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2 .The parliamentary triangle has all sorts of things from buildings to national parks.



Parliament House is in the triangle with Old Parliament House





// The High Court //



// National Gallery //



// The Defence Head Quarters //



// There is the Commonwealth Park and Lake Burley Griffin //



// Lake Burley Griffin was named after the man who designed Canberra. The roads that make the Parliamentary triangle are Commonwealth Avenue, Kings Avenue and Construction road, we went on all of these roads. (Wikipedia, 2011) //

// 3 .The Ngunnawal tribe have lived in Canberra for about 21,0000 years, but in1820 their land was getting taken over by settlers. It was originally called Kanbarra which means meeting place. It is still significant today because the politians from all the states and territory's meet to make decisions and talk about the country. So it is still a meeting place. (Wikipedia, 2011) // //Aboriginal flag//  //Drawing of the Ngunnawal tribe having a meeting//

// 4 .Democracy comes from a Greek word meaning rule of the people. In Australia we elect people into our government to represent us. This is called indirect democracy. This means that we run our country so everybody can have a say (Kids.net.au, 2011). Other countries are not so lucky. I heard on the news the other night that at the moment in Libya one person called Colonel Gaddafi runs the country and if anyone wants to challenge his leadership he is going to kill them or put them in jail. I am glad I don't live there! // //I really like this picture because I think it shows democracy by having everyone in a big map of Australia.//



//This picture shows where Libya is. See where it is placed against Australia//

// I found this newspaper article in the Leader newspaper on the 1st February 2011, that shows democracy in our local community. It is a group of people protesting about something they don't believe will be good for their community. I live a few streets away from where they are planning to build the apartments and for my family it will mean a lot more traffic making it harder to get into our street. It will also bring a lot more people to our neighbourhood. //

ANGRY Ringwood residents have hit out at a plan for a high-density apartment block in their street. Residents living near the proposed development site, at the corner of Oliver St and Maroondah Highway, say they are worried about the potential impact on their neighbourhood. Oliver St resident Jim Nippard said the main concern was the amount of extra traffic the development, which would replace four free-standing houses, would bring to nearby streets. “We’re the only through road from Mullum Mullum Rd to Maroondah Highway, and in morning peak hours we’d have 30 to 40 cars lined up to turn onto the highway,” Mr Nippard said. The only driveway for the proposed apartment block would be on Oliver St, near the Maroondah Highway entrance. The three-level apartment block would include 98 car parks and a mixture of one and two-bedroom apartments. Maroondah Council director of city development Phil Turner said the council had received 13 objections to the development application. Mr Turner said objections listed traffic congestion, parking and the inappropriate density of the development for the area. The corner of Oliver St and Maroondah Highway is about three blocks outside the Ringwood Central Activities District, where the council is trying to concentrate high-density developments. A decision on the application is likely within six weeks.

// ([|http://maroondahleader.whereilive.com.au/news/story/ringwood-residents-irate-over-apartment-plans/]) //

// 5 .There are two house of parliament; the Senate and The House Of Representatives. The senate is the coluor red and has 76 Senators -12 from each state. // // Each state has the same amount of senators so it is fair. The senate can't introduce laws on national spending or taxes. If you are in government at the moment like Labour is, it does not mean you have more senators sitting in the senate than the other parties do. (Commonwealth of Australia, 2010a) // // The other is the House Of Representatives it is the coulor green (sort of gum tree leaves colour). // // It has got 150 members and they help make the laws but the senate has to agree on the law before it is put into place. (Commonwealth of Australia, 2010b) //



// 6 .When all the states of Australia came together (federation) there was no capital for Australia. They all met in Victoria until they decided Canberra should become Australia's capital. //

// Old parliament house was built in 1927 and was opened by King George the 6th. After years, and as Australia grew, Old Parliament House became to small. They held a competition to design the new Parliament House. They started building in 1981 and they finished in 1988. It took them 7 years to build and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. // // (Parliamentary Education Office, 2010) //

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// 7. The AIS stands for Australian Institute Of Sport. It was thought of after the1976 Montreal Olympic games because we did a really bad job. We won 0 gold medals. It was opened 5 years after in 1981. The AIS is the best sports complex in Australia because it is where all the best professional sport people go. (Wikipedia,2011) //

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// Basketball is at the AIS (Australian institute of sport) and Ian Stocker is the head coach for the mens team but there are many other coaches on the Australian crew. Some teenagers are really good at basketball and are invited to play at talent camps. If they perform really well there they may get a scholarship to go to the AIS. There have bean some great players that have gone through the AIS such as // 

// Andrew Gaze, Andrew Bogart (in NBA) and Patrick Mills (also in Nba). If you play basketball for Australia you will play all sorts of country’s like Japan, America and Sweden .Australian basketball is becoming a popular sport and more and more kids want to play it. // // (Australian Government, 2010) //



// 9. //Dani - for this question can you please click on the photos of my Pa's dad. I can't get the photos to stay on the page.//

At age 28 Stanley Johnston went to World War 2. Stanley was fighting for Britain because he was from Scotland. He started of as a wireless operator then he made his way to a gunna in the 40th squadron.Then he became a officer. He came back from the war in 1945 because he had to help his wife Isabella help my look after there 1 year old son who is now my Pa. He made his way back to the war and became a wireless operator trainer.

 The war finished in 1946 and he came back home. When away he sent some letters to Isabella about the war in the middle east areas.When he was a gunna he shot up the roads so that the people they were fighting against couldn't get through and he attacked ships. For his five and a bit years of being at war he got 5 badges.



10 .The Gallipoli diorama shows the Australian men running across a huge open space to attack the Turkish trenches.

  It must have been really nerve racking trying to get into the Turkish trenches because a lot of Australian soldiers died. The diorama is made out of chicken wire, plaster and people made out of bronze plus they used paint to make it look good. First they used the wood and chicken wire. They lay the wood down and the chicken wire was used to make the shape then they poured the plaster over the top and waited for it to dry. When it was set the painted it and put the bronze people on top. (Australian War Memorial, nd)

11 .The unknown soldier was originally placed in Westminster Abbey in London. He was placed there on the 11th of november 1920 to represent all the people under Britain who have died fighting at war. He is unknown because nobody knows his birth date, if he was married or where he is from. He was was moved to Australia in 1993 in the Old Parliament House in the Kings Hall and was buried with all Australian things and some soil from France. (Australian War Memorial, nd)  

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