Town of Gawler

The Town of Gawler is a local government area located north of Adelaide city centre in South Australia containing Gawler and its suburbs. The corporate town was established in 1857 due to the township's residents' dissatisfaction at being governed by three different district councils.

The Town of Gawler is located within the officially declared boundaries of the Adelaide metropolitan area. 1.0% of the population were Indigenous Australian, and 76.3% were born in Australia.

The current mayor of Gawler is Karen Redman (elected November 2014), the first elected female mayor in the town's history. In November 2022, Redman was elected to her third term in office.

History
Local government was established in the area from 1853 with the creation of the District Council of Barossa West (covering the western half of the Hundred of Barossa). Residents of the township of Gawler, at the confluence of the North and South Para rivers, were dissatisfied with the state of local governance. The township intersects four separate cadastral divisions, being at the corners of the hundreds of Mudla Wirra, Nuriootpa, Barossa and Munno Para. As such, the east half of the township was locally governed by the Barossa West council, the western half by the District Council of Mudla Wirra and the southern outskirts by the District Council of Munno Para West. The Barossa West council was seated at Lyndoch some 13 km east of the township. The Gawler ratepayers petitioned for their own local government, centred in Gawler, and the Corporation of the Town of Gawler was established on 9 July 1857.

Council
Council consists of 11 Elected Members comprising a Mayor, and 10 Area Councillors. The current council is:

Mayors
As of 2023, 41 people have served as mayor of Gawler in 58 terms of office since the first to hold the position, Richard James Turner, in 1857.


 * 1857–1860: Richard James Turner
 * 1861–1864: James Martin
 * 1865: George Nott
 * 1866: John Mitchell
 * 1867: Thomas Flett Loutit
 * 1867: Thomas Oliver Jones
 * 1868: James Martin
 * 1869–1870: Edward Clement
 * 1871–1872: Thomas Oliver Jones
 * 1873–1874: William Faulkner Wincey
 * 1875–1876: John Jones
 * 1877: James Dawson
 * 1877–1878: James Martin
 * 1879–1880: Henry Edward Bright Jr
 * 1881–1882: Herbert Dean
 * 1883: John Charles Wilkinson
 * 1884–1885: Leonard Samuel Burton
 * 1886: Benjamin Edward Deland
 * 1887: James Martin


 * 1888: Leonard Samuel Burton
 * 1889–1890: John Jones
 * 1891–1893: William Henry Cox
 * 1894–1895: Edward Lucas
 * 1896: William Henry Cox
 * 1897–1898: Frank Dixon Harris
 * 1899: William Henry Cox
 * 1900: Robert King Thomson
 * 1901–1902: Charles George Rebbeck
 * 1903–1904: George Bright
 * 1905–1906: James Fergusson
 * 1907: Arthur Smith
 * 1908–1909: William M. Dawkins
 * 1910–1911: Charles George Rebbeck
 * 1912–1913: Frederick David Temby
 * 1914–1917: William Henry Cox
 * 1918–1919: Hermann Ludwig Marsh
 * 1920–1921: James Busbridge Jr
 * 1922–1924: William Henry Cox


 * 1925–1926: Michael Lynch
 * 1927–1929: Dashwood Charles Connor
 * 1930: James Busbridge Jr
 * 1931–1934: William Henry Cox
 * 1934–1938: William Rice
 * 1938–1946: William Antwis
 * 1946–1952: Adolph Louis Ferdinand Ey
 * 1952–1959: Elliott Chivell Goodger
 * 1959–1960: Adolph Louis Ferdinand Ey
 * 1960–1968: Elliott Chivell Goodger
 * 1968–1972: Bruce Charles Eastick
 * 1972–1978: Cecil William "Cec" Creedon
 * 1978–1989: Gilbert Barry "Gil" Harnett
 * 1989–1992: Robert Lethbridge Bartlett
 * 1992–1993: Antonio "Tony" Piccolo
 * 1993–2000: Bruce Charles Eastick
 * 2000–2006: Antonio "Tony" Piccolo
 * 2006: Helena Mary Dawkins
 * 2006–2014: Brian Donald Sambell
 * 2014–present: Karen Redman

Suburbs

 * Bibaringa (5118) (part; shared with City of Playford)
 * Evanston (5116)
 * Evanston Gardens (5116)
 * Evanston Park (5116) (part; shared with City of Playford)
 * Evanston South (5116)
 * Gawler (5118)
 * Gawler East (5118)
 * Gawler South (5118)
 * Gawler West (5118)
 * Hewett (5118)
 * Hillier (5116) (part; shared with City of Playford)
 * Kudla (5115)
 * Reid (5118) (part; shared with Light Regional Council)
 * Willaston (5118)

Waste management and recycling
Garbage, recycling, and green waste collection services are provided by the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority.