Shortly before her death, she attended a march in Canberra for reconciliation between non-indigenous Australians and the Aboriginal people.

When Julia Gillard became Prime Minister on 24 June 2010 after the parliamentary Labor Party decided to replace Kevin Rudd as leader, she declared that she would not move into The Lodge until she had " fulsomely earned the trust of the Australian people to be prime minister " at an election ; instead, she remained living in her home in Altona in Melbourne and her flat in Canberra.

She also worked for The Age, The Canberra Times and A Current Affair before moving to The Sydney Morning Herald, where she worked until August 2005.

Born in Canberra, Australia, she is the daughter of Sir Lenox Hewitt ( b. 1917 ), a leading civil servant ( Secretary of the Australian Prime Minister's Department, and later chairman of Qantas ), and Lady ( Hope ) Hewitt ( 1915 – 2011 ).

Attention continued to build with the media attempting to justify the controversy by highlighting Morosi's lack of public service experience, her physical beauty and pointing out that she had often been seen dining in Canberra with senior Cabinet ministers.

In February 2009 she gave the Magna-Carter speech to Parliament House in Canberra, Australia.

The same year she moved to Canberra from Brisbane, and she bought her own pharmacy business in 1981.

Among other positions she was: Chairman of the Canberra and Southern District Pharmacists Company Ltd ( 1982 – 1992 ), Vice-President of the Retail Industry and Training Council, ACT ( 1987 – 1991 ), Councillor at the Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management ( 1990 – 1991 ), Member of the ACT Board of Health ( 1990 – 1991 ), and a Member of the Pharmacy Restructuring Authority ( 1990 – 1991 ).

Initially Court had announced that he would stay on as opposition leader, but had secretly negotiated a deal under which she would leave the Federal Parliament and factional opponent Colin Barnett would move to Canberra.

Mark Bahnisch wrote " He was probably .... unwise not to enquire of the “ exotic solicitor ”‘ s flatmate what her occupation was – she turned out to be a member of the Canberra Press Gallery – hence his pre-emptive confession "

In the 1996 federal election she contested the newly-created seat of Namadgi against the Liberal Member for Canberra, Brendan Smyth.

An active patron of over eighty community organisations in Canberra, in 2004 she was appointed an Officer ( AO ) in the Order of Australia for her service to the Australian Parliament and the community.

Initially she started a philosophy degree with Genevieve Lloyd at ANU in Canberra and attending " Act 2 performance festival ", transferring to Canberra School of Art in 1982, where she was influenced by " Act 3 performance festival " which included Jill Orr & Aleks Danko ; Phillip Institute of Technology in Melbourne 1983 recalling classes with John Dunkley Smith ; completing her BFA at Southern Cross University in 1988 where she met Geoffrey Legge of Watters Gallery who asked her to come to Sydney and show her work to the new gallery Legge Gallery, who represented her work from 1989-94.

Follett was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1948, and moved with her family to Canberra in 1952 where she was educated at Canberra Catholic Girls ' High School.

On 2 June 2010, Johnson read out a letter to Parliament which he sent to the Australian Federal Police alleging he was subject to " illegal pressure " to resign from Federal Parliament by the Liberal National Party President Bruce McIver, during a meeting on 25 February in Canberra.

Following the dismissal of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, on 11 November 1975, Smith read out the proclamation of the dissolution of parliament on the steps of the then Parliament House in Canberra:

In the 2006 census the population of the ACT was 333, 667, of which only 869 were outside Canberra.

The ACT median weekly income for people aged over 15 was in the range $ 600 –$ 699 while the population living outside Canberra was at the national average of $ 400 –$ 499.

Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.

The territory is a possession of Australia, administered from Canberra by the Attorney-General's Department ( before 29 November 2007 administration was carried out by the Department of Transport and Regional Services ).

An incident in which Calwell was photographed standing outside a South Canberra hotel while the ALP Federal Executive ( dubbed by Menzies the " 36 faceless men ") was determining policy also contributed to the 1963 victory.

