With October’s Melbourne City Council elections approaching, another troubling disconnect between the city and the wider metropolis has resurfaced: that between how voting works in the council and everywhere else in Victoria.
Melbourne’s CBD is in many ways a space apart.
There are those who argue that the special status of the CBD, with its concentration of major business interests, has always required special rules. In the 19th century votes in the city were only for ratepayers , and it wasn’t until 1982 and the Cain Labor government that all adult residents could vote in council elections. Indeed, some years ago then councillor Stephen Maynewould produce “an anti-business left-leaning Green council”.
Greens Councillor Rohan Leppert, who has called the council’s voting arrangements “the worst electoral system in the country”, believes such cases demonstrate the need for a ban on all developer donations.
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