The City of Glen Eira is a

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. It is located in the south-eastern suburbs of

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. It has an area of and has an estimated population of 153,858 (51.6% female and 48.4% male). It was formed in 1994 from the merger of the

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and parts of the City of Moorabbin, and takes its name from two local landmarks—Glen Eira Road and Glen Eira Mansion.

Suburbs

* Bentleigh *

Bentleigh East Bentleigh East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local government area. Bentleigh East recorded a population of 30,159 at the 2021 census ...

Brighton East Brighton East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Bayside and Glen Eira local government areas. Brighton East recorded a population of 16 ...

(shared with the City of Bayside) * Carnegie * Caulfield *

Caulfield East Caulfield East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 14 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira Local government areas ...

Caulfield North Caulfield North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local government area. Caulfield North recorded a population of 16,903 at the ...

Caulfield South Caulfield South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local government area. Caulfield South recorded a population of 12,328 at the ...

Elsternwick Elsternwick is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local government area. Elsternwick recorded a population of 10,887 at the 2021 ...

Gardenvale Gardenvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local government area. Gardenvale recorded a population of 1,019 at the 2021 census. Histor ...

Glen Huntly Glen Huntly is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District,McKinnon *

Murrumbeena Murrumbeena is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local government area. Murrumbeena recorded a population of 9,996 at the 2021 cen ...

* Ormond * St Kilda East (shared with the

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)

Demographics

Ages

The median age for Glen Eira residents is 37 years. Children 0–14 years make up 18.0% of the population, 15 to 19 years 5.4%, 20 to 64 61.9% and those 65 years and over 14.7%.

Registered marital status

Of people in Glen Eira aged 15 years and over, 49.6% are married, 35.1% have never married and 9.1% are divorced or separated.

Country of birth

The country of birth for City of Glen Eira residents includes Australia 60.3%, India 3.8%, China 3.2%, England 2.8%, South Africa 2.3% and Greece 1.7%.

Religion

The City of Glen Eira includes a large

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community in Elsternwick, St Kilda East and Caulfield. At the 2011 Census 54.9% of all Victorians who gave Judaism as their religion were living in Glen Eira. The major responses were No Religion 22.9%, Catholicism 20.1%, Judaism 18.9%, Anglican 8.4% and Eastern Orthodox 6.6%. Australian Jews by SA1

Council

Glen Eira City Council is the third tier of government and deals with services such as

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, building permits and approvals, roads, drainage, health services, food safety, parks and gardens, library services, pets, street parking permits and the collection of

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and charges. The Council meets at the

Glen Eira Town Hall Glen Eira Town Hall, known originally as Caulfield Town Hall, is located in Caulfield, Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital ...

. Since 2004, the Council area has been divided into three wards (Camden, Rosstown and Tucker), each electing three Councilors. The most recent election took place on 23 October 2020. The current councillors are, in order of election:

Past Glen Eira councillors

Glen Eira officers

* List of Mayors of Glen Eira

History

This area was originally occupied by the

Wurundjeri The Wurundjeri people are an Australian Aboriginal people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation. They are the Traditional Owners of the Birrarung (Yarra River) Valley, covering much of the present location of Narrm (Melbourne ...

Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

of the

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, who spoke variations of the

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language group.

Settlement

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was proclaimed a separate colony in 1851.

East St Kilda St Kilda East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Glen Eira and Port Phillip local government areas. St Kilda East recorded a population of 1 ...

commenced to be settled in the 1850s. The area of Glen Eira was once swamps, with farms in the northern area and market gardens in the south. Dirt tracks wound through the swamps and sandy heaths of the district. They were constantly damaged by farmers' cart wheels, creating dangerous holes and making access difficult. In 1853 the

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passed an Act to give authority to locally elected people to extract rates from residents in order to finance road construction. Residents lobbied for a roads district to be proclaimed to ensure that roads were maintained and passable. Caulfield's organised communal existence began as a District Roads Board in 1857 and the first Caulfield Roads Board was elected in November 1857. It had control over the roads in an area bounded by Warrigal Road, Hotham Street,

Dandenong Road Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It has a length of (along Highway 1) or via the former alignments of the hig ...

