Shire of Gannawarra

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The Shire of Gannawarra is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the northern part of the state. It covers an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and, in August 2021 had a population of 10,683.[2] It includes the towns of Cohuna, Kerang, Koondrook, Leitchville and Quambatook.

The Shire is governed and administered by the Gannawarra Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Kerang, it also has a service centre located in Cohuna.

The Shire is named after the locality of Gannawarra, roughly equidistant from the two main towns, which is in turn named for a 19th-century pastoral run.[3] The underlying meaning of the name is variously given as "running water"[4] or "geese".[5]

History

The Shire of Gannawarra was formed in 1995 from the amalgamation of the Borough of Kerang, the vast bulk of the Shire of Kerang and Shire of Cohuna,[6] giving the new LGA a mixed economic base – dairying country to the east of Kerang township and dryland cropping to the west.[7] The Borough and Shire of Kerang advocated for the inclusion of the Shire of Gordon in the combined LGA,[7] but Gordon was staunchly opposed to a northward merger.[8] Gordon was instead amalgamated into the Loddon Shire.

The new LGA required a name that did not show bias towards Kerang or Cohuna.[9] Under the Local Government Board's initial proposal, it was to be called the "Shire of Illoura",[7] a word meaning "still waters" in an unspecified Aboriginal language that, following inquiries with local groups, was found not to be local to the area.[10][9] Representatives from the three municipalities agreed to put forward "Gannawarra" – the name of the pastoral run that once covered much of the eastern part of the Shire – to the Board as an alternative.[9]

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Gannawarra Shire's predecessor LGAs (green) as they were in 1994. The administrative centres of the former LGAs are marked by green dots.

Geography

The northeastern border of the shire is the Murray River. The Loddon River flows through the shire, feeding into the Murray. The Gunbower State Forest is a significant source of River Red Gum timber, supplying a historic sawmill in Koondrook. Gunbower Island is the largest inland island in the local area.[11] It is between the Murray River and the Gunbower Creek, an anabranch of the Murray.

The western part of the shire is predominantly used for cereal grain production. The north and east have significant dairying and milk processing. Tourists are attracted to the local rivers (for fishing) and lakes (for bird watching and water sports).

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of four wards and seven councillors, with three councillors elected to represent the Patchell Ward, two councillors elected to represent the Yarran Ward and one councillor per remaining ward elected to represent each of the other wards. The current council was elected in October 2020.[12]

Ward Party Councillor Notes
Avoca Template:Australian party style|  Independent Charlie Gillingham
Murray Template:Australian party style|  Independent Ross Stanton
Patchell Template:Australian party style|  Independent Kelvin Burt
Template:Australian party style|  Independent Travis Collier
Template:Australian party style|  Independent Jane E. Ogden
Yarran Template:Australian party style|  Independent Garner Smith
Template:Australian party style|  Independent Keith Link

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Kerang Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Kerang, and its service centre in Cohuna.

Townships and localities

In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 10,683, up from 10,549 in the 2016 census.[13]

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Population
Locality 2016 2021
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Template:VICcity^ 44 44
Template:VICcity 45 56
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Template:VICcity 35 54
Template:VICcity 2,428 2,415
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Population
Locality 2016 2021
Template:VICcity 94 110
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Locality 2016 2021
Template:VICcity^ 87 67
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Population
Locality 2016 2021
Template:VICcity 35 34
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See also

References

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