60-578: The City of Merri-bek ( / ˈ m ɛ r iː b ɛ k / ) is a local government area in metropolitan Melbourne , Australia. It comprises the inner northern suburbs between 4 and 11 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD . The Merri-bek local government area covers 51 km (20 sq mi), and in June 2018, it had a population of 181,725. The local government area was created as the City of Moreland in 1994 during
120-486: A community emissions reduction target of net zero emissions by 2040 and established the Moreland Zero Carbon 2040 Framework Strategy and the first 5-year action plan to achieve that target. Other key climate and sustainability policies and strategies driving climate action include: Climate Emergency Action Plan (2020 to 2025), Moreland Integrated Transport Strategy, Waste and Litter Strategy, Achieving zero Carbon in
180-623: A decade later, it had 8 campuses (including 2 overseas), a European research and teaching centre, and more than 50,000 students, making it the largest and most internationalised Australian university. Expansion of the university began in 1990 with a series of mergers between Monash, the Chisholm Institute of Technology, and the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. In 1991 a merger with the Victorian College of Pharmacy created
240-562: A dramatic increase in interest in the potential of stem cells . It has also led to Monash being ranked in the top 20 universities in the world for biomedicine. On 21 October 2002 Huan Yun "Allen" Xiang , shot two people dead and injured five others on the Clayton campus. Since December 2011, Monash has had a global alliance with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. In 2014,
300-893: A graduate research school in Mumbai , India and graduate schools in Suzhou , China and Tangerang , Indonesia. Courses are also delivered at other locations, including South Africa. Monash is home to major research facilities, including the Monash Law School , the Australian Synchrotron , the Monash Science Technology Research and Innovation Precinct (STRIP), the Australian Stem Cell Centre , Victorian College of Pharmacy , and 100 research centres and 17 co-operative research centres. In 2019, its total revenue
360-645: A new faculty of the university. This continued in 1994, with the establishment of the Berwick campus . In 1998, the university opened the Malaysia campus , its first overseas campus and the first foreign university in Malaysia . In 2001, Monash South Africa opened its doors in Johannesburg, making Monash the first foreign university in South Africa. The same year, the university secured an 18th-century Tuscan palace to open
420-488: A pharmacist after successful completion of a supervised internship and registration exams in the final year. The Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science replaced the Bachelor of Formulation Science in 2007 and the Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry in 2008. High achieving students may enrol in a double degree, combining a Bachelor of Engineering and a Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science. The campus also offers postgraduate degrees, including
480-548: A presence in the area since 1994, the first Monash Berwick campus building was completed in 1996 and the third building in March 2004. It was situated on a 55-hectare site in the City of Casey , then one of the three fastest growing municipalities in Australia. Monash announced the closure of this campus to staff and students on 7 March 2016. On 15 July 2016 it was announced that Federation University Australia would take responsibility for
540-443: A representation review of the council's electoral structure, resulting in a recommendation that the 10 single councillor wards be replaced by three multi-councillor wards. A consequence of the change from single-councillor to multi-councillor wards was a change in election method from Instant runoff voting to proportional representation via Single transferable vote . Elections are held every four years. In November 2021, it came to
600-449: A research and teaching centre in Prato , Italy. At the same time, Australian universities faced unprecedented demand for international student places, which Monash met on a larger scale than most. Today, around 30% of its students are from outside Australia. Monash students come from over 100 countries, and speak over 90 different languages. The increase in international students, combined with
660-599: Is a public research university based in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash , it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a number of campuses, four of which are in Victoria ( Clayton , Caulfield , Peninsula , and Parkville ), one in Malaysia and another one in Indonesia. Monash also has a research and teaching centre in Prato , Italy,
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#1732855363527720-524: Is a hub of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Nursing, Health Science, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Psychology – and particularly in Emergency Health (Paramedic) courses. The campus is located in the bayside suburb of Frankston on the edge of Melbourne. Peninsula campus also offers a range of courses including those from its historic roots with early childhood and primary education (during
780-790: Is a list of former local government areas in Victoria. Many of these existed from the 19th century until the 1994 statewite local government amalgamations . This is a list of former Greater Melbourne local government areas. These local government areas were considered part of Greater Melbourne at the time of their dissolution. City of Merri-bek City of Darebin Shire of Nillumbik City of Darebin City of Hobsons Bay Shire of Mornington Peninsula City of Darebin City of Moonee Valley City of Hume City of Bayside City of Kingston City of Bayside City of Darebin City of Kingston City of Port Phillip City of Kingston City of Maribyrnong This
