Sitting on the roof of Parliament

If you liked Milton Keynes…

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January 3rd 2009
…you’re going to love Canberra! Entry by Rich Sunday 28/12/08 We left Melbourne early on Sunday morning and caught our flight up to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory (our fifth state of the trip). Designed and built in the early twentieth century, Canberra was a solution to the dilemma of whether to choose Sydney or Melbourne as the capital city. This is a bit like deliberating ... 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