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{{Short description|Former local government area in New South Wales, Australia}}
{{About|the former [[Local government in Australia|local government area]]|the [[suburb]]|Manly, New South Wales}}
{{Use Australian English|date=November 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type          = lga
| name          = Manly Council
| state         = nsw
| image         = Manly lga sydney.png
| caption       = Location in Metropolitan [[Sydney]]
| coordinates   = {{coord|33|48|S|151|17|E|type:city_region:AU-NSW|display=inline,title}}
| pop           = 39747
| pop_year      = {{CensusAU|2011}}
| pop_footnotes = <ref name="Census2011">{{Census 2011 AUS|id=LGA15150|name=Manly (A)|accessdate=4 November 2012|quick=on}}</ref>
| density       = 2649.8
| area          = 15
| est           = 6 January 1877 
| abolished     = 12 May 2016
| seat          = [[Manly Town Hall]]
| mayor         = [[Jean Hay]] {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}}
| region        = [[Northern Beaches]]
| logo          = Manly Council logo.png
| url           = https://web.archive.org/web/20160502194546/http://www.manly.nsw.gov.au/
| parish        = [[County of Cumberland, New South Wales|Manly Cove]]
| near-n        = [[Warringah Council|Warringah]]
| near-ne       = 
| near-e        = ''[[Tasman Sea]]''
| near-se       = 
| near-s        = ''[[Sydney Harbour]]''
| near-sw       = [[Municipality of Mosman|Mosman]]
| near-w        = [[City of Willoughby|Willoughby]]
| near-nw       = [[Ku-ring-gai Council|Ku-ring-gai]]
}}
'''Manly Council''' was a [[Local government in Australia|local government area]] on the [[Northern Beaches (Sydney)|northern beaches]] region of [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]], first incorporated in 1877.
On 12 May 2016, the Minister for Local Government announced that Manly Council would be subsumed into the newly formed [[Northern Beaches Council]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.strongercouncils.nsw.gov.au/new-councils/northern-beaches-council/ |title=Northern Beaches Council |publisher=[[Government of New South Wales]] |date=12 May 2016 |access-date=12 May 2016 }}</ref> The last [[mayor]] of Manly Council was [[Councillor|Cr.]] [[Jean Hay]] {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}}, a member of the Liberal Party.

==Suburbs in the local government area==
* [[Balgowlah, New South Wales|Balgowlah]]
* [[Balgowlah Heights, New South Wales|Balgowlah Heights]]
* [[Clontarf, New South Wales|Clontarf]]
* [[Fairlight, New South Wales|Fairlight]]
* [[Manly, New South Wales|Manly]]
* [[Seaforth, New South Wales|Seaforth]]

==History==
[[File: SLNSW 11384 Neoclassical portico of Manly Council Chambers.jpg|right|250px|thumb|upright|[[Manly Town Hall]], seat of the council from 1937 to 2016.]] Manly was first incorporated on 6 January 1877 as the '''Municipal District of Manly''', and met for the first time on 15 February 1877, when the first mayor was elected, [[Thomas Rowe]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223126475 |title=Government Gazette Proclamations and Legislation |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette|issue=13 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=10 January 1877 |access-date=26 November 2017 |page=119 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The council first met in temporary premises including the original Ivanhoe Hotel in Ivanhoe Park, until 1909, and from then on ''Llangollen'', the former mansion of William Howard Rolfe at the end of the Corso, served as the new council chambers.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15195269 |title=MANLY TOWN HALL. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=25 November 1910 |access-date=31 March 2015 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> There were no wards until October 1890 when the council petitioned to be divided into three wards, which was proclaimed in December 1890: The Steyne Ward to the north, Fairlight Ward to the southeast and Wentworth Ward to the east.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221644508 |title=MANLY MUNICIPALITY.—PETITION FOR DIVISION INTO WARDS. |newspaper=New South Wales Government Gazette |issue=608 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=27 October 1890 |access-date=23 June 2016 |page=8281 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article221649476 |title=Government Gazette Proclamations and Legislation |newspaper=[[New South Wales Government Gazette]] |issue=741 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=23 December 1890 |access-date=23 June 2016 |page=9833 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Manly was the only local government authority on the [[Northern Beaches]] until the proclamation of [[Warringah Council|Warringah Shire]] in 1906, with the Burnt Bridge Creek forming the northern boundary with Warringah. From 1906 the council became the '''Municipality of Manly'''. In August 1909, the council petitioned for the abolition of wards in favour of one at-large electorate, which was subsequently proclaimed.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114775356 |title=WARD DIVISIONS OF MANLY. |newspaper=Evening News |issue=13,159 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=12 August 1909 |access-date=23 June 2016 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15112391 |title=ABOLITION OF THE WARD SYSTEM. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=22,336 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 August 1909 |access-date=23 June 2016 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In 1918, seven of the council's alderman who had accepted free ferry passes from the [[Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company]] were charged and found guilty by a magistrate of contravening the Local Government Act and disqualified to act as aldermen. As the council only had a total of nine alderman, there was a period when the council did not have quorum and therefore did not function. The convictions were overturned on appeal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manly.nsw.gov.au/IgnitionSuite/uploads/docs/Ferry%20Pass%20Scandal(1).pdf|author=George and Shelagh Champion|title=Manly Council Local Studies Collection – The Ferry Pass Scandal|access-date=2008-01-26|date=April 2003}}</ref>

