Australian Capital Territory and Canberra

Mt Ainslie has unique layout. you can Walk, cycle or drive to the top of Mount Ainslie for a perfect view of Canberra's unique layout.Take in Lake Burley Griffin, many of Canberra's national attractions and the mountain ranges surrounding the city.

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• The competition to design Australia's new capital city, Canberra, was won in 1911 by Walter Burley Griffin, Chicago-born architect who also designed the NSW cities of Griffith, Leeton and Culburra Beach.
• The first survey peg marking the beginning of the development of the city of Canberra was driven in on 20 February 1913. It was driven in by King O'Malley, Minister for Home Affairs and who played a prominent role in selecting the site of the future capital of Australia
• The final choice for the name of Australia's capital remained a secret until the laying of the foundation stones on 12 March 1913.
• Australia's old Parliament House, which was officially opened on 9 May 1927, was only ever intended to be a temporary residence for Parliament to sit. However, it served Australian Parliament for the next sixty years.
• Canberra's first two sets of traffic lights were brought into operation on 23 October 1965, some thirty years after Sydney received its first traffic lights, in 1933.
• At 2.45pm on 18 January 2003, devastating bushfires reached the outskirts of Canberra and began encroaching upon the city. Over the next ten hours, four people died and more than 500 homes were destroyed.

It requires the necesary population.

Yes. Walter Burley-Griffin planned Canberra.

Canberra has a total area of 201,216 acres.

1. After federation, Australia needed to decide on a capital city.

2. There was rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne.

3. The constitution provided for the location of Australia's capital to be in a different lication.

Australia's two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, had been rivals since before the goldrush days. It was therefore decided that the nation's capital should be situated between the two cities. A location was chosen which was 248km from Sydney and 483km from Melbourne, within easy access of both cities. Farming land was taken up for this purpose.

Section 125 of the Constitution of Australia provided that:

"The seat of Government of the Commonwealth shall be determined by the Parliament, and shall be within territory which shall have been granted to or acquired by the Commonwealth, and shall be vested in and belong to the Commonwealth, and shall be in the State of New South Wales, and be distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney.

Such territory shall contain an area of not less than one hundred square miles, and such portion thereof as shall consist of Crown lands shall be granted to the Commonwealth without any payment therefore. The Parliament shall sit at Melbourne until it meets at the seat of Government."

The Australian Capital Territory has an area of 2,358 sq km, and takes up about 0.03% of Australia's land mass.

Canberra is the capital of Australia and is the center of government. Parliament sits there, and most government departments and officials have their headquarters there.

Because it is the capital city of the country... Seems a tad significant hey?

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Patient files, closed down factories and asylums, descendants of patients, letters, diarys

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"Canberra the Nations Capital"

Canberra has always been Australia's capital. Prior to Canberra, Melbourne was the city where the Parliament met, simply because it was the only city in Australia with a building large enough to house the Parliament.

There is a misconception that Melbourne was Australia's first capitaly city, but it never was.

Metre is the Australian spelling of metre.

264.56 km by road.

Canberra became Australia's federal capital.

He was the author of "Neonatal Formulary".

Hides the bodies.

Canberra to Condobolin NSW 377 km.

The Royal Bluebell is the floral emblem of the Australian Capital Territory.

1856 km