Wudinna District Council is located in central Eyre Peninsula

Eyre Peninsula

Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded on the east by Spencer Gulf, the west by the Great Australian Bight, and the north by the Gawler Ranges. It is named after explorer Edward John Eyre who explored some of it in 1839-1841. The coastline was first explored by...

, South Australia

South Australia

South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

. Established on 28th May 1925 as The District Council of Minnipa, the name was later changed to Le Hunte after Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte, Governor

Governor

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 of South Australia, who proclaimed the County of Le Hunte in 1908. The name was officially changed to Wudinna District Council from the District Council of Le Hunte on 24th April 2008.

The district's service centre is Wudinna, located on the Eyre Highway

Eyre Highway

The Eyre Highway is a highway linking Western Australia and South Australia via the Nullarbor Plain. Signed as National Highway 1/A1, it forms part of Highway 1 and the Australian National Highway network linking Perth and Adelaide. It was named after explorer Edward John Eyre, who was the first to...

 580km west of Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

. The districts economy

Economy

An economy consists of the economic system of a country or other area; the labor, capital and land resources; and the manufacturing, trade, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of that area...

 is largely driven by Agriculture

Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

, mainly cereal crops, with beef

Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from bovines, especially domestic cattle. Beef can be harvested from cows, bulls, heifers or steers. It is one of the principal meats used in the cuisine of the Middle East , Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the United States, and is also important in...

 and sheep commonly farmed as well.

Localities

The district encompasses a number of town

Town

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s and areas, with the major towns being:

• Warramboo
  Warramboo, South Australia
  Warramboo is a settlement on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. Warramboo is located north of Port Lincoln on the Tod Highway and Port Lincoln-Thevenard railway line. The railway line was constructed from 1907-1915 C.E. to facilitate the development of the cereal industry on the Peninsula....
  
  
• Kyancutta
  Kyancutta, South Australia
  Kyancutta is a small wheatbelt town located at the junction of the Eyre and Tod Highways on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. Once a busy town with an airport, Kyancutta is now nearly a ghost town, acting only as a centre for the agricultural districts surrounding it, as well as passing...
  
  
• Wudinna
  Wudinna, South Australia
  Wudinna is a town in South Australia. The area was first settled in 1861 when Robert George Standley lodged a claim for 10 sq. miles of land surrounding Weedna Hill .. It was proclaimed a town in 1916...
  
  
• Yaninee
  Yaninee, South Australia
  Yaninee is a small town situated on the Eyre Highway in central Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, west of Wudinna. At the 2006 census, Yaninee and the surrounding area had a population of 120....
  
  
• Minnipa
  Minnipa, South Australia
  Minnipa is a small town serving the local grain growing community located on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The area around the town was first settled in 1878 but it wasn't until the arrival of the railway line in 1913 that any kind of township developed. When the railway was opened to Minnipa...
  
  

Localities in the district are Chilpuddie, Cocata, Condada, Cootra, Koongawa, Kyancutta, Minnipa, Nantuma, Panery, Pinbong, Poldinna, Pygery

Pygery

Pygery is a town in South Australia. The town is located on the Eyre Peninsula and on the Eyre Highway, north west of the state capital, Adelaide. The town is part of the Wudinna District Council local government area. The town name is derived from the Aboriginal word paitjariti meaning "fighting...

, Warramboo, Wudinna and Yaninee.

Facilities

The area has a number of sporting facilities with football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

, cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

, tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 and bowls

Bowls

Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric balls so that they stop close to a smaller "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a pitch which may be flat or convex or uneven...

 all popular pastimes. Swimming pools are also located at Wudinna and Minnipa

Minnipa, South Australia

Minnipa is a small town serving the local grain growing community located on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The area around the town was first settled in 1878 but it wasn't until the arrival of the railway line in 1913 that any kind of township developed. When the railway was opened to Minnipa...

. The district also has a number of schools and a hospital

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

.

Elected Members

Chairman: Tim R Scholz

CEO: Alan McGuire

Councillors:

• Jeffrey Frischke
• Paul May
• Eleanor Scholz
• Greg DuBois
• Craig Walladge
• Neville Scholz

External links

• Council website
• Local Government Association of South Australia website