Service Description: AbstractWards is a spatial representation of the gazetted ward districts, which are a subset of Local Government Area boundaries defined by the State and Territory governments of Australia. Wards represent distinct areas within a local government area that relate to the election of councillors for the related local government. Not all Local Government Areas consist of Wards. Wards aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent, seamless representation of the ward boundaries across Australia.CurrencyDate Modified: November 2025Modification Frequency: QuarterlyData ExtentCoordinate Reference: Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 | GDA2020Spatial ExtentNorth: -8°South: -45°East: 168°West: 96°Source InformationThe data was obtained from data.gov.au, is also accessible through Geoscape Administrative Boundaries - Geoscape as of August 2025. 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).Lineage StatementWards is created through processing ward data sourced from Australia’s States and Territories. Source attributes are mapped and standardised to provide a coherent definition across the jurisdiction supplies, with associated geometry being cleaned and processed to output a topologically consistent layer of Australia’s ward boundaries at a national scale.Additional attributes have been generated and integrated by Geoscape to support the jurisdictional information as well as to provide convenience in the use and representation of the dataset. Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (comprised of Localities, Local Government Areas (LGAs), Wards, ABS Boundaries, Electoral Boundaries, State Boundaries, and Town Points) are created using a range of source data which is highlighted within their Data Copyright and Disclaimer.The Digital Atlas of Australia team have published a Feature Service for Wards using the Geographic Coordinate System: Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020). Wards are aggregated from State and Territory data to cover the National extent of Australia.Data DictionaryAttribute nameDescriptionWard Polygon PIDUnique persistent identifier for the Ward polygon.Ward PIDPersistent identifier for the Ward.Ward NameThe name of the Ward.LGA PIDThe Persistent Identifier for the LGA that the Ward is related to. Not unique to a polygon.StateThe abbreviated name of the State or Territory that the LGA spatially resides within.Date CreatedThe date the record is first introduced to the Geoscape product.GeometryThe geometry of the polygon.State - Description TableDomain ValueDescriptionNTThe data is located within the Northern Territory.SAThe data is located within the state of South Australia.VICThe data is located within the state of Victoria.WAThe data is located within the state of Western Australia.ContactDepartment of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR), data@industry.gov.auFor technical support contact DigitalAtlas@ga.gov.au
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Description: AbstractWards is a spatial representation of the gazetted ward districts, which are a subset of Local Government Area boundaries defined by the State and Territory governments of Australia. Wards represent distinct areas within a local government area that relate to the election of councillors for the related local government. Not all Local Government Areas consist of Wards. Wards aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent, seamless representation of the ward boundaries across Australia.CurrencyDate Modified: November 2025Modification Frequency: QuarterlyData ExtentCoordinate Reference: Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 | GDA2020Spatial ExtentNorth: -8°South: -45°East: 168°West: 96°Source InformationThe data was obtained from data.gov.au, is also accessible through Geoscape Administrative Boundaries - Geoscape as of August 2025. 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).Lineage StatementWards is created through processing ward data sourced from Australia’s States and Territories. Source attributes are mapped and standardised to provide a coherent definition across the jurisdiction supplies, with associated geometry being cleaned and processed to output a topologically consistent layer of Australia’s ward boundaries at a national scale.Additional attributes have been generated and integrated by Geoscape to support the jurisdictional information as well as to provide convenience in the use and representation of the dataset. Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (comprised of Localities, Local Government Areas (LGAs), Wards, ABS Boundaries, Electoral Boundaries, State Boundaries, and Town Points) are created using a range of source data which is highlighted within their Data Copyright and Disclaimer.The Digital Atlas of Australia team have published a Feature Service for Wards using the Geographic Coordinate System: Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020). Wards are aggregated from State and Territory data to cover the National extent of Australia.Data DictionaryAttribute nameDescriptionWard Polygon PIDUnique persistent identifier for the Ward polygon.Ward PIDPersistent identifier for the Ward.Ward NameThe name of the Ward.LGA PIDThe Persistent Identifier for the LGA that the Ward is related to. Not unique to a polygon.StateThe abbreviated name of the State or Territory that the LGA spatially resides within.Date CreatedThe date the record is first introduced to the Geoscape product.GeometryThe geometry of the polygon.State - Description TableDomain ValueDescriptionNTThe data is located within the Northern Territory.SAThe data is located within the state of South Australia.VICThe data is located within the state of Victoria.WAThe data is located within the state of Western Australia.ContactDepartment of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR), data@industry.gov.auFor technical support contact DigitalAtlas@ga.gov.au
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