57-1275: Narrabundah ( / n æ r ə b ʌ n d ə / ) ( postcode : 2604) is a leafy, medium density suburb of Canberra , Australian Capital Territory , located in the inner south of the city. Narrabundah is an established garden suburb, valued for its equal proximity to both Civic and the airport, Lake Burley Griffin, and vibrant local centres such as Manuka and Kingston. Residents particularly value Narrabundah's environment including its open spaces, parks, playgrounds, bushland landscapes, as well as its strong sense of community and diversity. The suburb's streetscapes are characterised by mature deciduous and native street trees, charming established gardens and largely single-storey detached homes. Street trees in Narrabundah offer colourful spring blossoms and spectacular Autumn foliage in many streets. Finniss Crescent, Carnegie Crescent, Sprent and Stuart Streets are planted with fine examples of Pin Oaks, which have rich green foliage in Summer and colour brilliantly in shades of scarlet and crimson in Autumn. 'Narrabundah'
114-721: A Large Volume Receiver (LVR), e.g. the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital has the postcode 4029, the Australian National University had the postcode 0200. More postcode ranges were made available for LVRs in the 1990s. Australia Post has been progressively discontinuing the LVR programme since 2006. Some places in Australia do not have postcodes. These are typically remote areas with little or no population. The first one or two numerals usually show
171-488: A diocesan council. Among its varied efforts to offer material help to the poor or needy, the Society also has thrift stores which sell donated goods at a low price and raise money for the poor. There are a great variety of outreach programs sponsored by the local conferences and councils, addressing local needs for social services. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was founded in 1833 to help impoverished people living in
228-429: A famine, a civil war, a war of independence, two world wars, and several economic recessions. In Australia, "Vinnies" workers and volunteers number about 58,000. Works include Conferences, Special Works, and Vinnies op shops , assisting over 2,200,000 people in Australia each year. In 1996, Ozcare was established as a special work of the society. It provides aged care and disability centres and services. In 2018,
285-598: A number of localities across WA, SA and NT. Three locations (Mingoola, Mungindi and Texas ) straddle the NSW-Queensland border (so same town name and postcode on both sides). Jervis Bay Territory is located on the coast of NSW. It is just south of the towns of Vincentia and Huskisson, with which it shares a postcode. Mail to the Jervis Bay Territory is addressed to the ACT. The numerals used to show
342-676: A park on Brockman St. The Deakin Fault runs from Frome St. The fault line is displaced from Anembo St south to Goyder St by a north–south running fault that connects up with the South Fyshwick Fault. The South Fyshwick Fault runs east from the Narrabundah Primary School, separating ashstone in the south from the Canberra Formation in the north. Calcareous shale from the Canberra Formation lies to
399-660: A real estate agent and property manager, pharmacy, licensed post office, bakery, grocer, two hairdressers, and a barber. Narrabundah is home to the Canberra Cavalry baseball team, with home matches played at the Narrabundah Ballpark , informally known as the 'Bundahdome', near Mill Creek off Goyder Crescent in Old Narrabundah. Narrabundah is home to two primary schools, Narrabundah Early Childhood School and St. Benedict's Primary School . It
456-623: A sorting number which is printed on the letter as an orange-coloured barcode . This number might be 12 digits long. This system enables the post office to place items in delivery order. Companies can also use Rapid Addressing Tool (RATS) to print Customer Addressed Barcodes, which are printed above the address. Every Delivery Point in Australia (DPID) has its own number. Barcode sorter machines sort and sequence letters up to C5 size. Flat multi-level OCR reads, imprints and sorts C5 to A3 sized articles. Society of Saint Vincent de Paul The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul ( SVP or SVdP or SSVP )
513-531: Is South Australia. By 1968, 75% of mail was using postcodes, and in the same year post office preferred-size envelopes were introduced, which came to be referred to as "standard envelopes". Postcode squares were introduced in June 1990 to enable Australia Post to use optical character recognition (OCR) software in its mail sorting machines to automatically and more quickly sort mail by postcodes. Australian postcodes consist of four digits, and are written after
