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| Australian federal election, 2016
Division of Oxley, Queensland
Western Brisbane: Darra, Goodna, Inala, Jindalee
Sitting member: Hon Bernie Ripoll (Labor), elected 2008. Retiring 2016
Enrolment at close of rolls: 95,008
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 3.8%
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Candidates in ballot-paper order:
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1. Brad Trussell
One Nation |
2. Caroline McCormack
Family First |
3. Stephen Lacaze
Katter's Australian Party |
4. Bibe Roadley
Liberal Party |
5. Milton Dick
Australian Labor Party |
6. Steve Purcell
Australian Greens |
2013 results
Statistics and history
Oxley was created in 1949, based on the provincial city of Ipswich west of Brisbane, and adjoining rural areas (there was an earlier seat of Oxley in Brisbane from 1901 to 1934). The rapid industrialisation of Ipswich after World War II gradually changed what was a safe Liberal seat in the 1950s into a safe Labor seat in the 1980s. The last three redistributions, however, have drawn Oxley eastwards into the suburbs of Brisbane. In 1998 half of Ipswich was shifted into the new seat of Blair, and in 2006 the rest of Ipswich followed. Oxley is now entirely a Brisbane suburban seat, and the addition of Liberal-voting suburbs such as Jindalee have substantially weakened it for Labor.
Oxley is a low-income mortgage belt seat, with a high proportion of families with dependent children and dwellings being purchased, though not as high as in outer suburban seats. Bill Hayden, Leader of the Opposition from 1977 to 1983, Foreign Minister in the Hawke government, and later Governor-General, won Oxley in 1961 and made it a safe Labor seat. Pauline Hanson won Oxley as a disendorsed Liberal in 1996, and then formed an extreme right-wing party, One Nation. Following a resdistribution, she stood for Blair in 1998 and was defeated. Oxley was then regained for Labor by Bernie Ripoll.
Bernie Ripoll, Labor MP for Oxley since 1998, was an RAAF electrician before entering politics. He was on the opposition frontbench from 2004 to 2007, but did not gain promotion in government until early 2013, when he became a Parliamentary Secretary. He is retiring at the 2016 election.
The new Labor candidate is Milton Dick, a former Queensland Labor State Secretary and now Labor Leader on the Brisbane City Council. The Liberal candidate is Bibe Roadley, who runs a leadership and management training business with her husbane. Roadley was a Family First candidate at the 2012 state election.
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