About 250 returned soldiers and sailors with about the same number of relatives attended the civic reception provided by the Mayor, Cr Richard Gill and councillors at Port Melbourne Town Hall on the afternoon of 5 Dec 1918.
The reception and the ‘smoke concert’ to be held later that evening were the work of the Anzac Reception Committee that had been…
Existing since Federation, Melbourne Ports has been held by the Labor Party since 1906 and has had only five members in 107 years since.
Former members of the seat were
Jim Matthews 1906 - 1931
E J Holloway 1931 - 1951
Frank Crean 1951 - 1977
Clyde Holding 1977 - 1998
Michael Danby since 1998
Postscript: On 5 July 2018, Michael Danby announced he would not contest…