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Metcalf was first elected to Greater Bendigo City Council in the 2016 Victorian local elections, where she received 13.21% of the primary vote in Whipstick Ward. [2] She retained her seat at the 2020 Victorian local elections with 19.43% of the primary vote. [3] In 2020, Metcalf was elected as Deputy Mayor of Bendigo, serving under Mayor ...
The city is governed and administered by the Greater Bendigo City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Bendigo, it also has service centres located in Heathcote, Huntly, Marong and a couple of other locations within Bendigo. The city is named after the main urban settlement ...
The original Bendigo Town Hall was designed in 1859 by Bendigo's town clerk, George Avery Fletcher. A council chamber was added in 1866 and a hall for the trading of grain, known as the Corn Exchange, was added in 1871-72.
Eaglehawk was first incorporated as a borough on 29 July 1862. It had nine councillors, who represented the entire borough. [2]On 7 April 1994, the Borough of Eaglehawk was abolished and, along with the City of Bendigo, the Rural City of Marong and the shires of Huntly and Strathfieldsaye, was merged into the newly created City of Greater Bendigo.
The City of Bendigo was a local government area covering the central area and inner western suburbs of the regional city of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 32.53 square kilometres (12.6 sq mi), and existed from 1855 to 1994.
Greater Bendigo City Council is composed of nine single-member wards. Prior to the 2024 election, it was composed of three multi-member wards with three members each, but the electoral structure has changed as a result of the Local Government Act 2020. [12] Epsom Ward was uncontested.
He was elected a second time by the council in 2004. [10] He was elected a third time in 2010. [11] In his fourth and final stint as mayor (2015–2016), [3] Fyffe oversaw the Bendigo Mosque protests. The protests began when the City of Greater Bendigo voted 7–2 to build a mosque in Bendigo, under previous mayor Barry Lyons. [12]
In February 1998, a new mayoral chain was created for the newly-amalgamated City of Greater Bendigo, created by Tony Kean from gold harvested in the Central Deborah Gold Mine. The crests of each of the former Bendigo municipalities that had existed before council amalgamation were featured on individual links of the chain.