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<body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Forecourt Mosaic</b> is based on a central dot-style painting by <b>Michael Nelson Tjakamarra</b>, a leading Aboriginal artist from the Papunya community of the Northern Territory. The mosaic is made up of approximately 90,000 hand-guillotined granite pieces in seven different colours and represents a <b>Possum</b> and <b> Wallaby Dreaming</b>.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When you come into the <b>Foyer</b> you will be amazed about the use of <b>marble</b> and <b>timber</b> that provides a link to the arrival of Europeans to Australia.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The marquetry panels in the Foyer are inlaid with designs of <b>Australia Flora</b>. The 20 panels were designed by Adelaide artist <b>Tony Bishop</b> and fabricated with Sydney craftsman <b>Michael Retter</b>. Some panels feature traditional Aboriginal food sources and other botanical specimens documented by <b>Sir Joseph Banks</b> when landed on the East Coast of Australia with <b>Captain Cook</b> in <b>1770</b>.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Senate Chamber</b>, also called the Red Chamber.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Senate</b> is one of the two houses of the Australian Federal Parliament. It consists 76 senators, twelve from each of the six states and two from each of the mainland territories.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It shares the power to make laws with the other House of Parliament, the House of Representatives.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Members' Hall</b>, designed as a lofty, ceremonial space at the heart of the building, is located directly under the flag mast. It is the space in which the North-South axis of the building crosses with the East-West legislative axis that joins the Senate and House of Representatives Cambers. The static displays in the Members Hall include some of Australia's most important historical documents such as the original Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK) and one of only four surviving 1297 issues of Magna Carta.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Great Hall Tapestry</b> is based on a painting by Australian artist <b>Arthur Boyd</b>. It features a eucalyptus forest in the Shoalhaven area of New South Wales. Measuring 20 x 9 metres, it is one of the largest tapestries in the world. A team of 13 weavers from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop took just under two and a half years to complete the work.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Artworks from the Parliament House Art Collection, portraits from the Historic Memorials Collection and gifts to the Parliament can be seen throughout the public areas of the building.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>House of Representatives</b>, also called the Green Chamber.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Queens Terrace Café</b> serves refreshments and light meals.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No, this is not an art painting. I fact it's a view from the Queens Terrace Café to the Forecourt. </font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Statue of Queen Victoria.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">At the roof of the Parliament House.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The building was designed to merge into the profile of the hill itself.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A stainless steel flag mast 81 metres tall surmounts the building from which flutters the Australian flag. The flag, measuring 12.8 x 6.4 metres, is approximately the same size as the side of a double-decker bus.</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Still on the roof ;-)</font></p> </body> |
<body> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0000FF">Thanks for visiting this page. </font></p> <p align="center"><font size="7" face="Gallery Caps" color="#FF0000">RON</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#800000">Visit also my other travelogues in the upper right corner please.</font></p> </body> |
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SWFC_Fan Wed Apr 12, 2006 04:54 UTC
Super tips, Ronald! :-) I'm arriving in the Oz capital tomorrow night for a couple of days en-route to Sydney. Thanks for the great info! | craic Wed May 5, 2004 17:05 UTC
Well done. Great stuff. | iandsmith Mon Sep 8, 2003 07:07 UTC
How embarrassing; someone from the other side of the world has done the best page on our capital - congratulations! | eviltooth Mon Jun 23, 2003 14:13 UTC
Going to Canberra on Wed, thanks for the accommodation tip. |
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