The City of Redcliffe is a former local government area in

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, Australia. In 2008 it was amalgamated with the Shires of

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and Caboolture to create

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. It is in the northern part of the County of Stanley, with a total area of 38.1 km² and a population of 51,174.

Suburbs

The City of Redcliffe included the following suburbs: * Redcliffe * Clontarf *

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* Newport * Rothwell *

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* Woody Point

History

Caboolture Division was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879''. It was centred on Caboolture, which was at that time a small logging town, and initially covered all of Moreton Bay and much of the Sunshine Coast, but by 1890 had shrunk considerably with the separate incorporation of the Pine Division (21 January 1888), Redcliffe Division (5 April 1888) and Maroochy Division (5 July 1890). Redcliffe Division became the Shire of Redcliffe on 31 March 1903 after the ''Local Authorities Act 1902'' was enacted. On 28 May 1921 it became the Town of Redcliffe. In June 1952 Keitha Drake was elected as the first female member of the Redcliffe local government. Her reason for standing for election was to get a hospital for Redcliffe's growing population. The first Redcliffe Hospital opened in 1961. On 13 June 1959 the Town of Redcliffe became the City of Redcliffe. On 27 June 2007 the

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recommended the City of Redcliffe merge with neighbouring

Shire of Pine Rivers The Shire of Pine Rivers was a local government area about north of Brisbane in the Moreton Bay region of South East Queensland, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1888 until 2008, when it ...

and

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, to become the

. This came into effect on 15 March 2008, under the ''Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007'' passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007.

Council structure

The Redcliffe City Council consisted of one Mayor and seven councillors. The mayor and councillors represented the entire city, elected every four years by popular vote.

Council services

The Council had an annual budget of approximately $65 million (2005/06) with works involving such areas as road maintenance and construction, community, cultural and youth activities, town planning and development, water and sewerage, waste management and recycling, maintenance of parks and public areas, library services, public health and animal control, and business and tourism support.

Chairmen and mayors

* 1888: Edmund MacDonnell * 1906: P. P. Fewings * 1908: E.F. Morgan * 1927: J. B. Dunn * 1930–1943: Alfred Henry Langdon * 1943 - Joseph Hendry Grice * 1946–1949?: Robert Thomas (Bob) Bradley * 1955–1964:

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*1991 - 1997: Barry Bolton *1998 - 2008: Alan Sutherland (first mayor of the Moreton Bay Region)

Sister cities

Redcliffe City Council, on behalf of the City of Redcliffe, has two Sister City arrangements: * – Sanyō-Onoda, Yamaguchi* * –

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* *Sister City arrangements in doubt under

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Surrounding local government areas

Redcliffe is immediately north of

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's area, connected from Clontarf to Brighton via the historic

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and Houghton Highway.

is to the south-west of the peninsula, and

to the north-west.

References

External links

*
Local Government Directory – Redcliffe City Council profile
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