Английская Википедия:City of Merri-bek
Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox Australian place
The City of Merri-bek (Шаблон:IPAc-en[1]) is a local government area in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. It comprises the inner northern suburbs between 4 and 11 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD. The Merri-bek local government area covers Шаблон:Cvt, and in June 2018, it had a population of 181,725.[2]
The local government area was created as City of Moreland in 1994 during the amalgamations of local governments by the state government, being created from the former local government areas of the City of Brunswick, the City of Coburg and the southern part of the City of Broadmeadows. It was renamed to Merri-bek in September 2022.[3]
In 2004 the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), an independent authority created under Victorian state legislation, conducted a representation review of the council's electoral structure, resulting in a recommendation that the 10 single councillor wards be replaced by three multi-councillor wards. A consequence of the change from single-councillor to multi-councillor wards was a change in election method from Instant runoff voting to proportional representation via Single transferable vote. Elections are held every four years.Шаблон:Citation needed
Name
In November 2021, it came to the council's attention that Moreland's namesake was indirectly associated with a Jamaican plantation site that had traded slaves up to the 1800s.[4][5] This historical information was contained in the 2010 Moreland Council publication Thematic History,[6] and published in books and articles as far back as 1944.[7]
In October 1839, Scottish surgeon and settler Dr Farquhar McCrae was sold land between Moonee Ponds Creek and Sydney Road by the Crown in the area's first colonial sale. McCrae gave the land the name Moreland, some suggest he may have named this after a Jamaican sugar plantation that McCrae's paternal grandfather Alexander McCrae worked at[8] from the late 1760s to the early 1790s, which was involved in slave trading,[7] and kept up to 500 to 700 enslaved people in the operation in any one year.[9] Greens Mayor Mark Riley said "The history behind the naming of this area is painful, uncomfortable and very wrong. It needs to be addressed".[10][11] In May 2022 a choice of three proposed names from the Woi-wurrung language was announced by Riley and Uncle Andrew Gardiner, deputy chair of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation: Wa-dam-buk, meaning “renew”; Merri-bek, meaning “rocky country”; and Jerrang, meaning “leaf of tree”. The names were scheduled to be decided by July 2022 following community consultation.[12]
The community consultation for the renaming commenced in May 2022 and ended June 2022. Some residents expressed dissatisfaction with the process resulting in a petition to council.[13]
On 3 July 2022 (coinciding with the start of NAIDOC Week) the Council voted at a Special Council Meeting to officially endorse Merri-bek as the preferred name.[14] The name was submitted to the Minister for Local Government for consideration and the Minister's decision to alter the name was gazetted on 13 September 2022 and came into operation on 26 September.[3]
Council services
Merri-bek Council runs the Counihan Gallery at the Brunswick Town Hall, a free public art gallery named after the local artist, Noel Counihan. Other art events supported by Council include the MoreArt event, an art in public spaces show located along the Upfield transport corridor. The council also sponsors various street festivals around the municipality, the best known being the Sydney Road Street Party.
One of the highlights of the Merri-bek City Council is the public library. Merri-bek City Libraries has five branches.
Other services provided by Merri-bek Council include maternal and child health service, waste and recycling collection, parks and open space, a youth space called Oxygen, services for children, and aged services.
Climate action
Merri-bek/Moreland Council has been one of the leading municipal councils in Australia in adopting policies on climate action and sustainability. A January 2020 Climateworks Australia local government report identified City of Moreland as one of 3 out of 57 municipal jurisdictions in Australia to have a "fully aligned net zero by 2050 target that addresses both operational and community emissions."[15]
City of Merri-bek is a member of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy,[16] the Cities Power Partnership,[17] Climate Emergency Australia (CEA), Climate Active, The Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA), and has declared pledges in the TAKE2 scheme with Sustainability Victoria.[18]
Council declared a climate emergency on 12 September 2018.[19]
Council operational emissions reduction
For operational emissions, Moreland Council was certified as a ‘carbon neutral’ council in 2012. This required purchase of carbon offset credits. Moreland was the second council in Victoria, and the third in Australia, to receive this certification. A target of 30% less emissions than 2011, with a stretch goal of 40% by 2020, was over-achieved with an emissions cut of 69% by 2020, which will reduce the carbon offsets required to be purchased.[20]
Moreland City Council installed Victoria's first EV fast charge station in 2013. This has now grown to a network of 16 public EV charging stations around the municipality which are powered by 100% zero emissions renewable energy from the Crowlands Wind Farm, near Ararat.[21]
In 2014, City of Moreland joined with the City of Melbourne and several other institutions and established the Melbourne Renewable Energy Project (MREP).[22] This project developed and funded the construction of a purpose-built 39 turbine, 80 MW Crowlands windfarm, which started supplying 100% renewables power to Council facilities and buildings in 2019.[23]
Net zero by 2040 community emissions target
Moreland's community wide municipal emissions in 2019 were 1,609,000 tonnes CO2e, composed of sectoral emissions of: Waste (3%), Transport (17%), Gas (21%), Electricity (59%).[24]
The City of Merri-bek has set a community emissions reduction target of net zero emissions by 2040 and established the Moreland Zero Carbon 2040 Framework Strategy and the first 5-year action plan to achieve that target.[25]
Other key climate and sustainability policies and strategies driving climate action include: Climate Emergency Action Plan (2020 to 2025), Moreland Integrated Transport Strategy, Waste and Litter Strategy, Achieving zero Carbon in the Planning Scheme, Sustainable Buildings Policy, Urban Heat Island Effect Action Plan, Urban Forest Strategy, Watermap, Procurement policy, Cooling the Upfield Corridor Action Plan, Food Systems Strategy, Fossil Fuel Divestment Strategy, Moreland Nature Plan.
