| Laurie Park South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Laurie Park | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°58′49″S140°53′57″E / 36.980169°S 140.899128°E Coordinates: 36°58′49″S140°53′57″E / 36.980169°S 140.899128°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 61 (shared with the southern part of Hynam) (2016 census) [2] [lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 12 April 2001 [3] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5271 | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | ACST (UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | ACST (UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Naracoorte Lucindale Council | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Limestone Coast [1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Robe [1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | MacKillop [4] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Barker [5] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities [1] [7] | ||||||||||||||
Laurie Park is a locality located within the Naracoorte Lucindale Council in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.
The Naracoorte Lucindale Council is a local government area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Limestone Coast region in the south-east of the state adjacent to the Victorian border.
The Limestone Coast is a name used since the early twenty-first century for a South Australian government region located in the south east of South Australia which immediately adjoins the continental coastline and the Victorian border. The name is also used for a tourist region and a wine zone both located in the same part of South Australia.
South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of 28,684.
Boundaries for the locality were created on 12 April 2001. Its boundaries include the southern part of the site of the ceased Government Town of Jessie. [1] [3]
Jessie was a town in the Australian state of South Australia whose site is located about 311 kilometres (193 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the former municipal seat of Naracoorte at the border with the state of Victoria.
Laurie Park is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of MacKillop and the local government area of the Naracoorte Lucindale Council. [5] [1] [4]
The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km² seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south, taking in the Murray Mallee, the Riverland, the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley, and includes the towns of Barmera, Berri, Bordertown, Coonawarra, Keith, Kingston SE, Loxton, Lucindale, Mannum, Millicent, Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Naracoorte, Penola, Renmark, Robe, Tailem Bend, Waikerie, and parts of Nuriootpa and Tanunda.
MacKillop is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It was named in 1991 after Sister Mary MacKillop who served the local area, and later became the first Australian to be canonised as a Roman Catholic saint. MacKillop is a 25,313 km² rural electorate in the south-east of the state, stretching south and west from the mouth of the Murray River to the Victorian State border, but excluding the far-southern point of the state,. It contains the Kingston District Council, Naracoorte Lucindale Council, District Council of Robe, Tatiara District Council, Wattle Range Council, as well as parts of The Coorong District Council. The main population centres are Bordertown, Keith, Kingston SE, Meningie, Millicent, Naracoorte, Penola and Robe.
