Australian and New Zealand 1916-1918 Memorial Canberra

Anzac Parade, Canberra , Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Phone: 61 (0)2 6243 4211

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    The "meeting place"

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    After Sydney we went to Canberra. Canberra is Australia's capital and its political heart-land. The city was planned in 1908 as the new seat of federal parliament to end rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne. Canberra was once little more than a sheep station on the edge of the Molonglo River. Its name is based on an Aboriginal word meaning "meeting …