Shire of Moorabool

Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Australian place The Shire of Moorabool is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of Template:Convert and, in June 2018, had a population of 34,158.<ref name=ABSLGA/> It includes the towns of Ballan, Bacchus Marsh, Balliang, Mount Wallace, Myrniong, Blackwood, Greendale, Gordon, Korweinguboora and Mount Egerton, Bungaree, Elaine and Wallace.

The Shire is governed and administered by the Moorabool Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Ballan, it also has service centres located in Bacchus Marsh and Darley. The Shire is named after the Moorabool River, a major geographical feature that meanders through the area, which is named after the Wathawurrung word moo-roo-bul referring to a Bunyip-like creature that lives in the river.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

History

The Shire of Moorabool was formed in May 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Ballan and parts of the Shire of Bungaree and Shire of Buninyong.<ref name="Gazette" /> In December 1994, the Shire was expanded to include the Shire of Bacchus Marsh and the Balliang East area of the City of Werribee.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

File:Victoria LGAs pre- vs post-amalgamation Moorabool.png

A map of Moorabool Shire showing the predecessor LGAs that overlapped the area before the 1994 local government amalgamations

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of four wards and seven councillors, with four councillors elected to represent the East Moorabool Ward and one councillor per remaining ward elected to represent each of the other wards.<ref name="Council">Template:Cite web</ref> Council Composition as of September 2022:

Ward	Councillor		Notes
Central Moorabool	Template:Australian party style|	Paul Tatchell
East Moorabool	Template:Australian party style|	Rod Ward
	Template:Australian party style|	Tonia Dudzik	Deputy Mayor
	Template:Australian party style|	Moira Berry
	Template:Australian party style|	David Edwards
West Moorabool	Template:Australian party style|	Tom Sullivan	Mayor
Woodlands	Template:Australian party style|	Ally Munari

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Administration and governance

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

Townships and localities

In the 2021 census, the shire's population was 37,632, compared to 31,818 in the 2016 census.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	6,394	7,808
Template:VICcity	2,985	3,392
Template:VICcity^	290	254
Template:VICcity	147	199
Template:VICcity	42	41
Template:VICcity	36	39
Template:VICcity	149	165
Template:VICcity	295	387
Template:VICcity	29	43
Template:VICcity	25	48
Template:VICcity^	99	77
Template:VICcity^	33	48
Template:VICcity	55	61
Template:VICcity	43	32
Template:VICcity	269	302
Template:VICcity^	3,714	3,797

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	35	38
Template:VICcity	145	163
Template:VICcity	24	35
Template:VICcity	67	75
Template:VICcity	416	409
Template:VICcity	29	41
Template:VICcity	398	403
Template:VICcity	8,372	9,190
Template:VICcity	244	259
Template:VICcity^	392	408
Template:VICcity	228	232
Template:VICcity	19	18
Template:VICcity^	103	110
Template:VICcity	63	75
Template:VICcity	1,151	1,393
Template:VICcity	602	623

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity^	99	113
Template:VICcity	798	914
Template:VICcity	50	96
Template:VICcity	77	75
Template:VICcity^	168	196
Template:VICcity	476	621
Template:VICcity	63	65
Template:VICcity	0	0
Template:VICcity	361	343
Template:VICcity	3,453	5,491
Template:VICcity^	788	821
Template:VICcity	374	397
Template:VICcity	156	180
Template:VICcity^	89	105
Template:VICcity^	128	118
Template:VICcity	130	118

Population
Locality	2016	2021
Template:VICcity	582	706
Template:VICcity	113	117
Template:VICcity	404	387
Template:VICcity	253	276
Template:VICcity^	170	188
Template:VICcity	185	158
Template:VICcity	75	79
Template:VICcity	192	231
Template:VICcity^	258	244
Template:VICcity	36	42
Template:VICcity	111	117
Template:VICcity^	1,180	1,382
Template:VICcity	187	227
Template:VICcity^	669	721
Template:VICcity^	97	104
Template:VICcity	307	320

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References

File:MooraboolShireLGA.png

The Shire

External links

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