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Now you're a councillor
Congratulations! Your community has chosen you to represent their interests as their elected councillor. Adjusting to your new role as councillor is a challenging time. You’ll have to learn the language of local government, pick up new skills, and/stand-for-council/now-youre-a-councillor -
Newsroom
Stay up-to-date with Victorian council activities via our news, campaigns, councils in action, and resources coverage. Review our aggregated view of Vic Councils Twitter timeline feed or social media Terms and conditions./newsroom -
Spotlight on – Council case studies
Discover a number of case studies about councils initiatives and innovative ways they deliver services to their community./newsroom/resources/case-studies -
Work experience
Councils are a major employer within their communities. Across Victoria, councils employ more than 43,500 staff in more than 300 different job roles. Many councils assist local students to develop their practical workplace skills and experience/work-for-council/work-experience -
Council responsibilities
All Victorian councils broadly have similar roles and responsibilities, and derive their power from the same legislation, however not all municipalities are the same./what-councils-do/council-responsibilities -
Cultural diversity
Victorians come from more than 200 countries, speak 260 languages and follow 135 faiths. 52 per cent of Victorians were either born overseas, or have at least one overseas born parent. Councils play a key role in celebrating and supporting residents/equality-and-diversity/supporting-diversity/cultural-diversity -
How to stand for council
Make the transition from citizen to councillor by finding out everything you need to know about local government and standing for council./stand-for-council/how-to-stand-for-council -
Contact us
The Vic Councils site was created and maintained by the Municipal Association of Victoria./contact-us -
Landfill levies
Waste is an enormous issue for Victorian communities. Ensuring rubbish is correctly disposed of is vital for councils, ratepayers and our environment. It also means that our streets and towns are clean and liveable./newsroom/campaigns/landfill-levies -
Do business with council
Local government in Victoria collectively spends 40 – 60 per cent of their budgets on procurement – that’s more than $4 billion in goods and services each year. Victorian councils have an accumulated annual revenue of greater than $9.9 billion,/work-for-council/do-business-with-council