City of Warrnambool
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City of Warrnambool Victoria |
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Location in Victoria
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| Population | 33,644 (2015 est) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 278.74/km2 (721.94/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Established | 1855 | ||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 23 September 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Area | 120.7 km2 (46.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Mayor | Kylie Gaston | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Warrnambool | ||||||||||||
| Region | Barwon South West | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | South-West Coast | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Wannon | ||||||||||||
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| Website | City of Warrnambool | ||||||||||||
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The City of Warrnambool is a local government area in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state. It covers an area of 120.7 square kilometres (46.6 sq mi) and, at the 2011 census, had a population of 32,029. It is entirely surrounded by the Shire of Moyne and the Southern Ocean. It is one of only a few regional councils in Victoria to remain serving just one urban district after the amalgamation process of 1994, although through that process it did gained some portions of the former Shire of Warrnambool.
The City is governed and administered by the Warrnambool City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in the central district of Warrnambool. The City is named after the main urban settlement located in the centre of the LGA, that is Warrnambool, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 28,413.
Warrnambool was first incorporated as a municipality on 7 December 1855. It became a borough on 1 October 1863, and a town on 2 February 1883. It was proclaimed as a city on 8 April 1918. On 25 October 1955 and 1 October 1978, it annexed part of the south riding of the Shire of Warrnambool, expanding its area progressively to 34.43 square kilometres (13.29 sq mi) by the time of Victoria's local government amalgamations.
In 1993, the new Kennett Liberal government announced a program of local government reform, in which many of Victoria's 210 councils were to be amalgamated. The southwest region containing 23 councils was the first to be reviewed, and the City of Warrnambool sought to be part of the process early on. Warrnambool's strength in tertiary education and manufacturing was taken into account. By June, it was clear that Warrnambool would be the only municipality in the region to be spared, and that it would gain Allansford and some other rural areas from the Shire of Warrnambool. On 23 September 1994, the council was dismissed and replaced with a Government-appointed commissioner. It first held elections for a new council in March 1996.
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