The Shire of Cardinia is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, in the south-east of Melbourne between Western Port and the Yarra Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. It has an area of , and recorded a population of 118,194 at the .
Cardinia Shire Council Offices are located in Officer. Prior to 17 November 2014, they were located in Pakenham.
History The areas within the present-day boundaries of Cardinia Shire were originally parts of the Cranbourne and Berwick districts, which were incorporated in 1860 and 1862 respectively. The Shire of Fern Tree Gully, later Shire of Sherbrooke, split away in 1889 and included areas to the east of Melbourne. In 1973, the City of Berwick, including Berwick and areas closer to Dandenong, split away from the Shire of Berwick, with the remainder being renamed Shire of Pakenham. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room.
The Shire came into being on 15 December 1994 as the result of statewide local government reform, by merging the Shire of Pakenham with rural sections of the Shire of Sherbrooke and the City of Cranbourne.
The Shire of Cardinia contains the only area of Melbourne to use telephone numbers beginning with the exchange prefix 5 - this is a leftover from when it used the area code 059-xx xxxx.
Council Cardinia Shire Council is divided into nine wards:Wards - Cardinia Shire Council Beacon Hills, Bunyip, Central, Henty, Officer, Pakenham Hills, Ranges, Toomuc and Westernport. Elections are held every four years, each ward has one councillor. Before October 2020 the shire had three wards: Central, Ranges and Port.
The Council Offices were originally located in Henty Way, Pakenham.Municipal Association of Victoria – Cardinia On 17 November 2014, the Council moved to a new office on Siding Avenue, Officer, which it uses presently. The Council holds its meetings and all of the administration staff work there.
Cardinia Shire is part of the Casey Cardinia Library Corporation and there are two full-time libraries in Cardinia, in Emerald and Pakenham. In addition, the Mobile Library visits the suburbs of Bunyip, Garfield, Tynong, Beaconsfield, Upper Beaconsfield, Gembrook, Maryknoll, Cockatoo, Lang Lang and Koo Wee Rup.CCLC Branch details
Current composition Ward Party Councillor Notes Beacon Hills Independent Brett Owen Bunyip Independent Alanna Pomeroy Deputy Mayor Central Independent Labor Collin Ross Henty Independent Liz Roberts Officer Independent Samantha Jane-Potter Pakenham Hills Independent Jack Kowarzik Mayor Ranges Independent David Nickell Toomuc Independent Casey Thomsen Westernport Independent Libertarian Trudi Paton
Mayors 2008: Bill Ronald 2009: Bill Pearson 2010: Graeme Legge 2011: George Blenkhorn 2012: Ed Chatwin 2013: Brett Owen 2014: Graeme Moore 2015: Leticia Wilmot 2016: Jodie Owen 2017: Brett Owen 2018: Collin Ross 2019: Graeme Moore 2020: Jeff Springfield 2021: Brett Owen 2022: Jeff Springfield 2023: Tammy Radford 2024: Jack Kowarzik
Deputy Mayors 2016: Leticia Wilmot 2017: Jodie Owen 2018: Brett Owen 2019: Collin Ross 2020: Graeme Moore 2021: Jeff Springfield 2022: Tammy Radford 2023: Jack Kowarzik 2024: Graeme Moore
Election results 2024
Townships and localities In the 2021 census, the shire had a population of 118,194, up from 94,128 in the 2016 census.
Population Locality 2016 2021 852 844 461 445 ^ 6,714 7,267 2,861 2,997 2,468 3,131 112 95 183 181 376 342 294 297 350 352 4,256 4,408 243 220 163 142 164 151 ^ 5,778 5,890 1,786 2,114 194 236 2,350 2,559 382 388 ^ 161 189 228 240 3,579 4,047 44 47 ^ 1,585 2,556 79 94 ^ 2,004 2,436 577 646 ^ 998 966 ^ 148 169 72 69 173 180 44 54 1,012 1,023 727 819 ^ 1,527 1,644 7,133 18,503 75 1,159 46,421 54,118 216 229 1,172 1,196 38 33 208 229 ^ 1,568 1,722 456 523 434 440 39 44 238 272
^ - Territory divided with another LGA
See also List of places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the Shire of Cardinia Mornington Peninsula and Western Port Biosphere Reserve
References
External links
Cardinia Shire Council official website Cardinia Shire facts and statistics Casey Cardinia Libraries Metlink local public transport map Link to Land Victoria interactive maps