The cities of Whyalla, Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Clare and Port Lincoln are in the division. Towns stretch from Penong and Ceduna to Coober Pedy, Marree, Oodnadatta, Marla and Innamincka in the far north, Jamestown and Eudunda in the mid north, Maitland and Kadina on the Yorke Peninsula, the Clare Valley, Dublin and areas extending to just south of Two Wells.
The division was named after Sir George Grey (1812-1898), Governor of South Australia from 1841-1845.
Products and Industries of the area include broad-acre agriculture and pastoral grazing (wheat, wool, sheep cattle etc), mining (copper, silver, iron ore, gold & uranium), heavy industry (lead smelting, steel making), fishing (Port Lincoln has the largest commercial fishing fleet in the southern hemisphere), oil, gas, opals, wines, aquaculture, salt production and horticulture.
Bute is centrally positioned to service this vast electorate.
61% of residents live within less than 95 minutes, and using the Wallaroo ferry 92% in less than 2.5 hours of driving
The electorate of Grey covers 908,595 sq km, 92.3% of South Australia; equivalent to 7 Englands. Within our electorate are the State electorates of Flinders, Giles, Stuart, Narungga, most of Frome and some of Chaffey and Light.
We generate much of South Australia’s wealth through our:
