Macquarie () is a residential suburb in the

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. Macquarie was gazetted as a division on 22 June 1967 in recognition of Major-General

Lachlan Macquarie Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (; ; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Gove ...

, a former Governor of New South Wales. Streets in Macquarie are named after contemporaries of Governor Macquarie. Macquarie is located in the inner north Canberra district of Belconnen. It is bordered to the north by Belconnen Way, Bindubi Street to the east, Redfern Street to the south and Coulter Drive to the west.

Demographics

At the , Macquarie had a population of 2,700 people. The census shows that Macquarie residents have an average age of 36 compared to a Canberra average of 35. The population of Macquarie is predominantly Australian-born at 65.7% with the second most common birthplace being China (excluding SARs and Taiwan) at 4.0% of the population. Accommodation is predominantly separate houses (70.7%) with a gradual increase in flats, units and apartments (17.9%, slightly under the ACT and Australian averages) since previous census periods. There are a group of streets with public housing adjacent to the Jamison Centre.

Suburb amenities

There is a small shopping centre on Lachlan Street in Macquarie that has a Medical Centre, Chemist, Coffee Shop and ''Kinh Doh'' Vietnamese restaurant. The Jamison Centre is the major shopping centre in Macquarie and has a popular outdoor Rotary community market every Sunday morning. Adjacent to the Jamison Centre is Big Splash, one of Canberra's few privately owned but public swimming pools and home to Canberra's only outdoor water slide. On the corner of Bindubi Street and Belconnen Way is the Canberra High School originally established in 1938 at Telopea Park School and then Acton from 1939 until moving to the current site when officially opened on 21 August 1972; it has large playing fields between it and the swimming pool.
Macquarie Primary School
on Bennelong Crescent is a government run school established in 1968 and was the first school in Belconnen.

Transport

ACTION bus route 32 connects Macquarie with Belconnen Town Centre and

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Political representation

For the purposes of Australian federal elections for the

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, Macquarie is in the

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

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Geology

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from the

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era (geology), Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon (geology), Eon. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years f ...

Pittman Formation forms a band down the east of Macquarie. This has been uplifted on the east side of the Deakin Fault. The fault heads in the north east direction in this suburb, whereas the Deakin fault normally heads in the north west direction. A porphyry of Green-grey Dacitic intrusive containing large white

feldspar Feldspar ( ; sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium. The most common members of the feldspar group are the ''plagiocl ...

crystals is found under the Jamison Centre. Green grey

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 ...

of the Walker Volcanics underlie the center and west of Macquarie.Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.

References

*Canberra Suburbs, radio show, 666 ABC (23 December 2002)

External links

666 Canberra website
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