840-614: Is a list of former regional local government areas around Geelong and surrounding the Greater Melbourne area. These local government areas were not considered part of Greater Melbourne at the time of their dissolution. Surf Coast Shire City of Greater Dandenong City of Frankston City of Greater Dandenong Bass Coast Shire Shire of Mornington Peninsula Shire of Murrindindi City of Banyule Shire of Cardinia City of Knox Surf Coast Shire ClimateWorks Australia Monash University ( / ˈ m ɒ n æ ʃ / )
900-410: Is called a city and is governed by a city council, while a rural LGA covering a larger rural area is usually called a shire and is governed by a shire council. Local councils have the same administrative functions and similar political structures, regardless of their classification. Local elections are held in Victoria every four years with the most recent elections held in 2024. (2021) This
960-517: Is chair of the university council and provides advice to the vice-chancellor, as well as having ceremonial duties. Council is the governing body of the university, established by the Monash University Act 2009 . Margaret Gardner was named as the vice-chancellor and president on 1 September 2014, the first woman to hold the position. After Gardner was appointed Governor of Victoria in 2023, Susan Elliott AM took over as interim VC, until
1020-630: Is currently home to over 8,489 (2018) students. The new purpose-built campus opened in 2007, providing a high-tech home for Monash in Malaysia. In addition to a wide range of undergraduate degrees, the campus also offers both postgraduate Masters and PhD programs. Its degrees in Medicine and Surgery are the first medical degrees outside Australia and New Zealand to be accredited by the Australian Medical Council. The Monash University Prato Centre
1080-517: Is located in BSD City , Tangerang , Banten . As part of the university's expansion in the 1990s, Monash took over the operations of the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education in 1990. The commitment to regional higher education on the part of the university was a progressive and bold step, however, the operation of the Gippsland campus was always fraught with some tension between the priorities of
1140-581: Is located in the 18th-century palace, Palazzo Vaj, in the historic centre of Prato , a city near Florence in Italy. Primarily, it hosts staff and students from Monash's other campuses for semesters in Law, Art Design & Architecture, History, Music, and Criminology as well as various international conferences. It was officially opened on 17 September 2001 as part of the university's vigorous internationalisation policy. The IITB-Monash Research Academy opened in 2008 and
1200-503: Is one of the Australian universities to be ranked in the École des Mines de Paris ( Mines ParisTech ) ranking on the basis of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies. Established by an Act of Parliament in 1958, the original campus was in the suburb of Clayton where the university was granted an expansive site of 100 hectares of open land. The 100 hectares of land consisted of farmland and included
1260-459: Is situated in Mumbai , India. It is a partnership between Monash and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay . It aims to carry out high impact research in engineering and sciences, particularly clean energy, biotechnology and nanotechnology. Students undertake their research in both India and Australia, with supervisors from both Monash and IITB. Upon graduating, they receive a dual PhD from
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#17328553635271320-761: Is the first Australian university, and the third foreign university, to win a licence to operate in China. The school offers master's degrees and PhDs in science and engineering, with an initial cohort of 500 students, building up to 2000 in the years to come. The Monash University, Indonesia opened its doors in October 2021, focusing on postgraduate programs offering master's degree and PhDs . Currently they open several Master's degree programs including: Data Science , Cybersecurity, Urban Design , Business Innovation, and Public Policy & Management, Marketing & Digital Communications, Public Health, and Sustainability. The campus
1380-570: Is the largest of the Monash campuses. Clayton is the flagship campus for Monash, demanding higher ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) scores than all the other campuses, with the exception of Parkville. Clayton is home to the faculties of Arts, Business & Economics, Education, Engineering, IT, Law, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Pharmaceutical Science and Science. The Clayton campus has its own suburb and postcode (3800). Various major scientific research facilities are located on or adjacent to
1440-548: The Clayton campus in Clayton, Victoria . There is an additional private residential college affiliated with the university. The Clayton campus contains the Robert Blackwood Hall , named after the university's founding chancellor Sir Robert Blackwood and designed by Sir Roy Grounds . The Caulfield campus is Monash University's second-largest. Its multifaceted nature is reflected in the range of programs it offers through
