Diary of efforts to protect and enhance the new reserve on the site of the former Ruthven Primary School.

This diary will be progressively updated with questions and answers over the term of the 2020-2024 term of the Darebin Council.

Darebin Council has not secured parkland at Clements Reserve due to a series of failures that rise to the level of maladministration.

For a longer discussion of the field check out my Voter Guide, which includes a more detailed rationale for my suggestions, and also the...

I am an independent community and union activist with a long interest in the workings of Darebin Council and citizen journalism. This...

Darebin Council must act to purchase three parcels of State Government land within Clements Reserve.

(First published on Facebook 29 December 2019) Dumbarton grassland assessed as ‘of no strategic interest’ to Darebin Council In early...

Submission from Serena O'Meley and Terry Mason is intended to supplement the work which has already been done on the draft Master Plan.

How do the Labor and Greens candidates in the Batman By-election compare when it comes to international trade deals?

The community makes a successful argument for retaining the whole of Ruthven for public open space.

Speech to the AEC on why the seat of Batman should be renamed.

Darebin Council officers allowed the Developer Contribution Plan to lapse in 2014. Planning approval to replace it was sought in 2021.

The AEC must rename the seat of Batman because its namesake did not render "outstanding service" to his country.

Why Darebin Council must act now to secure Lakeside and Ruthven, and why I have lodged a formal complaint with the Victorian Ombudsman.

Darebin Council exposed for inappropriately stopping the public from asking questions from the gallery in the lead up to a Federal Election.

Darebin Council commits to negotiating for Ruthven and Lakeside sites.

Public meeting about saving public open space at the former Ruthven Primary School.

Darebin councillors keep pursuing a failed strategy to try to get the State Government to gift Darebin the land at the former Ruthven PS.

Darebin Council failed to buy land next to the Merri Creek when it was offered by the State Government.

Angry public meeting about the proposed sale of land at two former primary schools - Ruthven and Lakeside.