🇦🇺 The Fraser Coast Region is a local government area in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, about 250 km north of Brisbane, the state capital. It is centred on the twin cities of Hervey Bay and Maryborough; it also contains K'Gari. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Cities of Maryborough and Hervey Bay and the Shires of Woocoo and most of Tiaro.
1History Butchulla (also known as Batjala, Badtjala, Badjela and Badjala) is the language of the Fraser Coast region, including Fraser Island. Butchulla language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Fraser Coast Regional Council, particularly the towns of Maryborough and Hervey Bay extending south towards Noosa and north to Howard.
Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the Fraser Coast Region existed as four distinct local government areas: • the City of Hervey Bay; • the City of Maryborough; • the Shire of Woocoo; • and Divisions 1 & 2 of the Shire of Tiaro.
On 10 March 1861, the Municipal Borough of Maryborough, governed under the Municipalities Act 1858 which had been inherited from New South Wales upon the separation of Queensland in 1859, was proclaimed, becoming the sixth municipal government in Queensland. Henry Palmer was appointed as its first Mayor.
On 11 November 1879, when the Divisional Boards Act 1879 came into effect, the Antigua and Burrum Divisions were created around what is now Hervey Bay, and on 15 September 1883, the Granville Division was established to serve the district surrounding Maryborough. A later division, Howard, was split away from the Division of Isis in 1900.
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, all four divisions became Shires on 31 March 1903, and Maryborough became a Town. On 7 January 1905 Maryborough achieved City status, and a Town Hall was built on the corner of Kent and Adelaide Streets and became the administrative centre of the City.
At around this time, the Shire of Degilbo, later renamed Biggenden, split away on 3 June 1905. On 23 December 1905, Burrum was renamed Pialba.
On 17 February 1917, the Granville, Antigua and Pialba shires were dissolved, and split between a new Shire of Burrum and the Shire of Woocoo, which had been gazetted three years earlier. By the 1920s the Hervey Bay area was rapidly expanding due to continuing growth in the primary industries such as sugar cane, citrus, pineapples, beef cattle and fishing, as well as investment in transport infrastructure. In the 1950s and 1960s, population and development increased, and the coastal towns slowly merged into a single urban area.
On 20 December 1975, but effective from 27 March 1976 local government elections, the Shire of Burrum was renamed the Shire of Hervey Bay. With the new focus on the coastal region, 1,086.4 km² (419.5 sq mi) of its area, with an estimated population of 1,119, was annexed by the City of Maryborough, while 1,269.0 km² (490.0 sq mi) with an estimated population of 2,629 was annexed by the Shire of Woocoo.
In September 1977, the Shire of Hervey Bay received Town status, and on 18 February 1984 it became a City.
The Local Government (Maryborough and Woocoo) Regulation 1993, which took effect on 31 March 1994, effected the City's annexation of about 700 km² (270 sq mi) of the Shire of Woocoo. At this time, Maryborough was resubdivided into eight divisions each with one councillor, plus an elected mayor.
On 15 March 2008, under the Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the City of Hervey Bay merged with the City of Maryborough, Shire of Woocoo and part of Tiaro to form the Fraser Coast Region.
1Wards The council consists of ten councillors and a mayor, elected for a four-year term. Each of the councillors represent one of the ten divisions.