1500-468: The Crown in the area's first colonial sale. McCrae gave the land the name Moreland. Some suggest he may have taken this name from a Jamaican sugar plantation that his paternal grandfather Alexander McCrae worked at from the late 1760s to the early 1790s, which was involved in slave trading , and kept up to 500 to 700 enslaved people in the operation in any one year. Greens Mayor Mark Riley said "The history behind
1560-656: The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy , the Cities Power Partnership , Climate Emergency Australia (CEA), Climate Active, The Northern Alliance for Greenhouse Action (NAGA), and has declared pledges in the TAKE2 scheme with Sustainability Victoria. Council declared a climate emergency on 12 September 2018. For operational emissions, Moreland Council was certified as a ‘carbon neutral’ council in 2012. This required purchase of carbon offset credits. Moreland
1620-558: The Latrobe Valley town of Churchill , 142 km east of Melbourne on 63 hectares of landscaped grounds. Until 2014 it was the only non-metropolitan campus of Monash University. The campus offered many undergraduate degrees, attracting students from the Latrobe Valley , East and West Gippsland . Ballarat University joined with Monash University Gippsland campus to form a new regional university known as Federation University Australia from 1 January 2014. As of that date, Monash began
1680-529: The former Talbot Epileptic Colony. The Tudor-style farmhouse built by the O'Shea family became the original Vice-Chancellor's House - now University House. From its first intake of 357 students at Clayton on 13 March 1961, the university grew rapidly in size and student numbers so that by 1967 its all-times enrollment reached 21,000 students. In its early years, it offered undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering, medicine, science, arts, economics, politics, education, and law. It
1740-597: The 1960s and 1970s the campus was the State Teachers' College), and Business & Economics (since the merger of the State Teachers' College with the Caulfield Institute of Technology to create the Chisholm Institute of Technology in 1982). The campus was also home to the Peninsula School of Information Technology, which in 2006 was wound back with Information Technology units previously offered being relocated to
1800-490: The 2021 census, the city had a population of 171,357 up from 162,558 at the 2016 census. ^ - Territory divided with another LGA ^ = territory divided with another LGA Local government areas of Victoria This is a list of local government areas (LGAs) in Victoria , sorted by region. Also referred to as municipalities, the 79 Victorian LGAs are classified as cities (34), shires (38), rural cities (6) and boroughs (1). In general, an urban or suburban LGA
1860-502: The Berwick Campus from 2017 pending government approvals. This officially commenced on 1 January 2018, as a campus of Federation University Australia . In August 2013, Monash University announced it had entered a partnership that will enable its South African presence to grow and enhance its educational offering. The partnership is with Laureate International Universities. Monash and Laureate finalised terms to transfer ownership of
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1920-829: The Caulfield campus. The centrally located Monash Law City Campus houses the postgraduate Faculty of Law. It provides teaching for the Monash Law Masters and JD programmes. This campus is well placed within Melbourne's legal precinct, allowing students to have easy access to the surrounding courts. The Monash University Malaysia campus opened in 1998 in Bandar Sunway , Selangor , Malaysia. The Sunway campus offers various undergraduate degrees through its faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Medicine and Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Science. It
1980-504: The Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Pharmacy. Considered a world-class faculty, it was ranked first in the world in pharmacy and pharmacology in the 2022 QS World University Rankings by Subject, surpassing Harvard University and the University of Oxford, which ranked second and third, respectively. The Peninsula campus has a teaching and research focus on health and wellbeing, and
2040-677: The Monash Siege, students forced then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to hide in a basement at the Alexander Theatre, in a major protest over the Whitlam dismissal . In the late 1970s and 1980s, some of Monash's most publicised research came through its pioneering of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). Led by Carl Wood and Alan Trounson , the Monash IVF Program achieved the world's first clinical IVF pregnancy in 1973. In 1980, they delivered
2100-629: The Planning Scheme, Sustainable Buildings Policy, Urban Heat Island Effect Action Plan, Urban Forest Strategy, Watermap, Procurement policy, Cooling the Upfield Corridor Action Plan, Food Systems Strategy, Fossil Fuel Divestment Strategy, Moreland Nature Plan. During 2021 City of Moreland supported a climate disaster levy on coal exports, and endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative ,
2160-774: The School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, which contains the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Forensic Medicine. The Parkville campus is located on Royal Parade in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville , around 2 km north of the Melbourne CBD . The campus is home to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The faculty specialises in pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical and formulation science, and medicinal chemistry. The campus offers Australia's first combined, 5-year Bachelor of Pharmacy/Master of Pharmacy program, leading to registration as
