50 Swinden Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The property sits on a 720 m² block. It provides ample space for a garden or outdoor areas.
Swinden Street Metro station is about 0.6 km away, making public transport easily accessible on foot.
Within 0.5–1 km you’ll find the Dickson Library, Dickson Centre retail precinct, Quality Hotel Dickson, Dickson Wetland, and the National Hockey Centre.
Swinden Street was originally the driveway for a CSIRO agricultural research facility built in the 1930s. The area once grew opium poppies for medical use during World War II and was lined with large gum and pine trees planted as windbreaks.
Downer sits on calcareous shales of the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium – the limestone‑based soils that gave Canberra its early name “Limestone Plains.”
The suburb is in the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party, and in the ACT Legislative Assembly electorate of Kurrajong.
A bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the Downer shopping centre, replacing an earlier piece that went missing.
