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Shire of Moyne

Field	Value
type	lga
name	Shire of Moyne
state	vic
image	Australia Victoria Moyne Shire.svg
caption	Location in Victoria
pop	17,374
pop_year	2021
pop_footnotes
area	5481
area_footnotes
est	1994
gazetted	23 September 1994
mayor	Cr Karen Foster
seat	Port Fairy
region	Barwon South West
stategov	Western Victoria
stategov2	South-West Coast
fedgov	Wannon
near-nw	Glenelg
near-n	Southern Grampians
Ararat
near-ne	Corangamite
near-w	Glenelg
near-e	Corangamite
near-sw	Southern Ocean
near-s	Warrnambool
near-se	Southern Ocean

| url = http://www.moyne.vic.gov.au/ | near-nw = Glenelg | near-n = Southern Grampians Ararat | near-ne = Corangamite | near-w = Glenelg | near-e = Corangamite | near-sw = Southern Ocean | near-s = Warrnambool | near-se = Southern Ocean The Shire of Moyne 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 5481 km2 and at the 2021 census had a population of 17,374. It includes the towns of Port Fairy, Koroit, Mortlake, Macarthur, Peterborough and the rural districts of Caramut, Ellerslie, Framlingham, Garvoc, Hawkesdale, Kirkstall, Panmure, Mailors Flat, Purnim, Wangoom and Woolsthorpe. It also entirely surrounds the City of Warrnambool, a separate local government area.

The Shire is governed and administered by the Moyne Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Port Fairy. It also has a customer service centre in Mortlake and works depots in Koroit, Mortlake and Macarthur. The Shire is named after the Moyne River, a major geographical feature that meanders through the LGA.

The industry base for the area includes: dairy, beef cattle, sheep, vegetable production, seafood, other food products, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, quarrying, and tourism.

Traditional ownership

The formally recognised traditional owners for the area in which the Shire of Moyne sits are the Eastern Maar peoples and Gunditjmara people, who are represented by the Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation (EMAC) and the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (GMTOAC).

History

The Shire of Moyne was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the Shire of Belfast, Shire of Minhamite, Borough of Port Fairy, the vast bulk of the Shire of Mortlake and Shire of Warrnambool, as well as parts of the Shire of Dundas, Shire of Mount Rouse and Shire of Hampden.

The Local Government Board, tasked with drawing up new council boundaries in Victoria's south-west in 1994, observed that the Moyne sub-area was "the most difficult for [it] to consider", thanks in part to "seemingly irreconcilable tensions between urban and rural interests". The Board first determined to amalgamate the largely agricultural Shires of Minhamite, Belfast, Mortlake and Warrnambool. Merger with the City of Warrnambool was considered next, but rejected, as it was felt that the City's urban economic interests were sufficiently detached from those of its rural hinterland that the City was strong enough to stand alone. Numerous submissions requested the same treatment for Port Fairy; options explored by the Board included maintaining the Borough of Port Fairy (rejected out of hand), a "coastal strip" municipality stretching from Port Fairy to Warrnambool, or amalgamation of the City of Warrnambool and Borough of Port Fairy into a single, non-contiguous municipality. In the end, the Board considered that Port Fairy belonged in Moyne, because Port Fairy had strong links to its rural hinterland in its role as a service town; Port Fairy's tourism sector was heritage-focused, unlike Warrnambool's; and the special challenges of managing the coastal–farmland interface between the two settlements were best dealt with by a rural-focused shire.

At public meetings held in the respective towns, Caramut and Macarthur residents strongly favoured being included in Moyne in preference to the proposed Shire of Southern Grampians. By contrast, the meeting at Peterborough, located at the extreme south-eastern tip of the Shire of Warrnambool, was split on the question of whether the town should join the Shire of Corangamite. In the absence of a strong argument either way, the Board declined to alter the established boundary.

In January 1996, after a further Local Government Board review, about 370 km2 of farmland in the Lake Bolac and Nerrin Nerrin districts was transferred from Moyne to the Rural City of Ararat. At the same time, Moyne gained about 40 km2 near Chatsworth from the Shire of Southern Grampians.

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the Mortlake Municipal Office. Administrative activities are conducted at both the Port Fairy and Mortlake offices, which also provide customer services centres.

Townships and localities

The 2021 census recorded the shire population at 17,374, up from 16,495 in the 2016 census.

Population	Locality	2016
^	1,521	1,410
^	44	39
	64	71
^	98	113
^	50	39
	92	75
^	116	127
^	571	596
^	123	129
^	246	256
^	44	49
	52	37
	*	#
	215	235
	238	311
^	124	125
^	107	84
^	1,907	1,994
	46	52
^	188	222
	147	157
	158	169
	21	25

Population	Locality	2016
^	243	248
^	43	42
	33	31
^	56	63
	402	385
	322	311
	143	130
^	304	304
	205	195
	366	406
	9	22
^	142	188
	2,055	2,184
	100	115
^	6	9
	522	469
	425	490
	47	36
	67	73
	76	83
	113	106
	58	65
	1,372	1,477

Population	Locality	2016
^	36	48
	120	124
	93	96
^	38	48
	56	50
^	14	12
	76	90
^	333	318
	267	233
	61	46
	105	115
	424	442
^	622	677
^	247	322
	3,340	3,742
^	37	47
^	14	21
	270	292
	37	50
	132	128
	117	128
	47	34

Population	Locality	2016
^	22	25
	64	69
^	2,288	2,254
	10	18
	141	110
	91	88
	81	83
^	212	198
	27	19
^	113	94
	226	237
	34	42
^	29,661	31,308
	72	77
	55	53
	368	436
^	361	436
	422	364
^	169	160
	267	284
^	111	113
	77	63

^ - Territory divided with another LGA

***** - Not noted in 2016 Census

# - Not noted in 2021 Census

References

(27 March 2019). "3218.0 – Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2017-18: Population Estimates by Local Government Area (ASGS 2018), 2017 to 2018". [[Australian Bureau of Statistics]].
Victoria Government Gazette – Online Archive. (1837–1997). "S63 of 1994: Order estg (Part 4) the Shire of Moyne". State Government of Victoria.
"Map of formally recognised traditional owners". Aboriginal Victoria.
"Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation". Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation.
"Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal". Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation.
(1994). "South West review: interim report". Local Government Board.
(1994). "South West review: final report". Local Government Board.
(25 January 1996). "Order altering the municipal districts of the Ararat Rural City Council and the Moyne and Southern Grampians Shire Councils".
Local Government in Victoria. "Moyne Shire Council". State Government of Victoria.
(11 January 2023). "Census {{!}} Australian Bureau of Statistics".

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