570-694: Is also home to Narrabundah College , one of the top public schools for the last two years of secondary schooling in the ACT and the first in Australia to offer the International Baccalaureate. For community matters, 'Old Narrabundah' is represented by the Old Narrabundah Community Council (ONCC) , while most of the rest of the suburb is represented by the Griffith-Narrabundah Community Association. Both form part of
627-521: Is an inherent problem with spatial representation of postcodes since areas referenced to a specific postal code tend to change over time, as new postcodes are added or existing ones are split by Australia Post for operational purposes. Some mail generating software can automatically sort outward mail by postcode before it is generated. This pre-sort of mail into postcode order eliminates the need for it to be sorted manually or using mail sorting machines . To improve mechanised sorting, each address now has
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#1732793004147684-483: Is an international voluntary organization in the Catholic Church , founded in 1833 for the sanctification of its members by personal service of the poor. Started by Frédéric Ozanam and Emmanuel Bailly and named after Vincent de Paul , the organization is part of the global Vincentian Family of Catholic organizations. Innumerable Catholic parishes have established "conferences", most of which affiliate with
741-664: Is intended for a specific identity within an organisation, their identity can be prepended on the line above the business name, with c/- prepended to the business name. If addressing a letter from outside Australia, the postcode is recorded before 'Australia', which is placed on a fourth line. Australian postcodes are sorting information. They are often linked with one area (e.g. 6160 belongs only to Fremantle, Western Australia ). Due to postcode rationalisation, they can be quite complex, especially in country areas (e.g. 2570 belongs to twenty-two towns and suburbs around Camden, New South Wales ). The south-western Victoria 3221 postcode of
798-489: Is known for its small population of urban peafowl (peacocks) with their colourful feathers. This area was once home to the residence of former Prime Minister John Gorton, who was often seen walking home from Parliament House via Manuka. Parks are widespread, with "Rocky Knoll" or "Rocky Knob" park in upper Narrabundah and its panoramic view over Canberra. The Narrabundah shops include Canberra's first op-shop Vinnies ( Society of Saint Vincent de Paul ), restaurants, as well as
855-627: Is on the Place de la Visitation, thanks among others to Monsieur Thheuret, Apostolic Protonotary in Monaco and to Mr Gastaldi, Mayor of Monaco. Mr. Theuret was appointed first Honorary President. The Vice-President of Honor being the Marquis de la Riva, first Chambellan of the Sovereign Prince. The first active President was Lieutenant Plati. The Sovereign Prince, Prince Charles III, was one of
912-523: Is registered under the Income Tax Act 1961 with exemption under Sec 80G, FCRA under the ministry of Home Affairs and Societies Regn. Act and Bombay Public Trust Act 1950. The Society numbers about 800,000 members in some 140 countries worldwide, whose members operate through "conferences". A Conference may be based out of a church, school, community center, hospital, etc., and is composed of Catholic volunteers who pursue their own Christian growth in
969-488: Is widely believed to be a Ngunnawal word meaning 'bird of prey' or ‘the little hawk’. This meaning is referenced in the Narrabundah College logo, as well as in the sculpture in the park opposite the Narrabundah shops. The name Narrabundah was taken from the parish of Narrabundah , a part of the cadastral division of Murray . This parish existed when the land was administered by New South Wales . After
1026-852: The Australian Capital Territory was established on 1 January 1911, all of the land areas were renamed. The present suburb Narrabundah was part of the original Parish of Queanbeyan . Narrabundah was gazetted as a division name on 20 September 1928. Narrabundah was the last of the 'inner south' suburbs to be developed, commencing in 1947, after being delayed by World War II. While early Canberra suburbs had mainly been built for public servants relocating from Melbourne, Narrabundah became Canberra's first blue collar suburb, housing mainly workers in construction and printing. While its first streets were initially named with numbers, street names in Narrabundah have since been renamed, with Indigenous culture, as well as white explorers and pioneers as
