Oakwood, Queensland opposite a park from the Oakwood Queensland Country Women's Association Hall. The Oakwood State School also serves as a place where the local families gather. Oakwood, Queensland Oakwood is a locality in the Bundaberg Region of the greater Wide Bay region of Queensland, Australia. It is about 300 km from Queensland's capital city of Brisbane and Bundaberg is about 5.89 km away. Oakwood is in the federal electorate of Flynn. In the 2011 census the population of Oakwood was 341. Oakwood is bounded on the south by the Burnett River and on the west by Splitters Creek. The North Coast
National Party of Australia – Queensland the Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland Division) in 1949. A pattern was set in the 1944 state election whereby the Country Party secured fewer votes but more seats than the People's Party; this pattern would continue into the 1970s. Nicklin would continue to lead the party to defeat over five successive elections, but there seemed little prospect of defeating Labour, especially after the introduction of a malapportionment that significantly varied the size of electorates in different zones of the state. In 1957 the Labor Party in Queensland was engulfed in the split that had been growing in the party across