Deakin (
postcode: 2600) is a suburb of
Canberra
Canberra ( )
is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
,
Australian Capital Territory
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, Australia. Development began in the 1920s, although the vast majority of the suburb was built after 1945. It is a largely residential suburb. It includes the official residence of the
Prime Minister
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,
The Lodge, and the
Royal Australian Mint
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.
History
Deakin was gazetted in 1928 and is named after
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919) was an Australian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of Australia. He was a leader of the movement for Federation, which occurred in 1901. During his three terms as prime ministe ...
, second prime minister of Australia. Streets in Deakin are named after Governors,
Governors-General
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and diplomats.
Deakin includes several items that are listed by the ACT Heritage Council:
*
Canberra Girls' Grammar School
, motto_translation = To the young, anything is possible
, established = 1926
, type = Independent school, Independent, Day school, day and Boarding school, boarding
, gender = Co-educ ...
Boarding House on Melbourne Avenue, which was the original school building with school rooms on the lower floor and boarders on the upper floor. Construction began on 8 May 1927 and was finished in 1928. It is a two-storey building with an attic room designed in the Interwar
Tudor Revival
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style. The Heritage Council says it is significant as a "fine example of Interwar Old English style architecture and one of the very few in Canberra."
*10 Gawler Crescent, a Post-War
International style residence designed by Alex Jelinek in 1956.
*70 Dominion Circuit, which is seen by the Heritage Council as demonstrating "a way of life that is no longer practised. The house and garage remain in original condition, demonstrating the character of a block and dwelling occupied by early middle to upper ranking Canberra public servants from the immediate pre to the immediate post World War 2 period."
*The Deakin Anticline (see Geology).
The Lodge and the Royal Australian Mint are listed on the Commonwealth Heritage List.
Suburb amenities
A local shopping centre is located on Hopetoun Circuit and contains an IGA supermarket, service station, newsagent, chemist, and restaurants. The Deakin Health Spa, adjacent to the shops, has recently been taken over and rebadged as the local Fitness First facility. The Canberra Deakin Soccer Club is also located near by. The Embassy Hotel/Motel was also adjacent to the shops, but has since been demolished.
Education
Schools in the suburb of Deakin include
Alfred Deakin High School
Alfred Deakin High School is a government secondary school in Deakin, Australian Capital Territory, covering years 7 to 10 in the Territory's education system. It is named after the second Australian Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin.
History
T ...
(originally Deakin High),
Canberra Girls' Grammar School
, motto_translation = To the young, anything is possible
, established = 1926
, type = Independent school, Independent, Day school, day and Boarding school, boarding
, gender = Co-educ ...
and the erroneously named Woden School, which has always been situated within the South Canberra district of Canberra, not the Woden Valley district.
Deakin residents get preference for:
*Depending on the address: Forrest Primary or Yarralumla Primary
*Depending on the address: Deakin High School or
Telopea Park School
, image = Telopea Park School in Barton (1).jpg
, image_size = 250
, caption =
, motto = la, Spectans orientia solis lumina
, motto_translation = Looking towards the rising sun
, established =
, type = Government ...
(for high school)
*
Narrabundah College
Narrabundah College is a government college that teaches the last two years of secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It was the first school in Australia to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB), starting the progr ...
The
Canberra Japanese Supplementary School Inc.
A Japanese supplementary school provides supplementary Japanese education to Japanese residents living abroad. There are three major Japanese supplementary schools in Australia, all designated by MEXT as a Hoshū jugyō kō, providing Japanese ...
, a
Japanese weekend educational programme, holds its classes at Deakin High School, while it has its school office in
Yarralumla. It was established on 1 August 1988.
Notable places
Embassies
Deakin contains the
embassies
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of
Afghanistan
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,
Bosnia
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,
Hungary
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and
Italy
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and the
high commissions of
Brunei
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,
Cyprus
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,
Fiji
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,
Mauritius
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and
Solomon Islands
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The Lodge
Located on Adelaide Avenue the Lodge is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Australia.
