An inner-city Melbourne council has called on residents to move towards a vegetarian diet, as a way to “act on the climate emergency”.

On Tuesday, Yarra City Council, which includes hip inner Melbourne suburbs of Richmond, Collingwood, and Fitzroy, unanimously passed its 81-page Climate Emergency Plan 2024-30, urging the diet shift.

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The plan, revealed in the Herald Sun, also encourages residents to use public transport, and shift their banking and superannuation away from fossil fuel investments.

“A crucial element of rethinking and revising our relationship with nature is the decolonisation of our landscape, so that our city increasingly reflects Wurundjeri land,” the document said.

And it will look into Aboriginal land management practices to bring the council area back from “the precipice of climate and ecological collapse”.

The document said the council, along with its officers, will make decisions with the climate crisis in mind.

On Thursday, former 3AW radio star Neil Mitchell and Western Sydney Women CEO Amanda Rose joined Sunrise where they slammed the policy.

“The rates and charges they pay in that area is $132 million a year. That’s what the residents are paying for this sort of garbage,” Mitchell said.

“They’re well above their pay grade, trying to get into this.

“They’re getting outside rubbish, rates, roads, do what you’re supposed to do with the $132 million, not this nonsense.”

Rose agreed with Mitchell.

“People don’t realise if you go to a plant-based diet, you’re killing off our supply chain of food with the farmers and I think with councils in particular, if you do not like the council that you have, you need to vote them out,” she said.