Woollahra Municipal Council New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°53′S151°15′E / 33.883°S 151.250°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 53,496 (2021 census) [1] | ||||||||||||||
• Density | 4,460/km2 (11,500/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Established | April 1860 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 12 km2 (4.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Mayor | Richard Shields | ||||||||||||||
Council seat | Double Bay | ||||||||||||||
Region | Metropolitan Sydney | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | |||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Wentworth | ||||||||||||||
Website | Woollahra Municipal Council | ||||||||||||||
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Woollahra Municipal Council (or Woollahra Council) is a local government area in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is bounded by Sydney Harbour in the north, Waverley Council in the east, Randwick City in the south and the City of Sydney in the west.
The administrative centre of Woollahra Municipal Council is located in Double Bay. The mayor of Woollahra Municipal Council is Cr. Richard Shields. [2]
Suburbs in the area include:
At the 2011 Census, there were 52,158 people in the Woollahra local government area, of these 47.1% were male and 52.9% were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.2% of the population. The median age of people in the Municipality of Woollahra was 38 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 15.4% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 16.3% of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 43.1% were married and 10.3% were either divorced or separated. [3]
Population growth in the Municipality of Woollahra between the 2001 Census and the 2006 Census was 0.70%; and in the subsequent five years to the 2011 Census, population growth was 3.98%. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same periods, being 5.78% and 8.32% respectively, population growth in Woollahra local government area was significantly lower than the national average. [4] The median weekly income for residents within the Municipality of Woollahra was double the national average. [3] [5]
At the 2016 Census, the proportion of residents who stated a religious affiliation with Judaism was in excess of thirty–two times the state and national averages. [6]
Selected historical census data for Woollahra local government area | ||||||
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Census year | 2001 [4] | 2006 [5] | 2011 [3] | 2016 [6] | ||
Population | Estimated residents on census night | 49,814 | 50,161 | 52,158 | 54,240 | |
LGA rank in terms of size within New South Wales | 19th | 42nd | 43rd | |||
% of New South Wales population | 1.90% | 0.75% | 0.73% | |||
% of Australian population | 0.26% | 0.25% | 0.24% | 0.23% | ||
Cultural and language diversity | ||||||
Ancestry, top responses | English | 23.6% | 23.7% | |||
Australian | 17.7% | 16.8% | ||||
Irish | 9.0% | 9.5% | ||||
Scottish | 6.9% | 7.2% | ||||
Chinese | n/c | 3.1% | ||||
Language, top responses (other than English) | Mandarin | n/c | n/c | 0.8% | 1.6% | |
French | 1.0% | 1.0% | 1.1% | 1.3% | ||
Greek | 1.4% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | ||
Spanish | n/c | n/c | n/c | 1.1% | ||
Italian | 1.2% | 1.1% | 1.0% | 1.0% | ||
Religious affiliation | ||||||
Religious affiliation, top responses | No religion | 15.1% | 16.7% | 21.7% | 30.2% | |
Catholic | 19.9% | 19.7% | 20.2% | 19.1% | ||
Anglican | 21.2% | 19.8% | 17.9% | 13.8% | ||
Judaism | 13.4% | 14.1% | 14.2% | 13.0% | ||
Not stated | n/c | n/c | n/c | 12.8% | ||
Median weekly incomes | ||||||
Personal income | Median weekly personal income | A$976 | A$1,145 | A$1,365 | ||
% of Australian median income | 209.4% | 198.4% | 206.2% | |||
Family income | Median weekly family income | A$1,917 | A$2,832 | A$3,626 | ||
% of Australian median income | 186.7% | 191.2% | 209.1% | |||
Household income | Median weekly household income | A$2,654 | A$2,398 | A$2,687 | ||
% of Australian median income | 226.6% | 194.3% | 186.7% | |||
Woollahra Municipal Council is composed of fifteen councillors elected proportionally as five separate wards, each electing three Councillors. Councillors are usually elected for a fixed four-year term of office. [7] The Mayor is elected by the Councillors at the first meeting of the council. The Council election of 4 December 2021 resulted in the following makeup: [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Party | Councillors | |
