Politics

We need 50-cent public transport fares

February 19th, 2025 - Ellen Sandell

Taking public transport is too expensive, and it shouldn’t be!

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“Opportunity to reset”: Council to stage a 2050 summit for Melbourne

January 22nd, 2025 - Jon Fleetwood

As the curtains drew to a close at Town Hall during the final meeting of 2024, the City of Melbourne endorsed the creation and delivery of a summit that will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Melbourne.

“Deepest pockets win”: what does electoral reform for the City of Melbourne look like?

January 22nd, 2025 - Jon Fleetwood

With donations revealed and the city’s new Lord Mayor Nick Reece inaugurated, the electoral dust has just about settled on the new council term for the City of Melbourne.

Metro Tunnel blowout costing Victorians

January 22nd, 2025 - Evan Mulholland

Initially estimated at costing $11 billion, the Metro Tunnel project has now blown out to $15.5 billion, in yet another clear case of Labor’s financial mismanagement.

Lord Mayor Nick Reece’s eye-watering campaign donations revealed

December 12th, 2024 - Jon Fleetwood

Newly elected Lord Mayor Nick Reece received just shy of $1 million in donations towards his 2024 bid for the City of Melbourne in what is the largest amount of money generated for an election campaign in the city’s history.

Nick Reece sworn in as Melbourne’s Lord Mayor

November 20th, 2024 - Jon Fleetwood

In what was a tight race for Town Hall amid one of the most stacked and competitive fields in recent memory, incumbent Lord Mayor Nick Reece has emerged successful and was sworn in as Melbourne’s Lord Mayor on November 19.

There’s an old saying that every government dollar should be treated as if it was hard earned, because it was – by a taxpayer.

November 20th, 2024 - Evan Mulholland

Given that Victoria is the highest-taxed state in the nation, this is a pretty fair rule to apply and one I would hope that the government would abide by. Sadly, this is not the case.