2220-523: The amalgamations of local governments by the state government , being created from the former local government areas of the City of Brunswick , the City of Coburg and the southern part of the City of Broadmeadows . It was renamed to Merri-bek in September 2022. In 2004 the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), an independent authority created under Victorian state legislation, conducted
2280-545: The appointment of Sharon Pickering in February 2024, as 10th vice-chancellor and president of the university. Simon McKeon AO was appointed chancellor in 2016, and as of 2024 is still in the position. Deputy Chancellors are Megan Clark AC, Peter Young AM KC, and John Simpson AM. Monash is divided into 10 faculties. These incorporate the university's major departments of teaching and research centres. The faculties are: Various other academic organisations exist alongside
2340-467: The campus to the Independent Institute of Education (IIE) South Africa in 2015. The transfer was concluded in 2019. The vice-chancellor is the chief executive of the university, who is head of Monash's day-to-day activities. The vice-chancellor is also the university president of Monash. (In North America and parts of Europe, the equivalent role is the president or principal.) The chancellor
2400-637: The campus. Chief among these are the Australian Synchrotron and CSIRO . The campus is also home to numerous restaurants and retail outlets, as well as student bars Sir John's (located in the Campus Centre) and the Notting Hill Hotel (located down the street, founded in 1891), both of which are hubs of social life on the campus. The campus is also home to a number of halls of residence, colleges and other on-campus accommodation that house several thousand students. Six halls of residence are located at
2460-467: The centre of student radicalism in Australia. It was the site of many mass student demonstrations, particularly concerning Australia's role in Vietnam War and conscription . By the late 1960s, several student organisations, some of which were influenced by or supporters of communism, turned their focus to Vietnam, with numerous blockades and sit-ins. In one extraordinary event that came to be known as
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2520-433: The council's attention that Moreland's namesake was indirectly associated with a Jamaican plantation site that had traded slaves up to the 1800s. This historical information was contained in the 2010 Moreland Council publication Thematic History , and published in books and articles as far back as 1944. In October 1839, Scottish surgeon and settler Dr Farquhar McCrae was sold land between Moonee Ponds Creek and Sydney Road by
2580-534: The faculties of Arts, Art Design & Architecture (MADA), Business & Economics, Information Technology and Medicine, and Nursing and Health Sciences. A major building program has been announced to expand teaching facilities, provide student accommodation, and redevelop the shopping centre. Located in The Alfred Hospital , Monash University's Alfred campus houses the Central Clinical School and
2640-521: The first IVF baby in Australia. This eventually became a massive source of revenue for the university at a time when university funding in Australia was beginning to slow down. In the late 1980s, the Dawkins Reforms changed the landscape of higher education in Australia. Under the leadership of Vice-Chancellor Mal Logan , Monash transformed dramatically. In 1988, Monash University had only one campus in Clayton , with around 15,000 students. Just over
2700-456: The first government jurisdiction in Australia to do so. Councillors are elected from three multi-member wards, two electing four members, and one electing three, for a total of eleven councillors. The council's most recent election took place in October 2020. Its current composition is: The current mayor is Helen Davidson Cr. These wards will come into effect at the October 2024 election . At
2760-443: The leading municipal councils in Australia in adopting policies on climate action and sustainability. A January 2020 ClimateWorks Australia local government report identified City of Moreland as one of 3 out of 57 municipal jurisdictions in Australia to have a "fully aligned net zero by 2050 target that addresses both operational and community emissions." City of Merri-bek is a member of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability,
2820-472: The metropolitan-centred campuses at Clayton and Caulfield versus the needs and aspirations of the regional one. The Gippsland campus was designed in order to provide courses via distance education. Between 2005 and 2010, many of these programs were transferred to city campuses, thus losing their appeal to regional areas. At its peak enrolment in 2007, the campus was home to 2,000 on-campus students, 5,000 off-campus students and nearly 400 staff. The campus sits in
2880-823: The municipality which are powered by 100% zero emissions renewable energy from the Crowlands Wind Farm, near Ararat. In 2014, City of Moreland joined with the City of Melbourne and several other institutions and established the Melbourne Renewable Energy Project (MREP). This project developed and funded the construction of a purpose-built 39 turbine, 80 MW Crowlands windfarm, which started supplying 100% renewables power to Council facilities and buildings in 2019. Moreland's community wide municipal emissions in 2019 were 1,609,000 tonnes CO2e, composed of sectoral emissions of: Waste (3%), Transport (17%), Gas (21%), Electricity (59%). The City of Merri-bek has set
