How Lord Mayor Sally Capp was shaped by Melbourne's Flinders Lane
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The dark, almost-black, wood of the staircase sets the tone. Important work is being undertaken in the rooms off the corridors: focused and solid. And yet everywhere you look there is leadlight and coloured glass, mostly subdued and delicate, but above the landing, bold and lush. This seems to speak to another sentiment: we are not blind to the beneficial effects of decoration. In moderation.
Then the building starts to buzz. People pop their heads out of doors and appear on the first-floor landing. Meetings are suspended as we gather in the carpeted corridors.
Capp is embraced in a flurry of greetings.
She was the CEO here for two years. The Committee for Melbourne was set up to give business a voice in shaping Greater Melbourne. As she explains, the interaction between business and government is mostly around day-to-day business activities. But, she says, “when it comes to housing, climate change, education, transport, infrastructure and so on – business has a view about these things too, but not necessarily a channel to present them”. Enter the Committee for Melbourne.
We say our goodbyes to Milton House and walk down Flinders Lane. We have coffee at Cecconi’s, where I learn that, after she left the Committee for Melbourne, she went on to be Victoria’s agent-general in London. Then she took on senior positions at accountancy firm KPMG, the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and the Property Council.
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