City of Bayside
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| Coordinates: 37°56′00″S 145°01′00″E / 37.93333°S 145.01667°E | ||||||||||
| Country | Australia | |||||||||
| State | Victoria | |||||||||
| Region | Greater Melbourne | |||||||||
| Established | 1994 | |||||||||
| Council seat | Sandringham | |||||||||
| Government | ||||||||||
| • Mayor | Cr Hanna El Mouallem | |||||||||
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| Area | ||||||||||
• Total | 37 km2 (14 sq mi) | |||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • Total | 105,718 (2018)[1] | |||||||||
| • Density | 2,860/km2 (7,400/sq mi) | |||||||||
| Website | City of Bayside | |||||||||
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The City of Bayside is a local government area in Victoria, Australia. It is within the southern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of 36 square kilometres and in 2018 had a population of 105,718 people.[1]
History
[edit]In 1858, after receiving two petitions, the Government proclaimed the Municipality of Brighton. Brighton was proclaimed a borough in 1863, a town in 1887, and a city in 1919.[citation needed]
The Moorabbin Road District was created in 1862 and became the Shire of Moorabbin in 1871. In 1917, parts of the West and South ridings were severed to create the Borough of Sandringham and three years later parts of the South and Cheltenham ridings were severed to create the Borough of Mentone and Mordialloc. The two boroughs became the Town of Sandringham and the Town of Mentone and Mordialloc in 1919 and 1923 respectively and Sandringham the City of Sandringham in 1923.[citation needed]
Created a road district on 16 May 1862 and later proclaimed a shire in January 1871. A portion of Moorabbin Shire severed and annexed to Brighton Town in 1912 and a portion severed in 1917. The Borough of Mentone and Mordialloc was established in 1920 and re-subdivided in 1929 and later proclaimed a city in 1934.[citation needed]
Created as the Borough of Mentone and Mordialloc by severance from Moorabbin Shire in May 1920. Redefined as a portion of Moorabbin Shire being severed and annexed in 1921. Declared a town in April 1923 and its name changed to Town of Mordialloc in April 1923 and later gazetted a city on 5 May 1926.[citation needed]
City of Bayside
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On 15 December 1994 a new municipality was created to form Bayside City Council which comprises the former City of Brighton, the former City of Sandringham and part of the former City of Mordialloc west of Charman Road and part of the City of Moorabbin between the railway and Charman Road.
Under the initial proposal for the LGA, it was to be named "City of Warrain", warrain being a Boon wurrung word for "by the sea" (and also an earlier name for North Road[2]), but the City of Sandringham proposed that the name "Bayside" be used instead.[3]
Bayside was rated eighth of 590 Australian Local Government Areas in the Bankwest Quality of Life Index 2008.[4]
Council
[edit]Council composition
[edit]
| Ward | Party | Councillor[5] | Notes | |
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| Beckett | Ind. Liberal | Debbie Taylor-Haynes | Deputy Mayor | |
| Bleazby | Ind. Liberal | Robert Irlicht | ||
| Boyd | Independent | Kylie McIntosh | ||
| Castlefield | Independent | Elli Murray | ||
| Dendy | Independent | Hanna El Mouallem | Mayor | |
| Ebden | Ind. Liberal | Geoff Leigh | ||
| Ivison | Independent | Andrew Hockley |
Past councillors
[edit]1997−2008 (nine wards)
[edit]| Year | Abbott | Charman | Clayton | Dendy | Ebden | Mair | Moysey | Smith | Were | |||||||||
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| Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | ||||||||||
| 1997 | Michael Harwood (Ind.) | Terry O'Brien (Ind.) | Craig Tucker (Ind.) | Elizabeth Francis (Ind.) | Simon Russell (Ind.) | Alex del Porto (Ind.) | Vivien Kluger (Ind.) | Graeme Disney (Ind.) | Jill McKiggan (Ind.) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Nicholas Eden (Ind.) | Gary Andrews (Ind.) | Ken Beadle (Ind.) | Michael Heffernan (Liberal) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Chris Carroll (Ind.) | Craig Tucker (Ind.) | Andrew McLorinan (Ind.) | Derek Wilson (Ind.) | Mike Dwyer (Ind.) | Tim Ryan (Ind.) | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | Michael Norris (Ind.) | Terry O'Brien (Ind.) | Kristin Stegley (Ind.) | John Knight (Ind.) | James Long (Ind.) | Clifford Hayes (Ind.) |
2008−2020 (three wards)
[edit]Central Ward
[edit]| Year | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | |||
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| 2008 | James Long | Independent | Felicity Frederico | Liberal | Louise Cooper-Shaw | Independent | |||
| 2012 | Stephen Hartney | Liberal | |||||||
| 2014 | Bruce Lowe | Independent | |||||||
| 2016 | Rob Grinter | Liberal | Sonia Castelli | Independent |
Northern Ward
[edit]| Year | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Alex del Porto | Independent | Clifford Hayes | Independent | ||
| 2010 | Sustainable Australia | |||||
| 2012 | Michael Heffernan | Liberal | ||||
| 2016 |
Southern Ward
[edit]| Year | Councillor | Party | Councillor | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Michael Norris | Independent | Simon Russell | Independent | ||
| 2012 | Lawrence Evans | Independent | Heather Stewart | Independent | ||
| 2016 | Clarke Martin | Independent |
Election results
[edit]2024
[edit]| Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | |
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| Independent | 42,161 | 70.05 | –9.61 | 4 |  3 | |
| Independent Liberal | 16,975 | 28.20 | +16.97 | 3 |  3 | |
| Greens | 652 | 1.08 | –6.73 | 0 |  | |
| Victorian Socialists | 402 | 0.67 | +0.67 | 0 | | |
