The Australian Senate

The Australian Parliament was modeled on the British Parliament in Westminster. So the Senate is predominantly red like the House of Lords and the House of Representatives is green like the House of Commons. They were having a session in the House of Representatives, debating about "Indigenous Education", which we could attend, but no pictures.

Canberra the Chinese way

May 29th 2007
G'day! Or should it be ni hao? Taking advantage of my strategic location near to Sydney's Chinatown, I found a travel agent offering very cheap day-trips. Why not go to Canberra? And their price for it was 4 times less expensive than similar offers with other travel agents. I even checked the price of a train or coach journey to Canberra by public transport and even that was more expensive! A re ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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