The City of Moreland is a Local Government Area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the inner northern suburbs between 4 and 10 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre.
It was created in 1994 during the forced amalgamations of local government by the Kennett Government, being created from the former local government areas of the City of Brunswick, the City of Coburg and the southern part of the C...
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The City of Moreland is a Local Government Area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the inner northern suburbs between 4 and 10 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre.
It was created in 1994 during the forced amalgamations of local government by the Kennett Government, being created from the former local government areas of the City of Brunswick, the City of Coburg and the southern part of the City of Broadmeadows. The Moreland local government area covers 51 square kilometres, and at the 2006 census it had a population of 142,325.
The council and its government area are affectionately known by some residents as the People's Republic of Moreland.
In 2004 the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), the Victorian office of the Australian Electoral Commission, conducted a review of the local electorate. The result of this review was the change of election method from preferential voting of ten single member wards to proportional...
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