Climate action endorsements
During 2021 City of Moreland supported a climate disaster levy on coal exports,[26] and endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, the first government jurisdiction in Australia to do so.[27][28]
Council
Current composition
Шаблон:Infobox legislature Councillors are elected from three multi-member wards, two electing four members, and one electing three, for a total of eleven councillors. The council's most recent election took place in October 2020.[29]
Its current composition is:
| Party | Councillors | |
|---|---|---|
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Independent | 4 |
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Greens | 3 |
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Labor | 2 |
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Socialist Alliance | 2 |
| Total | 11 | |
In order of election by ward, is:
| Ward | Party | Councillor | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North-East | Шаблон:Australian party style| | Labor | Annalivia Carli Hannan | |
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Greens | Adam Pulford | ||
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Socialist Alliance | Sue Bolton | ||
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Independent | Helen Pavlidis-Mihalakos | ||
| North-West | Шаблон:Australian party style| | Independent | Oscar Yildiz | |
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Independent | Helen Davidson | ||
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Greens | Angelica Panopoulos | ||
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Socialist Alliance | Monica Harte | Milad El-Halabi, elected in 2020, stepped down in 2022. Monica Harte won the count-back by the Victorian Electoral Commission[30] | |
| South | Шаблон:Australian party style| | Labor | Lambros Tapinos | |
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Greens | Mark Riley | ||
| Шаблон:Australian party style| | Independent | James Conlan | Left Greens in February 2023 | |
Mayor
Шаблон:Main The current Mayor is Angelica Panopoulos and the Deputy Mayor is Helen Davidson. They were elected by council in November 2022 and will serve the 2023 year.[31]
Past councillors
1996–2004 (10 wards)
| Year | Box Forest | Glencairn | Glencairn | Hoffman | Lincoln Mills | Lygon | Merri | Moonah | Newlands | Westbreen | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | |||||||||||
| 1996 | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | John Sawyer (Independent) | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Chris Iliopoulos (Independent) | rowspan="4" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Rosemary Kerr[32] (Independent) | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Mike Hill (Labor) | rowspan="2" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Rod Higgins (Labor) | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Glenyys Romanes (Labor) | rowspan="5" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Anthony Helou (Labor) | rowspan="4" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Andrew Rowe (Labor) | rowspan="5" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Stella Kariofyllidis (Labor) | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Geoff Lutz (Independent) |
| 1999 | rowspan="4" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Ken Blair (Independent) | rowspan="4" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Robert Larocca (Labor) | rowspan="2" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Andy Ingham (Independent) | rowspan="3" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Leigh Snelling (Labor) | rowspan="3" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Melanie Raymond[33] (Independent) | ||||||||||
| 2000 | rowspan="3" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Vicki Yianoulatos (Labor) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | rowspan="3" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Joe Caputo (Labor) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Stephen Roach[34] (Independent) | rowspan="2" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Fraser Brindley (Greens) | rowspan="3" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Mark Higginbotham (Labor) | rowspan="3" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Joe Ficarra (Labor) | ||||||||||||
2004–2024 (three wards)
North-East Ward
| Year | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | rowspan="3" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Anthony Helou | Labor | rowspan="10" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Mark O'Brien | Labor | rowspan="10" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Andrea Sharam | Greens | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Daniel De Lorenzis | Independent |
| 2008 | Michael Teti | Labor | Toby Archer | Greens | rowspan="2" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Stella Kariofyllidis | Labor | |||||
| 2012 | Lenka Thompson | Greens | ||||||||||
| 2012 | rowspan="6" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Sue Bolton | Socialist Alliance | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Rob Thompson | Independent Liberal | ||||||
| 2016 | Annalivia Carli Hannan | Labor | Natalie Abboud | Greens | rowspan="2" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Ali Irfanli | Independent | |||||
| 2020 | Sue Bolton Moreland Team | Adam Pulford | Greens | Helen Pavlidis-Mihalakos | Independent | |||||||
| 2022a | Socialist Alliance | Victorians | ||||||||||
| 2022b | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Independent | ||||||||||
North-West Ward
South Ward
| Year | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | rowspan="11" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Joe Caputo | Labor | rowspan="3" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Alice Pryor | Labor | rowspan="6" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Josephine Connellan | Greens |
| 2008 | Lambros Tapinos | Labor | |||||||
| 2012 | Meghan Hopper | Labor | Samantha Ratnam | Greens | |||||
| 2016 | rowspan="10" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Mark Riley | Greens | ||||||
| 2017 | Jess Dorney | Greens | |||||||
| 2020 | James Conlan | Greens | |||||||
| 2023 | rowspan="6" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | Independent | |||||||
2024 (11 wards)
Шаблон:See also These wards will come into effect at the October 2024 election.
| Year | Box Forest | Bababi Djinanang | Brunswick | Bulleke-bek | Djirri-Djirri | Harmony | Pascoe Vale | Pentridge | Randazzo | Warrk-Warrk | Westbreen | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | ||||||||||||
| 2024 | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD | rowspan="1" width="1px" Шаблон:Australian party style| | TBD |
Election results
2020
2016
2002
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