Please note this dataset is an archived version of the Administrative Boundaries (AB). For the latest version of the AB please go to this url: https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-bdcf5b09-89bc-47ec-9281-6b8e9ee147aa/details?q=geoscape ---------------------------------- Geoscape Administrative Boundaries is Australia’s most comprehensive national collection of boundaries, including government, statistical and electoral boundaries. It is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available here. This dataset comprises seven Geoscape products: * Localities * Local Government Areas (LGAs) * Wards * Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Boundaries * Electoral Boundaries * State Boundaries and * Town Points Updated versions of Administrative Boundaries are published on a quarterly basis. Users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing either GDA94 or GDA2020 datums. Notable changes in the November 2024 Administrative Boundaries release * Two locality names in the Northern Territory have been changed. BESWICK and PIGEON HOLE have been replaced with WUGULARR and NITJPURRU respectively. * In New South Wales, the locality of BLUE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK has been retired and replaced by ‘Birrabang’, ‘Blue Labyrinth’, ‘Burramoko’, ‘Carmarthen’, ‘Govetts’, ‘Ingar’, ‘Jamison Valley’, ‘Kariwoga’, ’Massif Ridge’, ‘Mount Portal’, ‘Narrow Neck’, ‘Rocklily Ridge’ and ‘Tesselate Hill’ localities. * The November 2024 release includes updates to the Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries for NSW, VIC, and WA to reflect the redistribution of the boundaries. * There have been spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 to the localities: New South Wales - ‘Megalong Valley’, ‘Mount Wilson’, ‘Mount Tomah’, ‘Bell’, ‘Blackheath’, ‘Mount Victoria’, ‘Mount Irvine’, ‘Medlow Bath’, ‘Hazelbrook’, ‘Katoomba’, ‘Leura’, ‘Woodford’, ‘Razorback’, ‘Wentworth Falls’, ‘Linden’, and ‘Mount Hunter’. Victoria - ‘Metung’, ’Eagle Point’, ‘Newlands Arm’, and ‘Boole Poole’. Northern Territory - ‘Victoria River’ and ‘Nitjpurru’. South Australia - ‘Mount Compass’ and ‘Myponga’. * 4 new lga records have been added: ‘Unincorporated - Botany Bay Area’ in New South Wales, ‘Groote Archipelago Region’ in Northern Territory, ‘Shire Cocos (Keeling) Islands’ in Other Territories and ‘Lower Eyre Council’ in South Australia. * 2 lga records ‘Shire of Cocos Island’ in other Territories and ‘The DC of Lower Eyre Peninsula’ in South Australia have been retired. * There have been spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 to the ‘Charters Towers Regional’, Cloncurry Shire’, ‘Tablelands Regional’, ‘Unincorporated - Sydney Harbour Area’, and ‘East Arnhem Region’ Local Government Areas. Further information on Administrative Boundaries, including FAQs on the data, is available here or through Geoscape Australia’s network of partners. They provide a range of commercial products based on Administrative Boundaries, including software solutions, consultancy and support. Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia. ##License Information The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an open CCBY 4.0 licence. Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Users must also note the following attribution requirements: Preferred attribution for the Licensed Material: >Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). Preferred attribution for Adapted Material: >Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). ##What to Expect When You Download Administrative Boundaries Administrative Boundaries is large dataset (around 1.5GB unpacked), made up of seven themes each containing multiple layers. Users are advised to read the technical documentation including the product change notices and the individual product descriptions before downloading and using the product.

