Stirling, Australian Capital Territory Stirling, Australian Capital Territory Stirling is a suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. It is located in the Weston Creek district. The suburb is named after Sir James Stirling (1791–1865) who was the first Governor of Western Australia between 1829–1839 and established settlements at Perth and Fremantle in 1829. The suburb was gazetted in 1970. Stirling contains the Weston Campus of the Canberra College, which is located on Fremantle Drive. Deakin Volcanics red-purple and green grey rhyodacite with spherulitic texture cover most of Stirling except for Laidlaw Volcanics pale to dark grey tuff on the southernmost quarter. Quaternary Alluvium
O'Malley, Australian Capital Territory O'Malley, Australian Capital Territory O'Malley (postcode: 2606) is a suburb in the Canberra, Australian Capital Territory district of Woden Valley. At the , O'Malley had a population of 991 people. There are numerous embassies in O'Malley. In 2011, 42.8% of the population was foreign-born, the fifth-highest for any Canberra suburb. The suburb is named after King O'Malley, who was the politician who arranged the competition for a design for Canberra. Streets in O'Malley are named with Aboriginal words. In the 2016 Census, there were 991 people in O'Malley. 52.0% of people were born in Australia and 52.9% of people only