melbourne rendered necessary by the erection of the Town of Melbourne to a City 6 The city s initial boundaries as set down in Act 8 Victoria No 12 19 December 1844 extended from Point Ormond in Elwood up Barkly Street and Punt Road to the Yarra River along the river to Merri Creek at Abbotsford then west along Brunswick Road to Moonee Ponds Creek then south past Flemington Bridge to Princes Pier in Port Melbourne 5 The Act imposed on the Mayor a duty to set up permanent and conspicuous boundary marks of iron wood stone or other durable material along or near the line of the Town s boundaries this was undertaken by Mayor James Frederick Palmer and Town Clerk John Charles King on 4 February 1846 7 During the 1850s Collingwood Fitzroy and Richmond seceded from Melbourne all are since 1994 part of the City of Yarra as did South Melbourne whilst other parts became parts of the neighbouring districts of St Kilda and Port Melbourne and the border between Brunswick and Melbourne moved south one block to Park Street 5 On 18 December 1902 King Edward VII conferred the title Lord Mayor on the mayor of the City of Melbourne On 30 October 1905 Melbourne absorbed two neighbouring council areas Now included in the City was the Borough of Flemington and Kensington which had been formed in 1882 when it broke away from the City of Essendon The second the Town of North Melbourne formerly known as Hotham had been established on 30 September 1859 and been granted town status on 18 December 1874 Both town halls are still in use today as public buildings the former in Kensington near the present day Newmarket railway station the latter in Errol Street North Melbourne The Melbourne and Geelong Corporations Act 1938 allowed for three councillors for each of the eleven wards with a general election held on 24 August 1939 The first woman in 125 years to be elected to the council was local businessperson Clare J Cascarret in 1967 The election was said to have cost her over half a million pounds 8 Following a recommendation by the Local Government Advisory Board in 1978 an Order in Council 27 February 1979 effective from 19 May 1979 reduced the wards from eleven to eight In December 1980 the Hamer Government dismissed the council and appointed three Commissioners to determine how the boundaries could best be altered to produce more effective local government with special regard to Melbourne s central business district and its importance to the state as well as to advise changes needed to the constitution structure functions and administration However in 1982 with the election of a new Labor government under John Cain the Act establishing the commission was repealed and the Melbourne Corporation Election of Council Act 1982 established six wards for which an election was held on 4 December 1982 Three years later an additional ward was added 5 Between 1993 and 1996 the City was again led by Commissioners along with every local Council in Victoria while all boundaries were comprehensively reviewed more than halving the number of Councils In 1993 the City of Melbourne Act specified changes to the boundaries which saw Melbourne gain Southbank and the Victorian Arts Centre on 18 November 1993 and the city was resubdivided into four wards Flagstaff University Hoddle and Domain The wards were abolished in 2001 with the council having a directly elected Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor and seven other councillors 7 In 2012 the number of Councillors was increased to nine in addition to the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor Also in the 1990s local government control of the docks area on the west side of the city was given to Victorian Government s Docklands Authority 9 In 2005 the council announced the construction of a new 6 star environmental office building Council House 2 in Little Collins Street On 2 July 2007 the City of Melbourne almost doubled in size when the suburb of Docklands was re added to its jurisdiction On 1 July 2008 a section of Kensington and North Melbourne was transferred to the City of Melbourne from the City of Moonee Valley 10 In July 2009 Lord Mayor Robert Doyle unveiled a new corporate identity for the City of Melbourne costing 239 558 11 Building on the council s longstanding interest in environmental issues on 16 July 2019 the council voted to declare a climate and biodiversity emergency in line with similar declarations made elsewhere 