1Towns and localities The Fraser Coast Region includes the following settlements: Urban Hervey Bay: • Booral • Bunya Creek • Craignish • Dundowran • Dundowran Beach • Eli Waters • Kawungan • Nikenbah • Pialba • Point Vernon • Scarness • Sunshine Acres • Susan River • Takura • Toogoom • Torquay • Urangan • Urraween • Walligan • Wondunna
Rural Hervey Bay: • Beelbi Creek • Burgowan • Burrum • Burrum Heads • Burrum River • Burrum Town • Cherwell • Dundathu • Howard • Pacific Haven • River Heads • Torbanlea • Walliebum
Maryborough area: • Maryborough ◦ Granville ◦ Island Plantation ◦ Maryborough West • Aldershot • Beaver Rock • Bidwill • Boonooroo • Boonooroo Plains • Duckinwilla • Eurong (Fraser Island) • Ferney • Glenorchy • Great Sandy Strait • Maaroom • Poona • Poona National Park • St Helens • Teddington • The Dimonds • Tinana • Tuan • Tuan Forest • Walkers Point
Woocoo area: • Antigua • Aramara • Bidwill • Boompa • Brooweena • Dunmora • Grahams Creek • Mungar • Oakhurst • Owanyilla • Tinana South • Woocoo • Yengarie • Yerra
North Tiaro - Division 1 area: • Tiaro • Blackmount • Pioneers Rest • St Mary • Thinoomba
North Tiaro - Division 2 area: • Bauple • Bauple Forest • Glenbar • Glenwood • Gootchie • Gundiah • Kanigan • Mount Urah • Munna Creek • Neerdie • Netherby • Paterson • Talegalla Weir • Tin Can Bay • Tinnanbar.
1Libraries The Fraser Coast Regional Council operates public libraries at Burrum Heads, Pialba (Hervey Bay), Howard, Maryborough (John Anderson), Maryborough (Toys and Special Needs), and Tiaro (Tom Gee Memorial).
1Fraser Coast has a population of over 105,500 people. Fraser Coast also forms part of the wider Wide Bay-Burnett Region which has a population of over 273,276 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Fraser Coast has links with:
🇯🇵 Kasukabe, Japan 🇨🇳 Leshan, China 🇯🇵 Otsuki, Japan🇦🇺 Hervey Bay -25.29
🇧🇷 Prudentópolis -25.2
🇿🇦 Moses Kotane -25.167
🇵🇾 Mariano Roque Alonso -25.158
🇧🇷 Ponta Grossa -25.091
🇧🇷 Almirante Tamandaré -25.317
🇵🇾 Fernando de la Mora -25.323
🇵🇾 San Lorenzo -25.333
🇧🇷 Guarapuava -25.393
🇿🇦 Soshanguve -25.425
🇦🇺 Hervey Bay 152.855
🇦🇺 Port Macquarie 152.908
🇦🇺 Moreton Bay 152.917
🇦🇺 Sunshine Coast 153.087
🇦🇺 Coffs Harbour 153.117
Locations Near: Fraser Coast 152.831,-25.2913
🇦🇺 Hervey Bay 152.855,-25.29 d: 2.4
🇦🇺 Sunshine Coast 153.087,-26.653 d: 153.5
🇦🇺 Buderim 153.053,-26.685 d: 156.5
🇦🇺 Caloundra 153.133,-26.8 d: 170.5
🇦🇺 Redcliffe 153.075,-27.228 d: 216.7
🇦🇺 Moreton Bay 152.917,-27.283 d: 221.7
🇦🇺 Gladstone 151.25,-23.85 d: 226.4
🇦🇺 Brisbane 153.024,-27.471 d: 243.2
🇦🇺 Redland City 153.25,-27.583 d: 258.2
Antipodal to: Fraser Coast -27.169,25.291
🇨🇻 Mindelo -24.967,16.85 d: 19049.1
🇨🇻 Assomada -23.667,15.096 d: 18824.2
🇮🇨 Arona -16.667,28.1 d: 18926.5
🇨🇻 Praia -23.521,14.923 d: 18801.2
🇲🇷 Nouadhibou -17.04,20.937 d: 18872.1
🇮🇨 San Cristóbal de La Laguna -16.314,28.478 d: 18882.3
🇪🇭 Dakhla -15.933,23.7 d: 18864.9
🇮🇨 Santa Cruz de Tenerife -16.25,28.467 d: 18876.6
🇮🇨 San Bartolomé de Tirajana -15.573,27.926 d: 18826.1
🇮🇨 Santa Lucía de Tirajana -15.533,27.917 d: 18822.5