The Shire of Burnett was a local government area located in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia. It surrounded, but did not include, the regional city of Bundaberg, and covered an area of . It existed as a local government entity from its creation through the amalgamation of the Shire of Gooburrum and the Shire of Woongarra in 1994 until 2008, when it amalgamated with the City of Bundaberg and other councils in the region to form the Bundaberg Region.
History On 21 November 1991, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its second report, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Bundaberg area be rationalised. The Local Government (Bundaberg and Burnett) Regulation 1993 was gazetted on 17 December 1993, in effect amalgamating the Shires of Gooburrum and Woongarra, and transferring a newer urban area to the City of Bundaberg. On 30 March 1994, the Shire of Burnett came into being.
On 15 March 2008, under the Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the Shire of Burnett merged with the City of Bundaberg and the Shires of Isis and Kolan to form the Bundaberg Region.
Population Year Population(total) Population(Gooburrum) Population(Woongarra) 1921 5,435 2,922 2,513 1933 7,202 3,915 3,287 1947 7,170 3,825 3,345 1954 7,835 4,131 3,704 1961 8,521 4,372 4,149 1966 9,710 4,776 4,934 1971 9,669 4,519 5,150 1976 14,018 5,227 8,791 1981 15,126 5,261 9,865 1986 17,832 5,917 11,915 1991 23,608* 7,117 16,491 1996 21,218* 2001 23,598 2006 27,232
* Excluding the area transferred to City of Bundaberg in 1994, the population of Burnett was 15,417 in 1991.
Towns and localities The Shire of Burnett included the following settlements:
North Burnett area: Abbotsford Avondale Bucca Fairymead Gooburrum Littabella Meadowvale Miara Moore Park Moorland Oakwood Rosedale1 Sharon South Kolan Watalgan Waterloo Waterloo Winfield Yandaran
South Burnett area: Alloway Bargara2 Branyan Burnett Heads Calavos Coonarr Coral Cove2 Electra Elliott Elliott Heads2 Givelda Innes Park2 Kalkie2 Kinkuna Mon Repos2 Pine Creek Port of Bundaberg Qunaba2 Rubyanna2 South Bingera Windermere2 Woongarra
1 - split with Gladstone Region 2 - split with the former City of Bundaberg
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