1083-648: The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions share a postcode with the isolated sub-Antarctic island of Macquarie Island (part of Tasmania): There is also a "special" postcode for routing mail sent to Santa: Each state's capital city ends with three zeroes, while territorial capital cities end with two zeroes. Capital city postcodes were the lowest postcodes in their state or territory range, before new ranges for LVRs and PO Boxes were made available. The last numeral can usually be changed from "0" to "1" to get
1140-591: The Australian National University (now 2601) to 9944 for Cannonvale , Queensland. Some towns and suburbs have two postcodes — one for street deliveries and another for post office boxes . For example, a street address in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta would be written like this: But mail sent to a PO Box in Parramatta would be addressed: Many large businesses, government departments and other institutions receiving high volumes of mail had their own postcode as
1197-546: The Geelong Mail Centre also includes twenty places around Geelong with very few people. This means that mail for these places is not fully sorted until it gets to Geelong. Some postcodes cover large populations (e.g., postcode 4350 serving some 100,000 people in Toowoomba and the surrounding area), while other postcodes have much smaller populations, even in urban areas. Australian postcodes range from 0200 for
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#17327930041471254-554: The Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) to replace earlier postal sorting systems, such as Melbourne's letter and number codes (e.g., N3 , E5 ) and a similar system then used in rural and regional New South Wales . The introduction of the postcodes coincided with the introduction of a large-scale mechanical mail sorting system in Australia, starting with the Sydney GPO . The first digit for each state's postcode
1311-579: The Postmaster-General's Department and are now managed by Australia Post , Australia's national postal service. Postcodes are published in booklets available from post offices or online from the Australia Post website. Australian envelopes and postcards often have four square boxes printed in orange at the bottom right for the postcode. These are used to assist with the automated sorting of mail that has been addressed by hand for Australian delivery. Postcodes were introduced in Australia in 1967 by
1368-651: The Sisters of Charity in the Setonian tradition and several others, including some religious groups that are part of the Anglican Communion like the Company of Mission Priests . Servant of God Fr. Ignatius Spencer from London came to know the Society in visits to Paris. Parisian Monsieur Baudon, who would assume the presidency of SVDP in 1847, visited London in 1842 and persuaded Spencer to write about
1425-784: The Conference. Gerald Ward was born in London in 1806 and was recruited for the Melbourne mission by the pioneering father, later bishop, Patrick Geoghegan . Ward was familiar with SVP from London and, observing the plight of the poor after the Victorian gold rush , established the Society in Australia in 1854. Ward served as its first president and helped establish the SVP orphanage in South Melbourne. In March 2023, Mark Gaetani
1482-540: The Council General International. The Superior Council of India was renamed as National Council of India on 06.08.1973. The National Council of India has its Headquarters in Mumbai and the present President’s secretariat is at Chennai, Tamil Nadu with the election of Bro. S. Jude ZR Mangalraj as the 14th National President of India with effect from 28th February 2021. The National Council of India
1539-708: The European construction workers who made Narrabundah their home in the 1950s. Narrabundah residents are typically eligible to enrol in ACT public schools as follows: One kind of rock is named after the suburb: the Narrabundah Ashstone Member which is found in the east and southeast. Rocks in Narrabundah are from the Silurian age. Some of the rocks are grey coloured tuff from the Mount Painter Volcanics. This can be viewed in
1596-530: The Narrabundah shops and other community facilities including the primary school, pre-school, churches and GP clinics are situated. This part is where Narrabundah's original fibro cottages were placed for European construction workers who came to Canberra in the 1950s to help develop the city, along with government printing workers from the British Isles who worked in Kingston and Fyshwick. Soon after, in
