Wanniassa, Australian Capital Territory

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Wanniassa
District:	Tuggeranong
Established:	1975
Postcode:	2903
Population:	8201 (2001 census)
Median property value:	AU$327,000 (2005)[1]
Canberra suburbs near Wanniassa Kambah Farrer Nature reserve Greenway Wanniassa Fadden Oxley Monash Gowrie

Wanniassa (postcode 2903) is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Tuggeranong. It is located towards the north of the district. The suburb is named after an early local name for the Tuggeranong district. The Wanniassa estate was founded in 1835. The suburb was gazetted on 21 May 1974. Streets are named after Victorian state politicians.

It is next to the suburbs of Kambah, Greenway, Oxley, Monash, Gowrie and Fadden. It is bounded by Athllon Drive, Sulwood Drive, Erindale Drive and Taverner Street.

[edit] Suburb amenities

A wide variety of facilities are located in Wanniassa. The Erindale Centre is located in the south east of Wanniassa; the centre includes a variety of service and retail outlets. Other facilities in the Erindale precint include the Erindale Vikings Club, Active Leisure Centre, the Erindale Theatre and the Erindale Library. The Wanniassa Group Centre is a smaller retail centre located at the north of the suburb.

Several primary and secondary educational institutions are located in Wanniassa. Erindale College is a public college serving students in Years 11 and 12. The College is integrated into and makes use of the various other facilities in Erindale. Wanniassa Hills Primary School is located on Langdon Avenue; it is a public primary school servicing students from Kindergarten to Year 6. Wanniassa School is a public primary and high school with adjacent campuses serving students from Kindergarten to Year 6 and Year 7 to Year 10. The junior campus of MacKillop Catholic College is located in Wanniassa, serving students from Year 7 to Year 9. Another Catholic school, St Anthony's Parish Primary School, is also located in Wanniassa and serves Kindergarten to Year 6 students. Trinity Christian School is an independent school serving students from Kindergarten to Year 12.

Several churches are located in Wanniassa. St Anthony of Padua Parish is a Catholic parish that was established in 1976; services were held at Wanniasa Primary School and Padua High School - later MacKillop Catholic College - before the church adjacent to Mckillop Catholic College was completed in 1987. St Matthew's Anglican Church is located adjacent to Trinity Christian School on McBryde Crescent. Tuggeranong Uniting Church, Erindale Christian Centre and Lifestream Christian Fellowship are all located in or adjacent to the Erindale Centre. Christian City Church Tuggeranong offers services at the hall of Wanniassa School Senior Campus while they await the construction of a more permanent church in Monash.

In addition to the Active Leisure Centre, sporting facilities in Wanniassa include the Wanniassa Enclosed Oval, the Wanniassa District Playing Fields, the Erindale Playing Fields and the Erindale tennis courts.

Wanniassa is serviced by several ACTION bus routes. Routes 61, 63 and 64 run between the Tuggeranong and Woden Interchanges every twenty to sixty minutes from approximately 7:00 a.m. to approximately 7:00 p.m. The additional service 161 runs from the Tuggeranong Interchange to City West once during the morning peak hour and once in the other direction in the evening peak hour. Route 63 extends to Cambell Park Offices during the morning and evening peak hours. Flexibus Service 964 leaves the Tuggeranong Interchange every hour from 8:20 p.m. to 11:20 p.m. and the Erindale Shops every hour from 8:50pm to 10:50 p.m., and services the suburbs of Wanniassa, Monash and Oxley. Several other routes that service other Tuggeranong suburbs also stop at the Erindale Centre^[1].

[edit] Geological features

Wanniassa is underlain by Deakin Volcanics from the Silurian age - cream-green and purple rhyodacite in the eastern half, with tuff, agglomerite and rhyolite in the west.