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The Nationals contested Port Macquarie at the 2023 state election, but Williams retained the seat for the Liberals with a two-candidate-preferred vote of 60.8%. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Williams was the first Liberal member since Les Jordan to win Port Macquarie since 1962 in its prior iteration as Oxley.
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This is a list of officeholders of Port Macquarie-Hastings Council and its predecessors, a local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The Mayor of the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council since 4 August 2017 is Peta Pinson, an independent politician who joined the National Party in 2023. [1]
Port Macquarie, sometimes shortened to Port Mac and commonly locally nicknamed Port, [2] is a coastal city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 390 km (242 mi) north of Sydney, and 570 km (354 mi) south of Brisbane, on the Tasman Sea coast at the mouth of the Hastings River, and the eastern end of the Oxley Highway (B56).
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council is composed of eight councillors elected proportionally to a single ward, as well as a directly-elected mayor. In July 2023, Team Pinson councillor Sharon Griffiths resigned from council. [42] Her position was left vacant until the 2024 election. [43]
Thomas Till – 8 November 1822 – Hanged at Sydney for stealing a boat at Port Macquarie. [33] William Poole – 22 May 1823 – Hanged at Sydney for returning from Port Macquarie in defiance of his commuted sentence. Originally sentenced to death for leading a party of convicts in escape into the hinterland, in the hope they could walk to Timor.
Port Macquarie was created in 1988, replacing Oxley (which was then recreated to the north-west of Port Macquarie in 1991). It has historically been a comfortably safe seat for the National Party and has remained a centre-right seat for its entire existence. Dating to its time as Oxley, the Port Macquarie area had been held by a conservative ...
It includes Port Macquarie and the area around it. Macquarie County was named in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie (1762–1824). [1] Parishes within this county