1653-663: The SVP Rule. On 16 November 1845, Bishop Peter Richard Kenrick dedicated the new St. Vincent de Paul church on South Eighth Street and invited Timon to preach. Timon discussed the Society in his sermon, in the presence of prominent laymen who took hold of the idea and held an organizational meeting on 20 November 1845. The Conference included Moses Linton, founder of the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, and as chair Judge Bryan Mullanphy who would become mayor of St. Louis. Bishop Kenrick appointed Fr. Ambrose Heim as spiritual advisor to
1710-781: The Society in the Catholic Magazine . Then in January 1844 M. Pagliano, a London restaurateur and recent convert to Catholicism, gathered 13 Catholic men and the first English SVP conference was founded. Early initiatives included the formation of the Catholic Shoe Black Brigade, providing boys with gainful employment and the first home of "the Rescue Society" which under various names still offers child care in many dioceses. In 2013 there were more than 10,000 members in more than 1,000 Conferences in
1767-653: The St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland was named as one of the Queensland Greats by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in a ceremony at the Queensland Art Gallery on 8 June 2018. In New Zealand, SVP operates in 23 regions with over 50 shops which serve as centres for welfare service, including food banks and food trucks. Most Catholic schools have Young Vinnies who help with fundraising and with training for dealing directly with
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1824-661: The United Kingdom, making over 500,000 recorded visits annually to more than 100,000 people. The Society's first Conference in the United States was established in 1845 in St. Louis , Missouri, at the Basilica of St. Louis King of France , or "Old Cathedral". Fr. John Timon, CM , had learned of the Society while visiting with his Vincentian superiors in Paris. From Dublin , Ireland, he brought to St. Louis copies of
1881-414: The broader Inner South Community Council. A sculpture has been erected opposite the shopping centre with the following inscription on a plaque: Narrabundah: A Site Marker 1998 Susie Bleach & Andrew Townsend. This Site Marker refers to Narrabundah's social history. Narrabundah means 'little hawk' in the language of the local indigenous people. The steel elements, power poles and pebble mosaic refer to
1938-488: The cost of car and house insurance. Transport for NSW uses postcodes to give specific numbers for each bus stop in Greater Sydney . The stop number is five to seven numbers: the first four are the postcode, and the others show the bus stop (sometimes written with a space in between, e.g. "2000 108"). Many companies that produce metropolitan street maps also list the postcodes for each suburb, both in indexes and on
1995-560: The early to mid 1950s, full-brick duplexes and cottages were also built, many of which still stand. The second area, located between Captain Cook Crescent and Sturt Avenue, is near the Griffith shops, to the west of Sturt Avenue and south of Canberra Avenue. The remaining area (sometimes called ' Upper Narrabundah' or ' Narrabundah Heights' ) is located to the west of Captain Cook Crescent and Jerrabomberra Avenue. It rises towards
2052-416: The elderly, and medicine. Revenue is raised through a large network of thrift stores. One of the working companies is Aurora Glass Foundry that recycles scrap glass and turns it into various decorative glass products for sale. The first Conference of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Monaco was created in 1876. The Conference of the immaculate Conception of Monaco-City whose commemorative plaque
2109-988: The first benefactors. At the time, the Immaculate Conception Conference was attached to the Particular Council of the Nice Conferences. St. Vincent de Paul Society in Monaco is located on 32 Rue Grimaldi, in the Condamine neighbourhood. The St. Vincent de Paul Society runs charity shops in many countries including Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Ireland, and Canada. These shops are organized by local chapters in St. Louis , Cincinnati area with 7, Omaha, Nebraska , Dayton, Ohio , Des Moines, Iowa , Florida, California, Pennsylvania with 24, Western Oregon , Georgia , Arizona , Idaho , and Western Washington . Items from clothing to automobiles are sold for
2166-415: The inspiration. Narrabundah is bordered by the residential suburb of Red Hill to the southwest, Griffith to the west and Kingston to the northwest, as well as the light industrial suburbs of Fyshwick to the east and Symonston to the southeast. The suburb can be divided into three distinct areas. The area to the east of Sturt and Jerrabomberra Avenues (sometimes called ' Old Narrabundah' ), where
