Shire of Moyne

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Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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 Script error: No such module "convert". 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.

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,[2] who are represented by the Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation (EMAC)[3] and the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (GMTOAC).[4]

History

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.[5]

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]

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Moyne Shire's predecessor LGAs (green) as they were in 1994. The administrative centres of the former LGAs are marked by green dots.
🞲 Area gained from Southern Grampians Shire in 1996
# Area lost to the Rural City of Ararat in 1996

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

The 2021 census recorded the shire population at 17,374, up from 16,495 in the 2016 census.[10]

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Population
Locality 2016 2021
Template:VICcity^ 1,521 1,410
Template:VICcity^ 44 39
Template:VICcity 64 71
Template:VICcity^ 98 113
Template:VICcity^ 50 39
Template:VICcity 92 75
Template:VICcity^ 116 127
Template:VICcity^ 571 596
Template:VICcity^ 123 129
Template:VICcity^ 246 256
Template:VICcity^ 44 49
Template:VICcity 52 37
Template:VICcity * #
Template:VICcity 215 235
Template:VICcity 238 311
Template:VICcity^ 124 125
Template:VICcity^ 107 84
Template:VICcity^ 1,907 1,994
Template:VICcity 46 52
Template:VICcity^ 188 222
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Template:VICcity 21 25
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Population
Locality 2016 2021
Template:VICcity^ 243 248
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Template:VICcity 33 31
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Template:VICcity 402 385
Template:VICcity 322 311
Template:VICcity 143 130
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Template:VICcity^ 142 188
Template:VICcity 2,055 2,184
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Template:VICcity^ 6 9
Template:VICcity 522 469
Template:VICcity 425 490
Template:VICcity 47 36
Template:VICcity 67 73
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Template:VICcity 1,372 1,477
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Population
Locality 2016 2021
Template:VICcity^ 36 48
Template:VICcity 120 124
Template:VICcity 93 96
Template:VICcity^ 38 48
Template:VICcity 56 50
Template:VICcity^ 14 12
Template:VICcity 76 90
Template:VICcity^ 333 318
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Template:VICcity 61 46
Template:VICcity 105 115
Template:VICcity 424 442
Template:VICcity^ 622 677
Template:VICcity^ 247 322
Template:VICcity 3,340 3,742
Template:VICcity^ 37 47
Template:VICcity^ 14 21
Template:VICcity 270 292
Template:VICcity 37 50
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Template:VICcity 117 128
Template:VICcity 47 34
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Population
Locality 2016 2021
Template:VICcity^ 22 25
Template:VICcity 64 69
Template:VICcity^ 2,288 2,254
Template:VICcity 10 18
Template:VICcity 141 110
Template:VICcity 91 88
Template:VICcity 81 83
Template:VICcity^ 212 198
Template:VICcity 27 19
Template:VICcity^ 113 94
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Template:VICcity^ 29,661 31,308
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Template:VICcity 368 436
Template:VICcity^ 361 436
Template:VICcity 422 364
Template:VICcity^ 169 160
Template:VICcity 267 284
Template:VICcity^ 111 113
Template:VICcity 77 63

^ - Territory divided with another LGA
* - Not noted in 2016 Census
# - Not noted in 2021 Census

See also

References

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