Shire of Cardinia

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Cardinia Shire
Victoria
MelbLGA-Cardinia.gif
Population107,120 (2018) [1]
 • Density83.49/km2 (216.24/sq mi)
Established1994
Area1,283 km2 (495.4 sq mi) [1]
MayorCr Jack Kowarzik
Council seat Officer
Region Greater Melbourne
State electorate(s)
Federal division(s)
Cardinia Shire Council Logo.svg
Website Cardinia Shire
LGAs around Cardinia Shire:
Yarra Ranges Yarra Ranges Yarra Ranges
Casey Cardinia Shire Baw Baw
Mornington Peninsula Bass Coast South Gippsland

The Shire of Cardinia is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, in the south-east of Melbourne between Western Port and the Yarra Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. It has an area of 1,283 square kilometres, and had a population of 107,120 in June 2018. [1]

Contents

Cardinia Shire Council Offices are located in Officer. [2] Prior to 17 November 2014, they were located in Pakenham.

History

The areas within the present-day boundaries of Cardinia Shire were originally parts of the Cranbourne and Berwick districts, which were incorporated in 1860 and 1862 respectively. The Shire of Fern Tree Gully, later Shire of Sherbrooke, split away in 1889 and included areas to the east of Melbourne. In 1973, the City of Berwick, including Berwick and areas closer to Dandenong, split away from the Shire of Berwick, with the remainder being renamed Shire of Pakenham. [3]

The Shire came into being on 15 December 1994 as the result of statewide local government reform, by merging the Shire of Pakenham with rural sections of the Shire of Sherbrooke and City of Cranbourne. [4]

The Shire of Cardinia contains the only area of Melbourne to use telephone numbers beginning with the exchange prefix 5 - this is a leftover from when it used the area code 059-xx xxxx.

Council

Cardinia Shire Council is divided into nine wards: [5] Beacon Hills, Bunyip, Central, Henty, Officer, Pakenham Hills, Ranges, Toomuc and Westernport. Elections are held every four years, each ward has one councillor. Before October 2020 the shire had three wards: Central, Ranges and Port.

The Council Offices were originally located in Henty Way, Pakenham. [6] On 17 November 2014, the Council moved to a new office on Siding Avenue, Officer, which it uses presently. The Council holds its meetings and all of the administration staff work there.

Cardinia Shire is part of the Casey Cardinia Library Corporation and there are two full-time libraries in Cardinia, in Emerald and Pakenham. In addition, the Mobile Library visits the suburbs of Bunyip, Garfield, Tynong, Beaconsfield, Upper Beaconsfield, Gembrook, Maryknoll, Cockatoo, Lang Lang and Koo Wee Rup. [7]

Current composition

WardPartyCouncillorNotes
Beacon Hills  Independent Brett Owen
Bunyip IndependentAlanna PomeroyDeputy Mayor [8]
Central  Independent Labor Collin Ross
Henty IndependentLiz Roberts
Officer IndependentSamantha Jane-Potter
Pakenham Hills IndependentJack KowarzikMayor [8]
Ranges IndependentDavid Nickell
Toomuc IndependentCasey Thomsen
Westernport  Independent Libertarian Trudi Paton

Mayors

Deputy Mayors

Election results

2024

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 Victorian local elections in South-Eastern Melbourne § Cardinia results.[ edit ]
2024 Victorian local elections: Cardinia [9] [10]
PartyVotes %SwingSeatsChange
  Independent 39,04167.227Steady2.svg
  Independent Labor 9,31816.041Decrease2.svg 1
  Independent Liberal 4,2887.380Steady2.svg
  Independent Libertarian 3,7206.411Increase2.svg 1
  Greens 8751.510Steady2.svg
  Victorian Socialists 8341.440Steady2.svg
 Formal votes58,07695.75
 Informal votes2,5754.25
 Total60,651100.009Steady2.svg
 Registered voters82,745

Townships and localities

In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 118,194, up from 94,128 in the 2016 census. [11]

Population
Locality20162021
Avonsleigh 852844
Bayles 461445
Beaconsfield^6,7147,267
Beaconsfield Upper 2,8612,997
Bunyip 2,4683,131
Bunyip North 11295
Caldermeade 183181
Cardinia 376342
Catani 294297
Clematis 350352
Cockatoo 4,2564,408
Cora Lynn 243220
Dalmore 163142
Dewhurst 164151
Emerald^5,7785,890
Garfield 1,7862,114
Garfield North 194236
Gembrook 2,3502,559
Guys Hill 382388
Heath Hill^161189
Iona 228240
Koo Wee Rup 3,5794,047
Koo Wee Rup North 4447
Lang Lang^1,5852,556
Lang Lang East 7994
Longwarry^2,0042,436
Maryknoll 577646
Menzies Creek^998966
Modella^148169
Monomeith 7269
Mount Burnett 173180
Nangana 4454
Nar Nar Goon 1,0121,023
Nar Nar Goon North 727819
Nyora^1,5271,644
Officer 7,13318,503
Officer South 751,159
Pakenham 46,42154,118
Pakenham South 216229
Pakenham Upper 1,1721,196
Rythdale 3833
Tonimbuk 208229
Tooradin^1,5681,722
Tynong 456523
Tynong North 434440
Vervale 3944
Yannathan 238272

^ - Territory divided with another LGA

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2017-18: Population Estimates by Local Government Area (ASGS 2018), 2017 to 2018". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Council, corporateName=Cardinia Shire. "Home Page". Cardinia Shire Council. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Victorian Municipal Directory. Brunswick: Arnall & Jackson. 1992. pp. 639–40, 805–6, 832–3. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.
  4. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (1 August 1995). Victorian local government amalgamations 1994–1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. p. 5. ISBN   0-642-23117-6 . Retrieved 16 December 2007.
  5. ↑ Wards - Cardinia Shire Council
  6. ↑ Municipal Association of Victoria – Cardinia
  7. ↑ CCLC Branch details Archived 18 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  8. 1 2 "Mayor and councillors". Cardinia Shire Council. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  9. ↑ "Cardinia Shire Council results". VECaccess-date=11 November 2024.
  10. ↑ Everitt, Corey (17 October 2024). "The Labor and Liberals behind the 'independent' candidates". Pakenham Officer Star News. Archived from the original on 7 November 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  11. ↑ "Census | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. 11 January 2023.

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