Tiaro Division was created on 11 November 1879 as one of the initial 74 divisions around Queensland under the
Divisional Boards Act 1879 with a population of 1852. On 9 February 1884, following a petition by the ratepayers of subdivisions Nos. 2 and 3 of Tiaro Division, part of Tiaro Division was excised to establish a separate municipality called the Shire of Tiaro. The Tiaro Divisional Board were opposed to the creation of the shire, and had attempted various legal actions to prevent it. The new shire started life in an immediate dispute with the division over the apportionment of the accounts. One of the early actions of the Shire Council was to commission the construction of a shire hall, which many of their ratepayers saw as an unnecessary expense. By April 1886, the ratepayers were petitioning to abolish the Shire. As a result, on 16 December 1886, the shire was abolished and the territory returned to authority of the Tiaro Division. With the passage of the
Local Authorities Act 1902, Tiaro Division became Shire of Tiaro on 31 March 1903. On 17 February 1917, as part of a restructuring of local government in the Wide Bay–Burnett area, the Shire of Tiaro absorbed the
Shire of Tinana and part of the
Shire of Granville which had governed areas to the north and east of Tiaro since the 1880s. On 15 March 2008, under the
Local Government (Reform Implementation) Act 2007 passed by the
Parliament of Queensland on 10 August 2007, the Shire of Tiaro was dissolved. Division 3 of the Shire, located generally south of Blowers Road, Wards Road and Ularrah Creek and including the towns of
Theebine,
Curra and
Gunalda, became part of the new
Gympie Region together with the Shires of
Cooloola and
Kilkivan. The other two divisions amalgamated with
Woocoo and the Cities of
Hervey Bay and
Maryborough to create
Fraser Coast Region. In doing so, Tiaro became one of the only three former shires in Queensland not to stay intact, alongside
Taroom and
Beaudesert. ==Economy==