
100 Years of Rotary Australia
2021 marks the 100 year anniversary of Rotary in Australia and New Zealand. It was in 1921 that the first rotary clubs were started in...

Petitioning for Change
Organising a petition to submit to the City of Boroondara can be an effective way for council to hear from the community, as well as...

Remembrance Day
11 November 2021 marks the 102nd anniversary of the armistice, the suspension of fighting, the end of the First World War. Each year on...

Glenferrie Place Plan
Two years since the Glenferrie Placemaking Project first began, the ‘Place Plan’, originally scheduled for release in March 2021, was...

More Time for the Great Outdoors
Lockdown 6.0 saw a major increase in visitors to Boroondara’s open spaces, parks, and trails. Restrictions forced many of us to reconnect...

Climate Action Plan Adopted
On 27 September 2021, City of Boroondara adopted the Climate Action Plan. The Plan was first announced in 2019 and in July 2021 a draft...

Father's Day: 5 September
Australia (as well as New Zealand, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea) celebrates Father's Day on the first Sunday of September, which this year...

Customer in the Spotlight: Alison Weber
Alison’s family had a dairy farm in Toora and before she came to Melbourne as a boarder, she would travel to nearby Foster for school. In...

Clancy & Triado
Trader in the Spotlight: Clancy and Triado 610 Glenferrie Road Paul Staindl Paul was born in Darwin, at the time that his father was...

Monthly Meet-up with Cr Wes Gault and Cr Susan Biggar
UPDATE: Due to the continuing lockdown, the September councillor-community meet-up will be cancelled. We look forward to meeting with...