City of Hervey Bay
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| City of Hervey Bay Queensland |
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| Population: | 56,427 (2006 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1917 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 2356.3 km² (909.8 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| Council Seat: | Torquay | ||||||||||||
| Region: | Wide Bay-Burnett | ||||||||||||
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The City of Hervey Bay was a Local Government Area located in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, containing the urban centre of Hervey Bay as well as the northern half of Fraser Island. The City covered an area of 2,356.3 square kilometres (909.8 sq mi), and existed as a local government entity from 1917 until 2008, when it was amalgamated with the City of Maryborough, Shire of Woocoo and the 1st and 2nd divisions of the Shire of Tiaro to form the Fraser Coast Regional Council.
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[edit] History
The area now known as City of Hervey Bay first received local government with the Divisional Boards Act 1879, where on 11 November 1879, the Antigua and Burrum Divisions were created. A later division, Howard, was split away from the Division of Isis in 1900. With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, all three became Shires on 31 March 1903. At around this time, the Shire of Degilbo, later renamed Biggenden, split away on 3 June 1905. On 23 December 1905, Burrum was renamed Pialba.
On 17 February 1917, the previous shires were dissolved, and split between a new Shire of Burrum and the Shire of Woocoo, which had been gazetted three years earlier. By the 1920s the Hervey Bay area was rapidly expanding due to continuing growth in the primary industries such as sugar cane, citrus, pineapples, beef cattle and fishing, as well as investment in transport infrastructure. In the 1950s and 1960s, population and development increased, and the coastal towns slowly merged into a single urban area.
On 20 December 1975, but effective from the 27 March 1976 local government elections, the Shire of Burrum was renamed the Shire of Hervey Bay. With the new focus on the coastal region, 1,086.4 km² (419.5 sq mi) of its area, with an estimated population of 1,119, was annexed by the City of Maryborough, while 1,269.0 km² (490.0 sq mi) with an estimated population of 2,629 was annexed by the Shire of Woocoo.
In September 1977, the Shire of Hervey Bay received Town status, and on 18 February 1984 it became a City.
On 15 March 2008, under the Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, Hervey Bay merged with the City of Maryborough, Shire of Woocoo and part of Tiaro to form the Fraser Coast Regional Council.
[edit] Towns and Localities
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Urban settlement:
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Other areas:
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[edit] Population
| Year | Population |
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| 1933 | 6,835 |
| 1947 | 8,642 |
| 1954 | 8,408 |
| 1961 | 8,991 |
| 1966 | 9,271 |
| 1971 | 6,960 |
| 1976 | 10,304 |
| 1981 | 16,402 |
| 1986 | 20,660 |
| 1991 | 30,867 |
| 1996 | 42,391 |
| 2001 | 45,959 |
| 2006 | 56,427 |
[edit] Mayors
- Ted Sorensen (2000–2008)
- Bill Brennan (1997–2000)
- Fred Kleinschmidt (1988–1997)
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Hervey Bay (C) (Local Government Area). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2008-03-18.
