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2024 Queensland local elections: Toowoomba Regional Council [8] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent LNP: Rebecca Vonhoff (elected) 77,397 7.96 +1.87 Independent:
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, Toowoomba became a town council on 31 March 1903. On 29 October 1904, Toowoomba was proclaimed a City. [5] The Toowoomba Region also encompassed four of Queensland's 74 divisions created under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 on 11 November 1879: Clifton, Highfields, Jondaryan and Rosalie. On 31 ...
Toowoomba, (governed by the Toowoomba Regional Council), throughout the last twenty years has seen the rapid growth of satellite towns and an expanding urban fringe in the surrounding localities of Crows Nest, Cambooya, Cooyar and Oakey. Urbanisation has changed the demographics of the Toowoomba Region significantly, displacing their centres of ...
Geoffrey Charles McDonald is an Australian politician who has served as Mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland since 2023. [1] [2] He was elected to the mayoralty by councillors after retirement of his predecessor, Paul Antonio. [3]
This is a list of mayors of the City of Toowoomba and the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. In March 2008 the City of Toowoomba was amalgamated with the Shires of Crows Nest, Rosalie, Jondaryan, Cambooya, Clifton, Millmerran, and Pittsworth to form the Toowoomba Region.
Kerry Gerard Shine (born 5 October 1948) is an Australian Labor politician who was member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Toowoomba North from 2001 to 2012 and served as Attorney-General of Queensland from 2006 to 2009. He was elected as a member of Toowoomba Regional Council in March 2020. [1]
Taylor went on to be elected Mayor of the Toowoomba Regional Council in 2008. Copeland was elected at the February 2001 State election after a three cornered contest with the Liberal Party. [ 1 ] He was one of only 11 National Party MPs to form the official Opposition following Premier Peter Beattie's landslide win gaining 66 seats in the 89 ...
Paul Antonio is a former Australian politician who served as Mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland from 2012 until his retirement in 2023. [2] [3] Prior to his election to the mayoralty in 2012, Antonio served as Deputy Mayor from 2008 to 2012, [4] and as Mayor of Millmerran Shire Council for eight years until its 2008 amalgamation into the new Toowoomba Region.