This is a list of the mayors of the City of Merri-bek, local government area, Melbourne, Australia. The City of Merri-bek was formed in 1994 with the amalgamation of the City of Brunswick, City of Coburg, and the southern part of the City of Broadmeadows in Victoria, Australia. The name was changed from City of Moreland in September 2022. [1]
Party | Mayor | Term | |
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Labor | Mike Hill | 1996–1997 | |
Labor | Rod Higgins | 1997–1998 | |
Labor | Anthony Helou | 1998–1999 | |
Labor | Andrew Rowe | 1999–2000 | |
Labor | Stella Kariofyllidis | 2000–2001 | |
Labor | Robert Larocca | 2001–2002 | |
Labor | Joe Caputo | 2002–2003 | |
Labor | Joe Ficarra | 2003–2004 | |
Labor | Anthony Helou | 2004 | |
Labor | Mark Higginbotham | 2004–2005 | |
Labor | Anthony Helou | 2005–2006 | |
Labor | Mark O'Brien | 2006–2007 | |
Labor | Joe Caputo | 2007–2008 | |
Labor | Lambros Tapinos | 2008–2009 | |
Labor | Stella Kariofyllidis | 2009–2010 | |
Labor | Oscar Yildiz | 2010–2011 | |
Democratic Labour | John Kavanagh | 2011–2012 | |
Labor | Oscar Yildiz | 2012–2013 | |
Labor | Lambros Tapinos | 2013–2014 | |
Labor | Meghan Hopper | 2014–2015 | |
Greens | Samantha Ratnam | 2015–2016 | |
Independent | Helen Davidson | 2016–2017 | |
Independent | John Kavanagh | 2017–2018 | |
Greens | Natalie Abboud | 2018–2019 | |
Labor | Lambros Tapinos | 2019–2020 | |
Labor | Annalivia Carli-Hannan | 2020–2021 | |
Greens | Mark Riley | 2021–2022 | |
Greens | Angelica Panopoulos | 2022–2023 | |
Greens | Adam Pulford | 2023– |
The City of Merri-bek 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 51 km2 (20 sq mi), and in June 2018, it had a population of 181,725.
Brunswick is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Merri-bek local government area. Brunswick recorded a population of 24,896 at the 2021 census.
Coburg is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Darebin and Merri-bek local government areas. Coburg recorded a population of 26,574 at the 2021 census.
Fawkner is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km (7.5 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Hume and Merri-bek local government areas. Fawkner recorded a population of 14,274 at the 2021 census.
Coburg North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km (5.6 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Darebin and Merri-bek local government areas. Coburg North recorded a population of 8,327 at the 2021 census.
Brunswick East is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Merri-bek local government area. Brunswick East recorded a population of 13,279 at the 2021 census.
Brunswick Town Hall is located on the corner of Sydney Road and Dawson Street in the inner northern Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Victoria, Australia.
Moreland may refer to:
The City of Brunswick was a local government area in the inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprised the suburbs of Brunswick, Brunswick East and West Brunswick. It ceased to exist on 22 June 1994, when its council was disbanded by the Kennett Government and replaced with appointed commissioners, who oversaw its amalgamation with the City of Coburg and parts of the City of Broadmeadows, to create the City of Moreland.
The City of Coburg was a local government area about 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 19.44 square kilometres (7.51 sq mi), and existed from 1859 until 1994.
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Samantha Shantini Ratnam is a Sri Lankan Australian social worker, politician and the current leader of the Victorian Greens. Since October 2017 Ratnam has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Northern Metropolitan Region. Prior to this she was a councillor and mayor for the City of Moreland.
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Milad El-Halabi JP is a former Australian politician. He was a councillor on the City of Moreland in Victoria from 2004 until 2008, and again from 2020 until 2022.
Angelica Panopoulos is an Australian politician, currently the incumbent mayor of the City of Merri-bek council. She is the youngest elected member of that council, having been elected at the age of 23.