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Shire of Southern Grampians

Field	Value
type	lga
name	Shire of Southern Grampians
state	vic
image	Australia Victoria Southern Grampians Shire.svg
caption	Location in Victoria
pop	16135
pop_year	2018
pop_footnotes
area	6654
area_footnotes
est	1994
gazetted	23 September 1994
mayor	Cr Dennis Heslin
seat	Hamilton
region	Barwon South West
logo	Southern Grampians Shire Council logo.JPG
url	http://www.sthgrampians.vic.gov.au/
stategov	Lowan
fedgov	Wannon
near-nw	West Wimmera
near-n	Horsham
near-ne	Northern Grampians
near-w	Glenelg
near-e	Ararat
near-sw	Glenelg
near-s	Moyne
near-se	Moyne

| near-nw = West Wimmera | near-n = Horsham | near-ne = Northern Grampians | near-w = Glenelg | near-e = Ararat | near-sw = Glenelg | near-s = Moyne | near-se = Moyne The Shire of Southern Grampians is a local government area (LGA) in the Barwon South West region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-western part of the state. It covers an area of 6654 km2 and in June 2018 had a population of 16,135. It includes the city of Hamilton and the towns of Coleraine, Dunkeld and Penshurst.

The Shire is governed and administered by the Southern Grampians Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Hamilton, it also has service centres located in a couple of other locations within Hamilton. The Shire is named after the major geographical feature in the region, The Grampians, and that the southern part of this feature occupies the northern part of the LGA.

History

The traditional owners of this shire are the Gunditjmara, Tjap Wurrung and Bunganditj people.

The Shire of Southern Grampians was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the City of Hamilton, Shire of Wannon, the vast bulk of the Shire of Mount Rouse and Shire of Dundas, and small parts of the Shire of Kowree and Shire of Heywood.

The creation of the Shire was strongly supported by the councils of the City of Hamilton and the Shires of Wannon, Dundas and Mount Rouse. The four municipalities were eager to amalgamate, as they were already collaborating in a range of areas including library services, health, water, waste disposal and weights and measures. At public meetings held in the respective towns, Branxholme residents voted to join Southern Grampians, while Caramut and Macarthur residents chose to join the Shire of Moyne.

The Shire of Wannon suggested the name "Southern Grampians Council" for the combined entity. The Local Government Board initially planned to call the amalgamated municipality the "Shire of Napier" (after Mount Napier), but the four councils expressed their preference for "Southern Grampians", a suggestion the Board ultimately adopted.

In January 1996, about 180 km2 of farmland west and south-west of Wickliffe was transferred from Southern Grampians to the Rural City of Ararat and the Shire of Moyne after a further Local Government Board review.

Southern Grampians Shire's predecessor LGAs (green) as they were in 1994. The administrative centres of the former LGAs are marked by green dots.<br>🞲 Area transferred out of Southern Grampians Shire in 1996

Council

Current composition

The council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality. Council composition as of November 2024:

Councillor	Term	Notes
		Dennis Heslin	2023–present
		Adam Campbell	2023-present
		Helen Henry	2020–present
		Jayne Manning	2023-present
		Albert Cavano	2008–present
		Afton Barber	2023-present
		Katrina Rainsford	2004–present

Administration and governance

The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Hamilton Municipal Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre on Brown Street in Hamilton, and its service centre in Roberts St in Hamilton.

Townships and localities

The 2021 census recorded the shire population at 16,588, compared to 15,944 in the 2016 census.

Population	Locality	2016
	294	281
	1,793	1,996
	81	84
^	351	304
	39	42
	25	21
	93	104
^	123	129
	119	134
^	246	256
^	70	67
	334	366
^	3	3
^	17	15
	1,029	1,062
	38	38

Population	Locality	2016
	70	70
	35	31
^	678	688
	23	23
	29	35
^	43	42
^	16	23
^	232	256
	0	0
	21	44
	55	61
	9,974	10,346
^	200	184
	59	75
	19	29
	30	29

Population	Locality	2016
	50	60
	42	63
	26	31
	83	79
	31	29
	17	16
	83	108
^	31	29
^	36	48
^	93	79
^	622	677
	29	29
^	14	21
	14	25
	93	84

Population	Locality	2016
	39	38
^	36	30
^	21	25
	37	25
	301	328
	49	45
	17	16
	79	65
^	104	96
	108	124
	24	50
	39	34
	46	32
	26	35
	127	128

^ - Territory divided with another LGA

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 5) the Shire of Southern Grampians". State Government of Victoria.
"SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE COUNCIL".
Victoria Government Gazette – Online Archive. (1837–1997). "S4 of 1995: Order altg (Part 13) the Shire of Southern Grampians". State Government of Victoria.
(1994). "South West review: final report". Local Government Board.
(1994). "South West review: interim 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".
VEC. "Results".
(11 January 2023). "Census {{!}} Australian Bureau of Statistics".

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Population	Locality	2016
	50	60
	42	63
	26	31
	83	79
	31	29
	17	16
	83	108
^	31	29
^	36	48
^	93	79
^	622	677
	29	29
^	14	21
	14	25
	93	84

Population	Locality	2016
	39	38
^	36	30
^	21	25
	37	25
	301	328
	49	45
	17	16
	79	65
^	104	96
	108	124
	24	50
	39	34
	46	32
	26	35
	127	128

Population	Locality	2016
	50	60
	42	63
	26	31
	83	79
	31	29
	17	16
	83	108
^	31	29
^	36	48
^	93	79
^	622	677
	29	29
^	14	21
	14	25
	93	84

Population	Locality	2016
	39	38
^	36	30
^	21	25
	37	25
	301	328
	49	45
	17	16
	79	65
^	104	96
	108	124
	24	50
	39	34
	46	32
	26	35
	127	128

Population	Locality	2016
	50	60
	42	63
	26	31
	83	79
	31	29
	17	16
	83	108
^	31	29
^	36	48
^	93	79
^	622	677
	29	29
^	14	21
	14	25
	93	84

Population	Locality	2016
	39	38
^	36	30
^	21	25
	37	25
	301	328
	49	45
	17	16
	79	65
^	104	96
	108	124
	24	50
	39	34
	46	32
	26	35
	127	128