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The party’s candidate,Mariam Riza,says the city needs to be easier for people to access. She instead wants more lanes for traffic and new parking spaces.
At Cumberland City Council,the site of an ugly debate over books about same-sex parents,councillors raised 84 code of conduct complaints against each other.
The NSW Liberals had hoped Georgia Ryburn would be Northern Beaches mayor before the party’s nomination snafu. Now there are bigger plans afoot.
Arron Wood has vowed to scrap former lord mayor Sally Capp’s passion project,a green walking track through the city,and fund new parks and gardens instead.
The race for the next lord mayor of Melbourne is under way. The Age has interviewed the candidates and outlined their key policies and vision.
Ageing office buildings in Melbourne’s CBD could be converted into thousands of new apartments under a new proposal by Lord Mayor Nick Reece.
The idea that the Liberal Party would take up valuable court time to remedy its own stuff-up is an insult to taxpayers and voters.
Anthony Koutoufides said he was committed to bringing Melbourne “back alive”,taking aim at the work-from-home culture,planning permits,bike lanes and car parking.
The local government nomination debacle has possibly derailed what could have been the next generation of NSW parliamentarians for at least four years.
The NSW Liberals sacked state director Richard Shields after a catastrophic blunder left the party without 140 candidates in 16 councils for next month’s local government elections.