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The Dunedin City Council (Māori: Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Ōtepoti) is the local government authority for Dunedin in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority elected to represent the 136,000 people of Dunedin. [1] Since October 2022, the Mayor of Dunedin is Jules Radich, who succeeded Aaron Hawkins. The council consists of a mayor who is elected ...
The Dunedin urban area is served by two state highways, with an additional two state highways and one tourist route serving other parts of the district. The main state highway in Dunedin is State Highway 1, which runs in a north to south-west direction through the middle of the city, connecting Dunedin with Invercargill to the south and Timaru ...
The Dunedin Town Hall, also known as the Dunedin Centre, is a municipal building in the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. It is located in the heart of the city extending from The Octagon , the central plaza, to Moray Place through a whole city block.
Welcome to Dunedin, which at a latitude of 45.88 degrees South is the southernmost city to ever host a match in a soccer World Cup, men’s or women’s. It may also be among the quirkiest spots ...
The Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Association was formed after Emily Siedeberg-McKinnon visited the Women's Building in Vancouver, Canada, in 1928.More than 100 women's groups were using the Vancouver building, and Siedeberg-McKinnon thought Dunedin women would benefit from a similar facility.
Dunedin was founded by Scottish pioneers in 1848; as a result, many of the city's streets are named for equivalent streets in Edinburgh.. Central Dunedin is centred around The Octagon, a central reserve ringed by a street of the same name on which lie several of the city's main buildings, among them the Dunedin Municipal Chambers, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral, and ...
The longest-serving members of the Otago Regional Council are Bryan Scott, an Independent from Dunedin, and Gretchen Robertson, who is an Unaffiliated Councillor from Dunedin and the current chairperson since 2022, with Lloyd McCall from the Molyneux Constituency as deputy chairperson since 2022. Both Bryan and Gretchen entered the ORC in 2004.
The 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition was the second of two mass petitions to the New Zealand Government in support of women's suffrage. About one-third of Dunedin women signed the petition, a higher percentage than any other city. [39] New Zealand's first women's trade union (the Tailoresses) was created in Dunedin in 1889.