City of Melbourne residents might have heard a loud bang last week. That was the implosion (or do we mean explosion) at Residents 3000, the action group for CBD residents, where secretary Merle Willis has clearly had quite enough.

She fired off an extraordinary dispatch to members, urging president Rafael Camillo to resign. Willis said the group had been subjected to “political takeover” by Camillo and others and had become “unacceptably hostile”.

Residents 3000 president Rafael Camillo. Credit: Joe Armao

“All is not well,” she wrote, adding that it had become “too dominated, controlled and directed” by Camillo for his own purposes.

Group members, more used to discussing the Metro Tunnel, Queen Victoria Market redevelopment, graffiti and city greening, didn’t quite know where t

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