City of Latrobe

The City of Latrobe (until 2000 known as the Shire of La Trobe) is a local government area in the Gippsland region in eastern Victoria, Australia, located in the eastern part of the state. It covers an area of Template:Convert and in June 2018 had a population of 75,211.<ref name=ABSLGA/> It is primarily urban with the vast majority of its population living within the four major urban areas of Moe-Newborough, Morwell, Traralgon, and Churchill, and other significant settlements in the LGA include Boolarra, Callignee, Glengarry, Jeeralang, Toongabbie, Tyers, Yallourn North and Yinnar.

The city is governed by the Latrobe City Council, with its seat of local government and administrative centre located at the council headquarters, 141 Commercial Road, Morwell. It also has service centres located in Moe, Churchill and Traralgon. The city is named after the Latrobe River and Latrobe Valley, major geographical features that meander through the north of the LGA.

History

The LGA was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Moe, City of Morwell, City of Traralgon, Shire of Traralgon, the Yallourn North district of the Shire of Narracan, and the Glengarry and Toongabbie districts of the Shire of Rosedale. The Yallourn Works Area was added in 1996.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

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The City's predecessor LGAs (green) as they were in 1994. The administrative centres of the former LGAs are marked by green dots.
🞲 The Yallourn Works Area was added in 1996

When formed, the municipality was called the Shire of La Trobe, but on 6 April 2000, it adopted its current name.<ref name="Gazette" /><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Industry and economy

The City has traditionally been recognised as the centre of Victoria's electricity industry, which is derived from one of the largest brown coal reserves in the world. It also the centre of a large forestry industry which services Australian Paper's pulp and paper mill (the largest in Australia) and other sawmills. Other industries in the area include food processing (Lion Foods – Morwell), engineering, post secondary education (Federation University Australia), and the service sector. Being the largest population centre in the Gippsland region, Latrobe acts as the regional headquarters for Government agencies and private operators including banks and insurance companies.

Latrobe is also close to popular tourist attractions including the Baw Baw and Tarra-Bulga National Parks and is the natural service centre to the historic gold mining town of Walhalla.

The power generators include:

• Loy Yang A & B Power Stations, Loy Yang
• Yallourn Power Station, Yallourn
• Jeeralang Power Station, Hazelwood North

Two power stations have closed in recent years, including International Power Hazelwood (2017), and EnergyBrix (Morwell) power station and briquette manufacturing facility (2014).

Townships and localities

In the 2021 census, the city had a population of 77,318, up from 73,257 in the 2016 census.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity^	4	9
Template:VICcity	973	1,023
Template:VICcity	137	147
Template:VICcity	147	146
Template:VICcity	319	391
Template:VICcity	4,783	4,924
Template:VICcity^	368	389
Template:VICcity^	30	46
Template:VICcity^	32	37
Template:VICcity	85	101
Template:VICcity^	180	188
Template:VICcity^	9	12
Template:VICcity^	1,084	1,113
Template:VICcity	192	215
Template:VICcity	122	155

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity^	12	10
Template:VICcity	184	189
Template:VICcity	1,478	1,552
Template:VICcity	297	289
Template:VICcity	327	365
Template:VICcity	72	76
Template:VICcity	560	584
Template:VICcity	31	42
Template:VICcity	98	89
Template:VICcity	0	7
Template:VICcity	37	43
Template:VICcity^	290	334
Template:VICcity^	8,778	9,375
Template:VICcity^	541	529

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	13,771	14,389
Template:VICcity	0	0
Template:VICcity^	253	262
Template:VICcity	6,763	6,886
Template:VICcity^	544	540
Template:VICcity^	989	1,085
Template:VICcity	24,933	26,907
Template:VICcity	1,726	1,780
Template:VICcity	562	553
Template:VICcity	824	893
Template:VICcity	144	143
Template:VICcity^	1,545	1,511
Template:VICcity	907	1,021
Template:VICcity	691	675

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Council

Current composition

The council is composed of four wards and nine councillors, with four councillors elected to represent the East Ward, two councillors per ward elected to represent each of the Central and West wards, and one councillor elected to represent the South Ward.<ref name=Council>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Ward	Councillor		Mayoral terms
Central	Template:Australian party style|	Graeme Middlemiss	Mayor (2003-2004, 2018-2019)
	Template:Australian party style|	Tracie Lund
East	Template:Australian party style|	Dale Harriman	Mayor (2014-2015)
	Template:Australian party style|	Dan Clancey	Mayor (2019-2020)
	Template:Australian party style|	Kellie O'Callaghan	Mayor (2009-2010, 2016-2017, 2021-present)
	Template:Australian party style|	Darren Howe
South	Template:Australian party style|	Melissa Ferguson
West	Template:Australian party style|	Bradley Law
	Template:Australian party style|	Sharon Gibson<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Mayor (2013-2014, 2020-2021)

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Morwell Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Morwell, and its service centres in Moe and Traralgon.

See also

• List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the City of Latrobe

External links

• Template:Official website
• Metlink local public transport map
• Link to Land Victoria interactive maps Template:Webarchive
• 2005 Latrobe City Council elections results, Victorian Electoral Commission
• 2007 Latrobe City Council by-election results, Victorian Electoral Commission
• Template:Victorian local government areas pre-1994 vs present map link