Shire of Cardinia
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The Shire of Cardinia is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, in the south-east of Melbourne between Western Port and the Yarra Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. It has an area of 1,283 square kilometres, and had a population of 107,120 in June 2018.<ref name=ABSLGA/>
Cardinia Shire Council Offices are located in Officer.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Prior to 17 November 2014, they were located in Pakenham.
HistoryEdit
The areas within the present-day boundaries of Cardinia Shire were originally parts of the Cranbourne and Berwick districts, which were incorporated in 1860 and 1862 respectively. The Shire of Fern Tree Gully, later Shire of Sherbrooke, split away in 1889 and included areas to the east of Melbourne. In 1973, the City of Berwick, including Berwick and areas closer to Dandenong, split away from the Shire of Berwick, with the remainder being renamed Shire of Pakenham.<ref name=vmd>Template:Cite book Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.</ref>
The Shire came into being on 15 December 1994 as the result of statewide local government reform, by merging the Shire of Pakenham with rural sections of the Shire of Sherbrooke and City of Cranbourne.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The Shire of Cardinia contains the only area of Melbourne to use telephone numbers beginning with the exchange prefix 5 - this is a leftover from when it used the area code 059-xx xxxx.
CouncilEdit
Cardinia Shire Council is divided into nine wards:<ref>Wards - Cardinia Shire Council</ref> Beacon Hills, Bunyip, Central, Henty, Officer, Pakenham Hills, Ranges, Toomuc and Westernport. Elections are held every four years, each ward has one councillor. Before October 2020 the shire had three wards: Central, Ranges and Port.
The Council Offices were originally located in Henty Way, Pakenham.<ref>Municipal Association of Victoria – Cardinia</ref> On 17 November 2014, the Council moved to a new office on Siding Avenue, Officer, which it uses presently. The Council holds its meetings and all of the administration staff work there.
Cardinia Shire is part of the Casey Cardinia Library Corporation and there are two full-time libraries in Cardinia, in Emerald and Pakenham. In addition, the Mobile Library visits the suburbs of Bunyip, Garfield, Tynong, Beaconsfield, Upper Beaconsfield, Gembrook, Maryknoll, Cockatoo, Lang Lang and Koo Wee Rup.<ref>CCLC Branch details Template:Webarchive</ref>
Current compositionEdit
| Ward | Party | Councillor | Notes | ||
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| Beacon Hills | Template:Australian party style| | Independent | Brett Owen | ||
| Bunyip | Template:Australian party style| | Independent | Alanna Pomeroy | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Central | Template:Australian party style| | Independent Labor | Collin Ross | ||
| Henty | Template:Australian party style| | Independent | Liz Roberts | ||
| Officer | Template:Australian party style| | Independent | Samantha Jane-Potter | ||
| Pakenham Hills | Template:Australian party style| | Independent | Jack Kowarzik | Mayor<ref name="mayor"/> | |
| Ranges | Template:Australian party style| | Independent | David Nickell | ||
| Toomuc | Template:Australian party style| | Independent | Casey Thomsen | ||
| Westernport | Template:Australian party style| | Independent Libertarian | Trudi Paton | ||
MayorsEdit
- 2008: Bill Ronald
- 2009: Bill Pearson
- 2010: Graeme Legge
- 2011: George Blenkhorn
- 2012: Ed Chatwin
- 2013: Brett Owen
- 2014: Graeme Moore
- 2015: Leticia Wilmot
- 2016: Jodie Owen
- 2017: Brett Owen
- 2018: Collin Ross
- 2019: Graeme Moore
- 2020: Jeff Springfield
- 2021: Brett Owen
- 2022: Jeff Springfield
- 2023: Tammy Radford
- 2024: Jack Kowarzik
Deputy MayorsEdit
- 2016: Leticia Wilmot
- 2017: Jodie Owen
- 2018: Brett Owen
- 2019: Collin Ross
- 2020: Graeme Moore
- 2021: Jeff Springfield
- 2022: Tammy Radford
- 2023: Jack Kowarzik
- 2024: Graeme Moore
Election resultsEdit
2024Edit
Townships and localitiesEdit
In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 118,194, up from 94,128 in the 2016 census.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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See alsoEdit
- List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the Shire of Cardinia
- Mornington Peninsula and Western Port Biosphere Reserve
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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- Cardinia Shire Council official website
- Cardinia Shire facts and statistics
- Casey Cardinia Libraries
- Metlink local public transport map
- Link to Land Victoria interactive maps
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