Berri Barmera Council is a
local government area
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in the
Riverland
The Riverland is a region of South Australia. It covers an area of along the Murray River, River Murray from where it flows into South Australia from New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria downstream to Blanchetown, South Australia ...
region of
South Australia
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.
It includes the towns of
Barmera
Barmera is a town in the Riverland region of South Australia. It is on the Sturt Highway A20, 220 kilometres north-east of Adelaide, the capital of the state of South Australia. It is primarily an agricultural and viticultural town and is l ...
,
Berri,
Cobdogla
Cobdogla is a town in the Riverland region of South Australia, The town is on the Murray River, north-east of the state capital, Adelaide. At the 2006 census, Cobdogla had a population of 232.
Cobdogla is the home of the Irrigation and Steam M ...
,
Glossop
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,
Katarapko,
Loveday and
Winkie
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* Winkie Country, a place in the ''Wizard of Oz'' novels by L. Frank Baum, and its residents (Winkies)
* the title character of Wee Willie Winkie, an 1841 Scottish nursery rhyme
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, and parts of
Monash and
Overland Corner
Overland Corner is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s east about north-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the municipal seat in Berri.
It is located on the Murray River in the R ...
.
History
The Berri Barmera Council was created on 1 October 1996 with the amalgamation of the
District Council of Barmera __NOTOC__
The District Council of Barmera (formerly the District Council of Cobdogla) was a local government area in the Australian state of South Australia from 1924 to 1996.Matthews, 1986, pages 44 and 45
It came in existence as a result of a ...
and the
District Council of Berri.
The District Council of Berri had been created in 1922, 11 years after the town was proclaimed. Its first major project was to provide reliable electricity to the entire area. It bought the Berri Electric Supply Company in 1936 to facilitate this, and later sold it to the Electricity Trust of South Australia, a state government agency.
The District Council of Barmera had been created as the "District Council of Cobdogla" on 17 June 1925 and been renamed Barmera in 1937. Barmera had been a soldier settlement community after
World War I
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.
Councillors
The Berri Barmera Council has a directly-elected mayor.
References
External links
Council website
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Berri Barmera
Riverland