2223-404: The maps themselves. Spatial representation of postcodes is also very popular in defining sales and franchise territories. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Taxation Office and many other Federal and State government organisations publish a variety of statistics by postcode which extends the use Australia Post four digit code to many business and social planning related activities. There
2280-770: The mid-19th century and received benefactors in places such as Tours where figures such as the Venerable Leo Dupont , known as the Holy Man of Tours , became collaborators. The Society is part of the Vincentian Family which also includes two congregations founded by St. Vincent de Paul – the Congregation of the Mission with Vincentian priests and brothers and the Ladies of Charity – along with
2337-400: The name of the city, suburb, or town, and the state or territory: Recipient Name 100 Citizen Road BLACKTOWN NSW 2148 When writing an address by hand, and a row of four boxes is pre-printed on the lower right-hand corner of an envelope, the postcode may be written in the boxes instead. When posting to an organisation, business names can be written instead of a recipient name. If an article
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2394-635: The north of the Deakin Fault. [REDACTED] Media related to Narrabundah, Australian Capital Territory at Wikimedia Commons Postcodes in Australia Postcodes in Australia are used to more efficiently sort and route mail within the Australian postal system. Postcodes in Australia have four digits and are placed at the end of the Australian address, before the country. Postcodes were introduced in Australia in 1967 by
2451-587: The poor. The work is varied, following the Vinnie motto: "No act of charity is foreign to the society." The national headquarters is in St. Louis. Membership in the United States in 2015 exceeded 97,000 in 4,400 communities. Expenditures to people in poverty were $ 473,821,563. Programs include visits to homes, prisons, and hospitals, housing assistance, disaster relief, job training and placement, food pantries, dining halls, clothing, transportation and utility costs, care for
2508-593: The postcode 2750 and Petrie, Queensland has the postcode 4502. Within each region with the same second numeral, postcodes are usually allocated in ascending order the further one travels from the state's capital city along major highways and railways. For instance, heading north on the North Coast railway in New South Wales away from Sydney: Major towns and cities tend to have "0" as the last numeral or last two numerals, e.g. Rockhampton, Queensland has
2565-915: The postcode 4700 and Ballarat, Victoria has the postcode 3350. There are exceptions; the major town of Ipswich, Queensland has the postcode 4305, while Goodna , a relatively small suburb of Ipswich, is allocated 4300. Australia Post prefers envelopes sold in Australia to have four boxes in the bottom right corner of the front of the envelope. Entering the postcode in these boxes or squares, which Australia Post calls postcode squares , enables Australia Post to use optical character recognition software in its mail sorting machines to automatically and more quickly sort mail into postcodes, which also embeds routing information. Postcode squares were introduced in June 1990. Australia Post says that postcode squares should not be used for machine-addressed mail, or mail going overseas. Many other organisations now use postcodes. Insurance companies often use postcodes when working out
2622-425: The postcode for General Post Office boxes in any capital city (though Perth now uses a different range of postcodes for its GPO Boxes): While the first numeral of a postcode usually shows the state or territory, the second numeral usually shows a region within the state. However, postcodes with the same second numeral are not always next to each other. As an example, postcodes in the range 2200–2299 are split between
2679-707: The service of the poor. Some Conferences exist without affiliating with any local Council, and so are not counted in statistics. Non-Catholics may join and the Society serves all regardless of their personal beliefs. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was founded in Dublin on 16 December 1844. It is now the largest voluntary charitable organisation in Ireland, making it one of Ireland's best known and most widely supported organisations of social concern and action. It has over 11,500 volunteers, active in every county in Ireland. During its history it has helped people in need through
