Melbourne 2014

CoRBA’s 2014 achievements

LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEMOCRACY – electoral reform in the COM A gerrymander in the CoM delivers businesses with two votes and residents with one. CoRBA has waged a decade long struggle to address this injustice. In 2014 the Baillieu/Napthine Government finally undertook a review of electoral processes for local govt. elections- including the CoM.  This was a major and momentous victory …

World Heritage Day Melbourne 2014

Your invitation to World Heritage Community Day

Free event Presented by the Coalition of Residents’ Associations in the City of Melbourne and Fitzroy in collaboration with Museum Victoria On 9 May 1901, the Royal Exhibition Building hosted the opening of the first Federal Parliament. No other public building could accommodate such a large group of people, as 12,000 people were invited and the organisers were eager to …

Melbourne Parks

EastWest Link Claims Parkland

A trench several hundred metres long is likely to be dug through Royal Park, creating up to 12 months of major disruption to park users and damaging the landscape for up to 20 years, as part of building the East West Link. The Royal Park Protection Group and Protectors of Public Lands Victoria (Groups) and several other community groups including …