Wakool Shire

Wakool Shire is a local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located between the Murray River and the Murrumbidgee River and adjacent to the Sturt Highway. Towns in the Shire are Barham, Moulamein, Tooleybuc, Wakool and Koraleigh.

The mayor of Urana Shire is yet to be determined following the 2012 local government elections.

Council

Council chambers at Moulamein

Current composition and election method

Wakool Shire Council is composed of six councillors elected proportionally as three separate wards, each electing two councillors. All councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor is elected by the councillors at the first meeting of the Council. The most recent election was held on 8 September 2012. In the B and C Wards, only two candidates, being those below, nominated for election. There being no additional candidates, the election for these wards was uncontested.^[2] In the A Ward, an election was held. The makeup of the Council is as follows:^[3]^[4]^[5]

Party		Councillors
	Independents and Unaligned	6
	Total	6

The current Council, elected in 2012, in order of election, is:

Ward		Party
A Ward^[3]	Lois Lockhart	Unaligned
A Ward^[3]	Andrew Douglas	Independent
B Ward^[4]	Anthony Jackson	Unaligned
B Ward^[4]	Katarni Lipp	Unaligned
C Ward^[5]	Neil Gorey	Unaligned
C Ward^[5]	Colin Membrey	Unaligned

References

↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (30 March 2010). "Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2008–09". Retrieved 3 June 2010.
↑ "No council vote in some Riverina shires". ABC News (Australia). 10 August 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Council of the Shire of Wakool - A Ward". Local Government Elections 2012. Electoral Commission of New South Wales. 14 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Council of the Shire of Wakool - B Ward". Local Government Elections 2012. Electoral Commission of New South Wales. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
↑ 5.0 5.1 "The Council of the Shire of Wakool - C Ward". Local Government Elections 2012. Electoral Commission of New South Wales. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2012.

v t e Towns in the Wakool Shire local government area

Barham Koraleigh Moulamein Speewa Tooleybuc Wakool

v t e Local government areas of the Riverina

Cities	Albury Griffith Wagga Wagga

Towns	Deniliquin

Shires	Balranald Berrigan Carrathool Conargo Coolamon Cootamundra Corowa Greater Hume Gundagai Hay Jerilderie Junee Leeton Lockhart Murray Murrumbidgee Narrandera Temora Tumbarumba Tumut Urana Wakool

Local government areas of New South Wales

Metropolitan Sydney

Inner Sydney	Ashfield Botany Bay Burwood Canada Bay Canterbury Hurstville Kogarah Lane Cove Leichhardt Manly Marrickville Mosman North Sydney Randwick Rockdale Strathfield Sydney Waverley Willoughby Woollahra

Outer Sydney	Auburn Bankstown Blacktown Camden Campbelltown Fairfield The Hills Holroyd Hornsby Hunter's Hill Ku-ring-gai Liverpool Parramatta Penrith Pittwater Ryde Sutherland Warringah

Sydney Surrounds	Blue Mountains Gosford Hawkesbury Wollondilly Wyong

Mid North Coast

Murray

Murrumbidgee

Hunter

Illawarra

Richmond Tweed

Southeastern

Northern

Central West

North Western

Far West

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