2940-497: The municipality, the best known being the Sydney Road Street Party . One of the highlights of Merri-bek is its public library. Merri-bek City Libraries has five branches. Other Merri-bek local government services include maternal and child health service, waste and recycling collection, parks and open space, a youth space called Oxygen, services for children, and aged services. Merri-bek/Moreland Council has been one of
3000-651: The name was gazetted on 13 September 2022 and came into operation on 26 September. Merri-bek Council runs the Counihan Gallery at the Brunswick Town Hall , a free public art gallery named after the local artist, Noel Counihan . Other art events supported by Council include the MoreArt event, an art in public spaces show located along the Upfield transport corridor. The council also sponsors various street festivals around
3060-696: The naming of this area is painful, uncomfortable and very wrong. It needs to be addressed". In May 2022 a choice of three proposed names from the Woi-wurrung language was announced by Riley and Uncle Andrew Gardiner, deputy chair of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation: Wa-dam-buk, meaning “renew”; Merri-bek, meaning “rocky country”; and Jerrang, meaning “leaf of tree”. The names were scheduled to be decided by July 2022 following community consultation. The community consultation for
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#17328553635273120-411: The process of teaching out its courses at Gippsland with only a medical school presence to remain after the merger. The former Berwick campus of Monash University was built on the old Casey airfield in the south-eastern growth corridor of Victoria, Australia. The town of Berwick has experienced an influx of people and development in recent times, which includes the new campus of Monash University. With
3180-627: The renaming commenced in May 2022 and ended June 2022. Some residents expressed dissatisfaction with the process resulting in a petition to council. On 3 July 2022 (coinciding with the start of NAIDOC Week ) the Council voted at a Special Council Meeting to officially endorse Merri-bek as the preferred name. The name was submitted to the Minister for Local Government for consideration and the Minister's decision to alter
3240-783: The sale. The reason for the sale was reported low profitability and enrollment numbers. Prior to the sale, Monash University had sidelined the South African campus on its official websites and did not refer to it as a 'campus' unlike Monash Malaysia. Monash announced its second Southeast Asian expansion in Indonesia as it officially obtained its operational license from the Ministry of Education and Culture on 1 December 2020. The university plans to open its campus doors in October 2021, located in BSD City , Tangerang, Banten. Unlike Monash Malaysia, Monash Indonesia will focus on graduate studies. The Clayton campus covers an area over 1.1 km and
3300-587: The two institutions. In the month following its official opening, 36 joint projects had commenced, with a further several hundred planned. In August 2015 Christopher Pyne, Australian Minister for Education and Training, officially opened the new Monash-IITB Research Academy Building in Mumbai, India. In 2012, it was announced that Monash had won a licence to develop a joint graduate school with Southeast University (Nanjing) in Suzhou , Jiangsu Province. The Southeast University-Monash University Joint Graduate School
3360-472: The university ceded its Gippsland campus to Federation University . On 15 July 2016, Monash confirmed that Federation University Australia would take over the operations of the Berwick campus prior to the end of 2018. In 2019, the university sold its Monash South Africa campus to Advtech . Students who were on schedule to complete their degree on time would still receive a degree from Monash University after
3420-423: The university's expansion, meant that Monash's income greatly increased throughout the 1990s, and it is now one of Australia's top 200 exporters. In recent years, the university has been prominent in medical research. A highlight of this came in 2000, when Alan Trounson led the team of scientists which announced to the world that nerve stem cells could be derived from embryonic stem cells, a discovery which led to
3480-410: Was a major provider for international student places under the Colombo Plan , which saw the first Asian students enter the Australian education system. The university was named after the prominent Australian general Sir John Monash . This was the first time in Australia that a university had been named after a person, rather than a city or state. From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, Monash became
3540-483: Was over $ 2.72 billion (AUD), with external research income around $ 462 million. In 2019, Monash enrolled over 55,000 undergraduate and over 25,000 graduate students. It has more applicants than any other university in the state of Victoria. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight research universities, a member of the ASAIHL , and is the only Australian member of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies . Monash
3600-447: Was the second council in Victoria, and the third in Australia, to receive this certification. A target of 30% less emissions than 2011, with a stretch goal of 40% by 2020, was over-achieved with an emissions cut of 69% by 2020, which will reduce the carbon offsets required to be purchased. Moreland City Council installed Victoria's first EV fast charge station in 2013. This has now grown to a network of 16 public EV charging stations around
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