Download coordinates as: Oxley is a south-western suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

[citation needed] The suburb is traversed by the Ipswich Motorway connecting Oxley to Rocklea to the east and Darra to the west.

Oxley also contains the Canossa Private Hospital and.the Queensland Police Service's training academy.

[11][12] The former Austral Bricks quarry site in Douglas Street, as well as two other plots of vacant land in the area have been converted to residential estates.

[citation needed] The area that is now known as Oxley has been an important place to Aboriginal people for thousands of years.

The banks of Benarrawa, the original name for Oxley Creek, were home to clans such as the Yerongpan and Chepora, part of the Yugara and Yugarabul peoples.

Surrounded by dense forest and abundant wildlife like kangaroos (murri), koalas (dumbirrbi), turtles (binkin), and black swans (marutchi), This area also served as a transit route (kul'gun) for other clans travelling throughout the region.

Many traditional land management and hunting techniques were used around Benarrawa, such as firestick farming and the use of ingenious fishing methods like traps and chemical stunning.

[18] Oxley once covered a larger area including the suburbs of Chelmer, Graceville and Corinda to the north.

[14] The suburb was a stop-over point on the Cobb & Co coach route west to the Darling Downs.

[citation needed] By the late 1860s the area had grown sufficiently to support a hotel, racecourse, post office and churches.

[19] In 1869, a floating sugar mill and cane crushing plant, named the Walrus, was operating in Oxley Creek as well as other places.

[20][18] In the 1870s, small scale farming progressively diversified into dairying and other agricultural pursuits, for instance bacon processing.

[14] A small creamery was operating in 1873, most probably located near Factory Road in Oxley's south-east parts.

[18][22] This led to the establishment of a second subdivision in 1876, referred to as the Township of Oxley which was centred on the train station.

The 1893 Brisbane flood halted housing construction in the lower parts of Oxley for many years.

[24] Newspaper advertisements for the auction state the Estate has splendid river frontage and is only five minutes' walk from Oxley Station.

the Darra cement works on the western edge of Oxley had plans for a major expansion.

In the 1960s the group played a major role in the proclamation of Queensland's Clean Air Act.

It is constructed of sandstone and marble and was built in honour of those from the district who died in World War I.

[citation needed] The Bunnings warehouse on Blunder Road was flooded and was closed for 2 months.

The other top responses for country of birth were Vietnam 4.3%, England 3.7%, New Zealand 3.3%, Philippines 1.4%, India 1.2%.

72.1% of people spoke only English at home, the next most popular languages were 6.1% Vietnamese, 1% Hindi, 1% Arabic, 1% Mandarin, 0.8% Cantonese.

[7] Queensland Police Academy has its Brisbane campus at 92 Rudd Street (27°34′12″S 152°58′28″E / 27.5701°S 152.9745°E / -27.5701; 152.9745 (educational facility)).

The district park replaces the former Inala wastewater treatment plant and has a number of indoor and outdoor community spaces, playgrounds with water features, and picnic and barbeque facilities.

Oxley Road connects the Ipswich Motorway to the suburb of Indooroopilly via the Walter Taylor Bridge.

[8] This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Oxley, Brisbane (5 October 2012) by Brian Randall published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence, accessed on 11 February 2022.