Maranoa Ward Councillor

Profile

Cr Pattas has lived in Balwyn North for 33 years. He is married with children.

Cr Pattas was first elected as a Councillor from 1996-2004, and he was recently re-elected for Maranoa Ward in 2024.

Council advisory committees

• Waste Management Reference Group (WMRG)
• Transforming Boroondara Steering Committee
• Budget Process Review Advisory Committee
• Services Delegated Committee
• Urban Planning Delegated Committee

Community advisory committees

• Boroondara Vibrant Shopping Precincts Advisory Committee

Appointments

• The Municipal Association of Victoria (alternate)
• Metropolitan Transport Forum (alternate)

Hobbies and interests

Cr Pattas' interests include travel, photography, exercise, business and youth and seniors' issues.

History of Maranoa Ward

Maranoa Ward takes it name from the native garden established by John Middleton Watson on land he bought in the early 1890s.

He named the gardens Maranoa after a river in Queensland, from an Indigenous word meaning flowing, alive or running.

Mr Watson continued to buy land in the area, most of which later became Beckett Park. He began to create gardens on one side with Indigenous species from Australian and New Zealand.

The area was previously known as One Tree Hill or Canterbury Park, Balwyn.

Map of Maranoa Ward