Page 2150 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 6 June 2018
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similarities may cause issues for the ACT emergency services. The place names committee has put forward three possible names, and we are asking members of the community to vote on these. The three names are George Kinlyside, Marion Mahony Griffin, and Margaret Hendry.
Kinlyside was gazetted in 1991 as a suburb name in Gungahlin to commemorate local Ginninderra Hall pioneer George Kendall Kinlyside, a well-known wheelwright, coachbuilder and blacksmith who served the Hall community for many years and was active in the local community in the early 20th century. The name has a long association with the Gungahlin district and would help to locate the school given the nature reserve near Taylor is identified as the Kinlyside nature reserve.
Marion Mahony Griffin was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first licensed female architects in the world, and during her life she produced some of the best architectural drawing in America and was instrumental in envisioning the design plans for the new capital city of Australia, Canberra. Marion’s contribution to Canberra was not as a commissioned architect but as a visionary with an ability to inspire, an attribute also found in the best of teachers.
Dr Margaret Hendry was a landscape architect and Canberra resident, passionate about community services and women’s affairs. She directed her professional career to landscape design and teaching and was a fellow of both the Australian and the UK institutes of landscape architects. Margaret was a landscape architect for the National Capital Development Commission from 1963 to 1974, the first woman appointed and one of only five in Australia at that time. She played a significant role in shaping the landscape in the national capital, including the Cotter Dam recreational reserve, Gungahlin Cemetery and Belconnen town centre, and many playing fields, housing areas and shopping centres were wholly or partly designed by her.
While people are voting on those three options for a name, they can also vote on three options for the school uniform and a range of logos. I encourage everyone living in north Gungahlin to visit yoursay.act.gov.au to vote for their preferred name, uniform and logo for north Gungahlin’s new primary school. I have already cast my votes. In the interest of not influencing the poll I will not say what they were. However, I am very glad the construction of the school is underway and that the community can get involved in the shaping of this vital piece of community infrastructure for Canberra’s fastest growing region.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
The Assembly adjourned at 6.24 pm.
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