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“Man on a mission”: Nick Reece reflects on his first year as Lord Mayor
If Sally Capp’s lord mayoralty was defined by megaphone energy and crisis management, her successor Nick Reece is settling into a different groove: quietly trying to reshape the city around a big agenda that’s only just getting started.
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Melbourne Town Hall and council offices set to go smoke-free
The entrances and footpaths outside Melbourne Town Hall and the City of Melbourne’s main administration buildings will become smoke-free after councillors voted unanimously to extend the city’s smoking and vaping bans at the November 11 Future Melbourne Committee meeting.
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Cr Le Liu moves to overturn council’s past support for CBD injecting room
The debate over a medically supervised injecting service (MSIS) in Melbourne’s CBD will return to Town Hall on November 25, with Cr Phil Le Liu bringing forward a motion to formally overturn the City of Melbourne’s previous support for such a facility.
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City of Melbourne adopts new Council Plan
The City of Melbourne has endorsed a major long-term strategy to guide the city’s future, with councillors describing it as one of the most significant decisions of the current council term.
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Council calls for stronger action on extremism following violent city protests
The City of Melbourne has unanimously backed a motion calling on the Victorian Government to fast-track the implementation of recommendations from the state’s 2022 Inquiry into Extremism, amid growing concern over violent demonstrations in the CBD.
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Residents 3000 “not imploding” despite claim of a “political takeover”
City of Melbourne councillor Rafael Camillo is at the centre of a bitter dispute engulfing residents’ group Residents 3000, with a committee member accusing him of politicising the organisation and using it to advance his personal agenda.
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A committee member of Residents 3000 has called for the president of the organisation and current City of Melbourne councillor, Rafael Camillo, to stand down.
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Council seeks to make community consultation more transparent
Council has welcomed the development of new guidelines aimed at improving transparency during community consultation periods.
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City of Melbourne commemorates atomic bombings, but questions of overreach reemerge
The City of Melbourne has once again found itself the subject of criticism for veering into foreign policy territory, after councillors spent nearly 40 minutes debating nuclear disarmament at the close of their August 5 meeting.
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Four councillors to set off on $80k junket
Four City of Melbourne councillors will set off to several Asian sister cities to promote trade and investment opportunities in Melbourne, at a cost of more than $80,000 to ratepayers.
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Council wants to keep Arbory Afloat despite Greenline’s raised walkway designs
Stage one of Hardware Lane upgrade begins
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