Cardinia Shire | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| Region | Greater Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Officer | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Cr Jack Kowarzik | ||||||||||||
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| Area | |||||||||||||
• Total | 1,283 km2 (495 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 107,120 (2018)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 83.49/km2 (216.24/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Website | Cardinia Shire | ||||||||||||
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TheShire of Cardinia is alocal government area inVictoria, Australia, in the south-east ofMelbourne betweenWestern Port and theYarra 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 Council Offices are located inOfficer.[2] Prior to 17 November 2014, they were located inPakenham.
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, laterShire of Sherbrooke, split away in 1889 and included areas to the east of Melbourne. In 1973, theCity of Berwick, includingBerwick and areas closer toDandenong, split away from the Shire of Berwick, with the remainder being renamedShire of Pakenham.[3]
The Shire came into being on 15 December 1994 as the result of statewide local government reform, by merging theShire of Pakenham with rural sections of theShire of Sherbrooke and theCity 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.
Cardinia Shire Council is divided into ninewards:[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 theCasey 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]
| Ward | Party | Councillor | Notes | |
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| Beacon Hills | Independent | Brett Owen | ||
| Bunyip | Independent | Alanna Pomeroy | Deputy Mayor[8] | |
| Central | Independent Labor | Collin Ross | ||
| Henty | Independent | Liz Roberts | ||
| Officer | Independent | Samantha Jane-Potter | ||
| Pakenham Hills | Independent | Jack Kowarzik | Mayor[8] | |
| Ranges | Independent | David Nickell | ||
| Toomuc | Independent | Casey Thomsen | ||
| Westernport | Independent Libertarian | Trudi Paton | ||
| Party | Votes | % | Swing | Seats | Change | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | 39,041 | 67.22 | 7 |  | |||
| Independent Labor | 9,318 | 16.04 | 1 |  1 | |||
| Independent Liberal | 4,288 | 7.38 | 0 | | |||
| Independent Libertarian | 3,720 | 6.41 | 1 |  1 | |||
| Greens | 875 | 1.51 | 0 | | |||
| Victorian Socialists | 834 | 1.44 | 0 | | |||
| Formal votes | 58,076 | 95.75 | |||||
| Informal votes | 2,575 | 4.25 | |||||
| Total | 60,651 | 100.00 | 9 | | |||
| Registered voters | 82,745 | ||||||
In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 118,194, up from 94,128 in the 2016 census.[11]
| Population | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 anotherLGA
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