Shire of Surf Coast
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Surf Coast Shire Victoria |
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Location in Victoria
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| Population | 29,397 (2016 census) | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 18.84/km2 (48.81/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Gazetted | 9 March 1994 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 1,560 km2 (602.3 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Mayor | Cr Rose Hodge | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Torquay | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Barwon South West | ||||||||||||||
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| Federal Division(s) | Corangamite | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | Surf Coast Shire | ||||||||||||||
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The Surf Coast Shire 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 1,560 square kilometres (600 sq mi) and at the 2016 Census had a population of over 29,000. It includes the towns of Aireys Inlet, Anglesea, Lorne, Moriac, Torquay and Winchelsea. It was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Winchelsea, Shire of Barrabool and part of the former City of South Barwon, which was, at that point, part of the City of Greater Geelong.
The Shire is governed and administered by the Surf Coast Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Torquay. The Shire is named after its location on the popular surf coast of Victoria.
Post-2008, following an electoral representation review, the decision was made to re-subdivide the municipality into four wards, the current wards are Torquay, Anglesea, Winchelsea and Lorne. Between 2004 and 2008, the Shire was an unsubdivided municipality and as a result, the entire municipality voted to elect nine councillors. Between 1996 and 2004, the municipality was subdivided into six wards, where three councillors per ward were elected from the Torquay and Anglesea wards, and one councillor per ward was elected from the Lorne, Winchelsea, Moriac and Aireys Inlet wards. A position of Deputy Mayor briefly existed from 2004 to 2005, but was abolished for the 2005 mayoral election.
The council is composed of four wards and nine councillors, with four councillors elected to represent the Torquay Ward, two councillors per ward elected to represent each of the Anglesea and Winchelsea wards, and one councillor elected to represent the Lorne Ward.
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