Electoral District Of Oxley (New South Wales)
Oxley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by the Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Andrew Stoner of the National Party of Australia.
According to the report for the 2004 redistribution of electoral districts, it was estimated that the electoral district would have 47,650 electors on 29 April 2007. At the 2007 election it included most of Bellingen Shire (including Bellingen and Dorrigo), Nambucca Shire (including Nambucca Heads, Macksville and Bowraville), Kempsey Shire, some of inland Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, including Wauchope, the lightly inhabited northwest of the City of Greater Taree, and the lightly inhabited eastern fringe of Walcha Shire and Armidale Dumaresq Shire.
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