Canberra - Parliament building

Happy Australia day

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January 26th 2009
21st Jan Stayed in a great free rest area right in the bush - idealic - until the logging lorries started coming past ! 22nd Jan Went Canberra today and had a look around the Parliament Building - very impressive. Sadly they are not sitting at the moment - summer recess, otherwise we could have sat in on the debates in both the House of Representative (based on our Commons) and the Senate ( ... 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