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6 Sep 2025

Saturday, 6th, September, 2025: Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece, Update on Local Politics

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Nevena and Macca are joined live on air by Melbourne Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece, Update on Local Politics.

Lord Mayor Nicholas Reece is the portfolio head for Infrastructure and portfolio deputy for Finance, Governance and Risk and Aboriginal Melbourne.

He is Council’s representative on the following committees and external bodies:

• Delivery Unit Advisory Committee
• Chief Executive Officer Employment Matters Advisory Committee
• Melbourne Art Trust
• First Nations Committee
• Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation
• Council of Capital City Lord Mayors
• Shrine of Remembrance
• C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
• Melbourne 9 (M9)
• Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV)
• Royal Humane Society of Victoria
• Royal Victorian Association of Honorary Justices
  Nicholas Reece (born 1974[citation needed]) is an Australian politician and policy activist, currently serving as the 105th Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne. He is a senior executive at the University of Melbourne and a principal fellow at the Melbourne School of Government.[2] He is the chair of the board of directors at the Movember Foundation, and a commentator at Sky News Australia.

  He previously held a number of roles in politics, including as secretary and campaign director of the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)  and as the director of strategy to former Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Reece’s early career included time working as a lawyer at Maurice Blackburn and as a journalist at The Australian Financial Review.

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20 Dec 2025

Sat, 20th Dec, 2025: Weekly Wrap Up with Macca and Zoe Daniel: Life Post Politics

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Former ABC Journalist and Independent MP for Goldstein is this week's co-host. She joins Macca as they discuss life post ...

14 Dec 2025

Sat, 13th, Dec, 2025: Ged Kearney, MP Cooper; Josh Burns MP, McNamara; Peter Khalil MP, Wills: Special Announcement

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Macca and Nevena talk to Ged Kearney, MP Cooper, Asst Min for Prevention of Family Violence & Asst Min Social ...

14 Dec 2025

Sat, 13th, Dec, 2025: Peter Kurti, Centre for Ind. Studies; Drawing The Line; Australia’s Democratic Institutions Must Manage, Not Resolve, Moral Disagreement

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  Nevena and Macca are joined live on the phone by Peter Kurti, Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program ...