City of Hume Victoria |
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Location within Melbourne metropolitan area
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Population | 167,562 (2011)[1] | ||||||||||||
• Density | 332.5/km2 (861.1/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Area | 504 km2 (194.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
Mayor | Helen Patsikatheodorou | ||||||||||||
Region | Metropolitan Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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Website | City of Hume | ||||||||||||
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The City of Hume is a local government area partially within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It includes the outer north-western suburbs and a number of rural localities between 13 and 40 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre.
It has an area of 504 square kilometres, and at the 2011 Census it had a population of 167,562. The City was formed on 15 December 1994 after the amalgamation of most of the City of Broadmeadows, the Shire of Bulla and parts of the City of Keilor and City of Whittlesea.
The City is unique in Australia in that it was the first local government to introduce a Bill of Rights for its denizens in 2004, following the establishment of a Social Justice Charter in 2001.[2] This Bill of Rights predates the State Government's Charter of Rights and Responsibilities by three years, and is more sweeping in that it explicitly includes economic, social, and cultural rights.[citation needed]
Contents
Localities
Suburbs
- Attwood
- Broadmeadows
- Campbellfield
- Coolaroo
- Craigieburn
- Dallas
- Fawkner (Shared with the City of Moreland)
- Folkstone
- Gladstone Park
- Greenvale
- Jacana
- Keilor (Shared with the City of Brimbank)
- Lockerbie
- Meadow Heights
- Melbourne Airport
- Merrifield
- Merrifield West
- Roxburgh Park
- Somerton
- Tullamarine (Shared with the Cities of Brimbank and Moreland)
- Westmeadows
Townships and rural localities
- Bulla
- Clarkefield (Shared with the Shire of Macedon Ranges)
- Diggers Rest (Shared with the City of Melton)
- Kalkallo
- Konagaderra
- Mickleham
- Oaklands Junction
- Sunbury
- Wildwood
- Yuroke
Councillors
2012-2016[3]
Ward | Councillor | Notes |
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Aitken | Chandra Bamunusinghe[4] | Deputy Mayor |
Alan Bolton | ||
Drew Jessop | ||
Casey Nunn | ||
Jacksons Creek | Jack Medcraft | |
Jack Ogilvie | ||
Ann Potter | ||
Meadow Valley | Adem Atmaca | |
Vic Dougall | ||
Helen Patsikatheodorou | Mayor | |
Geoff Porter |
See also
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Hume (Local Government Area)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2012-06-21.
- ^ editors: Gelber, Katharine and Stone, Adrienne. Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech in Australia. pp. 10–11. ISBN 9781862876538.
- ^ "Hume City Council - Your Councillors". www.hume.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
- ^ Silva, Dhananjani. "The Lankan who does politics the Australian way | The Sunday Times Sri Lanka". Sunday Times. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
It was during the 1988 General Elections in Australia, that Chandra felt the need to support the Australian Labor Party (ALP).