Melbourne | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Metropolitan Opera | University of Melbourne | National Film Board of Canada | Melbourne Cricket Ground | Works Progress Administration | Metropolitan Police Service | Board of directors | Brown v. Board of Education | Board of Directors | South Melbourne | board game | board of directors | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Melbourne Cup | Baldwin Locomotive Works | metropolitan area | Board of Trade | American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | Southern Metropolitan Football League | Metropolitan | National Transportation Safety Board | Manchester Metropolitan University | Metropolitan bishop | Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education | College Board | New York metropolitan area | Melbourne Storm | National Coal Board |
Robinson used the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto and the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works as models.
From 1978 to 1980 he was commissioner of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, and was a Melbourne City Councillor from 1977 to 1990 and from 1996 to 2004, serving as Deputy Lord Mayor for some of that period.