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Melbourne’s mayor-elect Sally Capp is the first woman to take the top job in almost three decades.

The Property Council executive, who took leave during her campaign, has been named as Melbourne’s next lord mayor after nabbing 53.05% of votes after preferences in the byelection.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.