Talk:City of Latrobe

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[edit] Need to agree on terminology used to refer to places of relatively different population sizes

I note that someone has said that Morwell, Moe, Churchill and Traralgon are cities, and that the less-populous places are called 'towns'.

Since the whole district/municipality is classified as a City, i.e. Latrobe City, I dispute that the term 'city' should be applied to the major towns. The Council, in its own documents such as the Council Plan 2007-2011 refers to these as 'four major centres' (page 9). If this was a municipality closer to Melbourne, they would be called suburbs, not cities.

Perhaps confusion arises when you compare Latrobe to other large rural municipalities, such as Bendigo, where there is a town called Bendigo, and it is the centre of the municipality of 'City of Greater Bendigo'. Also, Bendigo's layout is such that it does not have separate (i.e. disconnected from each other) large towns, whereas Latrobe does.

Perhaps the use of 'cities' has also arisen from the fact that, prior to amalgamation, there were separate municipalities called "City of Traralgon", "City of Morwell", etc.

Shanem-vic-au 04:15, 27 May 2007 (UTC)