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]
| Cardinia Shire Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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| Population | 107,120 (2018)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 83.49/km2 (216.24/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 1,283 km2 (495.4 sq mi)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Mayor | Cr Jack Kowarzik | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Officer | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Greater Melbourne | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | Cardinia Shire | ||||||||||||||
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Cardinia Shire Council Offices are located in Officer.[2] Prior to 17 November 2014, they were located in Pakenham.
History
editThe 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
editCardinia 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
edit| Ward | Party | Councillor | Notes | |
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| Beacon Hills | Independent | Brett Owen | ||
| Bunyip | Independent | Alanna Pomeroy | ||
| Central | Labor | Collin Ross | ||
| Henty | Independent | Liz Roberts | ||
| Officer | Independent | Samantha Jane-Potter | ||
| Pakenham Hills | Independent | Jack Kowarzik | ||
| Ranges | Independent | David Nickell | ||
| Toomuc | Independent | Casey Thomsen | ||
| Westernport | Libertarian | Trudi Paton | ||
Mayors
edit- 2008: Bill Ronald
- 2009: Bill Pearson
- 2010: Graeme Legge
- 2011: George Blenkhorn
- 2012: Ed Chatwin
- 2013: Brett Owen
- 2014: Graeme Moore
- 2015: Leticia Wilmot
- 2016: Jodie Owen
- 2017: Brett Owen
- 2018: Collin Ross
- 2019: Graeme Moore
- 2020: Jeff Springfield
- 2021: Brett Owen
- 2022: Jeff Springfield
- 2023: Tammy Radford
- 2024: Jack Kowarzik
Deputy Mayors
edit- 2016: Leticia Wilmot
- 2017: Jodie Owen
- 2018: Brett Owen
- 2019: Collin Ross
- 2020: Graeme Moore
- 2021: Jeff Springfield
- 2022: Tammy Radford
- 2023: Jack Kowarzik
- 2024: Graeme Moore
Election results
edit2024
edit| Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | ||
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| Independent | 39,041 | 67.22 | 7 | 
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| Independent Labor | 9,318 | 16.04 | 1 |  1
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| Independent Liberal | 4,288 | 7.38 | 0 |
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| Independent Libertarian | 3,720 | 6.41 | 1 |  1
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| Greens | 875 | 1.51 | 0 |
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| Victorian Socialists | 834 | 1.44 | 0 |
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| Formal votes | 58,076 | 95.75 | |||||
| Informal votes | 2,575 | 4.25 | |||||
| Total | 60,651 | 100.00 | 9 |
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| Registered voters | 82,745 | ||||||
Townships and localities
editIn the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 118,194, up from 94,128 in the 2016 census.[10]
| Population | ||
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| Locality | 2016 | 2021 |
| Avonsleigh | 852 | 844 |
| Bayles | 461 | 445 |
| Beaconsfield^ | 6,714 | 7,267 |
| Beaconsfield Upper | 2,861 | 2,997 |
| Bunyip | 2,468 | 3,131 |
| Bunyip North | 112 | 95 |
| Caldermeade | 183 | 181 |
| Cardinia | 376 | 342 |
| Catani | 294 | 297 |
| Clematis | 350 | 352 |
| Cockatoo | 4,256 | 4,408 |
| Cora Lynn | 243 | 220 |
| Dalmore | 163 | 142 |
| Dewhurst | 164 | 151 |
| Emerald^ | 5,778 | 5,890 |
| Garfield | 1,786 | 2,114 |
| Garfield North | 194 | 236 |
| Gembrook | 2,350 | 2,559 |
| Guys Hill | 382 | 388 |
| Heath Hill^ | 161 | 189 |
| Iona | 228 | 240 |
| Koo Wee Rup | 3,579 | 4,047 |
| Koo Wee Rup North | 44 | 47 |
| Lang Lang^ | 1,585 | 2,556 |
| Lang Lang East | 79 | 94 |
| Longwarry^ | 2,004 | 2,436 |
| Maryknoll | 577 | 646 |
| Menzies Creek^ | 998 | 966 |
| Modella^ | 148 | 169 |
| Monomeith | 72 | 69 |
| Mount Burnett | 173 | 180 |
| Nangana | 44 | 54 |
| Nar Nar Goon | 1,012 | 1,023 |
| Nar Nar Goon North | 727 | 819 |
| Nyora^ | 1,527 | 1,644 |
| Officer | 7,133 | 18,503 |
| Officer South | 75 | 1,159 |
| Pakenham | 46,421 | 54,118 |
| Pakenham South | 216 | 229 |
| Pakenham Upper | 1,172 | 1,196 |
| Rythdale | 38 | 33 |
| Tonimbuk | 208 | 229 |
| Tooradin^ | 1,568 | 1,722 |
| Tynong | 456 | 523 |
| Tynong North | 434 | 440 |
| Vervale | 39 | 44 |
| Yannathan | 238 | 272 |
^ - Territory divided with another LGA
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "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.
- ^ Council, corporateName=Cardinia Shire. "Home Page". Cardinia Shire Council. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ^ Victorian Municipal Directory. Brunswick: Arnall & Jackson. 1992. pp. 639–40, 805–6, 832–3. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wards - Cardinia Shire Council
- ^ Municipal Association of Victoria – Cardinia
- ^ CCLC Branch details Archived 18 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Cardinia Shire Council results". VECaccess-date=11 November 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Census | Australian Bureau of Statistics". www.abs.gov.au. 11 January 2023.
