Cumberland City Council

For the defunct Cumberland County Council abolished in 1964, see County of Cumberland, New South Wales.

Cumberland City Council
New South Wales
Location in Metropolitan Sydney
Population235,439 (2021 census)[1]
 • Density3,270/km2 (8,470/sq mi)
Established12 May 2016 (2016-05-12)
Area72 km2 (27.8 sq mi)[2]
MayorOla Hamed (Labor)
Council seatAdministration Centre, Merrylands
RegionGreater Western Sydney
State electorate(s)
Federal division(s)
WebsiteCumberland City Council
LGAs around Cumberland City Council:
Parramatta Parramatta Parramatta
Blacktown Cumberland City Council Strathfield
Fairfield Canterbury Bankstown Canterbury Bankstown

Cumberland Council, trading as Cumberland City Council, is a local government area located in the western suburbs of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Council was formed on 12 May 2016 from the merger of parts of the Cities of Auburn, Parramatta (Woodville Ward), and Holroyd.[2][3]

The Council comprises an area of 72 square kilometres (28 sq mi) and as of the 2021 census had a population of 235,439.[1]

The first Special Meeting of Cumberland Council was held on 19 May 2016 at the Granville Town Hall, and the council currently meets at the Merrylands Administration Centre.[4]

The current mayor is Ola Hamed of the Australian Labor Party, elected on 16 October 2024.[5]

Suburbs and localities in the local government area

Suburbs in the Cumberland City Council area are:[6][better source needed]

History

Holroyd Council

The Holroyd Administration Centre in Merrylands, now the Cumberland Council seat, was the Holroyd seat from 1962.

The area formerly known as the City of Holroyd was first proclaimed in July 1872 as the "Municipal District of Prospect and Sherwood", which became the "Municipality of Prospect and Sherwood" from 1906 and on 11 January 1927 it was renamed the "Municipality of Holroyd" after Arthur Holroyd, the first mayor.[7][8] From 1 January 1991, city status was granted, becoming the City of Holroyd. Originally located at the Council Chambers in Merrylands West from 1915, the administrative centre of Holroyd was located in the suburb of Merrylands from 1962.[9]

Auburn Council

The opening of the second Auburn Town Hall, Auburn Road, 12 July 1927.

To the east of Holroyd, the City of Auburn was first proclaimed on 19 February 1892 as the "Borough of Auburn" and became the "Municipality of Auburn" in 1906.[10] On 20 June 1906, the hitherto unincorporated area around Silverwater and Newington was combined into the Municipality of Auburn.[11]

The eastern section of Auburn was originally proclaimed as the Borough of Rookwood on 8 December 1891 and in 1913 Rookwood was renamed "Lidcombe", a portmanteau of the names of the two previous mayors, in an attempt to distance the municipality from the necropolis.[12] On 1 January 1949, with the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, the Municipalities of Auburn and Lidcombe were amalgamated to form the new "Municipality of Auburn". In 1993 Auburn Municipal Council became "Auburn Council" and was granted city status in 2008, becoming the "Auburn City Council".

Woodville Ward

The area known as the Woodville Ward of the City of Parramatta until the amalgamations in May 2016, was first incorporated as the "Borough of Granville" on 20 January 1885, which became the "Municipality of Granville" from 1906, and met in the Granville Town Hall when it was completed in 1888.[13]

On 1 January 1949, with the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, the municipalities of Granville, Dundas, Ermington and Rydalmere, and Parramatta were amalgamated to form the new "City of Parramatta". Granville municipality became the "Granville Ward" and the council meetings of the new Parramatta City were held at the Granville Town Hall from 1949 until the new administration centre was opened in Parramatta in 1958. In 1995 a reorganisation of Parramatta's wards resulted in Granville Ward being renamed "Woodville Ward" after Woodville Road while the former Granville Municipality suburbs of Harris Park, Rosehill, Telopea, and northern sections of Granville and Clyde, were moved into the Elizabeth Macarthur Ward.[13]

Establishment of Cumberland Council

Granville Town Hall was the location of the first meeting of Cumberland Council on 19 May 2016.

