Strathbogie Shire to ditch wards ahead of October elections

Council

Feb 20 2024 Updated February 20, 2024

Darren Chaitman

WARDS TO BE DITCHED: Strathbogie Shire's five wards as depicted on this map – Seven Creeks, Lake Nagambie, Mount Wombat, Hughes Creek and Honeysuckle Creek – will be dissolved ahead of the October 2024 council elections. GRAPHIC: Victorian Electoral Commission

RESIDENTS will soon kiss goodbye to Strathbogie Shire’s five wards, with the State Government announcing Strathbogie Shire Council will adopt an unsubdivided electoral structure ahead of the October 2024 council elections – a move that has already drawn praise and criticism from different quarters.

Supporters of the change have said it could tackle the parochialism and division that contribut...

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