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In Australia, lord mayor is a special status granted by the monarch to mayors of major cities, primarily the capitals of Australian states and territories. Australian cities with lord mayors are Adelaide , Brisbane , Darwin , Hobart , Melbourne , Newcastle , Parramatta , Perth , Sydney , and Wollongong .
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Sydney is the head of the Council of the City of Sydney, which is the local government area covering the central business district of Sydney in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The Lord Mayor has been directly elected since 1995, replacing the previous system of being internally elected annually by ...
Clover Margaret Moore AO (née Collins, born 22 October 1945) is an Australian politician.She has been the Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney since 2004 and is currently the longest serving Lord Mayor of Sydney since the creation of the City of Sydney in 1842.
Lord Mayor Party Term start Term end Notes 100 Ivan Deveson (1934–2024) Melbourne First: 26 March 1996 May 1999 Resigned 101 Peter Costigan (1935–2002) Independent: May 1999 22 July 2001: Council dismissed. Did not seek re-election: 102 John So (b. 1946) Melbourne Living: 22 July 2001: 1 December 2008: Retired 103 Robert Doyle (b. 1953 ...
The Sydney Town Hall is a late 19th-century heritage-listed town hall building in the city of Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales, Australia, housing the chambers of the Lord Mayor of Sydney, council offices, and venues for meetings and functions.
The history of the City of Perth, a local government area of Western Australia is defined over three distinct periods: From 1829 to 1838 — controlled by the Governor of Western Australia; From 1838 to 1858 — controlled by the Perth Town Trust; From 1858 to present — controlled by the Perth City Council, later renamed City of Perth
In November 2018, after standing as an Independent, Reynolds was elected Lord Mayor of Hobart, securing 63.35% of the vote and beating former Lord Mayor Damon Thomas into second place. [17] The turnout in the 2018 election was the highest since the 1990s, with 61.94% of eligible electors in the City of Hobart turning out to vote. [18]
The Lord Mayor of Brisbane is the chief executive of the City of Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland, and the head of the Brisbane City Council.Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner of the Liberal National Party was sworn in on 8 April 2019, following the resignation of Graham Quirk.