Alpine Shire

Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Australian place The Alpine Shire is a local government area in the Hume region of Victoria, Australia, located in the north-east part of the state. It covers an area of Template:Convert and in August 2021 had a population of 13,235.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

It includes the towns of Bright, Dinner Plain, Harrietville, Mount Beauty, Myrtleford and Porepunkah. There are two unincorporated areas surrounded by the shire: the Mount Hotham and Falls Creek Alpine Resorts.

The Shire is governed and administered by the Alpine Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Bright. It also has service centres located in Dinner Plain, Mount Beauty and Myrtleford.

Over 90% of the Shire is public land.<ref name="ASCabout">Template:Cite web</ref> The Shire is home to two major national parks, the Alpine National Park and Mount Buffalo National Park.<ref name="ASknow">Template:Cite web</ref> The Shire's economy is based on tourism, agriculture and forestry.<ref name=ASknow/>

History

The Alpine Shire was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Bright, the Shire of Myrtleford, the Gapsted and northern Mudgegonga districts of the United Shire of Beechworth, the Merriang district and the Buffalo Valley west of the Buffalo River from the Shire of Oxley, the Dederang district of the Shire of Yackandandah, and the Dinner Plain district of the Shire of Omeo.<ref name="Gazette" /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The Shire's predecessor LGAs (green) as they were in 1994. The administrative centres of the former LGAs are marked by green dots.
🞲 The Falls Creek and Mount Hotham Alpine Resorts were excised in 1997<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.<ref name=Council>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ASCmeet">Template:Cite web</ref>

Ward	Councillor		Notes
Unsubdivided	Template:Australian party style|	Sarah Nicholas
	Template:Australian party style|	Peter Smith
	Template:Australian party style|	John Andersen
	Template:Australian party style|	Dave Byrne
	Template:Australian party style|	Gareth Graham
	Template:Australian party style|	Jean-Pierre Ronco
	Template:Australian party style|	Noah Tanzen

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Bright Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities.<ref name="ASCmeetings">Template:Cite web</ref> It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Bright, and its service centres in Dinner Plain, Mount Beauty and Myrtleford.

Townships and localities

In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 13,235, up from 12,337 in the 2016 national census.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	0	4
Template:VICcity	106	96
Template:VICcity	5	8
Template:VICcity	2,406	2,620
Template:VICcity	135	156
Template:VICcity	255	285
Template:VICcity^	53	58
Template:VICcity	83	88
Template:VICcity	3	8
Template:VICcity^	99	105
Template:VICcity	167	198

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Dinner Plain	230	128
Eurobin	212	239
Falls Creek	293	326
Freeburgh	110	136
Gapsted	173	156
Germantown	0	0
Glen Creek	54	59
Gundowring^	214	208
Harrietville	338	488
Havilah	21	22
Hotham Heights	196	128

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	84	74
Template:VICcity	58	76
Template:VICcity	178	182
Template:VICcity	41	43
Template:VICcity	35	49
Template:VICcity	824	910
Template:VICcity	0	5
Template:VICcity	172	184
Template:VICcity	3,193	3,285
Template:VICcity	21	36
Template:VICcity	219	197

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	941	1,024
Template:VICcity	134	141
Template:VICcity	42	36
Template:VICcity	0	0
Template:VICcity	46	56
Template:VICcity	574	568
Template:VICcity	862	1,012
Template:VICcity	99	120
Template:VICcity	453	522
Template:VICcity^	0	0
Template:VICcity	0	0

Template:Columns-end ^ – Territory divided with another LGA

See also

• List of localities in Victoria
• List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in Alpine Shire

External links

• Alpine Shire Council official website
• Metlink local public transport map
• Link to Land Victoria interactive maps Template:Webarchive
• Template:Victorian local government areas pre-1994 vs present map link