Parkes is an inner southern

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...

of the Canberra Central district of

Canberra Canberra ( ; ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the Federation of Australia, federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's list of cities in Australia, largest in ...

, located within the

Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory until 1938, is an internal States and territories of Australia, territory of Australia. Canberra, the capital city of Australia, is situated within the territory, an ...

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. Located southeast of the Canberra central business district, Parkes contains the Parliamentary Triangle and many of the national monuments of Australia's

capital city A capital city, or just capital, is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state (polity), state, province, department (administrative division), department, or other administrative division, subnational division, usually as its ...

. Parkes is named in honour of Sir

Henry Parkes Sir Henry Parkes, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was a colonial Australian politician and the longest-serving non-consecutive Premier of New South Wales, premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in ...

, a Federalist, legislator and one of the founders of the

Australian Constitution The Constitution of Australia (also known as the Commonwealth Constitution) is the fundamental law that governs the political structure of Australia. It is a written constitution, which establishes the country as a Federation of Australia, ...

. Streets in Parkes are named after monarchs and constitutional references. Parkes contains many of Canberra's large institutions and contains limited residential areas.

Population

At the , Parkes had no population. At the , it had five people, at the , it had no people, at the it had four people and at the it had 27 people.

Notable places

* Aboriginal Tent Embassy * Commonwealth Park * Commonwealth Place *East Block * Kings Park *Central Basin of Lake Burley Griffin *

High Court of Australia The High Court of Australia is the apex court of the Australian legal system. It exercises original and appellate jurisdiction on matters specified in the Constitution of Australia and supplementary legislation. The High Court was establi ...

* National Carillon * National Gallery of Australia *

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* National Rose Garden * Old Parliament House * Questacon *

Reconciliation Place Reconciliation Place is an urban landscape design in the Parliamentary Triangle Canberra, Australia dedicated to reconciliation in Australia, reconciliation between Australia's Indigenous peoples and the mainly European settler population. Reconc ...

*Regatta Point *West Block

Geology

The geology of Parkes has been studied in great detail. Canberra Formation, calcareous

shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of Clay mineral, clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g., Kaolinite, kaolin, aluminium, Al2Silicon, Si2Oxygen, O5(hydroxide, OH)4) and tiny f ...

is found in the lower parts. This overlies middle

Silurian The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 23.5 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the third and shortest period of t ...

Camp Hill

Sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

. The sandstone unconformably overlies the early Silurian Black Mountain Sandstone and State Circle Shale. State Circle Shale is Late Llandovery in a more finely divided time scale and it has been dated to 445 ±7 million years old. The State Circle Shale is composed of laminated shales 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. Although its permeabil ...

. Black Mountain

is composed of a white quartz sandstone.

Education

Parkes residents get preference for:Priority Enrolment Areas 2015 by Suburb
(). Education Directorate, Australian Capital Territory. Retrieved 8 February 2016. *Forrest Primary * Telopea Park School (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 ...

Gallery

High Court Australia-03JAC.jpg,

NGA Canberra-01JAC.jpg, National Gallery of Australia NLA Canberra-01JAC.JPG,

Treasury, Parkes.JPG, The Treasury building with Telstra Tower in the background.

References