, North Road and Brighton Road. The proclamation of the Caulfield Roads Board tied the name 'Caulfield' to a specific area.

Moorabbin Moorabbin is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Moorabbin recorded a population of 6,287 at the . Most of the ...

became a Roads Board in 1862. The board's boundaries extended from the outskirts of

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and south-east along both sides of the Nepean Road as far as Mordialloc Creek, taking in the coastal areas now known as

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and Mentone. Caulfield became a Shire in 1871 and a City in 1913; Moorabbin became a Shire in 1874 and a City in 1934. The first railway link to the area was at Caulfield and

Carnegie railway station Carnegie railway station is located on the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Carnegie, and it opened on 2 April 1879 as Rosstown. It was renamed Carnegie on 1 May 1909.

s, which opened in 1879, to be followed in 1881 by Glenhuntly and

Ormond railway station Ormond railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Ormond, and opened on 19 December 1881 as North Road. It was renamed Ormond on 1 September 1897. History Ormond ...

s. For the first 25 years of Caulfield's municipal life, board/shire members met in "Mood Kee", the house of Cr Harold Pennington. He was paid 10 pounds a year to cover the cost of candles, fuel and the room. The annual general meeting was held in a tent in the backyard. The

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(now the

) was built in 1885. The building was modified several times to meet the growing demands of the municipality, as was Moorabbin Town Hall. Moorabbin, part of the earliest development of Melbourne, began as an outpost of "Dendy's Brighton" and took shape as a market garden area along what was Arthur's Seat Road, now the

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. For more than a century, the sandy soil of Moorabbin provided metropolitan Melbourne with much of its fruit and vegetables. After World War II, Moorabbin became one of the first 'boom suburbs'. By the 1950s, along with the

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suburb of

Bankstown Bankstown is a suburb south west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is located in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, hav ...

, it became the fastest growing municipality in Australia. Road conditions were just one of the major challenges to face the elected bodies in a developing area. As the farms and market gardens gave way to housing and the district's population grew, street lighting (originally gas), drainage, sewerage, rubbish collection, tips and other services were provided. Today, the City of Glen Eira is an established area. Glen Eira City Council is responsible for maintaining an ageing infrastructure and strives to update with works on roads, drains and footpaths. Public health issues have always been a key part of Council's activities. A clean water supply and sanitary removal of sewage was critical last century because of outbreaks of disease, such as typhoid, diphtheria and scarlet fever. These functions have now been taken by

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. Council has for a long time had a role in controlling the impact of animals on health and well-being. Late last century, Caulfield Council was paying a reward for the heads of rats. Dog registration was instituted in 1865. Social caring and support roles have continued to grow, from maternal and child health centres – the first opened around 1924 – to providing work for the unemployed during the Depression, digging trenches in Caulfield Park during World War II, setting up welfare funds and operating

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from 1957. Immunisation services have been provided since the last century. Council libraries began in the district with the Bentleigh Library in July 1961; the Caulfield service followed in 1963. Providing public open spaces has also been a long tradition. Paddy's Swamp (now Caulfield Park) was set aside as a reserve in the 1880s. Many other sites once used as tips were turned into parks and gardens. Some parks were provided partly to cater for the large crowds at municipal band performances. As involvement in sport developed, so did the reserves' facilities.

