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Welcome to the Balranald Shire Council

Balranald Shire is situated in the South West of New South Wales. Its main business centre Balranald is located on the Murrumbidgee River. the second business centre of Euston is 80km to the west and located on the banks of the Murray River

The population of Balranald Shire is approximately 3000 with about half of those people living in the town of Balranald and approximately 600 people live in the Town of Euston. Other localities in the Shire include, Kyalite, Hatfield, Penarie, Clare and Oxley.

Balranald Shire covers an area of 21,418 square kilometes. The area is generally flat with only slight undulations. Ground level is about 60m above sea. The soil is mostly clay overlaid with a coarse red sandy loam, although areas of heavy black soil do exist.

Balranald Shire gets behind National Mobile Muster Initiative 

Recycling your old mobile phone is now easier, with the Balranald Shire joining the nationwide MobileMuster programme. Council is encouraging all local residents to clean out their drawers of all old and unwanted mobile phones and batteries, and bring them down to the Balranald Shire offices and drop them in the recycling boxes. Further information can be obtained from the Mobile Muster website Follow this link to the MobileMuster website.

Election Funding Authority information is availabe by following the attached link

State Debt Recovery Office offers clients the ability to pay fines using credit cards or BPAY via their website 

Councils Monthly Newsletter is available by following this link, if you would like to be placed on the email distribution list for the Newsletter please advice Council  on email council@balranald.nsw.gov.au

Superb Parrot Paper

For a comprehensive report on the Superb Parrot kindly provided by David Leslie click this link

Latest news
WATER RESTRICTIONS Balranald & Euston
01 Jul 2009
Balranald Shire Transport Trial
25 Jun 2009
Arts Funding for Festival Projects
22 Jun 2009

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