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Government House is the official residence of the governor of Victoria, currently Margaret Gardner. It is located in Kings Domain , Melbourne , next to the Royal Botanic Gardens . Government House was opened in 1876, on land that had originally been set aside in 1841.
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 .
The house was accepted by the National Trust of Australia in 1967.(ABC News story) Barwon Grange, Geelong; Barwon Park, Winchelsea; Como House, South Yarra; Dow's Pharmacy, Chiltern; Federal Standard Printing Works, Chiltern; Government House, Melbourne (tours by appointment) Gulf Station, Yarra Glen; Labassa, Caulfield; Lake View Homestead ...
A. C. Goode House, Queen Street Manchester Unity Building, Collins Street. 67 Spencer Street, former Victorian Railway Headquarters, now Grand Hotel Melbourne; 140 William Street (formerly BHP House) A. C. Goode House, Queen Street; Alkira House, Queen Street; Austral Building, Collins Street
Queen Elizabeth II reads a speech in Sydney, 1954. Since 1867, the British royal family has visited Australia over fifty times, with only six visits before 1954. Elizabeth II was the first reigning monarch of Australia to have set foot on Australian soil; she first did so on 3 February 1954, when she was 27 years old.
Government House, Melbourne, residence of the Governor of Victoria; Government House, Norfolk Island, residence of the Administrator of Norfolk Island; Government House, Perth, residence of the Governor of Western Australia; Government House, Sydney, residence of the Governor of New South Wales
The Old Treasury Building on Spring Street in Melbourne was built in 1858-62 in the grand Renaissance Revival style. It was designed to accommodate the Treasury Department, various government officials' offices including the Governor In Council, and basement vaults intended to house gold from the Victorian gold rush.
The Commonwealth Offices building at 4 Treasury Place was built some ten years after Federation and concurrently with the choice of Canberra as the National Capital. It was the first office building constructed by the Commonwealth and reflects the fact that Melbourne was the seat of the Commonwealth Government until the opening of Old Parliament House in Canberra in 1927.
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