The Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island is a special local government area of Queensland, Australia, managed by the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council under a Deed of Grant in Trust granted to the community on 27 October 1986. The local council was previously the Palm Island Community Council, which had far fewer powers. The shire is located on the Palm Island group, off the north Queensland coast near the city of Townsville.
Ten of the twelve Islands in the Greater Palm Island Group come under the control of the Shire – Palm Island, Fantome Island, Curacoa Island, Havannah Island, Brisk Island, Esk Island, Falcon Island, Eclipse Island, Barber Island, Fly Island – plus a few rocks (Dido Rock, Hayman Rock, Chilcott Rocks, Paluma Rock), but neither Orpheus Island nor Pelorus Island, are within its borders,[3][4][5] and Albino Rock belongs to Orpheus Island National Park.[6][2]
At the local government elections on 28 March 2020,[7] a new mayor, Mislam Sam, was elected.[8][9]
In the 2021 census, the Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island had a population of 2,098 people.[1]
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^ ab"Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
^"About the profile areas - Hinchinbrook (S)". .idcommunity (Far North Queensland Regional Organisation of Councils). 11 April 2017. Archived from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
^"2015 Local Government Boundaries: Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council" (map). Electoral Commission of Queensland. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
^Townsend, Ian (1 April 2007). "Privatising Palm Island". Background Briefing. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 28 April 2007. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
^"Localities of Orpheus Island and Pelorus Island, Shire of Hinchinbrook" (PDF). Queensland Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
^"Local government elections". Queensland Government. Dept of Local Government, Racing and Multicultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 19 May 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^"Remote and discrete communities elect local government voices". The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
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