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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.
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1854 design by Knight & Kerr with Captain Pasley Model of 1855 design by Knight & Kerr 1877 design for west front and dome, by Peter Kerr. Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Victoria, one of the eight parliaments of the Australian states and territories.
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]
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.
Old Parliament House is, looking across Lake Burley Griffin, situated in front of Parliament House and in line with the Australian War Memorial. It was designed by John Smith Murdoch and a team of assistants from the Department of Works and Railways and was intended to be neither temporary nor permanent—only to be a "provisional" building ...
The National Triangle was a significant feature of Walter Burley Griffin's Plan for Canberra. The apices of the triangle are Parliament House, the seat of government; the Defence Headquarters at Russell; and City Hill, representing the civilian part of Canberra. Griffin planned the city around two axes which converge in the centre of the ...