City of Broadmeadows City of Hume. In its final years, the council met at the Broadmeadows Town Hall, at Pascoe Vale Road and Dimboola Road, Broadmeadows. The facility is still used today by the City of Hume. The last mayor of the City of Broadmeadows was Cr. Dorothy (Dot) White. On 1 April 1988, the City of Broadmeadows was subdivided into four wards, each of which elected three councillors: North: South: City of Broadmeadows The City of Broadmeadows was a local government area about north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from
Capital city meaning "head". In several English-speaking states, the terms county town and county seat are also used in lower subdivisions. In some unitary states, subnational capitals may be known as "administrative centres". The capital is often the largest city of its constituent, though not always. Historically, the major economic centre of a state or region often becomes the focal point of political power, and becomes a capital through conquest or federation. (The modern capital city has, however, not always existed: in medieval Western Europe, an itinerant (wandering) government was common.) Examples are Ancient Babylon, Abbasid Baghdad, Ancient Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Chang'an,