Upper Lachlan Shire

Upper Lachlan Shire is a local government area in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire was formed in February 2004 from Crookwell Shire and parts of Mulwaree, Gunning and Yass Shires.

The Mayor of Upper Lachlan Shire Council is Cr. John Shaw, an unaligned politician.

Towns and localities

The shire includes the towns of Crookwell, Gunning, Taralga, Bannaby, Dalton, Binda, Bigga, Tuena, Breadalbane, Cullerin, Laggan and Oolong.

Council

The Shire Council office in the main street of Gunning in 2008

Current composition and election method

Upper Lachlan Shire Council is composed of nine Councillors elected proportionally as one entire ward. All Councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The Mayor is elected by the Councillors at the first meeting of the Council. The most recent election was held on 8 September 2012, and the makeup of the Council is as follows:^[3]

Party		Councillors
	Independents and Unaligned	9
	Total	9

The current Council, elected in 2012, in order of election, is:^[3]

	Party	Notes
John Shaw	Unaligned	Mayor^[4]
Brian McCormick	Independent
Darren O'Brien	Independent
James Wheelwright	Unaligned	Deputy Mayor^[4]
Scott Craig	Independent
Malcolm Barlow	Independent
Jo Marshall	Independent
John Searl	Independent
Paul Culhane	Unaligned

References

↑ "3218.0 Regional Population Growth, Australia. Table 1. Estimated Resident Population, Local Government Areas, New South Wales". 3 April 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
↑ "Upper Lachlan Shire Council". Department of Local Government. Retrieved 28 November 2006.
1 2 "Upper Lachlan Shire Council: Summary of First Preference Votes for each Candidate". Local Government Elections 2012. Electoral Commission of New South Wales. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
1 2 "John Shaw again Mayor". Crookwell Gazette. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2012.

The Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia

Local government areas	Goulburn-Mulwaree Upper Lachlan Palerang Queanbeyan Yass Valley Boorowa

Cities	Goulburn Queanbeyan

Main towns	Boorowa Braidwood Bungendore Crookwell Gunning Marulan Murrumbateman Yass

Villages and small towns	Araluen Bannaby Bevendale Bigga Binalong Binda Bookham Bowning Breadalbane Bungonia Burra Burrinjuck Bywong Captains Flat Carwoola Collector Crestwood Cullerin Dalton Environa Frogmore Googong Greenleigh Gundaroo Hoskinstown Laggan Lake Bathurst Majors Creek Mongarlowe Nerriga Reids Flat Royalla Rugby Rye Park Sutton Tallong Tarago Taralga The Ridgeway Tirrannaville Towrang Tralee Tuena Wamboin Wee Jasper Windellama Woolgarlo

Rivers and other waterbodies	Araluen Back Lake Bathurst Bettowynd Bimberamala Deua Lake George Jerrabattgulla Shoalhaven Yadboro

Mountains and ranges	Budawang Range Clyde Mountain Pigeon House Mountain

National parks	Budawang Deua Monga Morton Tallaganda

Local government areas of New South Wales

Metropolitan Sydney

Inner Sydney	Ashfield Botany Bay Hunter's Hill Lane Cove Leichhardt Manly Marrickville Mosman North Sydney Randwick Rockdale Sydney Waverley Willoughby Woollahra

Outer Sydney	Auburn Bankstown Blacktown Burwood Camden Campbelltown Canada Bay Canterbury Fairfield The Hills Holroyd Hornsby Hurstville Kogarah Ku-ring-gai Liverpool Parramatta Penrith Pittwater Ryde Strathfield Sutherland Warringah

Sydney Surrounds	Blue Mountains Gosford Hawkesbury Wollondilly Wyong

Mid North Coast

Murray

Murrumbidgee

Hunter

Illawarra

Richmond Tweed

Southeastern

Northern

Central West

North Western

Far West

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