Evolution of the city

*1857 Caulfield Road District *1862 Moorabbin Road District *1863 Shire of Caulfield *1874 Shire of Moorabbin *1913 City of Caulfield *1934 City of

*1994 City of Glen Eira, by merger of Caulfield and north section of Moorabbin

Names

Caulfield The origin of the name of Caulfield is uncertain, however the name seemed to be linked with Baron Caulfeild of Ireland, perhaps through John Caulfield, a pioneer of the colony. The name 'Caulfield' was in use by 1853, and the early maps always place it somewhere around the racecourse. It was not in general use for the whole area until the proclamation of the Caulfield Road District in 1857. Moorabbin The name "Moorabbin" is derived from an Aboriginal word which principally means 'a resting place'. The proper name is probably 'moorooboon', a term used by the tribal group of the area, the

Bunurong The Boonwurrung people are an Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation, who are the traditional owners of the land from the Werribee River to Wilsons Promontory in the Australian state of Victoria. Their territory includes part of what is now the c ...

. The first European settlers may have found 'moorooboon' difficult to pronounce and accordingly corrupted the word for ease of use. The name Moorabbin applied from the earliest days of the Port Phillip settlement and remains today. Glen Huntly

Glen Huntly Glen Huntly is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District,Port Phillip Port Phillip (Kulin languages, Kulin: ''Narm-Narm'') or Port Phillip Bay is a horsehead-shaped bay#Types, enclosed bay on the central coast of southern Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The bay opens into the Bass Strait via a short, ...

in 1840, after setting off from Greenock, Scotland. She was carrying 190 new immigrants, skilled manual labourers who were heading for the new colony settled in Melbourne. Fever, most likely typhoid, struck the ship mid journey and only 50 people survived to reach Port Phillip Bay. The ''Glen Huntly'' was forced to land at Little Red Bluff (now Point Ormond) and Victoria's first quarantine station was formed to deal with the crisis. Supplies and provisions were brought down what is now

Glen Huntly Road Glen Huntly Road is a main road in Melbourne, Victoria. It starts at Beach Road, Elwood, runs east–west through Elsternwick, Caulfield, Glen Huntly and ends in Carnegie. Glen Huntly Road was named after the emigrant ship ''Glen Huntley' ...

and the small town was formed. Until recently Glen Huntly was spelt 'Glenhuntly'. The Council voted to change the spelling of the name of the suburb and of the road that bears the name to bring it to the historical spelling. However, the vote did not affect the spelling of the train station which continues to be spelt 'Glenhuntly'. The section of the Glen Huntly Road/Glenhuntly Road which comes within the boundaries of the

continued for a time to be spelt 'Glenhuntly Road', but has now been changed to bring it into line with the rest of the road. Bentleigh One of Moorabbin's early identities was

Thomas Bent Sir Thomas Bent (7 December 1838 – 17 September 1909) was an Australian politician and the 22nd Premier of Victoria. Early life Bent was born in Penrith, New South Wales the eldest of four sons and two daughters of James Bent, a hotel-keeper ...

, who was simultaneously a Councillor on both

and

Councils for more than 40 years, as well becoming a State Member of Parliament and Premier. The suburb of Bentleigh is named after him. Carnegie Carnegie was originally called Rosstown, after

William Murray Ross William Murray Ross (1825–1904) was an entrepreneur best remembered for his failed "Rosstown Railway" in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The railway was part of a larger "Rosstown Project", which included a sugar beet processing mill and ...

, a developer. The name was changed to Carnegie in 1909 in an unsuccessful attempt to secure funds for a library from the philanthropist

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...

. The original name lives on in the name of the local hotel, and Rosstown Road. Leila Road is named after Mr Ross's wife, and Grange Road is named after Ross' estate, ''The Grange'', which has since been subdivided and is now suburban housing estates. Carnegie Primary School (No. 2897) was established in 1888 as Rosstown State School. The Carnegie theatre was, in the 1930s, a popular cinema, but has since been converted into offices.

Train network

Caulfield railway station Caulfield railway station is a commuter railway station on the northern boundary of Caulfield East, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The station is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, and was opened on 7 May 1879. The station ...

originally opened on 7 May 1879.

