Category: Gawler Election History

1985. Neighbours was in its first season on TV, and Kate Bush had just released a song that would not hit #1 on the Australian music charts until 37 years …

In 1985, Gawler’s population doubled. This was not due to a sudden enthusiasm for making babies, but because the Gawler Council had successfully petitioned the Government for boundary reform, increasing …

There were a lot of things happening in 1987. The world’s population reached 5 billion for the first time, while The Simpsons debuted as an animated short and the Nintendo …

Thirty-four years before the writing of this post, we have finally reached an election in which I was not yet born. Despite this, I still feel connected to this year …

We’ve reached 1991; any Council elections prior to this one will have taken place before I was born in 1990. The winner of the Triple J Hottest 100 that year …

In December of 1992, tragedy struck the Town of Gawler. Its Mayor for the past four years, Bob Bartlett, had died from cancer at the age of 68. The Bunyip, …

Let’s take a trip back to the year 1995. The winner of the Triple J Hottest 100 was Wonderwall by Oasis, the Prime Minister was Paul Keating, and it was …

It was the year 1997. The Spice Girls were telling everybody how much they really really wanted to “zig-a-zig ahh”, and society was only three years away from returning to …

Here we come to a major turning point election for Gawler. I’m not speaking just from a historical perspective; judging by the massive (for Council standards) turnout rate of 46%, …

This election marks a very special point for my blog, as rather than simply providing commentary on results already available on the Electoral Commission website (they currently provide records back …