A 2015 review of local government boundaries by the NSW Government Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal recommended a major reorganisation for the area covered by Auburn, Holroyd and Parramatta councils. The government considered two proposals. The first was a merger of parts of Auburn, Holroyd and Parramatta to form a new council with an area of 72 square kilometres (28 sq mi) and support a population of approximately 219,000.[14] The second proposed a merger of parts of Parramatta, Auburn, The Hills, Hornsby, and Holroyd to form a new council with an area of 82 square kilometres (32 sq mi) and support a population of approximately 215,725.[15]

On 12 May 2016, Cumberland Council was proclaimed as a new local government area, combining parts of Auburn City Council (south of the M4 Western Motorway), the Woodville Ward of the Parramatta City Council, and the majority of the Holroyd City Council.[3] The remainder of the Auburn City Council area north of the M4 Western Motorway (including parts of the Sydney Olympic Park) and a small section of Holroyd was merged into the reconstituted City of Parramatta Council.[16][3]

Cumberland Council logo used from May 2016 to February 2017.

The former General Manager of Mosman Council (1986–2013), Viv May PSM, who had been serving as the Administrator of the suspended Auburn City Council since February 2016, was appointed as the Administrator, and the long-serving Holroyd General Manager, Merv Ismay, was appointed as interim general manager.[3] The first Special Meeting of Cumberland Council was held on 19 May 2016, at the Granville Town Hall, the historic former seat of the Granville Municipality, which merged with Parramatta in 1949.[4][17] Subsequent Council meetings alternated between the Merrylands Administration Building and Auburn Civic Centre, until December 2016 when May decided that the Auburn council chambers would be taken over by the Auburn Library, and all council meetings from then to be held at Merrylands.[4][18]

After undertaking a significant amount of work to rationalise council services and staff, noting that "Auburn had issues with flagrant rezoning, and Holroyd was over-promising and underdelivering, living in a financial fantasy with many of its projects", May's term as Administrator came to an end in September 2017, with the election of the first council.[19] The former Mayor of Holroyd, Greg Cummings, was elected as the inaugural Mayor of Cumberland Council on 27 September 2017.[20]

"City" trading name

On 18 December 2019, the mayor Steve Christou presented a mayoral minute to Council recommending that Cumberland Council begin trading as "Cumberland City Council", by changing the Council's trading name and business registration. The motion was passed 7-7 with the casting vote of the mayor, and the name change to "Cumberland City Council" was implemented from January 2020.[21][22] However, this did not legally confer city status on the council as it had merely changed the trading name of the council, the legal name as proclaimed in 2016 remains "Cumberland Council", which can only be changed by official proclamation of the Governor in the NSW Government Gazette under section 206 of the Local Government Act 1993.[23][24] On 6 September 2023, the Council voted unanimously to write to the Minister for Local Government, requesting that the Council area be formally proclaimed as "Cumberland City" under section 206 of the Local Government Act, and the Council be renamed "Cumberland City Council" under section 207 of the Act.[25][26]

Heritage listings

The Cumberland Council area has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Demographics

Selected historical census data for Cumberland Council local government area
Census year 2016[32] 2021[1]
Population Estimated residents on census night 216,079 Increase 235,439
LGA rank in terms of size within New South Wales 7th
% of New South Wales population 2.89% Increase 2.91%
% of Australian population 0.92% Steady 0.92%
Cultural and language diversity
Ancestry,
top responses		 Lebanese 11.3% Increase 11.9%
Chinese 10.8% Increase 12.6%
Australian 10.1% Increase 10.6%
English 8.8% Increase 9.2%
Indian 7.1% Increase 8.7%
Language,
top responses
(other than English)		 Arabic 15.2% Decrease 14.1%
Mandarin 6.3% Increase 6.7%
Cantonese 4.5% Decrease 4.0%
Tamil 3.1% Increase 3.3%
Turkish 3.1% -
Nepali - 4.4%
Religious affiliation
Religious affiliation,
top responses		 Catholic 24.0% Decrease 21.3%
Islam 21.9% Increase 22.8%
No religion, so described 13.8% Increase 14.7%
Hinduism 10.2% Increase 13.4%
Not stated 8.2% Increase 8.5%
Median weekly incomes
Personal income Median weekly personal income $501 Increase $654
% of Australian median income 75.67% Increase 81.24%
Family income Median weekly family income $1,436 Increase $1,808
% of Australian median income 82.81% Increase 85.28%
Household income Median weekly household income $1,379 Increase $1,678
% of Australian median income 95.89% Increase 96.10%
Greystanes/Pemulwuy industrial area, which was formerly a quarry zone.