2736-536: The slums of Paris, France. The primary figure behind the Society's founding was Blessed Frédéric Ozanam , a French lawyer, author, and professor in the Sorbonne . Frédéric collaborated with Emmanuel Bailly, editor of the Tribune Catholique , in reviving a student organization which had been suspended during the revolutionary activity of July 1830. Ozanam was 20 years old when he founded the Society. He
2793-600: The southern suburbs of Sydney and the Central Coast , Lake Macquarie and Newcastle regions of New South Wales. Postcodes with a second numeral of "0" or "1" are almost always located within the metropolitan area of the state's capital city. Postcodes with higher second numerals are usually located in rural and regional areas. Common exceptions are where towns were rural when postcodes were first introduced in 1967, but have since been suburbanised and incorporated into metropolitan areas, e.g. Penrith, New South Wales has
2850-600: The state on each radio callsign in Australia are the same numeral as the first numeral for postcodes in that state, e.g. 2xx in New South Wales, 3xx in Victoria, etc. Radio callsigns pre-date postcodes in Australia by more than forty years. Australia's external territories are also included in Australia Post's postcode system. While these territories do not belong to any state, they are addressed as such for mail sorting: Three scientific bases in Antarctica operated by
2907-448: The state or territory that the postcode belongs to Sometimes near the state and territory borders, Australia Post finds it easier to send mail through a nearby post office that is across the border: Some of the postcodes above may cover two or more states. For example, postcode 2620 covers both a locality in NSW ( Gundaroo ) as well as a locality in the ACT ( Hume ), and postcode 0872 covers
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#17327930041472964-474: The west where it borders the suburb of Red Hill. From here, panoramic views of Civic and Black Mountain, Lake Burley Griffin, Mount Ainslie and other parts of south-eastern Canberra are possible from a number of vantage points. There are also good views to Red Hill and its ridge-line. This part of Narrabundah is closer to the Red Hill and Griffith shopping areas than to the rest of Narrabundah. Upper Narrabundah
3021-634: Was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1997. Emmanuel Bailly was chosen as the first President. The Society took Saint Vincent de Paul as its patron under the influence of Sister Rosalie Rendu , DC. Sister Rosalie, beatified in November 1999 by Pope John Paul II, was a member of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul , earlier known for her work with people in the slums of Paris. She guided Frédéric and his companions in their approach towards those in need. SVP gradually expanded outside Paris in
3078-415: Was born in Glasgow in 1828. He graduated as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Upon graduation he had joined the Society of St Vincent de Paul. He was secretary at Dumbarton in 1851. He led the St Vincent de Paul Society in the Western Districts of Scotland between 1859 and 1863. By 1863 he was president of the Superior Council of Glasgow and a member of the Council-General in Paris. The Society
3135-405: Was copied directly from Australian radio call signs . Over time, digits beyond this set have come to be used for PO Boxes etc., for example the 8000 series refers to special addresses in Victoria. It is sometimes stated that the numbering was based on the (now retired) Australian Military Administrative Districts, however this is incorrect. For example, in that numbering scheme Queensland is 1, and 4
3192-420: Was first introduced in India by the French Missionaries at Pondicherry during the Year 1852-53 as a non-aggregated Conference. The Society was officially started in India in 1863 when some conferences in Bombay were aggregated and the Bombay Particular Council was instituted. Then onwards the Society continued to grow in India . On 09.11.1953 the Superior Council of India was established and instituted with
3249-542: Was officially inducted as the 18th National Council President by Archbishop Christopher Prowse at St. Christopher's Cathedral, Manuka in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory , taking over from Claire Victory. Fr. Chataigner, SM, established the first Conference in New Zealand in July 1867, but did not affiliate with the Council-General in Paris. The first to affiliate was the Wellington Conference founded in 1908 by Fr. Petitjean, SM, and Charles O'Neill, followed by other Conferences out of Wellington. Charles O'Neill
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