City of Melton

- 37.683333333333144.58333333333Koordinaten: 37 ° 41 ' S, 144 ° 35' O Melton Shire is a Local Government Area ( LGA) in the Australian state of Victoria. Melton is part of the Outer Metropolitan Area of Melbourne, the outer metropolitan area of the capital Victoria. The area is 528 km ² and has about 110,000 inhabitants.

Melton is located 22-47 km from the city center at the western end of Melbourne and includes 16 neighborhoods and towns: Burnside, Caroline Springs, Hillside, Brookfield, Kurunjang, Melton, Melton South, Melton West, Plumpton, Ravenhall, Rockbank, Taylors Hill, Toolern Vale and parts of Diggers Rest, Mount Cottrell and Truganina. The seat of the Shire Council is located in the town of Melton in the west half of the Shires.

First, only sheep farmers in the region settled, with the gold rush of 1851, but was there in Melton a larger settlement, which served as a supply and transit point between Melbourne and the Western goldfields around Ballarat.

The Shire is up on the southeastern outskirts to Brimbank City at Caroline Springs and Hillside and the town of Melton largely sparsely populated free country. Although the Shire is part of the Greater Melbourne area, Melton is officially since 1974 an independent satellite city with over 32,000 residents. The town consists of the quarters Brookfield, Kurunjang, Melton, Melton South Melton West and.

The Diggers Rest area was 1910, the first official powered flight in Australia. Pilot was the famous escape artist Harry Houdini, who was also an avid pilot.

Management

The Melton Shire Council has seven members who are elected by the residents of the seven Wards. These seven districts (Cambridge, Cochrane, Courthouse, Pennyroyal, reservoir, Sugargum and Watts ) are determined independently of the districts. From the circle of Councillor also the Mayor ( Mayor ) of the Council recruited.

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