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Who's Got The Power? Canberra, Our Nation's Capital. Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion designed this magnificant city in 1912. The pair designed Canberra (when a site had finally been decided on for our Nations Capital) with lots of hexagons and triangles. The original plan look a bit like this:

To see the Parliamentary Triangle you must first get to Regatta point. Regatta point is a white, keyhole shaped building. It has great views of Lake Burley Griffin and a fantastic model that shows the entire city of Canberra. On this model you can clearly see a triangle shape made up of main roads and bridges. The Parliamentary Triangle's points are Parliament House (The Seat of Government), the Defence Headquarters at Russell and City Hill.

The original in﻿habitants of Canberra were the 'Ngunnawal' tribe, they called Canberra 'Kamburra' or 'Kamberry' meaning meeting place. They would gather there to create rock art, trade goods and catch up with friends. It’s significance still today is that it is now the site of old and new Parliament House, this relates strongly to the original meaning of Canberra's name.

The two Parliamentary Houses are the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate is the upper house and the House of Representatives the lower. Following true British tradition, the Senate (the House of Lords) is decorated in red and the House of Representatives (the House of Commons) in green. It was decided that the green and red would be altered to represent Australian colours. The green was changed to softer, eucalyptus colours and the red to the colours of the 'Great Australian Outback.'

'Government of the people, for the people, by the people.' This is the American take on democracy. In fact, in ancient Greece democracy simply meant 'government by the people.' I think democracy means giving everyone a right to vote and have a say in the running of our country. An example of democracy at work is the protesters in Egypt. They are protesting because they want their country to be a democracy. The difference between Australia and Egypt democracy wise is that Australians get to vote fairly, Egyptians either get forced to vote for someone or don't get a choice at all, they want this to change.

The architects had big plans for the brand new Parliament House, but their dreams were squashed when World War II broke out. During the war the government spent lots of money on munitions and machines so when it was all over they couldn't afford to let the Canberra Project go ahead with what it was going to be. The government asked John Smith Murdoch to design a stripped, classical building that would be a temporary Parliament House for 50 years. 50 years after the first Parliament House was opened in Canberra the Government put Walter Burley Griffin's Parliament House in to action again, this became our New Parliament House. Old Parliament House was opened in 1927 by the Duke of York, who later became King George the 6th (Queen Elizabeth's father). The Queen opened new Parliament House in 1988.

A.I.S. stands for the Australian Institute of Sport. It was established in 1981, a year after the Moscow Olympics. It was established because of Australia's poor performance in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where Australia finished 32nd in the medal count. Gymnastics at the A.I.S. is a base sport; it has been at the A.I.S. since 1981 when it was founded. The A.I.S. try to work closely with Gymnastics Australia to approach training gymnasts professionally and more effectively. To perform gymnastics well you must h ave good posture and balance, can you imagine a gymnast that can't balance? They would be falling all over the place! Another quality you must have to be a professional gymnast is flexibility. You need to be able to do the splits and back bridges and leg mounts... the list goes on and on! Lastly you have to be strong, think about it, if you have to be constantly taking rests after doing something on the rings, you're definitely not going to be able to make it through a routine! This is why I admire professional gymnasts so much. I have two relatives that served in a war but only one that fought. My Papou Bill fought in the Greek Civil War. First he was forced at gun point to join the Partisans, then he realised that they had absolutely no hope of winning and moved to the Greek National Army, some of the Partisans didn't even have shoes and they were all using guns that the Italians and Germans had left behind from World War II. He was terrified of war so whenever he was told to shoot, he shot high into the air so he didn't kill anyone, he was aware that all of these men were friends, sons, husbands and fathers, some even related to //him//. My Great Grandpa Jack worked as an engineer in the munitions factory during World War II and my Papou Con worked in the Labour Force also during World War II.  <span style="color: #a620c0; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The Gallipoli Diorama is located in the Australian War Memorial in the First World War galleries in Canberra. It shows the ANZACs and the Turkish soldiers fighting at Lone Pine in Gallipoli. You can see the Australian soldiers climbing through holes in the Turkish trenches, ready to ambush them. I think this would be really scary, jumping down holes that could lead to your death. This shows how brave these soldiers really were, ready to sacrifice themselves for a brand new country they called home. In the diorama you can see the Turkish and Australian soldiers both had the same coloured uniform so the Australians wore white armbands around their upper arms so they could tell friend from foe. The Lone Pine Diorama was constructed between 1924 and 1927 by the sculptor W Wallace Anderson and the artist Louis McCubbin. It was a long job and took three years. The Diorama is made out of mostly plaster. Other materials are chicken wire, wood and paint.

<span style="color: #a620c0; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 29px;"> <span style="color: #a620c0; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 29px;">The original Unknown Soldier was entombed in Westminster Abbey in London on the 11th of November 1920 after being brought over from France. His body had been selected out of four by General Wyatt, all four body were covered by the Union Jack. The soldier was assumed to to have been British, but he could have been a Canadian, a New Zealander, or even an Australian but he was intended to represent all the young men of the British Empire killed during World War. Soon other allied nations brought back other Unknown Soldiers of their own. The idea to have an Unknown Australian Soldier first was suggested in the 1920s but it was not until 1993 that one was at last brought home. To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the body of an unknown Australian soldier was recovered from Adelaide Cemetery in France and taken to Australia. After lying in King's Hall in Old Parliament House, the Unknown Australian Soldier was moved again into the Hall of Memory in the Australian War Memorial on the 11th of November 1993. He was buried with a slouch hat, a sprig of wattle and soil from the Pozières battlefield. The Unknown Australian Soldier represents all Australians who have been killed in war.

<span style="color: #a620c0; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 29px;">My favourite place in Canberra is hard to choose because they were all so good. I think I will have to settle with the Australian War Memorial because it was so informative and truly a beautiful sight to see. I especially loved learning all about World War I and the Aircrafts they used. The pool of reflection looked so pristine and perfectly still because the wind can hardly get to its surface, and there were magnificant veiws from the second level. It definitely met my expectations and even went beyond them because I never knew there was so much information in the War Memorial.

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