The District Council of Laura was a local government area in South Australia.
It was created on 1 May 1932 with the amalgamation of the Corporate Town of Laura and the District Council of Booyoolie.
[2][1] The Laura merger had occurred after a much broader 1931 merger proposal, which would have seen the Corporate Town of Laura, District Council of Gladstone, Corporate Town of Gladstone and District Council of Caltowie merge into a drastically enlarged District Council of Booyoolie, was abandoned after meeting strong opposition from both the Laura and Gladstone communities.
[2] The earlier town hall was replaced by a new Civic Centre in 1968.
Amongst the council's later projects was a 1980s-era collaboration with the South Australian Housing Trust to build a number of pensioner cottages in the town.