Kippax Centre, Australian Capital Territory
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Canberra
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suburb of Holt
Holt, Australian Capital Territory
Holt is a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen. It was gazetted on 2 July 1970 and was named after Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia 1966-67. Streets are named after sportsmen and sportswomen....
. Named after cricketer Alan Kippax
Alan Kippax
Alan Falconer Kippax was a cricketer for New South Wales and Australia. Regarded as one of the great stylists of Australian cricket during the era between the two World Wars, Kippax overcame a late start to Test cricket to become a regular in the Australian team between the 1928–29 and...
, it serves a sizeable area of suburban Belconnen
Belconnen
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, including the suburbs of Higgins
Higgins, Australian Capital Territory
Higgins is a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen. The postcode is 2615. The suburb is named after politician and judge Henry Bournes Higgins . It was gazetted on 6 June 1968...
, Holt
Holt, Australian Capital Territory
Holt is a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen. It was gazetted on 2 July 1970 and was named after Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia 1966-67. Streets are named after sportsmen and sportswomen....
, Latham
Latham, Australian Capital Territory
Latham is a residential suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen. The suburb is named for John Latham, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1935 to 1952. Streets in Latham have the names of Australian judges....
and Macgregor
Macgregor, Australian Capital Territory
Macgregor is a residential suburb in the Belconnen district of Canberra. It was gazetted on 9 September 1971. It lies next to the suburbs of Dunlop, Latham and Holt on the western side of Belconnen, with Florey Drive the boundary to the east, Ginninderra Drive on the north, and Southern Cross...
. It includes the Kippax Fair shopping centre (major tenant: Woolworths Supermarket
Woolworths (supermarkets)
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), an Aldi
ALDI
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store and the Kippax Library
Library
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. The area also boasts two club
Club
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s on opposite sides of the Kippax Centre: the Magpies Club and the West Belconnen Leagues Club. A veterinarian
Veterinarian
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and a tavern
Tavern
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are in free-standing buildings. There are petrol stations on each end of the complex. The Kippax Uniting Community Centre is on the corner opposite the Fair, operated by Kippax Uniting Church.
Shops inside the main complex include:
Woolworths,
Kingsleys,
Oven Pick bakery,
Soul Patterson Pharmacy,
Upper Class Cafe,
Bel Paese Cafe,
Local Liquor, and others
As with several other Canberra centres, Kippax has its own markets, which are held every second Saturday inside Kippax Fair and sell mainly arts and crafts. Due to current renovations, the markets now take place at the nearby cranleigh school. It is unknown if they will return to the center.
Kippax is regularly served by ACTION
ACTION
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buses, with routes 16, 17, 43, 44 and 704 (weekdays) and 903, 904 and 905 (weekends) servicing the centre. It is also easily accessible by road off Southern Cross Drive and Starke Street.