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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.
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
The 1996 Parliament House riot (also called the Canberra riot), involved a physical attack on Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, on 19 August 1996. The riot followed the "Cavalcade to Canberra" protest rally organised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) against the Howard government 's first Budget following the 1996 Australian ...
A Senate committee room in Parliament House, Canberra A short video on Australian Parliamentary Committees. In addition to the work of the main chambers, both the Senate and the House of Representatives have a large number of investigatory and scrutiny committees which deal with matters referred to them by their respective houses or ministers.
Canberra: ACT: 25 April 1970 National Carillon: Canberra: ACT: 26 April 1970 Sydney Opera House: Sydney: NSW: 20 October 1973 Second session of the twenty-eighth Parliament of Australia: Canberra: ACT: 28 February 1974 Second session of the thirtieth Parliament of Australia: Canberra: ACT: 8 March 1977 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Sports Centre ...
Many Commonwealth government buildings in Canberra are open to the public, including Parliament House, the High Court and the Royal Australian Mint. [ 273 ] [ 274 ] [ 275 ] The National Museum of Australia established in 2001 records Australia's social history and is one of Canberra's more architecturally daring buildings.