12 Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the City of Melbourne caused controversy and breached protocol by failing to lower the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to half mast whilst the Australian flag was lowered in mourning 13 Council editMain article 2020 Melbourne City Council election nbsp nbsp Town Hall Chambers left in 1968 just before its demolition and in the same location Council House 2 Little Collins Street right completed 2006 the world s first 6 star green rating building it features a louvred facade natural and recycled materials solar panels and thermal mass cooling The City of Melbourne is an unsubdivided municipality consisting of a directly elected Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor and nine Councillors 14 Since 2008 all Victorian councillors serve a four year term The most recent general election was held on Saturday 24 October 2020 The next general election will be held in October 2024 During a general election the City of Melbourne holds two simultaneous elections one to elect the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor leadership team and the other to elect the nine councillors 14 All residents are entitled to vote in the election as well as up to two of each of the following non residential owners and occupiers of rateable property If a corporation solely owns or occupies rateable property in the municipality then the corporation must appoint two company officers director and or company secretary or equivalent to represent it and vote on its behalf Current composition edit The current makeup of the Council is 15 Party Councillors Team Sally Capp 4 Greens 2 Team Arron Wood 1 Labor 1 Bring Back Melbourne 1 Team Hakim 1 Back to Business 1 Total 11 Party Councillor Notes Team Sally Capp Sally Capp Mayor Team Sally Capp Nicholas Reece Deputy Mayor Team Sally Capp Kevin Louey Greens Rohan Leppert Team Arron Wood Jason Chang Labor Davydd Griffiths Team Sally Capp Roshena Campbell Greens Olivia Ball Bring Back Melbourne Philip Le Liu Team Hakim Jamal Hakim Back to Business Elizabeth Mary DoidgeElection results edit2020 edit This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2020 Victorian local elections Councillors edit 2020 Victorian local elections Melbourne councillors 16 Party Candidate Votes Team Sally Capp 1 Kevin Louey elected 1 2 Roshena Campbell elected 5 3 Mark David McMillan4 Tania Davidge5 James Young6 Tina Kuek 24 395 26 73 10 72 Greens 1 Rohan Leppert elected 2 2 Olivia Ball elected 6 3 Emily Corcoran4 David Jeffery5 Nakita Thomson6 Charlotte George 14 602 16 00 4 16 Team Arron Wood 1 Jason Chang elected 3 2 Peter Clarke3 Beverley Frances Pinder4 Abdirahman I Ali5 Beverley Honig 12 187 13 35 13 35 Labor 1 Davydd Griffiths elected 4 2 Mary Delahunty3 Hamdi Ali 10 626 11 64 11 64 Bring Back Melbourne 1 Philip Le Liu elected 7 2 Serena Lu Jiang3 Lauren Sherson4 Darin Schade 6 683 7 32 1 77 Back To Business 1 Elizabeth Mary Doidge elected 9 2 Charles Pick3 Moti Visa4 Bedri Sainovski 6 572 7 18 7 18 Liberal Democrats 1 Paul Silverberg2 Faith Newman 5 064 5 55 5 55 Morgan Watts Team 1 Jackie Watts2 Michael Kennedy3 Haya Aldaghlas4 Dashi Zhang 1 541 1 69 3 22 Victorian Socialists 1 Christopher di Pasquale2 Jesse Lambourn 1 441 1 58 1 58 Sustainable Australia 1 Richard Belcher2 Bettina Terry 1 361 1 49 1 49 Animal Justice 1 Rabin Bangaar2 Rod Whitfield 1 251 1 37 1 07 Residents First 1 Janette Corcoran2 Mary Masters3 Samantha Tran 1 110 1 21 1 21 Innovate Melbourne 1 Andrew Rowse2 John Daniell 817 0 89 0 89 Team Hakim 1 Jamal Hakim elected 8 2 Safaa Hakim 379 0 41 0 41 Melbourne We All Matter 1 Sainab Sheikh2 Fatuma Ali 374 0 41 0 41 Artemis Pattichi Independent Local Voice 1 Artemis Pattichi2 Adriana Mendieta Nino 351 0 38 0 38 Ungrouped Scott RobsonLuke DowningPhilip Jonathan BatemanAndrew Ward 332 0 36 0 10 Your Melbourne Team Get It Done 1 Mary Poulakis2 Fiona Sweetman 291 0 32 0 32 It Will Be Okay Melbourne 1 Joseph Burke2 Michael Mach 203 0 22 0 22 Total formal votes 88 434 96 62 1 42 Informal votes 1 686 3 38 1 42 Turnout 91 531 66 73 11 54 2016 edit This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2016 Victorian local elections Councillors edit 2016 Victorian local elections Melbourne Councillors 17 Party Candidate Votes Quota 7 240 Team Doyle 1 Kevin Louey elected 1 2 Nicholas Reece elected 3 3 Tessa Sullivan elected 5 4 Susan Riley elected 9 5 Beverley