The City of Redcliffe is a former

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

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and

Caboolture Caboolture () is a town and suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. It is located on the northern side of the Caboolture River. In the , the suburb of Caboolture had a population of 29,534 people. Geography Caboolture is ...

to create

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, later renamed

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. It was in the northern part of the County of Stanley, with a total area of and a population of 51,174 people in the .

Suburbs

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

Kippa-Ring Kippa-Ring is a suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kippa-Ring had a population of 9,745 people. Geography Kippa-Ring is located in the centre of the Redcliffe Peninsula, by road west of Redcliffe and by roa ...

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* Newport * Rothwell *

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* Woody Point

History

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was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the ''Divisional Boards Act 1879''. It was centred on

, which was at that time a small logging town, and initially covered all of Moreton Bay and much of the

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, but by 1890 had shrunk considerably with the separate incorporation of the Pine Division (21 January 1888), Redcliffe Division (5 April 1888) and

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(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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's Local Government Reform Commission recommended the City of Redcliffe merge with neighbouring

Shire of Pine Rivers The Shire of Pine Rivers was a Local government in Australia, local government area about north of Brisbane in the Moreton Bay, Queensland, Moreton Bay region of South East Queensland, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed as a ...

and

Shire of Caboolture The Shire of Caboolture was a local government area located in the Australian state of Queensland on the northern urban fringe of the capital, Brisbane, and south of the Sunshine Coast. The Shire covered an area of , of which approximately o ...

, to become the

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

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on 10 August 2007.

Demographics

In the (the last one), the City of Redcliffe had a population of 51,174 people with a female skew. Indigenous Australians were 1.9% of the population, while 27.2% were born overseas, 5.1% of the population spoke a language other than English at home.

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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*1964–1976: Cec Kroll *1976–1985: Ray Frawley *1985–1991: Alf Charlish *1991–1997: Barry Bolton *1997–2004: Alan Boulton *2004–2008: Alan Sutherland (first mayor of the Moreton Bay Region)

Sister cities

The City of Redcliffe had two Sister City arrangements: * – Sanyō-Onoda, Yamaguchi* * –

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Surrounding local government areas

Redcliffe is immediately north of

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's area, connected from Clontarf to

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via the historic

Hornibrook Bridge The Hornibrook Bridge is a heritage-listed, mostly-demolished road bridge that carried the Hornibrook Highway over Hays Inlet at Bramble Bay from Brighton, a suburb of the City of Brisbane, to Clontarf in the City of Moreton Bay. The brid ...

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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