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Australian federal election, 2025
Division of Oxley, Queensland
Named for: John Oxley (1784-1829), explorer of NSW and Queensland.
Western Brisbane: Camira, Forest Lake, Goodna, Inala, Jindalee
Enrolment at 2019 election: 104,200
Enrolment at 2022 election: 112,658 (+08.2)
1999 republic referendum: No 65.4
2018 same-sex marriage survey: Yes 60.3
2023 Voice referendum: No 59.7
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Sitting member: Hon Milton Dick (Labor): Elected 2016, 2019, 2022
Speaker of the House of Representatives
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2007 Labor majority over Liberal: 14.1%
2010 Labor majority over Liberal: 5.8%
2013 Labor majority over Liberal: 3.8%
2016 Labor majority over Liberal: 9.1%
2019 Labor majority over Liberal: 6.4%
2022 Labor majority over Liberal: 11.6%
Status: Fairly safe Labor
Labor two-party vote 1983-2022
Status: Fairly safe Labor
2022 results
Statistics and history
Division of Oxley
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. Successive 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
redistribution, she stood for Blair in 1998 and was defeated. Oxley was then regained for Labor by
Bernie Ripoll, who a parliamentary secretary in the Rudd-Gillard government, and retired in 2016.
Milton Dick, Labor MP for Oxley since 2016, Queensland Labor State Secretary 2004-08, a Brisbane City Councillor 2008-16, and Labor Leader on the Council 2012-16. He is the brother of
Hon Cameron Dick, a Queensland state minister. After the 2022 election he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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