Pinder Mortimer6 Sue Stanley7 Hope Wei 27 116 37 45 0 03 Greens 1 Rohan Leppert elected 2 2 Cathy Oke elected 4 3 Apsara Sabaratnam4 Jenny Pitts5 Ben Curnow 14 593 20 16 4 54 Together Melbourne 1 Philip Le Liu elected 6 2 Tony Penna3 Barbara Yerondais4 Alice Poon 6 578 9 09 9 09 Phil Cleary Means Business 1 Michael Caiafa2 Suzanne Vale3 Sebastian Saggio 5 667 7 83 7 83 Stephen Mayne T I A E 1 Stephen Mayne2 Johanna Maxwell 3 666 5 06 0 95 Team Morgan A City That Works 1 Jackie Watts elected 7 2 Michael Kennedy3 Farida Fleming 3 557 4 91 4 69 Strengthening Melbourne 1 Robin Matthews2 Wesa Chau3 Roger Smith 1 905 2 63 2 63 Animal Justice 1 Bruce Poon2 Fiona Creedy 1 770 2 44 2 44 Listening To Locals 1 Richard Foster2 Bridie Walsh 1 718 2 37 2 37 An Indigenous Voice On Council 1 Brooke Wandin2 Nicolas Frances Gilley elected 8 1 534 2 12 2 12 Serving Melbourne With Integrity 1 Marcus Fielding2 Sallyann Wilson 1 519 2 10 2 10 The Light On The Hill Team 1 Jim Ward2 Sergey Sizenko 960 1 33 1 33 The Heritage Agenda 1 Adam Munro Ford2 Luke Downing 816 1 13 1 13 Melburnian Voice 1 Joseph Sarraf2 Miroslav Zverina 808 1 12 1 12 Science Luke James 82 0 11 Independent Neil Pringle 57 0 11 Independent Jing Li 62 0 07 Total formal votes 72 398 98 04 0 2 Informal votes 1 451 1 96 0 2 Turnout 73 849 55 19 4 82Demographics editSelected historical census data for City of Melbourne local government area Census year 2001 18 2006 19 2011 20 2016 21 Population Estimated residents on census night 60 745 71 380 93 625 135 959 LGA rank in terms of size within Victoria 30th nbsp 25th nbsp 18th of Victoria population 1 32 nbsp 1 45 nbsp 1 75 nbsp 2 29 of Australian population 0 32 nbsp 0 36 nbsp 0 44 nbsp 0 58 Cultural and language diversity Ancestry top responses Chinese 17 1 nbsp 22 8 English 16 8 nbsp 14 1 Australian 12 7 nbsp 9 7 Irish 7 3 nbsp 6 0 Scottish 5 6 nbsp 4 5 Language top responses other than English Mandarin 4 7 nbsp 8 1 nbsp 10 4 nbsp 18 7 Cantonese 4 7 nbsp 5 6 nbsp 4 9 nbsp 3 9 Indonesian 3 1 nbsp 3 1 nbsp 2 7 nbsp 2 2 Italian 1 8 nbsp 1 4 Vietnamese 1 3 Korean 1 2 nbsp 1 4 nbsp 2 1 Arabic 1 5 Spanish 1 7 Religious affiliation Religious affiliation top responses No religion 21 1 nbsp 26 6 nbsp 33 8 nbsp 44 5 Catholic 20 2 nbsp 18 6 nbsp 17 2 nbsp 12 9 Anglican 11 9 nbsp 8 4 nbsp 6 5 Buddhism 6 2 nbsp 7 5 nbsp 7 6 nbsp 6 9 Uniting 4 0 Islam 3 5 nbsp 4 5 Hinduism 4 0 Median weekly incomes Personal income Median weekly personal income A 566 A 711 A 642 of Australian median income 121 5 123 2 97 0 Family income Median weekly family income A 1627 A 1962 A 2062 of Australian median income 138 9 132 5 118 9 Household income Median weekly household income A 1081 A 1352 A 1354 of Australian median income 105 3 109 6 94 2 Dwelling structure Dwelling type Separate house 5 6 nbsp 3 7 nbsp 5 1 nbsp 2 9 Semi detached terrace or townhouse 21 1 16 6 nbsp nbsp 16 7 nbsp 12 7 Flat or apartment 70 4 nbsp 79 2 nbsp 77 9 nbsp 83 4 Townships and localities editThe 2021 census the city had a population of 149 615 up from 135 959 in the 2016 census 22 Population Locality 2016 2021 Carlton 18 535 16 055 Carlton North 6 300 6 177 Docklands 10 964 15 495 East Melbourne 4 964 4 896 Flemington 7 719 7 025 Kensington 10 812 10 745 Melbourne CBD 47 285 54 941 North Melbourne 14 940 14 953 Parkville 7 409 7 074 Port Melbourne 16 175 17 633 South Wharf 106 71 South Yarra 25 147 25 028 Southbank 18 709 22 631 West Melbourne 5 515 8 025 Territory divided with another LGA Population of the urban area edit Year 1954 1958 1961 1966 1971 1976 1981 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006 2011 2016 2021 Population 93 172 89 800 76 810 75 709 75 830 65 167 59 100 56 100 38 504 45 253 60 745 71 380 93 625 135 959 149 615 Estimates in 1958 1983 and 1988 Victorian Year Books Railway stations edit For a complete list see List of Melbourne railway stations nbsp Flinders Street station City Loop Flagstaff Flinders Street Melbourne Central Parliament Southern Cross Other Royal Park North Melbourne Jolimont Macaulay South Kensington Flemington Racecourse Showgrounds Schools edit Public edit University High School Victorian College for the Deaf Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School Carlton Primary School Carlton Gardens Primary School Docklands Primary School North Melbourne Primary School South Yarra Primary School Private edit Christ Church Grammar School Victoria Primary Eltham College Year 