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Shire of Cardinia

Field	Value
type	lga
name	Cardinia Shire
state	vic
image	MelbLGA-Cardinia.gif
pop	118194
pop_year	2021
pop_footnotes
area	1283
area_footnotes
mayor	Cr Jack Kowarzik
seat	Officer
region	Greater Melbourne
stategov	Bass
stategov2	Berwick
stategov3	Monbulk
stategov4	Narracan
stategov5	Pakenham
fedgov	Bruce
fedgov2	Casey
fedgov3	La Trobe
logo	Cardinia Shire Council Logo.svg
logo_upright	1.2
url	http://www.cardinia.vic.gov.au
near-n	Yarra Ranges
near-ne	Yarra Ranges
near-e	Baw Baw
near-se	South Gippsland
near-s	Bass Coast
near-sw	Mornington Peninsula
near-w	Casey
near-nw	Yarra Ranges
est	1994

The Shire of Cardinia is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, in the south-east of Melbourne between Western Port and the Yarra Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. It has an area of 1283 sqkm, and recorded a population of 118,194 at the .

Cardinia Shire Council Offices are located in Officer. Prior to 17 November 2014, they were located in Pakenham.

History

The areas within the present-day boundaries of Cardinia Shire were originally parts of the Cranbourne and Berwick districts, which were incorporated in 1860 and 1862 respectively. The Shire of Fern Tree Gully, later Shire of Sherbrooke, split away in 1889 and included areas to the east of Melbourne. In 1973, the City of Berwick, including Berwick and areas closer to Dandenong, split away from the Shire of Berwick, with the remainder being renamed Shire of Pakenham.

The Shire came into being on 15 December 1994 as the result of statewide local government reform, by merging the Shire of Pakenham with rural sections of the Shire of Sherbrooke and the City of Cranbourne.

The Shire of Cardinia's predecessor LGAs (green) as they were immediately before their dissolution in December 1994

The Shire of Cardinia contains the only area of Melbourne to use telephone numbers beginning with the exchange prefix 5 - this is a leftover from when it used the area code 059-xx xxxx.

Council

Cardinia Shire Council is divided into nine wards: Beacon Hills, Bunyip, Central, Henty, Officer, Pakenham Hills, Ranges, Toomuc and Westernport. Elections are held every four years, each ward has one councillor. Before October 2020 the shire had three wards: Central, Ranges and Port.

The Council Offices were originally located in Henty Way, Pakenham. On 17 November 2014, the Council moved to a new office on Siding Avenue, Officer, which it uses presently. The Council holds its meetings and all of the administration staff work there.

Cardinia Shire is part of the Casey Cardinia Library Corporation and there are two full-time libraries in Cardinia, in Emerald and Pakenham. In addition, the Mobile Library visits the suburbs of Bunyip, Garfield, Tynong, Beaconsfield, Upper Beaconsfield, Gembrook, Maryknoll, Cockatoo, Lang Lang and Koo Wee Rup.

Current composition

Ward	Notes
Beacon Hills	Independent	Brett Owen
Bunyip	Independent	Alanna Pomeroy
Central	Independent Labor	Collin Ross
Henty	Independent	Liz Roberts
Officer	Independent	Samantha Jane-Potter
Pakenham Hills	Independent	Jack Kowarzik
Ranges	Independent	David Nickell
Toomuc	Independent	Casey Thomsen
Westernport	Independent Libertarian	Trudi Paton

Mayors

2008: Bill Ronald
2009: Bill Pearson
2010: Graeme Legge
2011: George Blenkhorn
2012: Ed Chatwin
2013: Brett Owen
2014: Graeme Moore
2015: Leticia Wilmot
2016: Jodie Owen
2017: Brett Owen
2018: Collin Ross
2019: Graeme Moore
2020: Jeff Springfield
2021: Brett Owen
2022: Jeff Springfield
2023: Tammy Radford
2024: Jack Kowarzik

Deputy Mayors

2016: Leticia Wilmot
2017: Jodie Owen
2018: Brett Owen
2019: Collin Ross
2020: Graeme Moore
2021: Jeff Springfield
2022: Tammy Radford
2023: Jack Kowarzik
2024: Graeme Moore

Election results

2024

Townships and localities

In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 118,194, up from 94,128 in the 2016 census.

Population	Locality	2016
	852	844
	461	445
^	6,714	7,267
	2,861	2,997
	2,468	3,131
	112	95
	183	181
	376	342
	294	297
	350	352
	4,256	4,408
	243	220
	163	142
	164	151
^	5,778	5,890
	1,786	2,114
	194	236
	2,350	2,559
	382	388
^	161	189
	228	240
	3,579	4,047
	44	47
^	1,585	2,556
	79	94
^	2,004	2,436
	577	646
^	998	966
^	148	169
	72	69
	173	180
	44	54
	1,012	1,023
	727	819
^	1,527	1,644
	7,133	18,503
	75	1,159
	46,421	54,118
	216	229
	1,172	1,196
	38	33
	208	229
^	1,568	1,722
	456	523
	434	440
	39	44
	238	272

^ - Territory divided with another LGA

References

{{Census 2021 AUS
"Home Page".
(1992). "Victorian Municipal Directory". Arnall & Jackson.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (1 August 1995). "Victorian local government amalgamations 1994–1995: Changes to the Australian Standard Geographical Classification". Commonwealth of Australia.
[https://www.cardinia.vic.gov.au/info/20007/your_shire_and_council/749/wards#section-1-key-points- Wards - Cardinia Shire Council]
[http://www.sustainability.mav.asn.au/councils/cardinia-shire-council Municipal Association of Victoria – Cardinia]
[http://www.cclc.vic.gov.au/about/branches.html CCLC Branch details] {{webarchive. link. (18 December 2008)
"Mayor and councillors". Cardinia Shire Council.
(11 January 2023). "Census {{!}} Australian Bureau of Statistics".

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