Facilities

There are eight libraries located throughout the local government area.[33] There are also five council-run swimming pools. On 9 September 2017 a poll put to the residents by council asked for their views on continuing to run all five pools, given that their operating costs took up 2% of council revenue. The poll returned a result of 74% in favour of continuing council operation of all the pools.[34]

Located partially in the region, the Smithfield-Wetherill Park Industrial Estate is the largest industrial estate in the southern hemisphere and is the centre of manufacturing and distribution in western Sydney, with more than 1,000 manufacturing, wholesale, transport and service firms.[citation needed]

Council

Cumberland City Council
Leadership
Mayor
Ola Hamed (Labor)
Deputy Mayor
Michael Zaiter (Liberal)
Structure
Cumberland City Council composition following the 2024 election
Political groups
Majority
  •   Labor (5)
Others (7)
  Our Local Community (3)  Liberal (4)  Independent (2)  Greens (1)
Elections
Last election
14 September 2024
Next election
16 September 2028

Cumberland City Council comprises fifteen councillors elected proportionally, with three Councillors elected in five wards. On 9 September 2017 the first council was elected.[2] The Mayor is elected bi-annually and Deputy Mayor annually by the councillors at the first meeting of the council.[3]

Current composition

The most recent election was held on 14 September 2024, and the makeup of the Council, by order of election, is as follows:

Party Councillors
  Labor 5
  Liberal 4
  Our Local Community 3
  Independent 2
  Greens 1
Total 15
Ward Councillor Party Notes
Granville Ward[35]   Steve Christou Our Local Community Elected 2017; Mayor 2019–2022; Labor member until 2019.[36][37]
  Ola Hamed Labor Elected 2017; Deputy Mayor 2023–2024; Mayor 2024-present.[38]
  Joseph Rahme Liberal Elected 2017
Greystanes Ward[39]   Diane Colman Labor Elected 2021
  Nadima Kafrouni-Saba Liberal Elected 2024
  Eddy Sarkis Independent Elected 2017; Deputy Mayor 2017–2018, 2019–2021; left Our Local Community in February 2024[40]
Regents Park Ward[41]   Enver Yasar Labor Elected 2024
  Steve Yang Liberal Elected 2024
  Helen Hughes Our Local Community Elected 2021
South Granville Ward[42]   Glenn Elmore Labor Elected 2017; Deputy Mayor 2018–2019.
  Paul Garrard Our Local Community Elected 2017
  Ahmed Ouf Independent Elected 2024
Wentworthville Ward[43]   Michael Zaiter Liberal Elected 2017; Deputy Mayor 2021–2022, 2024-present
  Suman Saha Labor Elected 2017; Deputy Mayor 2022–2023.
  Sujan Selventhiran Greens Elected 2024

