MONASH CITY COUNCIL

By Makenna Perry

ABOUT THE COUNCILThe City of Monash is a local government

area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne with an area of 81.0 square kilometres and an estimated population of 176,069 people. The mayor of the City of Monash is Micaela Drieberg. The city of Monash has four different wards, Mount Waverley ward, Glen Waverley ward, Oakleigh ward, and the Mulgrave ward.

OAKLEIGH WARD Population: 22,647 51% females 49%

males Area: 12.2 km² History: Following the Second World War,

Melbourne burst its borders and flowed into semi-rural land. The suburbs Moorabbin and Oakleigh expanded to the south-east. The end of the Second World War also saw an Australian government attitudinal change with regards to immigration.

Note: Includes Oakleigh east and south

MULGRAVE WARD Population: 17,647 50.6% females

49.4% males Area: 11.1 km² History: Mulgrave Parish, as it was then

known, was first settled in 1839 by Thomas Napier, a Scottish Builder who first reached the Colony of Victoria in the mid-1830s. Napier settled on the banks of the Dandenong Creek and built his homestead in Bushy Park Wetlands, and what is now Jells Park.

MOUNT WAVERLEY WARD Population: 32,076 51.4% female

48.6% male Area: 15.9 km² History: The Mount Waverley area, then

part of the Parish of Mulgrave, was divided by straight roads running north-south and east-west, each exactly one mile apart, by Assistant Surveyor Eugene Bellairs, in 1853.

GLEN WAVERLEY WARD Population: 39,204 51.2% female

48.9% male Area: 16.8 km² History: The area was first settled in the

mid nineteenth century and later developed as orchards and farming lands.

COUNCILLORS Mount Waverley: Cr Brian Little, Cr Jieh-

Yung Lo, Cr Tom Morrissey JP Glen Waverley: Cr Geoff Lake, Cr Katrina

Nolan Oakleigh: Cr Stephen Dimopoulos, Cr Bill

Pontikis, Cr Theo Zographos Mulgrave: Cr Robert Davies, Cr Micaela

Drieberg – MAYOR, and Cr Paul Klisaris

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