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Canberra: The Meeting Place from page 17

House was finished in 1988. The rest of the city didn’t over 400,000 today (Australian
move as swiftly, being influenced by the Great Depression Bureau of Statistics).
and World War II. Twenty years later after opening the As the capital, Canberra
original Parliament House, the population had only is the site of the Australian
grown to 17,000; Melbourne still housed the bulk of the National University, National
Australian government’s functions. Library of Australia, High
Canberra was looked at as being somewhat in “the Court of Australia, Australian
sticks” because of the provision of services. It just didn’t National Gallery, Australian
seem to be gaining momentum as a city until Prime War memorial, both the Old
Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, who in his second and New Parliament House,
stint from 1949 to 1966 established the National Capital and numerous colleges and
Development Commission. It was then that the effort got technical schools of higher
sufficient funding to progress, and as a result, the city education. The Commonwealth
grew rapidly from a population of 30,000 in 1954 to well Scientific and Industrial
R e se a r c h Org a n i z a t i o n
Attention: (CSIRO) and the Australian
Defense Force Academy are

also located here.
The highlight of any visit
PGA Residents is the time spent in the New
Of Mellowing Years Parliament House. Perhaps Australian War Memorial
the most interesting aspect of
this structure is the way that it has been molded into the picture that remains with you for a lifetime. The placement
A single phone number may help you to live landscape. The top of a hill was removed and the structure of the beautifully designed contemporary structures in the
confidently and gracefully in your own home. placed there. Earth was then backfilled against the walls Parliamentary Triangle, which are accented with carefully
Now there is a volunteer senior ambassador and mounded up in the front and rear of the multistory orchestrated landscape and water features, brings totality
within PGA community who is well-schooled building, giving it the appearance of the original hill to the cityscape of Canberra.
in resources available to help with problems hiding the mass of the building and enclosing the space Don Kiselewski writes from his personal experiences,
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