Corporate Town of Gawler
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Town of Gawler South Australia |
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| Population | 22,618 (2015 est) | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 550.3/km2 (1,425.3/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1857 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 41.1 km2 (15.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Mayor | Karen Redman | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Gawler | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Barossa, Light and Lower North | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Light | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Wakefield | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | Town of Gawler | ||||||||||||||
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The Town of Gawler is a local government area located north of Adelaide city centre in South Australia containing Gawler and its suburbs. The corporate town was established in 1857 due to the township's residents' dissatisfaction at being governed by three different district councils.
The Town of Gawler is located within the officially declared boundaries of the Adelaide metropolitan area. As of 2001[update] 1.0% of the population were Indigenous Australian, and 76.3% were born in Australia.
The current mayor of Gawler is Karen Redman (elected November 2014), the female mayor in the town's history.
Local government was established in the area from 1853 with the creation of the District Council of Barossa West (covering the western half of the Hundred of Barossa). Residents of the township of Gawler, at the confluence of the North and South Para rivers, were dissatisfied with the state of local governance. The township intersects four separate cadastral divisions, being at the corners of the hundreds of Mudla Wirra, Nuriootpa, Barossa and Munno Para. As such, central township was locally governed by the Barossa West council, the southern outskirts by the District Council of Munno Para West, and the north western outskirts by the District Council of Mudla Wirra. The Barossa West council was seated at Lyndoch some 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east of the township. The Gawler ratepayers petitioned for their own local government, centred in Gawler, and the Corporation of the Town of Gawler was established on 9 July 1857.
The current council as of June 2016[update] is:
Garbage, recycling, and green waste collection services are provided by the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority.
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