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Mayor & councillors

Mayor & councillors

The Borough of Queenscliffe is unsubdivided: there are no wards, and all five councillors are elected by the whole Borough, by proportional representation, at the four-yearly Victorian council elections (last held in October 2024). The councillors then elect the Mayor and Deputy Mayor from among themselves. Each councillor also holds one of the Council Plan's five themes as a portfolio.

New to these terms? Read them in plain English
How the mayor is chosen
Either elected directly by voters, or chosen by the councillors.
Ward
A subdivision of a council area that elects its own councillors.
Local Government Area (LGA)
The official area a council governs.
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Who represents you

Mayor
Cr Donnie GrigauElected Mayor by the councillors at the Ordinary Meeting of Council on 26 November 2025, 'for the term of one year'. First elected to the council in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. Holds the 'Work, play & stay in the Borough' theme.
Deputy Mayor
Cr Di RuleElected Deputy Mayor on 26 November 2025. She was Mayor from 2024 to 2025. Holds the 'Building the Borough' theme.
Councillors
5, elected Borough-wide (no wards)Cr Brendan Monahan (Living in the Borough), Cr Isabelle Tolhurst (Running the Borough) and Cr Hélène Cameron (Caring for the Borough), plus the Mayor and Deputy Mayor.
How the Mayor is chosen
Elected by the councillors, not by votersIn Victorian councils the councillors decide who will be mayor once they have been elected (the City of Melbourne, whose voters elect the Lord Mayor, is the exception). Queenscliffe's current Mayor was elected on 26 November 2025 for a term of one year; the council's news page announces each new mayoral election.
Recent mayors
Isabelle Tolhurst (2022–2024), Ross Ebbels (2024), Di Rule (2024–2025), Donnie Grigau (2025–present)From the mayoral history on the council's About the Borough page.
Council meetings
Ordinary meetings generally on the fourth Wednesday of the month, 6:30pmHeld at Wirrng Wirrng (the Queenscliffe Hub) and streamed on Zoom; agendas, minutes and recordings are on the council's Minutes and agendas page. The public can submit questions for public question time.

Your representatives

Want to raise something? Contacting your ward councillor or the mayor is one of the most direct ways to be heard between elections.

Victorian council ballot papers and results don't show party affiliation, so we don't label councillors. We list who is in office and link to their official profiles and the election results. The council's Mayor and Councillors page also lists a phone number for each councillor. The Victorian Electoral Commission's council page lists the same five councillors; no by-election or countback has been held for Queenscliffe since the October 2024 election (checked September 2026). A council's makeup can change between elections, so the official pages have the most current list.

Sources — check it yourself

Figures are current as at the dates shown and may change — always confirm with the linked source. See the notice at the bottom of the page for full details and how to report a correction.