Town of Gawler

The Town of Gawler is a local government area located north of Adelaide city centre in South Australia containing Gawler and its suburbs. The corporate town was established in 1857 due to the township's residents' dissatisfaction at being governed by three different district councils.

Town of Gawler South Australia
• Density	608/km2 (1,570/sq mi)
Established	1857
Area	41.1 km2 (15.9 sq mi)
Mayor	Karen Redman[citation needed]
Council seat	Gawler
Region	Barossa, Light and Lower North[1]
State electorate(s)	Light
Federal division(s)	Spence
Website	Town of Gawler
LGAs around Town of Gawler: Light Regional Council Light Regional Council Light Regional Council City of Playford Town of Gawler Barossa Council City of Playford City of Playford Barossa Council

The Town of Gawler is located within the officially declared boundaries of the Adelaide metropolitan area.^[2] As of 2001^[update] 1.0% of the population were Indigenous Australian, and 76.3% were born in Australia.

The current mayor of Gawler is Karen Redman (elected November 2014), the first elected female mayor in the town's history.^[3] In November 2022, Redman was elected to her third term in office.^[4]

History

Local government was established in the area from 1853 with the creation of the District Council of Barossa West (covering the western half of the Hundred of Barossa). Residents of the township of Gawler, at the confluence of the North and South Para rivers, were dissatisfied with the state of local governance. The township intersects four separate cadastral divisions, being at the corners of the hundreds of Mudla Wirra, Nuriootpa, Barossa and Munno Para. As such, the east half of the township was locally governed by the Barossa West council, the western half by the District Council of Mudla Wirra and the southern outskirts by the District Council of Munno Para West. The Barossa West council was seated at Lyndoch some 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east of the township. The Gawler ratepayers petitioned for their own local government, centred in Gawler, and the Corporation of the Town of Gawler was established on 9 July 1857.

Council

Council consists of 11 Elected Members comprising a Mayor, and 10 Area Councillors.
The current council as of November 2022^[update] is:^[4]

Ward	Party Affiliation		Councillor	First Elected	Notes
Mayor		Independent	Karen Redman
Area Councillor		Labor	Cody Davies		Deputy Mayor
		Independent	Helen Hennessy
		Independent	David Hughes
		Independent	Paul Koch
		Independent	Mick Launer
		Independent	Nathan Shanks
		Labor	Isaac Solomon
		Independent	Brian Sambell
		Liberal	Jim Vallelonga
		Independent	Ethan White

Mayors

As of 2023, 41 people have served as mayor of Gawler in 58 terms of office since the first to hold the position, Richard James Turner, in 1857.^[5]

1857–1860: Richard James Turner 1861–1864: James Martin 1865: George Nott 1866: John Mitchell 1867: Thomas Flett Loutit 1867: Thomas Oliver Jones 1868: James Martin 1869–1870: Edward Clement 1871–1872: Thomas Oliver Jones 1873–1874: William Faulkner Wincey 1875–1876: John Jones 1877: James Dawson 1877–1878: James Martin 1879–1880: Henry Edward Bright Jr 1881–1882: Herbert Dean 1883: John Charles Wilkinson 1884–1885: Leonard Samuel Burton 1886: Benjamin Edward Deland 1887: James Martin

1888: Leonard Samuel Burton 1889–1890: John Jones 1891–1893: William Henry Cox 1894–1895: Edward Lucas 1896: William Henry Cox 1897–1898: Frank Dixon Harris 1899: William Henry Cox 1900: Robert King Thomson 1901–1902: Charles George Rebbeck 1903–1904: George Bright 1905–1906: James Fergusson 1907: Arthur Smith 1908–1909: William M. Dawkins 1910–1911: Charles George Rebbeck 1912–1913: Frederick David Temby 1914–1917: William Henry Cox 1918–1919: Hermann Ludwig Marsh 1920–1921: James Busbridge Jr 1922–1924: William Henry Cox

1925–1926: Michael Lynch 1927–1929: Dashwood Charles Connor 1930: James Busbridge Jr 1931–1934: William Henry Cox 1934–1938: William Rice 1938–1946: William Antwis 1946–1952: Adolph Louis Ferdinand Ey[a] 1952–1959: Elliott Chivell Goodger 1959–1960: Adolph Louis Ferdinand Ey[a] 1960–1968: Elliott Chivell Goodger 1968–1972: Bruce Charles Eastick 1972–1978: Cecil William "Cec" Creedon 1978–1989: Gilbert Barry "Gil" Harnett 1989–1992: Robert Lethbridge Bartlett 1992–1993: Antonio "Tony" Piccolo 1993–2000: Bruce Charles Eastick 2000–2006: Antonio "Tony" Piccolo 2006: Helena Mary Dawkins 2006–2014: Brian Donald Sambell 2014–present: Karen Redman

1. Commonly known as Louis Ey.

Suburbs

• Bibaringa (5118) (part; shared with City of Playford)
• Evanston (5116)
• Evanston Gardens (5116)
• Evanston Park (5116) (part; shared with City of Playford)
• Evanston South (5116)
• Gawler (5118)
• Gawler East (5118)
• Gawler South (5118)
• Gawler West (5118)
• Hewett (5118)
• Hillier (5116) (part; shared with City of Playford)
• Kudla (5115)
• Reid (5118) (part; shared with Light Regional Council)
• Willaston (5118)

Waste management and recycling

Garbage, recycling, and green waste collection services are provided by the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority.

See also

• Gawler, South Australia
• List of Adelaide suburbs
• Local Government Areas of South Australia

References

1. "Barossa, Light and Lower North" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
2. "Adelaide metropolitan boundary (as declared on 11 November 1993)" (PDF). Government of South Australia. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
3. Vikhrov, Natalie (12 November 2014). "Gawler's first lady". The Bunyip. p. 1.
4. Gawler, Town of (10 January 2020). "Council Members". Town of Gawler Council. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
5. "Mayors of Gawler". Gawler History Team. 23 November 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

External links

• Official site
• Town of Gawler's first 50 years

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