Flynn (

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: 2615) is a suburb in the

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district of

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, located within the

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. The suburb is named after John Flynn, who was a Presbyterian minister and missionary who was mainly responsible for the formation of the Australian Inland Mission Aerial Medical service in 1928. Flynn was the forerunner of the

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in Australia. Streets in Flynn are named after workers in the flying doctor service, and the suburb name 'Flynn' was gazetted on 9 September 1971. Flynn is located between Tillyard Drive, Kingsford Smith Drive and Ginninderra Drive and is next to the suburbs of Charnwood,

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, Melba, Latham and Spence. In 2011, the median house price for the suburb of Flynn was .

Schools

Flynn Primary School and Preschool are located in the centre of the suburb. Flynn Primary School and Preschool were opened in February 1974, and the primary school was closed in 2006 under the

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's controversial mass school closures program. The preschool is still open. The school's community appealed the closure in the ACT Supreme Court, raising A$50,000 demanded by the ACT Government as security of costs to proceed. Despite running for two years, the appeal was never heard in court. In March 2009, the appeal was dismissed by consent when the ACT Government threatened to apply for further costs.Hansard 17 November 2009 page 5129
/ref> Children living in Flynn attend schools in Neighbouring suburbs: *

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St Francis Xavier College (Canberra) St Francis Xavier College (abbreviated SFX) is a coeducational, systemic Catholic high school and college in Florey, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The college caters for years 7 to 12 from the Belconnen and Gungahlin areas and i ...

Copland College Melba Copland Secondary School opened in 1978 at Copland Drive, Melba, Australian Capital Territory, Australia It is a supporter of the IB Diploma Program The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) is a two-year educational pro ...

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* St Monica's Primary School, Evatt * Fraser Primary school * Latham Primary school * Mt Rogers Primary school

Heritage

Flynn Primary School and Preschool were one of only four school complexes designed by award-winning architect

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, and is considered to be a good example of his dramatic application of twentieth century organic architecture. The Primary School was the first fully open-plan school in the ACT. The grounds also contain a National Memorial to the Royal Flying Doctors' Reverend John Flynn and a separate memorial to George Simpson. Taglietti called the school one of his most important works.Stateline Report – Back to Flynn School
ABC Stateline 29 May 2009 An application for heritage listing of the Flynn Primary School and grounds, Flynn Preschool and George Simpson Park was lodged in December 2007 by the John Flynn Community Group. The complex met the threshold for listing on the

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,Letter from Chief Minister Jon Stanhope 4 September 2009 leading to a commitment from the

to retain the building and grounds and protect their heritage value.'Parents happy Flynn site will stay in public hands', 17 October 2009 page 11 Canberra Times In early 2010, however, the ACT Heritage Council rejected the application. Two Flynn community groups and Taglietti joined to appeal this decision in the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal. On 18 February 2011, the Tribunal upheld the ACT Heritage Council's decision to not list Flynn Primary School. In December 2012, an appeal was lodged before the ACT Supreme Court.Opinion – 'battlers' lock horns with heritage council
Canberra Times 7 February 2012

Political representation

For the purposes of Australian federal elections for the

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, Flynn is in the

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. For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for the

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, Flynn is in the

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Geology

The southwest of Flynn is dominated by Deakin Volcanics purple

rhyodacite Rhyodacite is a volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of those plutonic rocks that are intermediate in composition between monzogranite and granodiorite. Rhyodacites form from rapid ...

. Grey rhyodacitic

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 ...

forms a stipe of rocks in the south with green grey and purple rhyodacite in the south corner. The Deakin Fault passes in the north west direction separating the Deakin Volcanics on the south west from the Hawkins Volcanics on the north east side. The fault lowered on the south west. Hawkins Volcanics Green grey

dacite Dacite () is a volcanic rock formed by rapid solidification of lava that is high in silica and low in alkali metal oxides. It has a fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic texture and is intermediate in composition between andesite and rhyolite. ...

and quartz

andesite Andesite () is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition. In a general sense, it is the intermediate type between silica-poor basalt and silica-rich rhyolite. It is fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic in texture, and is composed predomi ...

occur in the north of Flynn. This is intruded by a band of Glebe Farm

Adamellite Quartz monzonite is an intrusive, felsic, igneous rock that has an approximately equal proportion of orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars. It is typically a light colored phaneritic (coarse-grained) to porphyritic granitic rock. The plagioclas ...

.Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.

References

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