While municipal boundaries dating from the 1880s might have justified some adjustments in 1993-94, the Kennett Government’s boof-headed mis-handling of local government reform in Melbourne’s west was simetimes very obviously motivated by malice.
Brimbank City Council combines the worst of the former cities of Sunshine and Keilor (both of which had been sacked by the Hamer Government in the 1970s) into a monster of ungovernable trouble. Brimbank ratepayers were also deliberately saddled for more than six years with the cost of retaining the former City of Keilor city manager Peter Black on a CEO-level contract, without a role, while what perhaps should’ve been his job was given to former City of Footscray CEO Rob Spence. This was on top of Brimbank ratepayers having to repeatedly top-up the Local Authorities Superannuation Board defined benefits scheme, upon suddenly shedding surplus staff of the former Keilor and Sunshine councils. This stuff alone cost millions, before you got into other things similarly stuffed-up by the Kennett-appointed commissioners who oversaw Spence.
Brimbank City Council is now an exemplar of permanent dysfunction: incapable of scheduling road duplication, extension and other completion works since Spence’s successor either terminated or drove-out every last engineer inherited from both the former City of Keilor and City of Sunshine (as she considered them to be internal professional rivals), replacing them with woke humanities graduates as generalist managers. Brimbank is not even capable of advocating to state government for the overdue construction of interchanges, such as at Sunshine Avenue on the Calder Freeway (despite approach ramps having been formed by the former City of Keilor around 1992)!
It is not often mentioned that while Kennett was swept into office after completely discrediting the Cain-Kirner Government as the “Guilty Party,” it then ran with its discredited predecessors ill-conceived programs.
One example of this was the full implementation of the totally dysfunctional Local Government Act 1989, devised by Kirner minister Maureen Lyster (a former union official).
The 1989 act completely turned everything achieved under the Bolte-era Local Government Act 1958 on its head: an extraordinary turn of events, given Kennett had counted Bolte as a role model and hero.
The success of Victoria’s rigid 1958 local government framework should have served as a model for the regulation and governance of trade unions.
Instead, a trade unionist (Lyster) ultimately succeeded in duping a Liberal Government (lead by Kennett) into enabling councils to be run more like trade unions and fall permanently captive to the woke left!
Thanks to Kennett, permanent, salaried officers (the Town Clerk / Shire Secretary, City/Shire Engineer etc) were replaced with generalist managers (CEOs, directors) on five-year contracts and armed with wide-ranging delegated powers (enabling them to make decisions away from council meetings, in concert with one or two power-broking councillors to whom by contract they were hostage)!
The old system of council resolutions being proceeded by committee deliberations was also eliminated, in concert with the elimination of the entire Town Clerk’s (Administration) Department, to make way for totally-secret confidential briefings which do not allow for community input and invariably result in deeply-flawed decision-making and costly mistakes.
It is a very significant loss that under Kennett, in implementing the 1989 act, Victorian councils no longer stood in law as a “corporation of the mayor, councillors and citizens” of a municipality. Instead and with the subsequent demise of suburban newspapers (which had reported on council proceedings), today’s councils are nothing more than faceless, soulless, unaccountable corporations bent on “governance” (the doing of things ‘to’ people instead of ‘for’ people).
Set procedures for making good decisions have been replaced with Councillor Conduct codes, ample opportunity for corruption on the part of senior council officers, and the sacking (in disgrace) of more councils between 1994 and 2000 than had been sacked at anybtome in the entire history of Victoria before 1994!

There is no City of Brimbank, except in Wikipedia.
All councils created by the Kennett Government in 1993-1994 were styled as Brimbank City Council, Maribyrnong City Council, Moonee Valley City Council, Greater Geelong City Council (although this was subsequently reconstituted by special act of parliament as City of Greater Geelong): to differentiate them (in both branding and function) from the predecessor councils City of Keilor, City of Sunshine, City of Footscray, City of Essendon, City of Geelong, Shire of Corio etc.
Likewise, the Corporation of the former Melbourne City Council was reconstituted (with a loss of several residential areas to the new Yarra City Council and acquisition territory from the former City of South Melbourne) as the City of Melbourne (in a reversal of its previous identity).

I was on Wikipedia, and this was pretty much the same with Mildura, which was a city (that was only Mildura) and the Shire of Mildura (which excluded Mildura). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_of_Mildura

Thanks – I missed looking at at part of the state.

Cheers!

The boundary of the Melbourne City Council and Moonee Valley City Council through Kensington and North Melbourne is another one that has been debated for some time.

https://www.localgovernment.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/164675/2007_LG_Kensington_Panel_-_Final_Report_-_10Dec07.pdf

There are also the six alpine resorts which are managed by management boards instead of a LGA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Victoria#Unincorporated_areas

Interestingly within 20 years of the amalgamations a new issue with LGA boundaries emerged – Caroline Springs was developed as part of the Shire of Melton, despite what was a green wedge separating it from the rest of the LGA, and the bulk of residents using services in the City of Brimbank.