John So retires as Lord Mayor of Melbourne next month. He will not stand again for the office he has held these past eight years. With Council elections and the separate election of Lord Mayor the City will have a new first citizen. What then is to be said about So’s eight years in office?
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Melbourne Wants for Authority
By David Dunstan
Metropolitan problems need metropolitan solutions, or so we are told by Roger Poole of the Committee for Melbourne (Age 7 March, 2008). He bemoans the absence of comprehensive planning for Melbourne and calls for a single planning authority.
We had one – the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. It was done away with in the 1980s and 90s by successive efforts of the Cain and Kirner Labor and Kennett Liberal administrations. Continue reading Melbourne Wants for Authority