Wodonga Wire
Have Your Say
Find the right place to act
Report a local problem, contact your councillor, respond to a proposal, take part in a Council meeting or find the public authority responsible.
Wodonga Wire does not receive reports, complaints, submissions or messages. We link you to the official place to act.
What do you need to do?
Check current opportunities
What is open right now is published by Council. These three pages are where to look.
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Council consultations (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
Make Wodonga Yours, Council’s consultation platform.
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Planning applications on exhibition (external site)
City of Wodonga official information
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Council meetings (external site)
City of Wodonga official information
Report a local problem
Ordinary Council service issues start at Council’s online services: potholes, footpaths, street trees, drains, bins, parks and local laws all go through the one official request route.
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Council online services (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
Potholes, footpaths, street trees, drains, bins, parks, animals and local laws: one request route for Council services.
Contact your councillor
Council publishes the current councillors and their official contact routes; the Victorian Electoral Commission publishes the ward map.
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Your councillors (external site)
City of Wodonga official information
Current councillors, their wards and official contact routes.
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Find your ward (external site)
Victorian Electoral Commission official information
Wodonga’s seven single-councillor wards on the VEC’s map.
Have a say on a proposal
Three different processes, each with its own standing. Feedback on a community consultation is not a formal planning submission: an objection or submission on a planning application or a scheme amendment is a statutory step with its own rights.
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Community consultations (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
Feedback on the draft plans, strategies and projects Council puts out for comment.
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Planning applications (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
Applications on public exhibition, and how to make a submission or objection on one.
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Planning scheme amendments (external site)
Planning Victoria official information
Changes to the Wodonga Planning Scheme itself are exhibited and take submissions under the State process.
Attend or question Council
Meetings are public. Council publishes when they are held, how to ask a public question and how to present a petition.
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Council meetings (external site)
City of Wodonga official information
When and where Council meets, agendas and minutes, and the live stream.
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Ask a public question (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
How to put a written question to a Council meeting.
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City of Wodonga official information
How a petition is presented to Council.
Find who is responsible
Start with who manages the thing. The common local traps are below; where responsibility depends on the exact location, check before reporting.
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Local roads, footpaths, drains, bins, parks and local laws
Council online services (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
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Highways and main arterial roads
Transport Victoria (external site)
Transport Victoria official information
State-managed roads are the Victorian Government’s, not Council’s.
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Water and sewerage
North East Water (external site)
North East Water official information
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Electricity supply, outages and faults
AusNet outages (external site)
AusNet official information
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Buses and trains
Transport Victoria (external site)
Transport Victoria official information
Public Transport Victoria’s site now goes here.
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Policing that is not an emergency
Victoria Police (external site)
Victoria Police official information
In an emergency, call Triple Zero (000).
Make or escalate a complaint
Something needs fixing? Start with the appropriate service request.
The service, decision, delay or response is the problem? Use the relevant complaint process.
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Wodonga Council complaint (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
Council’s own complaint-handling process. External bodies generally expect this step first.
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Victorian Ombudsman (external site)
Victorian Ombudsman official information
Council actions and decisions, after Council’s own process has run.
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Local Government Inspectorate (external site)
Local Government Inspectorate official information
Matters under the Local Government Act, such as councillor conduct and Council governance.
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IBAC official information
Suspected serious corruption or misconduct in the public sector.
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Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (external site)
Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner official information
Freedom of information complaints and reviews, and privacy.
Other useful routes
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FOI and privacy (external site)
City of Wodonga official information
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Grants and sponsorship (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
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Parliament of Victoria official information
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Federal Parliament (external site)
Parliament of Australia official information
Getting involved, and finding your federal member.
Still not sure?
For a general Council enquiry, contact Wodonga Council directly.
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Contact Wodonga Council (external site)
City of Wodonga official action
Official destinations last checked 6 September 2026.