8-728: The Tiwi Islands Region is a local government area (LGA) of the Northern Territory , Australia. The LGA covers an area of 7,483 square kilometres (2,889 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 2,753 in June 2018, and is governed by the Tiwi Islands Regional Council , formerly Tiwi Islands Shire Council . In October 2006 the Northern Territory Government announced the reform of local government areas. The intention of
16-689: The Philippines , the United Kingdom and Fiji arrived in the islands. 12°27′00″S 130°49′59″E / 12.4500°S 130.8330°E / -12.4500; 130.8330 Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory The Northern Territory is a federal Australian territory in north-central Australia . It is the third largest Australian federal division with an area of 1,348,094.3 square kilometres (520,502 sq mi) but
24-626: The Mayor) were held on 10 September 2021. The current mayor is Pirrawayingi Puruntatameri (an independent ) and the current Deputy Mayor is Leslie Tungatalum (a member of the Country Liberal Party ). The Tiwi Islands Regional Council is divided into three wards: Bathurst, Milikapiti and Pirlangimpi. The council is governed by 12 councillors, six from Bathurst Ward and three each from the Milikapiti and Pirlangimpi Wards: Land within
32-608: The Tiwi Islands Region was divided during 2007 into bounded areas for the purpose of creating an address for a property. The bounded areas are called "localities" with those localities associated with existing Aboriginal communities being called "communities". The demographics of the region are shown in the tables below. Before 2016, all Tiwi Islanders who stated their country of birth were born in Australia . Between 2011 and 2016, however, over ten arrivals each from
40-513: The least populous with 245,929 inhabitants as at June 2019. The Northern Territory is divided administratively into 17 Local government areas (LGAs) generally known as Councils who are responsible for providing local government services. As of 1 July 2008, there were two classifications of local government in the Northern Territory: The Northern Territory was unusual as a comparatively large share of
48-893: The reform was to improve and expand the delivery of services to towns and communities across the Northern Territory by establishing eleven new shires. The Tiwi Islands Shire Council was created on 1 July 2008 as were the remaining ten shires. The Tiwi Islands Shire Council became the Tiwi Islands Regional Council under legislation passed by the Northern Territory Government in January 2014. The local government area covers an area of 7,483 square kilometres (2,889 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 2,753 in June 2018. The most recent council elections (which also elected
56-474: The territory's population lived in unincorporated areas. In 2006, prior to the reorganisation of local government areas in the territory, 92 percent of the land area (1,237,999 km (477,994 sq mi) out of 1,349,130 km (520,900 sq mi)) with 16 percent of the population (30,523 out of 192,898), was unincorporated. This anomaly is due to the territory's very low population density, just 0.16 people per km (0.099 people per sq mi). Most of
64-500: The unincorporated areas disappeared as a result of local government reform in 2008. The area remaining unincorporated is 19,790 km (7,640 sq mi), 1.47 percent of the total, and contains 3.0 percent of the population in June 2019. By comparison, in the only other states or territories in Australia with unincorporated areas, only 0.02% of the population of New South Wales , 0.002% of Victoria 's population and 0.6% of
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