{"id":7000,"date":"2025-04-26T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=7000"},"modified":"2025-04-26T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:31:09","slug":"whittlesea-taylor-is-new-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2025\/04\/26\/whittlesea-taylor-is-new-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITTLESEA: Taylor is new Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whittlesea Council elected Cr Martin Taylor (pictured) as its new Mayor at a meeting last night Thursday (Apr. 24).<br>He replaces Cr Aidan McLindon who has been suspended as a Councillor for six months by Local Government Minister Nick Staikos.<br>Cr Taylor was elected unopposed to role of Mayor for the remainder of the current Mayoral term, until Tuesday November 18. He had been a vocal critic of Cr McLindon. Cr Daniela Zinni will remain as Deputy Mayor.<br>\u201cIt\u2019s time for a new beginning. A time to rise above the challenges of the last six months and to embrace a shared vision for the future that is inclusive, forward thinking and built on a solid foundation and community trust,\u201d Cr Taylor said.<br>\u201cI am deeply grateful for the opportunity to lead this Council through what will be no doubt a defining time for our City.<br>\u201cI recognise the responsibility that the role carries, and I approach it with clear commitment to serve all to unify our diverse voice and to deliver outcomes that strengthen our communities,\u201d Cr Taylor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whittlesea Council elected Cr Martin Taylor (pictured) as its new Mayor at a meeting last night Thursday (Apr. 24).He replaces Cr Aidan McLindon who has been suspended as a Councillor for six months by Local Government Minister Nick Staikos.Cr Taylor was elected unopposed to role of Mayor for the remainder of the current Mayoral term,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-council-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7006,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions\/7006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}