| Barunga West Council South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Location of the Barunga West Council | |||||||||||||||
| Population | 2,619 (LGA 2021) [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 1,528 km2 (590.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Mayor | Leonie Kerley [2] | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Port Broughton | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North [3] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Frome [4] Goyder [5] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
| Website | Barunga West Council | ||||||||||||||
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The Barunga West Council is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. [3] The council seat is at Port Broughton, with a sub-office at Bute. [6]
The council takes its name from the Barunga Range in the eastern part of the council area. [7] The council covers an area in the Mid North and bordering the top of the Yorke Peninsula which includes the towns and localities of Alford, Bute, Clements Gap, Fisherman Bay, Kulpara, Melton, Ninnes, Port Broughton, Thomas Plain, Wokurna and Ward Hill, and parts of Mundoora, Paskeville, South Hummocks, Tickera and Willamulka. [8] The main industries are tourism and growing grain.
It was formed in 1997 from the amalgamation of the District Council of Bute and the District Council of Port Broughton. [9] The council boundaries closely follow the boundaries of the six cadastral hundreds of the County of Daly which formed the original local governing bodies in the area in the late 1800s, namely the hundreds of Mundoora and Wokurna (District Council of Mundoora), and the hundreds of Ninnes, Wiltunga, Tickera and Kulpara (District Council of Ninnes).
| Party | Councillors | |
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| Labor | 1 | |
| Independents | 8 | |
| Total | 9 | |
| Ward | Councillor | Notes | |
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| Unsubdivided [2] | |||
| Leonie Kerley | Mayor | ||
| Cynthia Axford | |||
| Kevin Beinke | |||
| Peter Button | Deputy Mayor | ||
| Dave Eason | |||
| Kim Gregory | |||
| Brian Lockyer | |||
| Margaret McDonald | |||
| Grant Rowlands | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Independent | Peter Button (elected) | 265 | 25.2 | ||
| Independent | Cynthia Axford (elected) | 247 | 23.5 | ||
| Independent | Leonie Kerley (elected) | 161 | 15.3 | ||
| Independent Labor | Kim Gregory (elected) | 122 | 11.6 | ||
| Independent | Kevin John Beinke (elected) | 67 | 6.4 | ||
| Independent | Grant Rowlands (elected) | 56 | 5.3 | ||
| Independent | Brian John Lockyer (elected) | 53 | 5.0 | ||
| Independent | Dave Eason (elected) | 35 | 3.3 | ||
| Independent | Margaret McDonald (elected) | 21 | 2.0 | ||
| Independent | Georgie Simmons | 17 | 1.6 | ||
| Independent | Rob Locke | 9 | 0.9 | ||
| Total formal votes | 1,053 | 96.87 | |||
| Informal votes | 34 | 3.13 | |||
| Turnout | 1,087 | 51.31 | |||
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Port Broughton is a small South Australian town located at the northern extent of the Yorke Peninsula on the east coast of Spencer Gulf. It is situated about 170 km north-west of Adelaide, and 56 km south of Port Pirie. At the 2016 census, the town of Port Broughton had a population of 1,034.
Bute is a town in the Northern Yorke peninsula of South Australia, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Wallaroo and 24 kilometres west of Snowtown. It was proclaimed as a town in 1884 and named after the Isle of Bute, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. It was the original site of the Yorke Peninsula Field Days in 1895; they are now held outside Paskeville.
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The County of Daly is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1862 and named for Governor Dominick Daly. It covers the northern half of Yorke Peninsula stretching just east of the Hummock-Barunga Range in the west and just past the Broughton River in the north.
The District Council of Redhill was a local government area in South Australia from 1888 to 1988.
The District Council of Port Broughton was a local government area in South Australia from 1892 to 1997 seated at the town of Port Broughton.
The District Council of Bute was a local government area in South Australia from 1885 to 1997.
Clements Gap Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Mid North of South Australia about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Redhill, 20 kilometres (12 mi) north east of Port Broughton and 42 metres above sea level. The park preserves an area of natural bushland and the built remnants of a small historic agricultural township, Clements Gap, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) east of the Spencer Gulf coast. Maintained by the South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR), the park is classified as an IUCN Category III Natural Monument or Feature. The park is named for the surrounding farming locality of Clements Gap, a reference to the co-located pass through the Barunga Range. The Clements Gap pass in turn is thought to be named after a shepherd in the area prior to 1880, per research by local historian Rodney Cockburn.
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The Hundred of Redhill is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia spanning the northern Barunga Range. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly and was named in 1869 by Governor James Fergusson after the same hill giving rise to the name for the township of Redhill, uphill from the west bank of the Broughton River.
The Hundred of Ninnes is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia centred on the Ninnes Plain. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly and was proclaimed by Governor Anthony Musgrave on the last day of 1874.
The Hundred of Kulpara is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia and centred on the township of Kulpara. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly and was proclaimed by Governor Dominick Daly on 12 June 1862.
The Hundred of Wiltunga is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia west of the Barunga Range. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly and was proclaimed by Governor Anthony Musgrave on the last day of 1874.
The Hundred of Wokurna is a cadastral unit of hundred located in the Mid North of South Australia west of the Barunga Range. It is one of the 16 hundreds of the County of Daly and was proclaimed by Governor Anthony Musgrave on the last day of 1874.
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