Local Government Areas

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Overview

Local Government Areas is a spatial representation of the administrative divisions that local governments are responsible for across Australia defined by State and Territory governments. Local Government Areas aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent seamless representation of the local government areas of Australia.

Geoscape welcomes your feedback on the Local Government Areas product. We also publish regular product development updates on our website ( www.geoscape.com.au ).

Release Summary

This product was released to customers on 19 August 2024 with data extracted on 12 August 2024.

• This release is a full national data population for Version 2.0 of the Local Government Areas product, described by the Local Government Areas Product Guide v2.0.

Any issues that have been identified for this release are described in the Issues section.

Change Notifications

No change notifications.

Updates

New and Retired

New

New lga records:

lga_pid	lga_name	state
N/A	N/A	N/A

'N/A' indicates that no records of this type exist

New lga_locality records:

lga_locality_pid	lga_pid	lga_name	locality_pid	locality_name	state
lglG1h3YJtciS3r	lgad6bfe80090c5	Goondiwindi Regional	locyrKBCfawRgZv	Talwood	QLD

'N/A' indicates that no records of this type exist

Retired

Retired lga records:

lga_pid	lga_name	state
N/A	N/A	N/A

'N/A' indicates that no records of this type exist

Retired lga_locality records:

lga_locality_pid	lga_pid	lga_name	locality_pid	locality_name	state
lglb78fb15a9550	lgad6bfe80090c5	Goondiwindi Regional	locbce121c30bad	North Talwood	QLD
lgl925e59589aec	lgad6bfe80090c5	Goondiwindi Regional	loc9e5f7c239759	South Talwood	QLD

'N/A' indicates that no records of this type exist

Spatial Changes

Spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 are shown below:

lga_pid	lga_name	state	Difference_SQKM	Old_SQKM	New_SQKM
lgaf98fbb5e40bf	Shire of Derby-West Kimberley	WA	1	131203	131204
lgae219685f904a	Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley	WA	-1	137357	137356
lgab93ffe27bc7d	Charters Towers Regional	QLD	-2	68323	68321

'N/A' indicates that no records of this type exist

Other Updates

There were no other updates.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues.

Resolved Issues

No resolved issues to note.

Known Issues

Un-enclosed gaps between Local Government Areas in NT

There are three un-enclosed gaps present in the Local Government Areas data in NT. These gaps are not valid and do not represent rivers. Below, the un-enclosed gaps can be seen between polygons when they are dissolved together.

SA coastline generalisation for The DC of Grant

Jurisdictional changes to the coastline geometry have resulted in polygon generalisation for ‘The DC of Grant’ LGA in South Australia. This has reduced the number of vertices in the polygons resulting in geometry differences and, in some scenarios, the creation of new polygons for the LGA. Below is an example where the previous Admin Boundaries LGA outline (blue) can be seen compared to the new Local Government Area product representation (red area).

Geoscape is currently investigating this generalisation with the SA jurisdiction.

Single VIC lga_locality linkage not made

The LGA named ‘Mount Buller Alpine Resort (Unincorporated)’ (lga_pid = lga69dad94a9718) does not link to the ’Mount Buller’ locality (locality_pid = ‘loc8688ba223de1’) record despite new rules which allow small LGAs that are contained within, or have large overlap with, a locality.

Future Considerations

This section outlines enhancements or changes under consideration, but not planned into a specific release. For further details on future initiatives, please contact Geoscape Support.

Annex A – Release Counts

Additional, retired and total Local Government Areas counts and the percent change to the previous release have been listed in the table below.

TABLE		ACT	NSW	NT	OT	QLD	SA	TAS	VIC	WA	TOTAL
lga	Additional	0	29	0	0	40	38	7	14	46	174
	Retired	0	29	0	0	40	38	7	14	46	174
	Updated	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	198	800	3	209	173	533	92	201	2,209
	% Change	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
lga_locality	Total	0	5,030	318	3	3,344	2,077	888	3,339	1,753	16,752