If your not happy with the performance of the Manningham Council over the last four years, and want a better representation and communication from your Councillor, you now have the opportunity to vote them out with a total of twenty four new candidates contesting October elections. TEN NEW CANDIDATES FOR MULLUM MULLUM WARD […]
Month: September 2016
LOW INCOME LINK TO LACK OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Urban studies show that the lack of employment and shoddy public transportation service go hand in hand as obstacles to improving the economic and social conditions of low-income persons. Outer suburban areas are disadvantaged as the result of Melbourne’s poor public transport infrastructure. A high proportion of low-income households are needing to travel further distances […]
LOCAL GOVT BODY PROHIBITS HOW TO VOTE CARDS
The Legislative Council’s action in banning indicated preferences from how to vote cards, has put paid to the use of dummy candidates but have ignored the main cause of the problem being the “Donkey Vote” which had actually encouraged the use of dummies, (a candidate who gives away a second preference without reciprocation), for candidates drawn […]
COUNCIL MISQUOTED THE HILL DISTANCE TO CITY
But the website of the “Nest at the Hill”, a major apartment development opposite Westfield shopping centre, at 642 Doncaster Road, Doncaster Hill, have made no bones about accurately stating that the complex is a 18.9 km driving distance from the Melbourne CBD (actually the GPO) and 2.4 km from Park and Ride, on western […]