Gilmore, Australian Capital Territory
Encyclopedia
Gilmore is a suburb in the Canberra
, Australia
district of Tuggeranong. The postcode is 2905. The suburb is named after the poet and journalist, Dame Mary Gilmore
. It was gazetted on 5 August 1975. Streets are named after journalists, particularly female journalists.
It is next to the suburbs of Macarthur and Chisholm and is bounded by the Monaro Highway
, Isabella Drive and Hambidge Crescent.
The residents of Gilmore are predominantly Australian born, with 81.0% being born in Australia. The three main countries of birth for those born overseas were United Kingdom
, 4.2%, Vietnam
, 0.9%, and New Zealand
, 0.7%. The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican
, no religion, Uniting
, Presbyterian and Islam
.
and craft centre. An ACTEW
Electricity substation is located in Gilmore, with access off Isabella Drive.
Several ACTION bus routes service Gilmore. Route 67 runs between the Tuggeranong
and Woden
Interchanges every 20 to 60 minutes between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The additional service 267, following the same route through Gilmore as Route 67, runs during peak hour
from the Tuggeranong Interchange to City West. Route 269 also runs during peak hour, between City West and Theodore
. Flexibus service 966 leaves the Tuggeranong Interchange every hour from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and the Erindale Shops every hour from 8:00pm to 11:00 p.m., and services the suburbs of Gilmore, Chisholm
and Richardson
.
Gilmore is located within the federal electorate
of Canberra
. The electorate is currently represented in the House of Representatives
by Annette Ellis
. Canberra is considered a safe Labor
seat. The 2004 Federal election saw a 5.9%, 4.2% and 3.6% swing towards Labor, the Liberals
and the Greens
respectively, and a swing of 6.9% away from the Democrats
and 4.6% against One Nation
.
In the ACT Legislative Assembly
, Gilmore is in the electorate of Brindabella, which is currently represented by three Labor and two Liberal members. The 2004 ACT election saw a swing of 13.6% towards the Liberals and 4.1% against the Democrats.
Polling place statistics are shown above for the Gilmore polling place in the 2004 federal and ACT elections.
age. The rock member is titled Deakin Volcanics. Rhyolite
covers most of Gilmore except in the east where rhyodacite
is found. These are from the Silurian
age at 414 Mya.
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
district of Tuggeranong. The postcode is 2905. The suburb is named after the poet and journalist, Dame Mary Gilmore
Mary Gilmore
Dame Mary Gilmore DBE was a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist.-Early life:Mary Jean Cameron was born on 16 August 1865 at Cotta Walla near Goulburn, New South Wales...
. It was gazetted on 5 August 1975. Streets are named after journalists, particularly female journalists.
It is next to the suburbs of Macarthur and Chisholm and is bounded by the Monaro Highway
Monaro Highway
The Monaro Highway is a state highway in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria, Australia. The Victorian section was formerly known as the Cann Valley Highway until the 1980s....
, Isabella Drive and Hambidge Crescent.
Demographics
On Census night 2006, Gilmore had a population of 2,905 people. The median age of people in Gilmore was 28 years, compared to a median age of 32 for Canberra. Unemployment in Gilmore was half a percent lower than the Canberra average. The median weekly individual income for Gilmore in 2001 was $500–$599, the same as Canberra, while the median weekly household income was $1000–$1199. In 2001 the median monthly housing loan repayment in Gilmore was $800–$999.The residents of Gilmore are predominantly Australian born, with 81.0% being born in Australia. The three main countries of birth for those born overseas were United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, 4.2%, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, 0.9%, and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, 0.7%. The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican
Anglican Church of Australia
The Anglican Church of Australia is a member church of the Anglican Communion. It was previously officially known as the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania...
, no religion, Uniting
Uniting Church in Australia
The Uniting Church in Australia was formed on 22 June 1977 when many congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union....
, Presbyterian and Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
.
Suburb amenities
The Tuggeranong Valley Pony Club is located on Louisa Lawson Crescent; there are also agistment paddocks for horses. Gilmore Nieighbourhood Oval is located on Heagney Crescent. The Rose Cottage heritage site is located off Isabella Drive and is open to the public. The site includes a nurseryNursery (horticulture)
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of...
and craft centre. An ACTEW
ACTEW Corporation
ACTEW Corporation Limited is a government-owned company with assets and investments in water, wastewater, electricity, gas and telecommunications. ACTEW is wholly owned by the ACT Government...
Electricity substation is located in Gilmore, with access off Isabella Drive.
