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Parliament House, Melbourne, was home to Federal Parliament for 26 years from 1901 to 1927.. In 1901, when the six British colonies in Australia federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne and Sydney were the two largest cities in the country, but the long history of rivalry between them meant that neither city would accept the other as the national capital.
Old Parliament House, formerly known as the Provisional Parliament House, was the seat of the Parliament of Australia from 1927 to 1988. The building began operation on 9 May 1927 after Parliament's relocation from Melbourne to the new capital, Canberra .
Photographs of members of the Parliament of Australia from the Australian Parliamentary Handbook produced by AUSPIC in this category are held under Crown copyright. Their use is contended to be fair dealing in Australia and fair use in the United States, so long as the images are used in educational articles related to the subject of the ...
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Photo of the new parliament house from Capital Circle, Canberra, Australia. Source Photo of New Parliament House from Capital Circle Date 2016 Author Tony Rodi. Permission (Reusing this file) See below.
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 ...