Huon Valley Council is a

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, covering most of the south of the state. Huon Valley is classified as a rural local government area and has a population of 17,219, towns and localities of the region include

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, Geeveston,

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Huonville Huonville is a town on the Huon River, in the south-east of Tasmania, Australia. It is the seat of the Huon Valley Council area and lies 38 km south of Hobart on the Huon Highway. At the 2016 census, Huonville had a population of 2,714 and ...

History and attributes

In 1993 the municipalities of Esperance, Huon and Port Cygnet were amalgamated to form the Huon Valley Council. Remote subantarctic

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, which is located some 1400 km southeast of Tasmania proper, was part of Esperance until then, and has been administratively part of the Huon Valley since then.

Demographics

Huon Valley is classified as rural, agricultural and very large under the Australian Classification of Local Governments. The townships in the south east region of Tasmania that experienced the largest growth over the decade ending June 2011 were Huonville, Franklin (where the population was up by 1,300 people) and Cygnet (up by 440).

Localities

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Eggs and Bacon Bay Eggs And Bacon Bay is a community in Tasmania within the local government area of Huon Valley. It is approximately 44 km from the state capital Hobart and 17 km from the nearest township Cygnet. Eggs and Bacon Bay covers an area of 1.24 squ ...

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Glen Huon Glen Huon is a rural residential locality in the local government area of Huon Valley in the South-east region of Tasmania. It is located about west of the town of Huonville. The 2016 census has a population of 661 for the state suburb of Gle ...

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Pelverata Pelverata is a rural locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Huon Valley and Kingborough in the South-east and Hobart LGA regions of Tasmania. The locality is about south-west of the town of Kingston. The 2016 census recorded a popul ...

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Elections

The Huon Valley Council is composed of nine Councillors elected using the Hare-Clark system of proportional representation as a single

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. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor are each directly elected for a four-year term. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor must also be elected as Councillors to hold office. Elections are normally held in October, with the next election due to be held in October 2022. Neither the Labor Party nor the

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endorse local government candidates in Tasmania. In 2016 the entire Huon Valley Council was sacked by the state government after a long period of severe dysfunction. and the municipality was controlled by a Commissioner, former Glenorchy mayor and Elwick MLC

Adriana Taylor Adriana Johanna Taylor (born 20 August 1946) is an Australian politician. She was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Elwick from 2010 to 2016. She was born in Tilburg in the Netherlands,List of local government areas of Tasmania Councils of Tasmania are the 29 administrative districts of the Australian state of Tasmania. Local government areas (LGAs), more generally known as councils, are the tier of government responsible for the management of local duties such as ro ...

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