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Parliament House, also known as Capital Hill, is the meeting place of the Parliament of Australia, the legislative body of Australia's federal system of government.The building also houses the core of the executive (the Australian Government), containing the Cabinet room and offices of the Prime Minister and other federal ministers.
View to Mount Ainslie from the front steps. The Australian War Memorial is at the base of the mountain, at centre of picture Central facade and steps to front entrance. Old Parliament House is a three-storey brick building with the principal floor on the middle level.
Capital Hill (postcode: 2600) is the location of Parliament House, Canberra, at the south apex of the land axis of the Parliamentary Triangle.. The site was selected as the location of the Capitol in Walter Burley Griffin's Canberra design in 1912, which he envisaged to be "either a general administration structure for popular receptions and ceremony or for housing archives and commemorating ...
Plan of Parliament House, circa 1867. The Parliament of Queensland first met on 22 May 1860 in the former convict barracks on Queen Street. [2] The building was not considered a suitable meeting place for Parliament in the long-term, but the government was preoccupied with the construction of Government House, and plans for a new legislative facility were not made until after its completion. [3]
Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Victoria, one of the eight parliaments of the Australian states and territories. Located on Spring Street on the edge of the Hoddle Grid, the grand colonnaded front dominates the vista up Bourke Street. Construction began in 1855, and the first stage was officially opened the following ...
The proposed new Parliament House was planned with an extensive civic square with a massive fountain to terminate the view along Martin Place. However, change of government from Labor to Liberal in 1965 slowed the pace of major public works. [17] In 1970 plans for a new Parliament House were spearheaded by the Parliamentary Librarian, Dr ...
Date: 12 July 1923: Source: Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, Report on the Erection of the Provisional Parliament House, Canberra, 12 July 1923.
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