Glenhuntly railway station Glenhuntly railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Glen Huntly, and it opened on 19 December 1881 as Glen Huntly Road. It was renamed Glen Huntly on 1 September ...

opened on 19 December 1881 as Glen Huntly Road. It was later renamed to

Glen Huntly Glen Huntly is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District,Ormond railway station Ormond railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Ormond, and opened on 19 December 1881 as North Road. It was renamed Ormond on 1 September 1897. History Ormond ...

opened on 19 December 1881 as North Road. It was later renamed to Ormond in 1897.

opened on 14 May 1879 as Rosstown. It was later renamed to Carnegie in 1909.

Monash University, Caulfield Campus

Monash University, Caulfield campus Monash University, Caulfield campus is a campus of Monash University located in Caulfield East, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. The campus comprises 13,400 students of which 52.8% are female and 57.1% of st ...

was founded as the Caulfield Technical School in 1922. A Junior Technical High School was added in the 1950s, with the Technical School becoming a Senior Technical High School. They separated in 1958 with the junior school absorbed by other technical schools in the area and the senior school became Caulfield Technical College. In the 1970s it became the Caulfield Institute of Technology. In 1982 the Caulfield Institute of Technology amalgamated with the State College of Victoria at Frankston to form the Chisholm Institute of Technology. This Institution merged with Monash University in 1990 and became Monash University, Caulfield campus

Merger

In 1994 the local government structure was radically altered. The City of Glen Eira was formed from the City of Caulfield and the northern part of the City of

. In March 1997 Glen Eira's first Council was elected by residents and ratepayers.

Sacking of Council - 2004

In September 2004, the then Minister for Local Government,

Candy Broad Candy Celeste Broad (born 4 January 1956) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from September 1999 to May 2014, first representing the electorate of Melbourne North Province until ...

, was asked to appoint an inspector by the Glen Eira City Council to investigate and report on matters arising out of an internal audit of councillors' expenses. In July 2005, the Inspector of Municipal Administration, Merv Whelan, forwarded a report to the Minister. The key findings portrayed a complete breakdown of communication and behavioural standards within the elected council, although Whelan found the council was well-managed and in a sound financial position because of its CEO and administration. A report in ''

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'' newspaper alleged that several councillors had used their phone entitlements for non-council purposes. On 11 August 2005, the then Minister sacked the council, and appointed John Lester, the former Chief Commissioner of Darebin City Council and former chair of the Victorian Grants Commission, as Administrator. An election for a new council was held on 26 November 2005 with redrawn ward boundaries. Only one councillor from the previous council, Margaret Esakoff, was re-elected. Three other sacked councillors (Noel Erlich, Veronika Martens and Bob Bury) did run again but failed to get elected into council.

Carbon neutral

Controversially, in 2009 the City of Glen Eira was one of the few regions in the Melbourne metropolitan area to make the decision not to become carbon neutral, despite most LGA's in Melbourne converting to a cleaner energy contract.

Government

Federal Parliament

The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. There are a number of divisions that are partly in the City of Glen Eira. The current sitting members for these seats are: *

Division of Goldstein The Division of Goldstein is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The division was created in 1984, when the former Division of Balaclava was abolished. It is located in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, including Beaumaris, Bentleigh ...

- Ms

Zoe Daniel Zoe Daniel is an Australian journalist, politician, columnist and broadcaster. She is the independent member of parliament for the Division of Goldstein following the 2022 Australian federal election, having defeated the incumbent Liberal Par ...

MP,

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- Dr

Michelle Ananda-Rajah Michelle Renuka Ananda-Rajah (Tamil: மிசேல் ஆனந்தராஜா; born 10 December 1972) is a Tamil Australian member of the Australian Labor Party for the Division of Higgins elected in the 2022 Australian federal election. ...

MP,

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Division of Hotham The Division of Hotham is an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. It is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Hotham covers an area of approximately 83 square kilometres from Oakleigh in the north to Dingley Village in the s ...

