Bruce is a
suburb
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of the
Belconnen
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district of
Canberra
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, that is located within the
Australian Capital Territory
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,
Australia
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. The suburb was gazetted on 6 June 1968 and named for
The Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1883–1967), the eighth
Prime Minister of Australia
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and the first Chancellor of the
Australian National University
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.
Demographics
At the , Bruce had a population of 7,520 people,
[ an increase from 6,390 in 2011 and 3,012 in 2001. 58.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were ]China
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(6.2%), India
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(4.9%), Nepal
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(3.5%), England
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(2.1%) and Vietnam
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(1.6%). 62.7% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin
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* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
(6.7%), Nepali (3.5%), Cantonese
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(2.0%) and Vietnamese (1.8%). The most common responses for religion were No Religion (44.1%) and Catholic
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(15.3%). 20.7% of dwellings were separate houses, 45.8% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses and 33.4% of were units or apartments.
Places of interest
* Canberra Stadium
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is the home of the Canberra Raiders
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rugby league
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and Brumbies
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rugby union
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sides, and occasionally hosts national and international sporting events
* Canberra International Sports and Aquatic Centre
*The University of Canberra
The University of Canberra (UC) is a public university, public research university with its main campus located in Bruce, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The campus is from Belconnen Town Centre, and from Canberra's Civic, Australian ...
(UC) has an enrolment of over 10,000 students and is one of four major universities in Canberra
*The Australian Institute of Sport
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...
(AIS)
* Calvary Public Hospital
*Bruce Campus of the Canberra Institute of Technology
* Radford College
Development
The Fern Hill section of the suburb was originally planned as a hub for information and communications technology businesses, with some low-rise office buildings being developed off Thynne Street, along with a small commercial centre including a cafe. However, the area has seen considerable residential development, with densities ranging from detached houses through to four-story apartment buildings, with commercial ground floor uses.
Street names
Many of the streets in Bruce are named after people and places associated with Australian tertiary education, including:
* Agar Street – Wilfred Eade Agar, professor of zoology
* Battye Street – James Battye
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, chancellor
* Braybrooke Street – Ernest Kingston Braybrooke, professor of law
* College Street – Canberra College of Advanced Education, now the University of Canberra
The University of Canberra (UC) is a public university, public research university with its main campus located in Bruce, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The campus is from Belconnen Town Centre, and from Canberra's Civic, Australian ...
* Crisp Circuit – Finlay Crisp, professor and Rhodes Scholar
* Funder Street – Kathleen Funder, writer, teacher, and educational psychologist
* Jaeger Circuit – John Conrad Jaeger, professor of geophysics and mathematics
* Leverrier Street – Frank Leverrier, vice-chancellor
* Mugglestone Place – Donald Mugglestone, professor of physics
* Purdie Street – Alexander Purdie, professor of geology
* Thynne Street – Andrew Joseph Thynne, government minister and university chancellor and vice-chancellor (who pronounced his name "thin")
Transport
The suburb is also relatively well-served by public transport
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, with routes R2, R3 and R4 running through it via the Calvary Hospital, Radford College, and the University of Canberra
The University of Canberra (UC) is a public university, public research university with its main campus located in Bruce, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The campus is from Belconnen Town Centre, and from Canberra's Civic, Australian ...
. Route R9 connects the suburb to the Gungahlin light rail at Dickson. Additionally, a number of cycle routes provide links to the Inner North, Belconnen Town Centre
Belconnen Town Centre is the town centre of the district of Belconnen in the Australian Capital Territory. Is located on the south-western shore of Lake Ginninderra.
Belconnen Town Centre contains several Federal and Territory government depa ...
, and Kaleen
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.
Political representation
For the purposes of Australian federal elections for the House of Representatives
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, Bruce is in the Division of Canberra
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.
For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for the ACT Legislative Assembly, Bruce is in the Ginninderra electorate
The Ginninderra electorate is one of the five Electorates of the Australian Capital Territory, electorates for the unicameral 25-member Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It elects five members.
History
It was created in 1995, wh ...
.
Geology
Bruce is dominated by the greywacke
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of the Ordovician
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Pittman Formation. Bands of the black Acton 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 ...
Member are found under the University of Canberra and the Calvary Hospital. Glebe Farm Adamellite is a coarse porphyritic micro adamellite of the Silurian
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age. It intrudes in the west north and southeast and southwest of University of Canberra. A triangle of Silurian
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age calcareous shale of the Canberra formation is in the north east of Bruce.[Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.]
Gallery
File:GIO_Stadium_Canberra_2019_(3).jpg, Canberra Stadium
File:Australian_Institute_of_Sport_2019.jpg, Australian Institute of Sport
File:Canberra University building, April 2013.JPG, University of Canberra
File:Canberra Institute of Technology, Bruce campus, July 2013.JPG, Canberra Institute of Technology
Image:BruceSuburb.JPG, Residential area within Bruce
File:The Hub apartment complex, Thynne Street, Bruce, ACT, August 2012.JPG, The Hub apartment complex
File:Apartments, Braybrooke Street, Bruce, ACT, March 2013.JPG, Apartments, Braybrooke Street
References
Further reading
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