6 Melba Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
6 Melba Street is a house situated on a 736 m² block. The property offers ample garden or development space within the inner‑north suburb of Downer.
Dickson Library is approximately 0.3 km away, a short walk from 6 Melba Street.
The Swinden Street Metro station is about 0.7 km away, and the larger Dickson Interchange is roughly 0.8 km from the property, providing easy access to Canberra’s light‑rail network.
The local shopping centre on the Downer oval has been refurbished in the late 2010s and now hosts a new café and veterinary clinic. In May 2019 a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled nearby, adding a cultural touchpoint to the area.
The site rests on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium, rock that historically gave Canberra the name “Limestone Plains.”
Downer lies in the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party. At the territory level it is part of the ACT Legislative Assembly electorate of Kurrajong.
The suburb grew around a former CSIRO agricultural research facility that, during 1939‑1945, cultivated opium poppy for medical supplies. Large pine and gum trees were planted then as windbreaks, many of which have since been replaced by newer local gum species.