- Ms

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MP, Australian Labor Party *

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- Mr

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MP, Australian Labor Party

Victorian State Parliament

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Victoria. The Assembly has 88 members, each elected from a single-member electorate or District. The Districts which fall in Glen Eira, the current sitting member, their political party and electoral address are as follows: * Bentleigh District -

Nick Staikos Nicholas Staikos (born 4 July 1986) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2014, representing the Legislative Assembly seat of Bentleigh. Career In 2005, Staikos w ...

MP, Australian Labor Party * Caulfield District -

David Southwick David James Southwick (born 31 March 1968) is an Australian Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal politician, and has been the member for Electoral district of Caulfield, Caulfield in the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2010. Southwick has be ...

MP,

Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party. It was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Au ...

* Oakleigh District - Steve Dimopoulos MP, Australian Labor Party

State Legislative Council - Southern Metropolitan Region

The City of Glen Eira falls within the

Southern Metropolitan Region Southern Metropolitan Region is one of the eight electoral regions of Victoria, Australia, which elects five members to the Victorian Legislative Council (also referred to as the upper house) by proportional representation. The region was create ...

for the

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. These are the members representing that region: * David Davis MLC (

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) * Nina Taylor MLC ( Labor Party) *

Georgie Crozier Georgina Mary Crozier (born 16 November 1963) is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 2010, representing Southern Metropolitan Region. She currently serves as the Deputy Leader ...

MLC (

) *

Clifford Hayes Clifford Hayes (born 13 August 1951) is a former Australian politician. He was a Sustainable Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 2018 and 2022, representing Southern Metropolitan Region. He was not re-elected at the ...

MLC (

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) *

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MLC ( Labor Party)

Public transport

Glen Eira is well-served by an efficient network of public transport in a mix of trams, trains and buses.

Train lines and stations

Glen Eira is served by 3 train lines. These are the: *

Frankston Line The Frankston railway line is a 42.7 km commuter rail passenger train service in Melbourne, Victoria. It operates between Flinders Street in the Melbourne central business district and Frankston through the south-eastern suburbs includi ...

* Pakenham/ Cranbourne Lines * Sandringham Line The

is served by:

Caulfield Railway Station Caulfield railway station is a commuter railway station on the northern boundary of Caulfield East, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The station is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, and was opened on 7 May 1879. The station ...

(Zone 1),

Glenhuntly Railway Station Glenhuntly railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Glen Huntly, and it opened on 19 December 1881 as Glen Huntly Road. It was renamed Glen Huntly on 1 September ...

(Zone 1),

Ormond Railway Station Ormond railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Ormond, and opened on 19 December 1881 as North Road. It was renamed Ormond on 1 September 1897. History Ormond ...

(Zone 1 & 2),

McKinnon Railway Station McKinnon railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of McKinnon, and it opened on 1 September 1884 as McKinnon Road. It was renamed McKinnon on 14 December 1885. Histo ...

(Zone 1 & 2),

Bentleigh Railway Station Bentleigh railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Bentleigh, and it opened on 19 December 1881 as East Brighton. It was renamed Bentleigh on 1 May 1907. Histor ...

(Zone 1 & 2) and then by

Patterson Railway Station Patterson railway station is located on the Frankston line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Bentleigh, and it opened on 28 May 1961. Named after Patterson Road, which is located immediately south of th ...

(Zone 2). The Pakenham/ Cranbourne Lines are both served by:

(Zone 1),

Carnegie Railway Station Carnegie railway station is located on the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Carnegie, and it opened on 2 April 1879 as Rosstown. It was renamed Carnegie on 1 May 1909.

(Zone 1) and then by

Murrumbeena Railway Station Murrumbeena railway station is located on the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Murrumbeena, and it opened on 14 May 1879. History Opening one month after the railway line ...

(Zone 1). The Sandringham Line is served by:

Elsternwick Railway Station Elsternwick railway station is located on the Sandringham line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Elsternwick, and it opened on 19 December 1859.

(Zone 1).