In April 1927, Alderman [[Alfred Reid (Australian politician)|Alfred Reid]] passed through a motion to petition the NSW Government for upgrading Manly to City status.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129083099 |title=FROM VILLAGE TO CITY STATUS |newspaper=[[The Evening News (Sydney)|Evening News]] |issue=18660 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 April 1927 |access-date=23 June 2016 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> This petition was rejected by Minister for Local Government [[Eric Spooner]] in May 1938, citing that Manly did not fulfill the requirements of such a status.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17462693 |title=CITY STATUS. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=31,306 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 May 1938 |access-date=23 June 2016 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In response, Mayor Aubrey Hanson-Norman upheld Manly's arguments for such a petition: "We have a population of about 10,000 and the revenue including the electricity undertaking is £180,000 [...] Geographically too, Manly is more or less separated from other parts of the metropolitan area."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17549592 |title=MANLY'S CLAIM TO BE CITY. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=31,517 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=5 January 1939 |access-date=23 June 2016 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> After a long and protracted debate over the construction of a purpose-built town hall, in February 1937 the old Town Hall had been demolished and a Neo-Georgian revival Town Hall by Samuel Reginald Maisey of the prominent local firm Trenchard Smith & Maisey, which served as the seat of the council until 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17301783 |title=BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION. Manly Council: New Offices. Modern Building. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=16 February 1937 |access-date=31 March 2015 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

From 1951 to 1980, the [[Mackellar County Council]] operated on the Northern Beaches as an [[public utility|electricity and gas supplier and retailer]] as a joint operation of Manly Municipal Council and Warringah Shire Council.<ref name=MCC>{{cite web|title=3488 Mackellar County Council|url=http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Agency\3488|website=State Records Archives Investigator|publisher=NSW State Records|access-date=15 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203141443/http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=%5CAgency%5C3488|archive-date=3 February 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The council became known as '''Manly Council''' on 1 July 1993 following the enactment of the Local Government Act, 1993 which also stipulated that the term 'Town Clerk' be replaced with 'General Manager' and 'Alderman' be replaced by 'Councillor'.

===2016 amalgamation proposal===
A [[Local government areas of New South Wales#Reviews of local government areas|2015 review of local government boundaries]] by the [[Government of New South Wales|NSW Government]] [[Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales|Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal]] recommended that the Manly Council merge with adjoining councils. The government considered two proposals. The first proposed a merger of Manly and [[Municipality of Mosman|Mosman]] Councils and parts of [[Warringah Council]] to form a new council with an area of {{convert|49|km2}} and support a population of approximately 153,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dpc-olg-ss.s3.amazonaws.com/1f1400c73d87c5fa1486b6e0782fa04a/Manly-Mosman-Warringah.pdf |title=Merger proposal: Manly Council, Mosman Municipal Council, Warringah Council (part) |publisher=[[Government of New South Wales]] |date=January 2016 |access-date=27 February 2016 |page=8 }}</ref>

The alternative, proposed by Warringah Council on 23 February 2016, was for an amalgamation of the [[Pittwater Council|Pittwater]], Manly and Warringah councils, which was proclaimed as the [[Northern Beaches Council]] on 12 May 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dpc-olg-ss.s3.amazonaws.com/22b4e7a9b150e0d553f54a64a4613f1c/IGA-25-2-2016-14-57-44-390.pdf |title=Manly, Pittwater and Warringah councils Proposal |author=Warringah Council |publisher=Government of New South Wales |date=23 February 2016 |access-date=27 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309125816/https://dpc-olg-ss.s3.amazonaws.com/22b4e7a9b150e0d553f54a64a4613f1c/IGA-25-2-2016-14-57-44-390.pdf |archive-date=9 March 2016 }}</ref>

==Demographics==
At the [[Census in Australia#2011|2011 Census]], there were {{formatnum:39747}} people in the Manly local government area, of these 48.8% were male and 51.2% were female. [[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people]] made up 0.3% of the population. The [[median#Medians for populations|median]] age of people in the Manly Council area was 37 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 18.9% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 13.5% of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 48.5% were married and 10.3% were either divorced or separated.<ref name="Census2011"/>