As a result of this decision in London, no action was taken in Canberra or Perth.

2003, The Passions was exhibited in Los Angeles, London, Madrid, and Canberra.

The son of Allan and Margaret Hird, James Hird was born in Canberra on 4 February 1973.

He was recruited from the Ainslie Football Club in Canberra, in the 1990 AFL draft.

The site of Canberra was selected for the location of the nation's capital in 1908 as a compromise between rivals Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's two largest cities.

The city's design was heavily influenced by the garden city movement and incorporates significant areas of natural vegetation that have earned Canberra the title of the " bush capital ".

Before European settlement, the area in which Canberra would eventually be constructed was seasonally inhabited by Indigenous Australians.

By many accounts, it was decisive in the selection of Canberra as the site in 1908, as was a result of survey work done by the government surveyor Charles Scrivener.

Immediately after the end of the war, Canberra was criticised for resembling a village, and its disorganised collection of buildings was deemed ugly.

Canberra was often derisively described as " several suburbs in search of a city ".

Lyons ' government was cautious and pragmatic, establishing good relations with business and the conservative government in Canberra, but attracting some criticism from unionists within his own party.

This version of events was confirmed years later by the former Canberra lobbyist Richard Farmer, following the release of sealed Cabinet papers from the period.

Walter Burley Griffin ( born November 24, 1876 and died February 11, 1937 ) was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city.

In 2008, Müller's Anatomie Titus was translated into English by Julian Hammond and performed at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, the Canberra Theatre, the Playhouse in the Sydney Opera House and the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne by the Bell Shakespeare Company and the Queensland Theatre Company.

Between 1901 and 1927, Melbourne was the capital of Australia while Canberra was under construction.

The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

Tidbinbilla is a locality to the south-west of Canberra that features the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, operated by the United States ' National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) as part of its Deep Space Network.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

Development in Canberra has been closely regulated by government, both through the town planning process, but also through the use of crown lease terms that have tightly limited the use of parcels of land.

In February 2004 there were 140 public and non-governmental schools in Canberra ; 96 were operated by the Government and 44 are non-Government.

Alexander Bunyip, created by children's author and illustrator Michael Salmon, first appeared in print in The Monster That Ate Canberra in 1972, Alexander Bunyip went on to appear in many other books and a live-action television series, Alexander Bunyip's Billabong.

Hobart is served by Hobart International Airport with flights to / from Melbourne ( Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways and Tiger Airways Australia ); Sydney ( Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin ); Brisbane ( Virgin ); Gold Coast ( Jetstar ); and Canberra ( Virgin ).

At a function attended by the Queen at Parliament House, Canberra, in 1963, Menzies quoted the Elizabethan poet Thomas Ford, " I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die ".

The National Museum of Australia in Canberra holds a significant collection of memorabilia relating to Robert Menzies, including a range of medals and civil awards received by Sir Robert such as his Jubilee and Coronation medals, Order of Australia, Companion of Honour and US Legion of Merit.

The west wing of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra designed by Ashton Raggatt McDougall, is a near exact replica of the Villa Savoye, except its black colour.

At 39 years, the noisy but impressive Shackleton held the distinction of being the aircraft with the longest period of active RAF service, until overtaken by the English Electric Canberra in 1998.

It ranges from the layout of entire cities, as with l ' Enfant's plan for Washington DC, Griffin and Mahony's plan for Canberra and Doxiadis ' plan for Islamabad ( although such opportunities are obviously rare ), through ' managing the sense of a region ' as described by Kevin Lynch, to the design of street furniture.

The growth and development of Canberra were hindered by the World Wars and the Great Depression, which exacerbated a series of planning disputes and the ineffectiveness of a sequence of bodies that were to oversee the development of the city.

Blundells Cottage | Blundells Cottage, built around 1860, is one of the few remaining buildings built by the first European settlers of Canberra.

Thespis ( 1965 ), bronze sculpture by Robert Cook, commissioned for the opening of the Canberra Theatre