Tram routes

* Route 3 - East Malvern to Melbourne University which travels along Waverley Rd, Balaclava Rd, Carlisle St before proceeding along St Kilda Rd into the

Central Business District A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

* Route 16 - Kew to St Kilda and Melbourne University which travels along Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn Rd and Balaclava Rd, Carlisle St, The Esplanade, Fitzroy St before proceeding along St Kilda Rd into the

* Route 64 - East Brighton to Melbourne University which runs along Hawthorn Rd and Dandenong Rd, before proceeding along St Kilda Rd into the

* Route 67 - Carnegie to Melbourne University which runs along Glen Huntly Rd and Brighton Rd, before proceeding along St Kilda Rd into the

Schools in the City of Glen Eira

Government

*East Bentleigh Primary School *Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School *

Bentleigh Secondary College Bentleigh Secondary College is a coeducational public high school in Bentleigh East, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1956, it has been renamed several times before becoming Bentleigh Secondary College. Bentleigh Secondary College has rece ...

*St Peters Primary School *Coatesville Primary School *

Bentleigh West Primary School Bentleigh West Primary School is a government primary school located in the suburb of Bentleigh in the City of Glen Eira, about out of Melbourne's city centre, in the state of Victoria, Australia. The school has won a number of environmental a ...

*Valkstone Primary School *

Glen Eira College Glen Eira College (GEC) is a co-educational, public secondary school located in Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia. It is situated on Booran road and backs on to Caulfield Racecourse Reserve. The current Booran Road school was originally Caul ...

*Caulfield South Primary School *Caulfield Primary School *Caulfield Park Community Secondary School *Caulfield Junior College *Glen Huntly Primary School *Carnegie Primary School *Ripponlea Primary School *

McKinnon Secondary College McKinnon Secondary College is a public secondary school located in the Melbourne suburb of McKinnon. The school was ranked 62nd in Victoria in terms of VCE median study score in 2012. In February 2022, the school opened a second campus located ...

*McKinnon Primary School *Murrembeena Primary School *Ormond Primary School

Private

*Adass Israel School *Beth Rivkah College * Caulfield Grammar Senior School *Katandra School *

Kilvington Grammar School , motto_translation = Not for our own but others' good , established = , type = Independent, co-educational, Christian day school , denomination = Baptist , principal = ...

* Leibler Yavneh College *

Melbourne Grammar School (Pray and Work) , established = 1849 (on present site since 1858 - the celebrated date of foundation) , type = Independent, co-educational primary, single-sex boys secondary, day and boarding , denominatio ...

- Grimwade House *

Mount Scopus Memorial College , motto_translation = , location = 245 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = Australia Melbourne , pushpin_i ...

- St Kilda East Campus *Our Lady of Sacred Heart College * Wesley College - Elsternwick Campus *St. Aloysius Catholic Primary School *St. Anthony's Catholic Primary School *St. Bede's Bentleigh East Catholic College *St. Joseph's School *St. Kevin's Catholic Primary School *St. Patrick's Catholic Primary School *St. Paul's Catholic Primary School *

Shelford Girls' Grammar (Seek ye first the Kingdom of God) , city = Caulfield , state = Victoria , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Independent, single-sex, day s ...

* Sholem Aleichem College * Yeshivah College

Libraries and information

The city is served by free council run libraries. Library membership is free.

Council public library branches

*Bentleigh - 161 Jasper Road, Bentleigh *Carnegie - a large suburban library and civic centre, which was built in 2005 - 7 Shepparson Avenue, Carnegie *Caulfield - at the City Hall, Corner Glen Eira and Hawthorn Roads, Caulfield *Elsternwick - 4 Staniland Grove, Elsternwick

Private libraries open to the public

*Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library - 7 Selwyn St, Elsternwick *Makor Jewish Community Library- 306 Hawthorn Rd, Caulfiel

Sister cities

* Ōgaki, Gifu, Ōgaki,

Gifu Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture to the northwest, F ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

Notes

References

External links

Glen Eira City Council

Metlink local public transport mapLink to Land Victoria interactive maps
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