| Formal votes | 60,190 | 94.82 | ||||
| Informal votes | 3,288 | 5.18 | ||||
| Total | 63,478 | 100.00 | 7 | | ||
| Registered voters / turnout | 75,633 | 83.93 |
Townships and localities
[edit]The 2021 census, the city had a population of 101,306 up from 97,087 in the 2016 census[7]
| Population | ||
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| Locality | 2016 | 2021 |
| Beaumaris | 13,349 | 13,947 |
| Black Rock | 6,159 | 6,389 |
| Brighton | 23,253 | 23,252 |
| Brighton East^ | 15,998 | 16,757 |
| Cheltenham^ | 22,291 | 23,992 |
| Hampton | 13,391 | 13,518 |
| Hampton East | 4,689 | 5,069 |
| Highett^ | 10,454 | 12,016 |
| Sandringham | 10,241 | 10,926 |
^ - Territory divided with another LGA
Controversies
[edit]Fence signs in 2022 Federal Election campaign
[edit]Prompted by one of the candidates, the council warned residents against erecting candidate fence signs too early in the 2022 Federal Election campaign period. This was challenged in the Victorian Supreme Court by representatives of another candidate, which ruled that the signs were legal.[8] The Age called the ruling a "humiliating result" for Bayside Council.[9]
Suppression of accolades for volunteer award winner
[edit]Zaina Amro (16 y.o. at the time) was presented with Bayside's 2025 Julian Gurrieri Memorial Award for Bayside Youth Participation [10]. This was celebrated in an online forum of the recipient's school [11].
An article celebrating the award was published in "Let's Talk Bayside", the city's newsletter for residents, with a photograph on the front cover featuring the award recipient. Following delivery of a fraction of the physical newsletter to residents, letters of complaint were received by council from seven people, objecting to a small Palestine emblem on the necklace worn by the recipient. This prompted Bayside to destroy the remaining printed copies of the newsletter and reissue it without the article and with a different cover image. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] No record of the Julian Gurrieri award remains on the City of Bayside website, for 2025 or any previous year. [18]
The suppression of the accolades for Ms. Amro has been noted publicly in the Australian Parliament, [19] and in the media. [16] [17] [20] [21]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2017-18: Population Estimates by Local Government Area (ASGS 2018), 2017 to 2018". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018.
- ↑ Ross, William (15 November 2014). "The railway line that never was". Carnegie Life. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
- ↑ Local Government Board (1994). Middle and outer Melbourne review: interim report. Melbourne.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ "BankWest Quality of Life Index 2008" (PDF). Bankwest. 20 August 2008. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2008.
- ↑ "Our Councillors | Bayside City Council". Bayside City Council. Archived from the original on 25 February 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ↑ "Bayside City Council results". VEC. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
- ↑ "Census | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. 11 January 2023.
- ↑ Lucas, Clay (3 March 2022). "Bayside battle over political placards a sign of tension between Zoe Daniel and Tim Wilson". The Age. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ Lucas, Clay (22 March 2022). "Ban on federal politics signs overturned by Supreme Court, in humiliating result for Bayside Council". The Age. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ "Inspiring Youth Celebrated At Bayside Youth Awards 2025". Mirage News. 8 May 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ "Zaina – Winner of the Julian Gurrieri Memorial Award for Bayside Youth Participation". Brighton Secondary College - Instagram. 12 May 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ "Public Question Time" (PDF). City of Bayside - Council Minutes. 14 October 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ "Let's Talk Bayside". Let's Talk Bayside. No. 93. 1 October 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ "Statement on recent edition of Let's Talk Bayside". City of Bayside. 10 October 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ "Statement re Let's Talk Bayside magazine". City of Bayside. 10 December 2025. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- 1 2 McKinnon, Alex (8 December 2025). "Melbourne council scrubs teenage volunteer from website over Palestine necklace". Deepcut News. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- 1 2 Grant, Gemma (10 December 2025). "'My identity was dismissed': Teen scrubbed from Bayside newsletter over Palestine necklace". The Age. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ "Search results for "Julian Gurrieri" on Bayside website". City of Bayside. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ Thorpe, Lidia (24 November 2025). "Statements by Senators - Discrimination". Parliament of Australia - Hansard. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ Moody, Sherele (25 January 2026). "A COUNCIL ERASED HER AFTER NINE COMPLAINTS". The Red Heart Movement. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- ↑ "When 16-year-old Zaina was erased from a Bayside Council newsletter". Australia Palestine Advocacy Network - Facebook. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Metlink local public transport map
- Link to Land Victoria interactive maps Archived 24 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine
- Demographics of City of Bayside
- Interactive map of Victorian local government areas (pre-1994 vs present) - Victorian Government - Digital Twin Victoria
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