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Lake Macquarie has a significant coal mining industry and smaller agriculture and manufacturing industries. Eraring power station, a 1980s-era coal-fired power station, supplies 25% of New South Wales' power. [27] Lake Macquarie has a number of Constructed Wetlands with the council placing an emphasis on the environment.
This is a list of mayors and shire presidents of the City of Lake Macquarie and its predecessors in the Hunter Region of New South Wales. The Shire of Lake Macquarie was proclaimed on 6 March 1906. It became a municipality on 1 March 1977 and a city on 7 September 1984. [1] [2] The Shire was represented by a Shire President and 16 aldermen.
Lake Macquarie (Awabakal: Awaba) is Australia's largest coastal lagoon.Located in the City of Lake Macquarie and Central Coast Council local government areas in the Hunter and Central Coast regions of New South Wales, Australia, it covers an area of 110 square kilometres (42.5 sq mi) and is connected to the Tasman Sea by a short channel.
Piper was first elected to the City of Lake Macquarie Council in 1991 as an independent councillor and was deputy mayor through 2000. He sat on and chaired numerous committees. Piper held the position of chair of the Lake Macquarie Estuary Management Committee and the Lake Macquarie Project Management Committee since the establishment of each.
This region (officially the Newcastle statistical subdivision) comprises the local government areas (LGAs) of City of Newcastle, City of Lake Macquarie, City of Cessnock, City of Maitland and Port Stephens Council. [1] [2] The 2021 Australian Census recorded the Newcastle Greater Metropolitan area as having a population of 682,465. [n 1]
Nords Wharf is a locality south of Swansea on the shore of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area . History
Marks Point is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, located 23 kilometres (14 mi) from Newcastle's central business district and forming a small peninsula extending into the eastern side of Lake Macquarie. The Aboriginal people, the Awabakal, were the first people in the area. [2]
Lake Macquarie is the name of a Local Government Area (the City of Lake Macquarie) located in NSW, Australia, approximately 150 km north of Sydney, Australia, and 20 km south of Newcastle. Pages in category "Suburbs of Lake Macquarie"