Evatt () is a suburb in the

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district of

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, located within the

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, Australia. Evatt lies between the suburbs of McKellar,

, Florey, Melba and Spence. The suburb is named after Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965), a Justice of the High Court and

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in the 1950s. The suburb was gazetted on 2 November 1972. Streets in the suburb are named after people associated with parliament, and law professionals. Evatt has three neighbourhood ovals: Evatt Neighbourhood Oval, adjacent to Evatt Primary School; South West Evatt Oval, and St. Monica's Primary School oval. Evatt is bordered by Copland Drive, Owen Dixon Drive, William Webb Drive and Ginninderra Drive.

Education

The first school in the area used the building of the original Ginninderra

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church of St Paul situated at the corner block marked by the current Copland Drive, Moynihan Street, and Sharwood Crescent (opposite the current St Monica's church and school.) The property had been established in 1861 as "Glebe Farm", consisting of 0.5ha for the church and 1ha for the larger church yard and cemetery, and the remainder totalling 81ha for the farm to support the church's upkeep. This was a donation by Charles Campbell of Duntroon to the Anglican Church, from his original Ginninderra property. The first teacher was Hugh McPhee (until 1868) and the school closed in 1874 when the Ginninderra School opened to the north near the current Barton Highway.St Paul's Burial Ground

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School Museum and Heritage Centre, retrieved 2017-12-29Evatt unmarked cemetery
Canberra Tracks, ACT Government, retrieved 2017-12-29 Evatt currently has three local primary schools: Evatt Primary School, Miles Franklin Primary School and St. Monica's Primary School.

Political representation

For the purposes of Australian federal elections for the

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, Evatt is in the Division of Fenner. For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for the ACT Legislative Assembly, Evatt is in the

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Geology

A porphyry of Green-grey Dacitic intrusive containing large white

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crystals is found under almost all of Evatt including all north of Moynihan Street. Glebe Farm Adamellite intrusion forms a strip a couple of hundred metres wide coming from the east of the suburb just to the south of Moynihan Street. Green grey dacitic tuff from the Hawkins Volcanics occur in the south west corner. This corner is cut by the Deakin fault near Brebner Street. Right in the very south west corner is a patch of 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 ...

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

References

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