Population growth in the Manly Council area between the 2001 Census and the 2006 Census was 1.55% and in the subsequent five years to the 2011 Census, population growth was 7.11%. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same periods, being 5.78% and 8.32% respectively, population growth in the Manly local government area was lower than the national average.<ref name="Census2001"/> The median [[household income|weekly income]] for residents within the Manly Council area was significantly higher than the national average.<ref name="Census2011"/><ref name="Census2006"/>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan=6|Selected historical census data for Manly local government area
|-
!colspan=3|Census year !!2001<ref name="Census2001">{{Census 2001 AUS|id=LGA15150 |name=Manly (A) |accessdate=4 November 2012 |quick=on}}</ref>!!2006<ref name="Census2006">{{Census 2006 AUS|id=LGA15150 |name=Manly (A) |accessdate=4 November 2012 |quick=on}}</ref>!!2011<ref name="Census2011"/>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan="2"|Population ||Estimated residents on Census night ||align="right"|{{formatnum:36544}} ||align="right"|{{formatnum:37110}} ||align="right"|{{formatnum:39747}}
|-
|align="right"|LGA rank in terms of size within New South Wales ||align="right"| ||align="right"|57 ||align="right"|
|-
|align="right"|% of New South Wales population ||align="right"| ||align="right"| ||align="right"|0.57%
|-
|align="right"|% of Australian population ||align="right"|0.19% ||align="right"|{{steady}}&nbsp;0.19% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;0.18%
|-
!colspan=3|Cultural and language diversity !! !! !!
|-
|rowspan=5 colspan=2|Ancestry,<br />top responses ||[[Australians|Australian]]||align="right"| ||align="right"|  ||align="right"|21.5%
|-
|[[English people|English]]||align="right"| ||align="right"|  ||align="right"|30.5%
|-
|[[Irish people|Irish]]||align="right"| ||align="right"|  ||align="right"|9.7%
|-
|[[Scottish people|Scottish]]||align="right"| ||align="right"|  ||align="right"|8.0%
|-
|[[Germans|German]]||align="right"| ||align="right"|  ||align="right"|2.9%
|-
|rowspan=5 colspan=2|Language,<br />top responses<br />(other than [[Australian English|English]]) ||[[French language|French]]||align="right"|0.8% ||align="right"|{{profit}}&nbsp;0.9 ||align="right"|{{profit}}&nbsp;1.1%
|-
|[[German language|German]]||align="right"|0.8% ||align="right"|{{steady}}&nbsp;0.8% ||align="right"|{{profit}}&nbsp;1.0%
|-
|[[Italian language|Italian]]||align="right"|0.8% ||align="right"|{{steady}}&nbsp;0.8%  ||align="right"|{{profit}}&nbsp;0.9%
|-
|[[Greek language|Greek]]||align="right"|0.9% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;0.9% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;0.8%
|-
|[[Spanish language|Spanish]]||align="right"|n/c ||align="right"|n/c ||align="right"|{{profit}}&nbsp;0.8%
|-
!colspan=3|Religious affiliation !! !! !!
|-
|rowspan=5 colspan=2|Religious affiliation,<br />top responses ||[[Irreligion|No religion]]||align="right"|17.5% ||align="right"|{{profit}}&nbsp;20.9% ||align="right"|{{profit}}&nbsp;27.8%
|-
|[[Roman Catholic Church in Australia|Catholic]]||align="right"|24.2% ||align="right"|{{profit}}&nbsp;25.0% ||align="right"|{{steady}}&nbsp;25.0%
|-
|[[Anglican Church of Australia|Anglican]]||align="right"|26.4% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;25.0% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;22.6%
|-
|[[List of Presbyterian denominations in Australia|Presbyterian and Reformed]]||align="right"|4.0% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;3.5% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;2.9%
|-
|[[Uniting Church in Australia|Uniting Church]]||align="right"|4.4% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;3.4% ||align="right"|{{loss}}&nbsp;2.8%
|-
!colspan=3|Median weekly incomes !! !! !!
|-
|rowspan=2 colspan=2|Personal income ||Median weekly personal income||align="right"| ||align="right"|A$790 ||align="right"|A$985
|-
|align="right"|% of Australian median income||align="right"| ||align="right"|169.5% ||align="right"|170.7%
|-
|rowspan=2 colspan=2|Family income  ||Median weekly family income||align="right"| ||align="right"|A$1,705 ||align="right"|A$2,649
|-
|align="right"|% of Australian median income||align="right"| ||align="right"|166.0% ||align="right"|178.9%
|-
|rowspan=2 colspan=2|Household income ||Median weekly household income||align="right"| ||align="right"|A$2,262 ||align="right"|A$2,221
|-
|align="right"|% of Australian median income||align="right"| ||align="right"|193.2% ||align="right"|180.0%
|-
|}

