Cootamundra–Gundagai Regional Council: History
=== Controversy at creation ===
Around the same time as the state government was announcing the mergers of shires and councils in a 2015 review to amalgamate 44 local government areas to form 19 new local government areas, the mayor of the former Gundagai Shire, Abb McAlister, lodged papers with the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales to prevent it.
Signs protesting the amalgamation were prominently displayed throughout Gundagai for several years.
In July 2025, the local government minister Ron Hoenig announced that the council would become two separate entities as it was before 2016.