Local Government
ANGRY: Catherine Ng and Douglas Campbell dining alone, crying into their supper
Was delightful to spot the wounded Melbourne Lord Mayoral wannabe Catherine Ng supping on Bourke Street this wet evening as we tooled around town. Naturally, the one-time friend of some of Melbourne’s more colourful developers chose the Society restaurant, once…
WHO DARES WINS: Diana Asmar elected as mayor of Darebin
The Darebin council - based in Melbourne’s northern suburbs - has transitioned smoothly to a new era of leadership and unity.
LAKE: A yoof misspent with local government cardigans for the greater good
Geoff Lake is now the President of the Australian Local Government Association. Is the rising star headed in the Hotham direction?
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH: Catherine Ng rears her ugly head
Deposed Melbourne councillor Catherine Ng is already suffering attention deficit syndrome. Now she’s lashing out in the local press at John So, her former council colleagues, VEXNEWS, “Labor hacks” and all those involved in destroying her plans for the Lord Mayoralty. In an interview with blogger Bianca Hall, she reveals her secrets plans to seek Liberal state preselection.
SCHEMERS: Socialist Left vote up conservative mayor in Hume
Four Socialist Left Hume councillors praised as “Reagan socialists” after committing to rates freezes and spending cuts have teamed up with a prominent conservative to give him the mayoralty.
CLOWN HALL: Councillors repudiate Doyle’s mandate
The structure of the Melbourne City Council is going to be put to the test early if a majority of the councillors fulfil their threat to vote against his plan to open up the already tram, 60 seat coach, delivery…
BOTCHED: How the Steve Tully made a complete shambles of the 2006 state election count
Steve Tully’s incompetence could have cost Labor moderate Henry Barlow his seat in Victoria’s upper house. Is he presiding over a nest of Greens party vipers who stole the election? Or is he just a bungling oaf who is not up to the job?
DOYLE’S HALL: No wonder Red Ted is being a little grouchy this week
Liberals who think Ted Baillieu shouldn’t be state leader are surrounding new Lord Mayor Robert Doyle in the Town Hall. What sort of leadership role will the state’s most senior Liberal elected office holder take in the lead-up to 2010?
UNTOWARD: VEC’s Sue Lang was sacked from DTF over leaking budget papers
A senior Victorian government communications director got the boot after state government budget papers were leaked. Naturally, she’s ended up at the sheltered workshop, the Victorian Electoral Commission.
LIGHT THE BONFIRE: It’s time for one last roasting of Melbourne’s most despicable hag
A month ago, Catherine Ng was a near certainty to win Melbourne’s Lord Mayoralty. A huge campaign warchest she’d secretly squeezed out of developers as chair of the council’s Planning Committee, an astonishing flow of preferences from those who’d unwisely underestimated her and the cunning stunts of Ian Hanke meant she had a huge chance. She blew it. We reveal why.
VEXNEWS Comments