News & Events

GMCT has conducted an extensive audit of trees across the site and will be removing 40 declining cypress trees along the James Street boundary.

GMCT will be reinstating approximately 300 headstones to their original sites at Coburg Cemetery as part of a project to preserve the legacy of those interred at the historic cemetery.

GMCT hosted 50 international visitors this month as part of the Asia Cemetery Funeral Expo and Conference tour.

Jacqui Weatherill has resigned as CEO of The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust effective from 28 June to take up the CEO role at Stonnington City Council in Melbourne’s inner south east. 

Anzac Day at GMCT was a chance to honour the thousands of Australians and New Zealanders who served and died during World War I, and all others past and present who have served their country. An initiative of Friends of Williamstown Cemetery saw flags placed hundreds of graves of local service men and women.

Are you searching for information about a loved one or ancestor interred or cremated at a GMCT cemetery? Historian and trust member Dr Jan Penney has shared some tips to get started – including some helpful places you may not have thought to look.

GMCT’s chapel AV facilities will be upgraded in May 2019 as part of our commitment to an improved service offering for families and funeral directors.

Friends of Coburg Cemetery is a volunteer-run friends group delivering walking tours and other educational events.

Our cemetery receptions will operate with modified public holiday hours over the Easter period.

The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) will be conducting fire prevention works at Truganina Cemetery, Woods Road.