Talk:Local government areas of Tasmania

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2004[edit]

On checking http://www.lgat.tas.gov.au I found that the rural councils are not called "Municipality of Flinders" "Municipality of Southern Midlands" etc., but "Flinders Council" "Southern Midlands Council" etc. I thought I would have known this! Does anyone have any further insight on this - for example:

  • "___ Council" refer to the organisation that looks after the area
  • "Municipality of ___" refer to the land area itself

Or did all the names change recently? --Chuq 11:48, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

LGA names[edit]

This a proposed new naming convention for Tasmanian Local Government Areas. It should conform to what has been decided at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian places. It should be self explanatory. After the change, all cities (6) should be at "City of X", all others will be at "X Council". There doesn't seem to be any disambiguation at all required with these names, which is handy. The last three/four columns are redirects that should exist after the move to prevent redundant articles being created. -- Chuq 07:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Current article name Proposed new name Redirects
X mun. X Mun. Mun. of X X City Ccl
Break O'Day move to Break O'Day Council link link link
Brighton, Tasmania split to Brighton Council link link link
Burnie, Tasmania split to City of Burnie link link link link
Central Coast, Tasmania move to Central Coast Council link link link
Central Highlands (Tasmania) move to Central Highlands Council link link link
Circular Head move to Circular Head Council link link link
Clarence, Tasmania move to City of Clarence link link link link
Derwent Valley split to Derwent Valley Council link link link
Devonport, Tasmania split to City of Devonport link link link link
Dorset, Tasmania move to Dorset Council link link link
Flinders Island split to Flinders Council link link link
George Town, Tasmania split to George Town Council link link link
Glamorgan/Spring Bay move to Glamorgan Spring Bay Council link link link
  (alternate punctuation) link link link
  (alternate punctuation) link link link
Glenorchy, Tasmania split to City of Glenorchy link link link link
Huon Valley split to Huon Valley Council link link link
Hobart split to City of Hobart link link link link
Kentish move to Kentish Council link link link
Kingborough move to Kingborough Council link link link
King Island, Tasmania split to King Island Council link link link
Latrobe, Tasmania split to Latrobe Council link link link
Launceston, Tasmania split to City of Launceston link link link link
Meander Valley split to Meander Valley Council link link link
Northern Midlands move to Northern Midlands Council link link link
Sorell, Tasmania split to Sorell Council link link link
Southern Midlands move to Southern Midlands Council link link link
Tasman municipality move to Tasman Council link link link
Waratah/Wynyard move to Waratah-Wynyard Council link link link
  (alternate punctuation) link link link
  (alternate punctuation) link link link
West Coast, Tasmania split to West Coast Council link link link
West Tamar move to West Tamar Council link link link
Let me ask you this, did the naming come from a directory somewhere? If so what did you use. I noticed that Clarence was refered to at [1] as Clarence City Council, but their website had City of Clarence as the name. I like the looks of what you did. should make things a whole lot less ambigous! SauliH 08:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I used the names on the official sites, all of which are linked from http://www.lgat.tas.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=225 . The only names which were different were the six city councils, most of which have "X City Council" on their official site, but are also commonly known as "City of X" (in fact I had already moved Hobart, Glenorchy and Clarence before I did this table). -- Chuq 08:41, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I would support your proposed moves and redirect links. It will improve these pages immensely.SauliH 15:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Just back after a break - hadnt looked at this page - and did the link to the West Coast Council - hope I havent suffed anything up! I find I have a real problem with the 'Municipality of something I dont think I ever remember seeing it on any of the materials to do with west coast tassie - SatuSuro 14:55, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As a redirect link the mun of could be useful. It may never get used, but a user looking for those LGA's will find if they ever try. SauliH 21:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mergers and History[edit]

Just thoughts. Perhaps something should be included about the proposals to merge councils?? Also I know that come councils are allready the result of previous mergers. Perhaps this should be included? This made me think if anyone was a history buff maybe some history of local governmetn in tasmania could be good? I dont know much in this area so probably won't contribute but thought this stuff would be interesting?--TinTin (talk) 03:42, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Major towns and suburbs[edit]

In the section ""Towns and suburbs of council areas" the phrase: "The following is a list of councils areas grouped by region, and the major towns and suburbs within each LGA" appears. Having just realised that, if I continue to add non-major localities to this article the purpose of the above will be lost, I have decided to desist from that practice forthwith. Downsize43 (talk) 04:18, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]