Preferences will play a key role in who takes the keys to town hall in the neck-and-neck battle between Nick Reece and Anthony Koutoufides.
Vote counting indicates incumbent Nick Reece leads the mayoral race in the City of Melbourne,but a strong showing for the Liberals means Anthony Koutoufides is also in with a chance.
Hume has a $4.7 million issue with people dumping rubbish on average 33 times a day. A new patrol unit aims to re-educate them.
Voting booths were inundated as hundreds queued to cast council election votes in person before the 6pm cut-off.
Many Victorians are about to be fined $99 for not voting in local council elections,and while it’s easy to blame apathy,the postal process might be the problem.
Mystery surrounds a cashed-up anti-Greens attack outfit called “Greens Info” which lists its address in a most unexpected place.
Ballots close in just a few days,but fewer than 40 per cent of City of Melbourne residents have voted as lord mayoral candidates battled it out in a last-minute pitch in a live debate on Tuesday.
It turns out the identity of the sign-thrower wasn’t such a mystery to the good burghers of Melbourne’s south-east.
Melbourne lord mayoral candidates Nick Reece,Arron Wood,Roxane Ingleton and Anthony Koutoufides debate their policies ahead of the election.
A candidate is hatching a plan to add another top-flight fashion festival to Melbourne – by stealing it from Sydney.
The Greens candidate would likely be elected Melbourne’s lord mayor next week if the city operated on a standard electoral system of one vote for every voter.