Shire of Moira

Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Australian place Moira Shire Council is a Local Government Area in the Northern Victoria Region of Victoria, Australia. Located in the north-east part of the state, it covers an area of Template:Convert. As at August 2021 the population was 30,522.<ref name=MSCAR21/>

It includes the towns of Cobram, Nathalia, Numurkah, Tungamah and Yarrawonga. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Cobram, Shire of Nathalia, Shire of Numurkah, and parts of the Shire of Tungamah and Shire of Yarrawonga.<ref name=Gazette />

The Shire is governed and administered by the Moira Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Cobram, it also has a service centre located in Yarrawonga. The Shire is named after the county of Moira, of which the LGA occupies the northern part.

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of nine councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.<ref name=Council>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the wake of a report detailing the "preventable" murder of a senior manager, the Moira Shire council was dismissed by the Minister for Local Government, Melissa Horne on 7 March 2023. An interim administrator has been appointed.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Elections to elect a new council will not be held until 2028.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Administration and governance

The council meets in various locations around the Shire. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Cobram and its service centre in Yarrawonga.

Townships and localities

In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 30,522, up from 29,112 in the 2016 census.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	26	31
Template:VICcity	282	229
Template:VICcity	62	76
Template:VICcity	145	167
Template:VICcity	22	14
Template:VICcity	105	108
Template:VICcity	43	42
Template:VICcity	428	512
Template:VICcity	51	42
Template:VICcity	197	241
Template:VICcity	24	24
Template:VICcity	6,014	6,148
Template:VICcity	242	232
Template:VICcity	41	41

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	9	17
Template:VICcity	610	601
Template:VICcity	85	93
Template:VICcity	401	453
Template:VICcity	35	30
Template:VICcity	996	1,025
Template:VICcity	296	305
Template:VICcity	105	132
Template:VICcity	66	70
Template:VICcity	25	30
Template:VICcity^	111	98
Template:VICcity	213	170
Template:VICcity	119	138
Template:VICcity	14	20

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	120	122
Template:VICcity	1,880	1,982
Template:VICcity	4,477	4,604
Template:VICcity^	184	177
Template:VICcity	33	29
Template:VICcity	207	206
Template:VICcity	9	14
Template:VICcity	132	123
Template:VICcity	1,052	1,072
Template:VICcity	24	21
Template:VICcity	408	449
Template:VICcity	23	17
Template:VICcity	390	420

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	40	52
Template:VICcity	166	192
Template:VICcity	334	326
Template:VICcity	101	104
Template:VICcity	27	32
Template:VICcity	206	222
Template:VICcity	7,930	8,661
Template:VICcity	15	15
Template:VICcity	548	551
Template:VICcity	87	93
Template:VICcity	59	56
Template:VICcity	39	34
Template:VICcity	44	52

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See also

• List of localities (Victoria)
• List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the Shire of Moira

External links

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• Moira Shire Council official website
• Metlink local public transport map
• Link to Land Victoria interactive maps
• Template:Victorian local government areas pre-1994 vs present map link