9 City Campus Haileybury College City Campus Melbourne Girls Grammar School Melbourne Grammar School Tintern Grammar Wesley College St Kilda Road Campuses Catholic edit St Aloysius College St Joseph s College Simonds Catholic College St Michaels Catholic Primary School Sister cities edit nbsp The Tianjin Garden on Spring Street serves as a symbol of Melbourne s close friendship with its sister city Tianjin 23 The City of Melbourne has five sister cities 24 Osaka Japan established 1978 Tianjin China established 1980 Thessaloniki Greece established 1984 Boston Massachusetts United States established 1985 Milan Italy established 2004 Between 1989 and 2022 the City of Melbourne had a sister city relationship with Saint Petersburg Russia this sister city relationship was indefinitely suspended on 1 March 2022 then terminated on 30 May 2023 as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine 25 In addition to the sister cities the City of Melbourne also cooperates with 24 New Delhi India Bandung Indonesia Chengdu China Guangzhou China Nanjing China Suzhou China Yokohama Japan Vancouver Canada Los Angeles United States San Francisco United States Auckland New Zealand Chicago United States Ottawa Canada Toronto Canada Liverpool United Kingdom Birmingham United Kingdom San Diego United States Shanghai China Nagoya Japan Kobe Japan See also edit List of mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne References edit Australian Bureau of Statistics 28 June 2022 Melbourne C 2021 Census QuickStats Retrieved 28 June 2022 nbsp Residents Profiles melbourne vic gov au City of Melbourne Retrieved 3 March 2021 2021 Melbourne Census All persons QuickStats Australian Bureau of Statistics www abs gov au Retrieved 15 April 2023 Coat of arms City of Melbourne Retrieved 5 June 2020 a b c d Victorian Municipal Directory Brunswick Arnall amp Jackson 1992 pp 275 278 Accessed at State Library of Victoria La Trobe Reading Room City of Melbourne History and heritage Melbourne becomes a city Archived from the original on 28 August 2004 Retrieved 20 December 2007 a b City of Melbourne November 1997 The History of the City of Melbourne PDF pp 40 43 Retrieved 26 August 2018 First time in 125 years MELBOURNE HAS LADY COUNCILLOR Australian Jewish Herald 31 August 1967 Retrieved 16 November 2023 Victoria Development 30 October 2019 Docklands www development vic gov au Retrieved 2 February 2022 Outcomes of the Kensington Boundary Review PDF City of Melbourne A new icon for global Melbourne City of Melbourne Retrieved 11 January 2010 Taking bold action on climate change City of Melbourne Retrieved 20 May 2022 1 a b Council mayor and lord mayor history City Of Melbourne Retrieved 5 June 2020 Melbourne City Council election results 2020 www vec vic gov au Retrieved 6 November 2020 Melbourne City Council election results 2020 Victorian Electoral Commission Melbourne City Council election results 2016 Victorian Electoral Commission Australian Bureau of Statistics 9 March 2006 City of Melbourne C 2001 Census QuickStats Retrieved 6 December 2017 nbsp Australian Bureau of Statistics 25 October 2007 City of Melbourne C 2006 Census QuickStats Retrieved 6 December 2017 Australian Bureau of Statistics 31 October 2012 City of Melbourne C 2011 Census QuickStats Retrieved 6 December 2017 nbsp Australian Bureau of Statistics 27 June 2017 Melbourne C 2016 Census QuickStats Retrieved 15 November 2017 nbsp Census Australian Bureau of Statistics www abs gov au 11 January 2023 About Chinatown Chinatown Melbourne Welcome to Chinatown Melbourne chinatownmelbourne com au Retrieved 25 January 2017 a b City of Melbourne International connections Sister cities City of Melbourne Archived from the original on 10 March 2023 Retrieved 4 June 2023 Cosoleto Tara 30 May 2023 Melbourne council cuts ties with Russian sister city over Ukraine war The Age Retrieved 4 June 2023 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to City of Melbourne nbsp Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Melbourne s City Centre Official City of Melbourne website What s On Metlink local public transport map Local history of the city of Melbourne Enterprize Melbourne s Tall Ship Link to Land Victoria interactive maps Archived 24 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title City of Melbourne amp oldid 1216790655, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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