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Election of Menzies. You may also like. Encounters — Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Nation building. Listen Canberra Archaeological Society. Historic Canberra album donated to the National Museum. Prime Ministers of Australia. Updated: 11 November But there were a bunch of other factors — involving rats, cannons, and the beginnings of the White Australia Policy — that came into play. The University of Sydney's Medical School identified ports as one of the major culprits, "ships imported wave after wave of infection.
A bubonic plague hit Sydney in Rats carried the disease and professional rat catchers attempted to stop the spread. For those in the know, Canberra does have a port — a few hundred kilometres away in Jervis Bay. Next time you're tempted to complain about the cold, just think, it could be making you smarter. David quoted a politician better known for bringing prohibition to Canberra , when it was finally open for business.
Even our questioner, Lorenzo, admits that a capital by the sea may have had an impact on federal politics. Canberra's access to water was factored into its location, just not in the way our questioner had hoped. Charts held by the National Archives of Australia show that the rainfall of potential sites was monitored closely. And that in turn explains our award-winning drinking water , and our strangely-shaped border.
Our Curious Canberran found this next suggestion, from historian David Headon, especially intriguing. Before the mile rule was established, a location in Queensland that met the NSW and South Australian borders was floated. Site inspections, written reports and numerous ballots ultimately determined where the federal capital would be. And even though we've done our best to spell it out here, the question of why Canberra is where it is will probably live on.
That's because it's not just a question about where it was built but why it exists at all. Some call it capital bashing. Lorenzo Thomas was born in Canberra to Italian parents. He's spent time working in retail and in the public service. Living between the snow and the coast has its perks and, while he used to favour the slopes, Lorenzo's recently become a fan of the NSW south coast. His question has been asked in many guises, so we weren't surprised when it won our most recent vote.
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Griffin says in evidence that, as of November , he. The Commission finds in March that there is 'a combination, including the Honorable [sic] W. Archibald and certain officers, hostile to Mr. Griffin's contract to be performed and his design carried out'. The Committee was abolished in December due to dissatisfaction with the pace of development. Its primary task is to develop Canberra to enable the relocation of Parliament from Melbourne and the transfer of departments and federal public servants to the new capital by Responsibility for building the city transferred to the Department of Works and Railways in In August , after considerable debate, the Parliament agrees to build a provisional Parliament House:.
In the accepted design for the lay-out of Canberra, the site for Parliament House is fixed on Camp Hill, practically at the apex of the triangle formed by Commonwealth-avenue, Federal-avenue, and the Molonglo River, within which triangle will be located the whole of the Government offices.
In proposing a provisional Parliament House, the Federal Capital Advisory Committee selected as a site for such building an area slightly below and to the north of the permanent site, holding that in such a position the provisional structure-assuming that the general scheme of development of the accepted plan is proceeded with-will front the Parliamentary gardens, which, in the course of time, will be beautified, so that the provisional building, placed as they suggest, will enjoy all the advantages of that amenity.
It is also held that in such a position Parliament House would be conveniently situated with regard to the proposed administrative offices, and that Parliamentary business will not be interfered with by the building operations when the time comes to proceed with the erection of the permanent structure on Camp Hill. The Parliament House now being commenced will therefore be a provisional building, but it will in no way be a mean structure.
While its design is on simple and economic lines, it will be substantially constructed in brick and will be of a commodious and comfortable character, presenting a good appearance architecturally … The design includes garden courts, and conforms to the general conception of Canberra in the first stage as a garden city. An amateur collector, Henry Percival Moss, finds numerous Aboriginal stone artefacts in the sand ridges along the Molonglo River, including the site of the provisional Parliament House.
Moss, who was responsible for establishing the first electricity supply in Canberra in , was the Commonwealth's Chief Electrical Engineer until Temporary structures are built on Capital Hill to house workers employed on Commonwealth construction projects including the building of the provisional Parliament House. In his speech he states:. It is impossible not to be moved by the significance of today's events as a great landmark in the story of Australia.
I say this not only because today sees the opening of a new Parliament House and marks the inauguration of a new capital city, but more because one feels the stirrings of a new birth, a quickened national activity, of a fuller consciousness of your destiny as one of the great self-governing units of the British empire.
The building is designed by Chief Commonwealth Government architect, John Smith Murdoch, and is the first purpose-built home for the Australian Parliament. The design is considered modern for its time, featuring square and circular motifs in the architecture and furniture throughout the building. The construction workers and building materials come from all parts of Australia.
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