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2 unusual facts about Deakin


Colin Winchester

LR"?title=semi-automatic rifle">semi-automatic rifle fitted with a silencer and killed as he parked his police vehicle in the driveway of his house in Deakin, ACT.

David Eastman

On 10 January 1989, Eastman shot Winchester twice in the head at point blank range in the driveway of Winchester's home in Deakin, Australian Capital Territory.


Alfred Deakin High School

Two separate schools in the area, Deakin High School in Deakin and Woden Valley High School in Mawson, commenced in 1966 and 1968 respectively.

Alfred Deakin High School is a government secondary school in Deakin, Australian Capital Territory, covering years 7 to 10 in the Territory's education system.

Barton Deakin

Barton Deakin's Queensland office was in the media in early 2013 in relation to a lunch they hosted in mid 2012 which the then Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, Ros Bates, attended as a guest.

Deakin Business School

Deakin Graduate School of Business provides Deakin University's major postgraduate business programs covering Master of Business Administration, Master of Commerce, Master of International Business, Master of Marketing, and Doctor of Business Administration courses as well as Executive Development programs.

Deakin University School of Law

Deakin Law School has been running a winter semester program at China University of Political Science and Law for 13 years.

Fanny Deakin

Her advocacy of mother and child welfare issues was recognised when Fanny Deakin Maternity Home was opened in 1947 in Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough.

Fanny Deakin (1883–1968) was a politician from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, noted for her campaigns for better nourishment of young children and maternity care for mothers.

John Endler

Born in Canada, Endler took his PhD degree at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and subsequently worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia and is currently working at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia.

Jonny Woo

These were inspired by the film Paris Is Burning and included judges such as Mary Portas, Beth Ditto, Lulu Kennedy, Giles Deakin and Gareth Pugh.

Lyons, Australian Capital Territory

The Deakin acid Volcanics can be observed in cuttings along Tuggeranong Parkway, and Devonport Street.

Matthew Henry Davies

Davies represented the electoral district of St. Kilda in the Legislative Assembly from 1883 to 1888; was a member of the Royal Commission on Transfer of Land and Titles to Land in 1885; was sworn of the Executive Council in Feb. 1886, and held a portfolio in the Gillies-Deakin Government as a Minister without responsible office from that date till Oct 1887.

Pauline Yates

Alongside her were Tessa Peake-Jones, James Warwick, Peter Sallis, Amanda Harris, Ian Gelder, Sean Chapman, Julia Deakin, and Irene Sutcliffe.

The Yellow Moon Band

The Yellow Moon Band have proved difficult to categorize, DJs and record stores having variously described them as psychedelic, prog rock, Balearic and folk and they have appeared on compilations as varied in genre as Fred Deakin: Nu Balearica and the Amorphous Androgynous' A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding in Your Mind: Volume 1.

UK Channel Boredom

"UK Channel Boredom" is a song by the rock band Manic Street Preachers that appeared as the second song on a 7" flexi-disc given away free with the March 1990 editions of two fanzines, Hopelessly Devoted and Goldmining. The first song on the disc was "I Wonder What the Trouble Is" by Burnley indie band The Laurens (Craig Latham, Tim Nixon, Jon Clarkson, Dan Connolly and Paul Deakin).

Who Could Win a Rabbit

The video features Avey Tare and Panda Bear as a rabbit and turtle respectively, racing each other in the same vein as Aesop's fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, while Geologist and Deakin are spectators of the race.

Women's Australian rules football

VIC Seniors: Michelle Dench (Melb Uni), Elizabeth Skinner (Melb uni) Shannon McFerran (St Albans), Debbie Lee (St Albans) Meg Hutchins (Deakin), Lauren Tesorilero (Yarra Valley), Janine Milne (Darebin).


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