Waramanga

Waramanga is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia in the district of Weston Creek.

Waramanga is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia in the district of Weston Creek.

Waramanga was established in the late-1960s and was named after an Aboriginal ethno-linguistic polity of Central Australia, also known as the Warumungu people.

The Weston Creek district was part of Yarralumla Station, a 40,000 acre (162 km2) property dating back to 1828. It was resumed by the Commonwealth in 1913 from Frederick Campbell who bought the property in 1881. In 1920 9,000 acres (36 km2) of the Woden Valley, including the Weston Creek district, were subdivided for soldier settlement leases. A 1950s map of the district shows four paddocks, Weston paddock, Track paddock, Brown Hill paddock and Oakey Hill paddock intersecting the area which is now the suburb of Waramanga. Long Gully Road ran through the suburb and the nearest homestead was Cooleman on the Kambah Road just west of the present suburb of Fisher. Cooleman was farmed by the Champion family from about 1932. It was previously known as Allawah and was leased to the Anderson family in 1920. Other properties in the district were Avondale and Weston whose homesteads were in the present suburb of Holder, Yamba in the suburb of Phillip and Iloura, Melrose and Yarra Glen in the suburb of Curtin.In June 1968 the suburb of Waramanga was officially gazetted.The bushfire which engulfed parts of Canberra on 18 January 2003 flowed out of Mount Taylor Nature Reserve and reached the eastern boundary of the suburb at Badimara Street where it was slowed by residents and stopped by a contrary wind. For more information about the bushfire see Canberra bushfires of 2003.