Shire of Moorabool

- 37.6144.25Koordinaten: 37 ° 36 ' S, 144 ° 15' O Moorabool Shire is a Local Government Area ( LGA) in the Australian state of Victoria. The area is 2110 km ² and has about 25,000 inhabitants.

Moorabool is located in the center of Victoria and on the east by the capital Melbourne. The area includes the following villages: Barkstead, Leigh Creek, Pootilla, Bungaree, Millbrook, Yendon, Clarendon, Beremboke, Spargo Creek, Blackwood, Gordon, Greendale, Mount Egerton, Ballan, Ingliston, Bungal, Mount Wallace, Darley, Bacchus Marsh, Maddingley and Rowsley. The seat of the City Council is located in the city of about 2,600 inhabitants Ballan in the center of the LGA. Largest city of the Shires is Bacchus Marsh in the east with about 14,000 inhabitants

The area is one of the first settlement areas of the sheep farmers in Victoria after the founding of the colony in the Port Phillip Bay. To 1836/38, the first flocks of sheep the Moorabool River spread out along. In the 1850s, then led the gold rush to the influx of settlers, especially the Shire between Melbourne and the goldfields of Ballarat is located.

Then today Moorabool is primarily an agricultural region. However, about 40 % of workers in the Shires are employed in the neighboring metropolis of Melbourne.

Management

The Moorabool Shire Council has seven members who are elected by the residents of the four Wards. Of these four districts provide Bungal, West Moorabool and Woodlands each one, East Moorabool four Councillor. From the circle of Councillor also the Mayor ( Mayor ) of the Council recruited.

Personalities

  • Bruno Adams (1963-2009), singer, songwriter and musician

Swell

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