Please note this dataset is the most recent version of the Administrative Boundaries (AB). For previous versions of the AB please go to this url: https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-b4ad5702-ea2b-4f04-833c-d0229bfd689e/details?q=previous\r \r ----------------------------------\r \r Geoscape Administrative Boundaries is Australia’s most comprehensive national collection of boundaries, including government, statistical and electoral boundaries. It is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available here.\r \r This dataset comprises seven Geoscape products:\r \r * Localities\r * Local Government Areas (LGAs)\r * Wards\r * Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Boundaries\r * Electoral Boundaries\r * State Boundaries and\r * Town Points\r \r Updated versions of Administrative Boundaries are published on a quarterly basis.\r \r Users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing either GDA94 or GDA2020 datums.\r \r Notable changes in the May 2025 release\r \r * Victorian Wards have seen almost half of the dataset change now reflecting the boundaries from the 2024 subdivision review. https://www.vec.vic.gov.au/electoral-boundaries/council-reviews/ subdivision-reviews.\r \r * There have been spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 to 66 wards in Victoria. \r \r * One new locality ‘Kenwick Island’ has been added to the local Government area ‘Mackay Regional’ in Queensland.\r \r * There have been spatial changes(area) greater than 1 km2 to the local government areas 'Burke Shire' and 'Mount Isa City' in Queensland.\r \r * There have been spatial changes(area) greater than 1 km2 to the localities ‘Nicholson’, ‘Lawn Hill’ and ‘Coral Sea’ in Queensland and ‘Calguna’, ‘Israelite Bay’ and ‘Balladonia’ in Western Australia.\r \r * An update to the NT Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries has been applied to reflect the redistribution of the boundaries gazetted on 4 March 2025.\r \r * Geoscape has become aware that the DATE_CREATED and DATE_RETIRED attributes in the commonwealth_electoral_polygon MapInfo TAB tables were incorrectly ordered and did not match the product data model. These attributes have been re-ordered to match the data model for the May 2025 release.\r \r IMPORTANT NOTE: correction of issues with the 22 November 2022 release\r \r * On 28 November 2022, the Administrative Boundaries dataset originally released on 22 November 2022 was amended and re-uploaded after Geoscape identified some issues with the original data for 'Electoral Boundaries'.\r * As a result of the error, some shapefiles were published in 3D rather than 2D, which may affect some users when importing data into GIS applications.\r * The error affected the Electoral Boundaries dataset, specifically the Commonwealth boundary data for Victoria and Western Australia, including 'All States'.\r * Only the ESRI Shapefile formats were affected (both GDA94 and GDA2020). The MapInfo TAB format was not affected.\r * Because the datasets are zipped into a single file, once the error was fixed by Geoscape all of Administrative Boundaries shapefiles had to be re-uploaded, rather than only the affected files.\r * If you downloaded either of the two Administrative Boundary ESRI Shapefiles between 22 November and 28 November 2022 and plan to use the Electoral Boundary component, you are advised to download the revised version dated 28 November 2022. Apologies for any inconvenience.\r \r Further information on Administrative Boundaries, including FAQs on the data, is available here or through Geoscape Australia’s network of partners. They provide a range of commercial products based on Administrative Boundaries, including software solutions, consultancy and support.\r \r Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia. \r \r \r The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an open CCBY 4.0 licence.\r \r Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).\r \r Users must also note the following attribution requirements:\r \r Preferred attribution for the Licensed Material:\r \r

Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).\r \r Preferred attribution for Adapted Material:\r \r Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).\r \r

What to Expect When You Download Administrative Boundaries\r

\r Administrative Boundaries is large dataset (around 1.5GB unpacked), made up of seven themes each containing multiple layers.\r \r Users are advised to read the technical documentation including the product change notices and the individual product descriptions before downloading and using the product.\r \r Please note this dataset is the most recent version of the Administrative Boundaries (AB). For previous versions of the AB please go to this url: https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-b4ad5702-ea2b-4f04-833c-d0229bfd689e/details?q=previous\r

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Please note this dataset is an archived version of the Administrative Boundaries (AB). For the latest version of the AB please go to this url: https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-bdcf5b09-89bc-47ec-9281-6b8e9ee147aa/details?q=geoscape\r \r ----------------------------------\r \r Geoscape Administrative Boundaries is Australia’s most comprehensive national collection of boundaries, including government, statistical and electoral boundaries. It is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available here.\r \r This dataset comprises seven Geoscape products:\r \r * Localities\r * Local Government Areas (LGAs)\r * Wards\r * Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Boundaries\r * Electoral Boundaries\r * State Boundaries and\r * Town Points\r \r Updated versions of Administrative Boundaries are published on a quarterly basis.\r \r Users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing either GDA94 or GDA2020 datums.\r \r Notable changes in the February 2025 Administrative Boundaries release\r \r * There have been spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 to the localities ‘Koombooloomba’, ‘Isisford’, ‘Ilfracombe’ and ‘Glen Ruth’ in Queensland.\r \r * There have been spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 to the localities ‘Birdwood’ and ‘Forreston’ in South Australia.\r \r * Three new wards ‘Central Ward’, ’East Ward’ and ’West Ward’ have been added in Northern Territory.\r \r * 'Anindilyakwa Ward' has been retired in Northern Territory.\r \r Further information on Administrative Boundaries, including FAQs on the data, is available here or through Geoscape Australia’s network of partners. They provide a range of commercial products based on Administrative Boundaries, including software solutions, consultancy and support.\r \r Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia. \r \r \r

License Information\r

\r The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an open CCBY 4.0 licence.\r \r Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).\r \r Users must also note the following attribution requirements:\r \r Preferred attribution for the Licensed Material:\r \r

Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).\r \r Preferred attribution for Adapted Material:\r \r Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).\r \r

What to Expect When You Download Administrative Boundaries\r

\r Administrative Boundaries is large dataset (around 1.5GB unpacked), made up of seven themes each containing multiple layers.\r \r Users are advised to read the technical documentation including the product change notices and the individual product descriptions before downloading and using the product.\r \r \r \r \r \r \r