AS
expected, Angela Altair has been elected mayor of Hobsons Bay, with Luba Grigorovitch as deputy.
It is
the first all-female leadership team in Hobsons Bay Council’s history.
“Every
western suburbs’ council is now led by a female mayor,”
said Cr Altair, who represents Strand ward as an independent.
SEE our story yesterday tipping the result.
Serving her
fifth term after being elected to council in 1999, Cr
Altair made history as Australia’s first Maltese-born female mayor
in 2002 and was deputy mayor in 2003, ’07 and ’08.
At last
year’s Think Women For Local Government forum in Altona, she revealed that
in 2008 she sacrificed a second shot at the mayoralty because of her friendship
and a deal made with fellow Strand ward councillor Peter Hemphill.
Cr
Grigorovitch, who was Labor’s shining star when at 23 she became the youngest
person elected to the council in 2008, is tipped to become a mayor some time
during her second term in office.