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Liberal Party | 8 | |
Residents First Woollahra | 5 | |
The Greens | 2 | |
Total | 15 |
The council as elected in 2021, in order of election by ward, was:
Ward | Councillor | Party | Notes | |
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Bellevue Hill Ward [8] | Lucinda Regan | Residents First | ||
Isabelle Shapiro | Liberal | Deputy Mayor 2007–2009, 2022–2023; Mayor 2010–2011. | ||
Sean Carmichael | Liberal | |||
Cooper Ward [9] | Sarah Swan | Liberal | Deputy Mayor 2023–present. | |
Luise Elsing | Residents First | |||
Nicola Grieve | The Greens | |||
Double Bay Ward [10] | Toni Zeltzer | Liberal | Deputy Mayor 2011–2012; Mayor 2013–2017. | |
Mark Silcocks | Residents First | |||
Richard Shields | Liberal | Mayor 2023–present; Deputy Mayor 2019–2022. | ||
Paddington Ward [11] | Matthew Robertson | The Greens | ||
Peter Cavanagh | Liberal | Deputy Mayor 2009–2011; Mayor 2017–2019. | ||
Harriet Price | Residents First | |||
Vaucluse Ward [12] | Merrill Halkerston Witt | Residents First | ||
Mary-Lou Jarvis | Liberal | Deputy Mayor 2018–2019. | ||
Susan Wynne | Liberal | Mayor 2011–2012, 2019–2023; Deputy Mayor 2015–2018. |
The name 'Woollahra' is thought to be derived from an Aboriginal word meaning 'camp' or 'meeting ground'. [13]
A petition was submitted in 1859 with 144 signatures of local residents from Darling Point, Paddington and Watsons Bay for the formation of the Municipality. With no petition against formation of the Municipality, Woollahra was proclaimed to be named so on 17 April 1860, and gazetted on 20 April 1860. At the first meeting, The Hon. George Thornton was elected as the first Chairman of Woollahra. [13]
In 1947, after previously acquiring 'Iron House' on Ocean Street, in the 1860s, Council transferred to the current site at Redleaf. [13]
Woollahra largely developed as a residential locality. A few small local industries were established in Woollahra, Double Bay and Paddington; but with the residential gentrification of Paddington and Woollahra in the 1960s, most of these cottage industries had vanished by the end of the 20th century.[ citation needed ]
Woollahra's cultural heritage has been enriched by the influx of people from many different cultural backgrounds. Some of the influential immigrants to Woollahra have been the Chinese market gardeners, who began leasing land in Double Bay gully and Rose Bay in the 1880s; the Portuguese whalers who settled at Watsons Bay in the 19th century, building a church and becoming a part of the village life, and the many Europeans who migrated after World War II and helped change the face of commercial centres such as Double Bay.[ citation needed ]
A 2015 review of local government boundaries recommended that the Municipality of Woollahra merge with the Waverley and Randwick councils to form a new council with an area of 58 square kilometres (22 sq mi) and support a population of approximately 274,000. [14] Following an independent review, in May 2016 the NSW Government sought to dismiss the council and force its amalgamation with Waverley and Randwick councils. Woollahra Council instigated legal action claiming that there was procedural unfairness and that a KPMG report at the centre of merger proposals had been "misleading". The matter was heard before the NSW Court of Appeal who, in December 2016, unanimously dismissed the council's appeal, finding no merit in its arguments that the proposed merger with its neighbouring councils was invalid. [15] In July 2017, the Berejiklian government decided to abandon the forced merger of the Woollahra, Waverley and Randwick local government areas, along with several other proposed forced mergers. [16]
The Municipality of Woollahra has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
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Rose Bay is a harbourside, eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Rose Bay is located seven kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of Waverley Council and Municipality of Woollahra.
Double Bay is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra.
Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra. Woollahra is located on the traditional land of the Birrabirragal and Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The Municipality of Woollahra takes its name from the suburb but its administrative centre is located in Double Bay. Woollahra is famous for its quiet, tree-lined residential streets and village-style shopping centre.
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