Tag: Maranoa
2013 Maranoa Gardens Festival
This year’s Maranoa Gardens Festival will be held next Saturday 24th August. It is a fantastic opportunity to come along and see the nationally-recognised gardens on your own doorstep, featuring a unique collection of Australian plants. There will be a number of events and activities featuring in this year’s event, including talks and displays of…
Map of bus stops in Maranoa
Something that I have been working on intermittently for a few months is a map of all bus stops in Maranoa (i.e. parts of Balwyn, North Balwyn and Mont Albert North). Given that there isn’t any map that I could find with specific bus stops on it, I thought that this could be a worthwhile…
Ideas for Maranoa
An easy and simple way for people to submit ideas on improving Maranoa has now been created. Using Google Moderator software, this new method of getting ideas out there for discussion allows people to not only put forward their own ideas, but vote existing ideas up or down to form a consensus. There is no…
Urban Planning Special Commitee meeting 17th December 2012
There will be a meeting of the Urban Planning Special Committee at 8:30pm on the 17th December 2012 at the Council Chambers in Camberwell. Order of business 1. Apologies 2. Adoption and confirmation of the minutes of the Urban Planning Special Committee meeting held on 26 November 2012 3. Declaration of conflict of interest of…
Maranoa profile now on website
I am pleased to announce a new section on this website, consisting of information about Maranoa Ward. This comprises of a number of webpages containing information on the two suburbs which make up Maranoa Ward – Balwyn and North Balwyn (parts of both). This includes photographs and selected data from the 2011 Census. Further sections…
Provisional results look good; further election coverage
Provisional results for Maranoa Ward indicate a win! Candidate First preference votes Percentage MALLIS, Philip 4686 55.12% BARTLETT, Ryan William 3816 44.88% More detailed results for Maranoa Ward and preliminary results from other Boroondara wards may be seen here: https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/BoroondaraResult2012.html Results will be officially announced at 6pm tonight. A very big thank you to everyone…
Facebook page
Join the Facebook page to get the latest updates and get involved with the campaign. http://www.facebook.com/philipmallismaranoa
Maranoa Festival a success
The weather cleared long enough for the many hundreds of people who attended today’s Maranoa Festival at the Maranoa Gardens in Balwyn. There were activities for all age groups and interests, from facepainting to guided tours of the beautiful gardens. I personally talked to a number of people at the festival about issues that matter…
Macleay/Myrtle Park Neighbour Day
I attended the ‘Meet your Neighbour’ day at Macleay/Myrtle Park today, where there were a number of great activities and ways for members of the local community to come together. The event ran from around 11:30am to 2:30pm, with many families, kids and other local residents enjoying what was on offer at the event. Federal…