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Shire of Moyne
Local government area in Victoria, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Shire of Moyne is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state. It covers an area of 5,481 square kilometres (2,116 mi2) and at the 2021 census had a population of 17,374.[1] It includes the towns of Port Fairy, Koroit, Mortlake, Macarthur, Peterborough, Caramut, Ellerslie, Framlingham, Garvoc, Hawkesdale, Kirkstall, Panmure, Mailors Flat, Purnim, Wangoom and Woolsthorpe. It also entirely surrounds the City of Warrnambool, a separate local government area.
The Shire is governed and administered by the Moyne Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Port Fairy. It also has a customer service centre in Mortlake, and works depots in Koroit, Mortlake and Macarthur. The Shire is named after the Moyne River, a major geographical feature that meanders through the LGA.
The industry base for the area includes: dairy, beef cattle, sheep, vegetable production, seafood, other food products, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, quarrying, and tourism.
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Traditional ownership
The formally recognised traditional owners for the area in which the Shire of Moyne sits are the Eastern Maar peoples and Gunditjmara people,[3] who are represented by the Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation (EMAC)[4] and the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (GMTOAC).[5]
History
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The Shire of Moyne was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Belfast, Shire of Minhamite, Borough of Port Fairy, the vast bulk of the Shire of Mortlake and Shire of Warrnambool, as well as parts of the Shire of Dundas, Shire of Mount Rouse and Shire of Hampden.[2]
The Local Government Board, tasked with drawing up new council boundaries in Victoria's south-west in 1994, observed that the Moyne sub-area was "the most difficult for [it] to consider", thanks in part to "seemingly irreconcilable tensions between urban and rural interests".[6] The Board first determined to amalgamate the largely agricultural Shires of Minhamite, Belfast, Mortlake and Warrnambool. Merger with the City of Warrnambool was rejected, as it was felt that the City's urban economic interests were sufficiently detached from those of its rural hinterland that the City was strong enough to stand alone. Numerous submissions requested the same treatment for Port Fairy; options explored by the Board included maintaining the Borough of Port Fairy (rejected out of hand), a "coastal strip" municipality stretching from Port Fairy across the intervening rural areas to Warrnambool, or amalgamating the City of Warrnambool and Borough of Port Fairy into a single, non-contiguous municipality. In the end, the Board considered that Port Fairy belonged in Moyne, because Port Fairy had strong links to its rural hinterland in its role as a service town; Port Fairy's tourism sector was heritage-focused, unlike Warrnambool's; and the special challenges of managing the coastal–farmland interface were best dealt with by a rural-focused shire.[6]
At public meetings held in the respective towns, Caramut and Macarthur residents strongly favoured being included in Moyne in preference to the proposed Shire of Southern Grampians. By contrast, Peterborough, located at the extreme south-eastern tip of the Shire of Warrnambool, was split on the issue of whether to shift to the Shire of Corangamite. In the absence of a strong argument either way, the Board declined to move the existing boundary.[7]
In January 1996, after a further Local Government Board review, about 370 km2 of farmland in the Lake Bolac and Nerrin Nerrin districts was transferred from Moyne to the Rural City of Ararat, while Moyne gained about 40 km2 near Chatsworth from the Shire of Southern Grampians.[8]
🞲 Area gained from Southern Grampians Shire in 1996
# Area lost to the Rural City of Ararat in 1996
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Council
Current composition
The council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.[9]
| Councillor | |
| Karen Foster | Mayor |
| Jordan Lockett | Deputy Mayor |
| Jim Doukas | |
| Lisa Ryan | |
| Susan Taylor | |
| Lloyd Ross | |
| Myra Murrihy | |
Administration and governance
The council meets in the council chambers at the Mortlake Municipal Office. Administrative activities are conducted at both the Port Fairy and Mortlake offices, which also provide customer services centres.
Townships and localities
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The 2021 census recorded the shire population at 17,374, up from 16,495 in the 2016 census.[10]
^ - Territory divided with another LGA
* - Not noted in 2016 Census
# - Not noted in 2021 Census
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