City of Redcliffe

The City of Redcliffe is a former local government area in South East Queensland, Australia. In 2008, it was amalgamated with the Shires of Pine Rivers and Caboolture to create Moreton Bay Region, later renamed City of Moreton Bay. It was in the northern part of the County of Stanley, with a total area of 38.1 km2 and a population of 51,174 people in the.

Suburbs
The City of Redcliffe included the following suburbs:


 * Redcliffe
 * Clontarf
 * Kippa-Ring
 * Margate
 * Newport
 * Rothwell
 * Scarborough
 * 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 Queensland Government's Local Government Reform Commission recommended the City of Redcliffe merge with neighbouring Shire of Pine Rivers and Shire of Caboolture, to become the Moreton Bay Region. 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.

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

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

Surrounding local government areas
Redcliffe is immediately north of Brisbane's area, connected from Clontarf to Brighton via the historic Hornibrook Bridge and Houghton Highway. Shire of Pine Rivers is to the south-west of the peninsula, and Shire of Caboolture to the north-west.