Several ACTION bus routes service Gilmore. Route 67 runs between the Tuggeranong
Tuggeranong Town Centre
Tuggeranong Town Centre services the southernmost Canberra district of Tuggeranong. It is located on the south-western side of Lake Tuggeranong and composed of a large three-storey mall, the Tuggeranong Hyperdome, as well as a smaller shopping complex, the Homeworld, and many other buildings and...
and Woden
Woden Town Centre
Woden Town Centre is the main commercial centre of the district of Woden Valley in Canberra, Australia. It is located in the Canberra suburb of Phillip....
Interchanges every 20 to 60 minutes between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The additional service 267, following the same route through Gilmore as Route 67, runs during peak hour
Rush hour
A rush hour or peak hour is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest. Normally, this happens twice a day—once in the morning and once in the evening, the times during when the most people commute...
from the Tuggeranong Interchange to City West. Route 269 also runs during peak hour, between City West and Theodore
Theodore, Australian Capital Territory
Theodore is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Tuggeranong. The postcode is 2905. The suburb is named after Edward Glanville Theodore , a Queensland premier and deputy Prime Minister. It was gazetted on 5 August 1975. Streets are named after people involved with the civilian war...
. Flexibus service 966 leaves the Tuggeranong Interchange every hour from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and the Erindale Shops every hour from 8:00pm to 11:00 p.m., and services the suburbs of Gilmore, Chisholm
Chisholm, Australian Capital Territory
Chisholm is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Tuggeranong, named after Caroline Chisholm.It was gazetted on 5 August 1975, and streets are named after notable women....
and Richardson
Richardson, Australian Capital Territory
Richardson is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia, district of Tuggeranong. The postcode is 2905. The suburb is named after the author Henry Handel Richardson, nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson . It was gazetted on 5 May 1975. Streets are named after writers, especially female...
.
Politics
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Gilmore is located within the federal electorate
Electoral district
An electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...
of Canberra
Division of Canberra
The Division of Canberra is an Australian Electoral Division in the Australian Capital Territory. The division was created in 1974 from the southern half of the old Division of Australian Capital Territory...
. The electorate is currently represented in the House of Representatives
Australian House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....
by Annette Ellis
Annette Ellis
Annette Louise Ellis , Australian politician, was a Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to August 2010, representing the Division of Namadgi 1996–98 and the Division of Canberra from 1998 to 2010.In the 1996 federal election she contested Namadgi against...
. Canberra is considered a safe Labor
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
seat. The 2004 Federal election saw a 5.9%, 4.2% and 3.6% swing towards Labor, the Liberals
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
and the Greens
Australian Greens
The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is an Australian green political party.The party was formed in 1992; however, its origins can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the United Tasmania Group , the first Green party in the world, which...
respectively, and a swing of 6.9% away from the Democrats
Australian Democrats
The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former Liberal minister Don Chipp, as a high profile leader...
and 4.6% against One Nation
One Nation Party
One Nation is a far-right and nationalist political party in Australia. It gained 22% of the vote translating to 11 of 89 seats in Queensland's unicameral legislative assembly at the 1998 state election and made major inroads into the vote of the existing parties...
.
In the ACT Legislative Assembly
Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly
The Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Australian Capital Territory...
, Gilmore is in the electorate of Brindabella, which is currently represented by three Labor and two Liberal members. The 2004 ACT election saw a swing of 13.6% towards the Liberals and 4.1% against the Democrats.
Polling place statistics are shown above for the Gilmore polling place in the 2004 federal and ACT elections.
Geology
Gilmore is built on volcanic rocks from the SilurianSilurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician Period, about 443.7 ± 1.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Devonian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya . As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period's start and end are well identified, but the...
age. The rock member is titled Deakin Volcanics. Rhyolite
Rhyolite
This page is about a volcanic rock. For the ghost town see Rhyolite, Nevada, and for the satellite system, see Rhyolite/Aquacade.Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock, of felsic composition . It may have any texture from glassy to aphanitic to porphyritic...
covers most of Gilmore except in the east where rhyodacite
Rhyodacite
Rhyodacite is an extrusive volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of granodiorite. Phenocrysts of sodium rich plagioclase, sanidine, quartz, and biotite or hornblende are typically set in an aphanitic to glassy light to intermediate...
is found. These are from the Silurian
Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Ordovician Period, about 443.7 ± 1.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Devonian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya . As with other geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period's start and end are well identified, but the...
age at 414 Mya.