City of Mackay

The first town hall was a timber structure constructed in 1872 on land that the council purchased at 63 Sydney Street.

During the boom in sugar prices, the borough council decided in 1884 that a larger town hall was needed.

The council held a design competition, which was won by a local architect and engineer Arthur Rigby.

[3] On 21 November 1991, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its second report, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Mackay area be rationalised.

After the amalgamation, the City of Mackay included the following settlements: Suburbs: Towns: National Parks: Other localities:

Second Mackay Town Hall, built in 1912, as seen in 2008
Mackay Civic Administration Building, Gordon Street, Mackay