==Council==
{{See also|List of mayors of Manly}}

===Final composition and election method===
Manly Council was composed of nine [[councillor]]s, including the mayor, for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor was [[Instant-runoff voting|directly]] elected from 1995 to 2016 while the eight other councillors were elected [[Single transferable vote|proportionally]] as one [[Ward (country subdivision)|ward]]. The last election was held on 8 September 2012, and the final makeup of the council, including the mayor, was as follows:<ref name="EC-C">{{cite web |url=http://votensw.info/manly-council/councillor |title=Manly Council: Summary of First Preference and Group Votes for each Candidate |work=Local Government Elections 2012 |publisher=Electoral Commission of New South Wales |date=14 September 2012 |access-date=18 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="EC-M"/>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="2"|Councillor!!Party!!Notes
|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}|&nbsp;
| [[Jean Hay]]
| [[Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division)|Liberal]]
| Mayor 1999–2004, 2008–2016<ref name="EC-M">{{cite web |url=http://votensw.info/manly-council/mayoral |title=Manly Council – Mayoral Election |work=Local Government Elections 2012 |publisher=Electoral Commission of New South Wales |date=13 September 2012 |access-date=18 September 2012 }}</ref>
|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}|&nbsp;
| [[James Griffin (Australian politician)|James Griffin]]
| Liberal
| Deputy Mayor 2015–2016
|-
| {{Australian party style|Independent}}|&nbsp;
| Barbara Aird
| Manly Independents
| Deputy Mayor 2005–2006
|-
| {{Australian party style|Independent}}|&nbsp;
| Candy Bingham
| [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
| Elected to Northern Beaches Council Manly Ward, 2017.
|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}|&nbsp;
| Adele Heasman
| Liberal
| Deputy Mayor 2013–2014
|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}|&nbsp;
| Alan Le Surf
| Liberal
| Deputy Mayor 2011–2013
|-
| {{Australian party style|Liberal}}|&nbsp;
| Steve Pickering
| Liberal
| Deputy Mayor 2014–2015
|-
| {{Australian party style|Greens}}|&nbsp;
| Cathy Griffin
| [[Greens New South Wales|The Greens]]
| 
|-
| {{Australian party style|Independent}}|&nbsp;
| Hugh Burns
| Manly Independents
| 
|}

==Council seal==
Manly was the first council on the northern beaches, being incorporated in 1877, but it is not known when it adopted the council seal. The image of two indigenous men standing by the shore watching the approach of the first Europeans to visit Manly in 1788, has been modified several times over the decades, with the earliest found version dating from 1905.<ref name=seal/> This image is a direct reference to the naming of "Manly" by the first [[governor of New South Wales]], [[Arthur Phillip]], who visited on 21 January 1788, who noted that the "[Manly aboriginals'] confidence and manly behaviour induced me to give the name Manly Cove to this place".<ref name=mackellar>Mackellar County Council Annual Report, 1952.</ref>

In 1952 the new Mackellar County Council commissioned the President of the Manly and Warringah District Historical Society, Percy Walter Gledhill, to design a council seal and Gledhill's design included this image.<ref name=mackellar/>

A later Manly council seal from 1913 omitted the approaching Europeans, but they returned in the last version, which was designed by Susan Hammond and introduced in 1990.<ref name=seal>{{cite news|last1=Morcombe|first1=John|title=Aboriginal men, flannel flower and mangrove tree features of earlier versions of council motifs|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/manly-daily/aboriginal-men-flannel-flower-and-mangrove-tree-features-of-earlier-versions-of-council-motifs/news-story/65692b785d263a9842c5ad2e55ead25f|access-date=26 November 2017|agency=Manly Daily|date=11 August 2017}}</ref>

==Sister cities==
Manly had [[sister city]] relationships with a number of cities around the world:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manly.nsw.gov.au/community-services/sister-city-program/ |title=Sister City Program |work=Community Services |publisher=Manly Council |year=2012 |access-date=4 November 2012 }}</ref>
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Taiji, Japan]], Japan
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Jing'an District|Jing'an]], China
*{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], England, United Kingdom
*{{flagicon|TLS}} [[Oecusse District|Oecusse]], East Timor
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Huntington Beach, California]], United States of America

Manly also had three friendship cities:
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Odawara, Kanagawa]], Japan
*{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Yeongdo-gu, Busan]], South Korea
*{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Image:Flag of New South Wales.svg|22x20px]] [[Gunnedah]], New South Wales

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160502194546/http://www.manly.nsw.gov.au/ Manly Council ('''Archived''')]

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