The Royal Australian Mint
Officially opened by the
Duke of Edinburgh
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on 22 February 1965, the
Royal Australian Mint
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was commissioned to produce Australia's decimal coinage, which came into effect on 14 February 1966.
Demographics
At the , the population of Deakin was 3,124; 1.3% were Indigenous, 69.3% were born in Australia and 5.1% were born in England. 78.4% of people only spoke English at home. 67.9% of dwellings were separate houses (compared to the Australian average of 72.3%), 18.0% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses (Australian average: 12.8%) and 13.9% were flats, units or apartments (Australian average: 14.2%). 43.8% of the population were professionals, compared to the Australian average of 24.0%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 41.7%, Catholic 19.9% and Anglican 13.4%.
Politics
Deakin is located within the federal
electorate
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* The people who are eligible to vote in an election, especially their number e.g. the term ''size of (the) electorate''
* The dominion of a Prince-elector
The prince-electors (german: Kurfürst pl. , cz, Kurfiřt, ...
of
Canberra
Canberra ( )
is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
, which is currently represented by
Alicia Payne
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in the
House of Representatives
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. In the
ACT Legislative Assembly
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, Deakin is part of the
electorate of Murrumbidgee, which elects five members on the basis of proportional representation; as of 2020, the members are two Labor, two
Liberal
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** Liberalism by country
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* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
and one
Greens.
Polling place statistics are shown to the right for the ''Deakin'' polling place at
Canberra Girls' Grammar School
, motto_translation = To the young, anything is possible
, established = 1926
, type = Independent school, Independent, Day school, day and Boarding school, boarding
, gender = Co-educ ...
Junior School, Grey St in the
2022 federal[ and 2020 ACT] elections.
Geology
The west of the suburb exposes Yarralumla Formation calcareous shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especial ...
, sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
, tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock cont ...
and hornfels
Hornfels is the group name for a set of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and hardened by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and have been rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable. These pro ...
. The east of the suburb exposes Mount Painter Volcanics dark grey to green grey dacitic crystal tuff and agglomerate. A patch of cream rhyolite, tuff and ashstone is found in the mid east near Empire Circuit.[
The Deakin Fault does not actually pass through Deakin. The Deakin Fault is a major fault in Canberra running North-west to south-east passing through state circle very close to Deakin. It extends from the hills to the east of ]Jerrabomberra
Jerrabomberra is a suburb of Queanbeyan in south eastern New South Wales, Australia. Jerrabomberra consists of three sections, The Park, The Heights, and Lakeview. The Park and the Heights are divided by Edwin Land Parkway. At the , it had 9, ...
via Narrabundah, Griffith, Forest, Yarralumla, then across the Molonglo River to Cook
Cook or The Cook may refer to:
Food preparation
* Cooking, the preparation of food
* Cook (domestic worker), a household staff member who prepares food
* Cook (professional), an individual who prepares food for consumption in the food industry
* ...
, then turns north east in Macquarie where it turns around to the north west again via Belconnen
The District of Belconnen () is one of the original eighteen districts of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), used in land administration. The district is subdivided into 27 divisions (suburbs), sections and blocks. The district of Belconn ...
, Evatt, Melba, Flynn
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A ...
, Charnwood, Dunlop and out the north west of the ACT. It continues to the east end of Lake Burrunjuck near Yass. The block on the north east side was elevated and the south west side lowered.[Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.]
The Deakin Anticline is a geological monument located between the Deakin Oval and the Grange Retirement Village. It is in the Yarralumla Formation in Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock cont ...
acious sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
and siltstone
Siltstone, also known as aleurolite, is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of silt. It is a form of mudrock with a low clay mineral content, which can be distinguished from shale by its lack of fissility.Blatt ''et al.'' 1980, p ...
. Access is from Hannah Place.
References
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