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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 ...
Prior to his election to the mayoralty, McDonald served as a councillor for the Toowoomba Region between 2012 and 2023, and as deputy mayor since 2020. He is the son of former Queensland State of Origin coach and administrator John McDonald .
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.
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 ...
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.
Toowoomba is the second-most-populous inland city in Australia after the nation's capital, Canberra. [6] It is also the second-largest regional centre in Queensland [7] and is often referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs. [8] The city serves as the council seat of the Toowoomba Region.
Robinson was elected as an Alderman to the Toowoomba City Council in 1961 and was elected Queensland's first female mayor in 1967. In the 1972 Queensland state election she was a candidate for the Country Party in the seat of Toowoomba North but was unsuccessful.
John Atkinson (21 March 1850 – 19 May 1943) was an English-born Australian politician who was the mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland in 1913 and a Queensland wrestling champion. Born in Cumberland , England , he came to Australia in 1878 took jobs first as a schoolteacher and then as a businessman.