Mayors

Mayor Term Notes
Viv May PSM (Administrator) 12 May 2016 – 27 September 2017 Town Clerk/General Manager of Mosman 1986–2013, Administrator of Auburn 2016[3][44][19]
Greg Cummings (ALP/IND) 27 September 2017 – 25 September 2019 Mayor of Holroyd 2008–2009, 2014–2016[20]
Steve Christou (OLC) 25 September 2019 – 12 January 2022 [45][46]
Lisa Lake (ALP) 12 January 2022 – 14 September 2024 [47][38]
Ola Hamed (ALP) 16 October 2024 – present
Deputy Mayor Term Notes
Eddy Sarkis (OLC) 27 September 2017 – 26 September 2018 Deputy Mayor of Holroyd 2005–2007[20]
Glenn Elmore (ALP) 26 September 2018 – 25 September 2019 [48]
Eddy Sarkis (OLC) 25 September 2019 – 30 September 2021 [45]
Michael Zaiter (LIB) 30 September 2021 – 12 January 2022 [46]
Kun Huang (ALP) 12 January 2022 – 28 September 2022 [47]
Suman Saha (ALP) 28 September 2022 – 27 September 2023 [49]
Ola Hamed (ALP) 27 September 2023 – 14 September 2024 [38]
Michael Zaiter (LIB) 16 October 2024 – present
General Manager Term Notes
Merv Ismay 12 May 2016 – 2 June 2016 General Manager of Holroyd 2007–2016[3]
Malcolm Ryan 2 June 2016 – 22 November 2017 [50]
Hamish McNulty 22 November 2017 – 22 April 2021 Acting until July 2018[51]
Peter Fitzgerald 22 April 2021 – present [52][53] Acting until 12 July 2021.[54]

Election results

2024

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2024 New South Wales local elections in Outer Sydney § Cumberland results.[edit]
2024 New South Wales local elections: Cumberland[55]
Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Labor 31,340 31.7 −16.9 5 Decrease 3
  Liberal 23,959 24.2 +11.4 4 Increase 2
  Our Local Community 15,001 15.2 −13.1 3 Decrease 1
  People Not Party Politics 8,044 8.1 1 Increase 1
  Greens 3,952 4.0 +1.2 1 Increase 1
  The Independents 3,903 3.9 −2.6 0 Decrease 1
  Battler 1,848 1.9 0 Steady
  Independents 10,922 11.0 +10.0 1 Increase 1
 Formal votes 98,969 91.3
 Informal votes 9,368 8.7
 Total 108,337 15
 Registered voters / turnout

2021

This section is an excerpt from Results of the 2021 New South Wales local elections in Outer Sydney § Cumberland results.[edit]
2021 New South Wales local elections: Cumberland[56][57][58]
Party Votes % Swing Seats Change
  Labor 47,343 48.6 +9.4 8 Steady
  Our Local Community 27,547 28.3 +14.0 4 Increase 2
  Independent Liberal 12,467 12.8 −13.4[a] 2 Decrease 3[a]
  The Independents 6,388 6.5 +6.5 1 Increase 1
  Greens 2,748 2.8 +1.1 0 Steady
  Independent 968 1.0 0 Steady
 Formal votes 97,461 96.48

Controversies

Drag queen storytime ban

In February 2024, Cumberland City Council voted in favour of banning drag queen storytime from council events.[61]

Same-sex parenting book ban

Main article: 2024 Cumberland book ban

On 1 May 2024, Cumberland City Council voted in favour of removing a book about same-sex parenting from council libraries.[62] The motion was proposed by Councillors Christou and Garrard and passed with 6 votes in favour and 5 against. The state Government's Arts Minister John Graham threatened to cut funding for the Council's libraries due to this motion against same-sex books passing.[63]

On 15 May 2024, Cumberland City Council voted in favour of a motion to rescind the initial book ban.[64] Separately proposed amendments by Councillors Christou and Garrard to move the book in question to the adult section of the library were voted down, with Councillor Huang stating "we won't compromise on the principle[s] of equality and fairness".[65] Following four hours of debate, the motion was passed with 12 votes in favour and 2 against. Councillors Hughes, Cummings, Hussein, Garrard, and Zaiter changed their position from 1 May to support the rescission motion on 15 May 2024,[66] while Councillors Christou and Sarkis, the latter of whom was not present in the first meeting, voted to keep the ban.

On the night of 15 May, police and security guards were present as protesters clashed over the book ban outside the council chambers at Merrylands. One councillor, Eddy Sarkis, who initially supported the ban, stated, "I read the book and have come to the conclusion that nothing sexualises children in this book".[67][68]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Compared with the Liberal Party result at the 2017 election.[59][60]

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