21 Garrard Street, Spence ACT 2615, Australia
It is a house situated on a 754 m² parcel of land. The property offers a spacious lot size for a residential home.
Spence was originally named after William Spence, a founder of the Australian Workers' Union and early federal MP. In 2023 the suburb was co‑named to also honour suffragette Catherine Helen Spence.
The nearby shopping centre provides a butcher, hairdresser, baker, chemist, supermarket, petrol station and a coffee shop. A donation‑only café called “Coffee Corner” run by Mount Rogers Community Church and the Tongan Community Centre on Copland Drive are also close by.
A neighbourhood oval borders Clarey Crescent, though it has been in poor condition since the 2002/2003 drought. Additionally, a water‑tower hill with surrounding bushland lies in the north‑west of the suburb.
For federal elections the property is in the Division of Fenner. In the ACT Legislative Assembly it is part of the Ginninderra electorate.
The suburb sits on Silurian‑age Hawkins Volcanics, including green‑grey dacite and quartz‑andesite in the centre and west, a green‑grey dacitic porphyry intrusive rock with white feldspar crystals in the southeast, and a shale lens patch of Hawkins Volcanics in the south‑central part.
The National Health Co‑op in Evatt is about 0.9 km away. Other nearby suburbs like Evatt and Melba are roughly 1 km and 1.3 km distant, respectively.
