About the SouthWest Victoria Alliance

SouthWest Victoria Alliance advocates on behalf of communities across a vast region that includes the shires of Corangamite, Glenelg, Moyne, Southern Grampians and the City of Warrnambool.

The region runs from Apollo Bay in the east to the South Australian border in the west, from the Indian Ocean in the south to Balmoral in the north.

In 2024 we launched an updated SWVA vision at the Victorian Parliament House in Melbourne. Click this link to read the document [PDF].

Deakin University and Wannon Water are also represented on the committee.

It is home to more than 110,000 people and covers 23,000 square kilometres.

Key population centres include Warrnambool, Colac, Port Fairy, Camperdown, Portland and Hamilton.

We acknowledge that the region sits on the traditional lands of many First Nations peoples, including the Gulidjan, Gadubanud, Wadawurrung, Eastern Maar, Boandik, Jardwadjali, Tjap Wurrung, Bunganditj and the Gunditjmara or Gunditjamara people, also known as Dhauwurd Wurrung people.

The region is a key agricultural production area with $4.6 billion in food and fibre output in 2020/21.

Tourism is also a key sector for the region with more than five million people visiting annually. The globally significant attractions in the 12 Apostles and the UNESCO World heritage site Budj Bim, in the traditional country of the Gunditjmara people.