Local News

Petrol prices across Wyndham and greater Melbourne are climbing again, but this is no routine jump in the fuel cycle.What drivers are seeing at the bowser is the local fallout from a much larger geopolitical shock, as war...

Wyndham Council has moved to extend Victoria’s glass-bin rollout deadline, voting to lobby Environment Minister Steve Dimopoulos for more time as the price tag and practical fallout come into focus.At the Tuesday 24 February meeting, councillors weighed a report...

According to Council Watch the fall of Mayor Josh Gilligan highlights factional instability at Wyndham — and it may carry political consequences well beyond the council chamber as Victoria heads toward the November state election.The local governance watchdog, led...

Wyndham councillors have rejected a proposal to ask the Federal Government for national direction on how Australia Day should be observed, voting 10–1 to remove the motion from the council’s planned submissions to the Australian Local Government Association’s National...

Victoria is spending more than $6 million to spruce up “multicultural business precincts” — but Wyndham, one of the state’s fastest-growing and most culturally diverse municipalities, hasn’t received a cent.On 28 February 2026, Minister Natalie Suleyman announced 37 council-led...

Victoria’s “Adult Time for Violent Crime” laws are now in force — and in Wyndham, they’ve pushed the youth crime debate into sharper, more polarising territory.Under changes introduced by the Allan Labor Government, teenagers aged 14 and over who...

Suspended Mayor says he has been subjected to harassment in the workplace and a character assassination by political rivals, after an independent arbiter found he engaged in misconduct for calling his predecessor a “raging lunatic” in a social media...

Following the suspension of Josh Gilligan, Wyndham’s mayoral selection process will go to the council chamber — along with the familiar arithmetic of numbers, alliances and ambition.Cr Gilligan was suspended for one month after an independent misconduct finding over...

Wyndham City Council has once again discovered the one topic guaranteed to unite a chamber of elected representatives, a room full of officers, an overlooking public and, "dog poo" — not as a punchline, but as a serious matter...

Wyndham City Council Mayor Josh Gilligan has been suspended from office for one month after an independent arbiter found he engaged in misconduct over a Facebook post aimed at former mayor Kim McAliney.The determination, made under Victoria’s Local Government...