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Wide Bay, a region in Queensland from which the division takes its name. The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. Wide Bay is located in south east Queensland and includes the cities of Maryborough, Gympie, Noosa, all of K'gari, and inland areas extending west ...
Wide Bay–Burnett is a region of the Australian state of Queensland, located between 170–400 km (110–250 mi) north of the state capital, Brisbane. The area's population growth has exceeded the state average over the past 20 years, and it is forecast to grow to more than 430,000 by 2031.
Wide Bay-Burnett: 1879 28,550: 14,663 14,794 On 15 March 2008, the Shire of Banana expanded Division 1 of the Shire of Taroom into its territory Bundaberg Region: Bundaberg: Wide Bay-Burnett: 2008 6,431: 100,118 102,189 The Bundaberg Region was created from the 15 March 2008 amalgamation of: the City of Bundaberg; the Shire of Burnett; the ...
The Wide Bay–Burnett region is located north-east of the Darling Downs and north of the Sunshine Coast, covering a region of 52,377 square kilometres (20,223 sq mi). It consists of the Bundaberg, Fraser Coast, Gympie, North Burnett and South Burnett local government areas. Major centres include Bundaberg, Gympie, Hervey Bay, Kingaroy and ...
Name Formed Size (km 2) Classification Current Member Member's Party References Blair: 1998 6,472 Provincial Shayne Neumann: Labor [2] [3]Bonner: 2004 374 Outer-metropolitan
Map of the Queensland counties, 1890 There were 109 counties in Queensland by the late nineteenth century, before they were subdivided into the current 322 counties. All of these original counties continue to exist but many are smaller than they were in the nineteenth century, with many new counties added.
The Shire of Isis was a local government area located in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, to the south of Bundaberg.The Shire, administered from the town of Childers covered an area of 1,702.2 square kilometres (657.2 sq mi), and existed as a local government entity from 1887 until 2008, when it was amalgamated with the City of Bundaberg and the Shires of Burnett and ...
Map of Burrum Division and adjacent local government areas, March 1902. Legend: Maryborough Municipality (3), Antigua Division (8), Tinana Division (15) The area now known as City of Hervey Bay first received local government with the Divisional Boards Act 1879 , where on 11 November 1879, the Antigua (population 1636) and Burrum (population ...