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Hi, I'm Garry, I've been living in Canberra for more than three years now. I have to say, I've been enjoying it so much that I'm starting to regret all the rotten things I used to say about the place. I love the politics, the parliament (old and new), the public institutions, the walking and talking. I've even found some good places to have coffee and, coming from Melbourne, that is an important consideration. Working from home, I love the variety of offices I have, scattered in coffee shops around Manuka. When I'm not there, I hang out in Bookplate in the National Library. The photograph was taken at Parliament House on Queens Terrace. We went to a wedding there recently.
Location: Canberra

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Brisbane - I was impressed

Garry | 2008-10-20 | I recently stayed with my wife and two young children just across the road from the Botanical Gardens. In some ways, I was there by accident, my wife attended a conference and I tagged along. But Brisbane impressed me as a city. | read more

Barfold - William Alexander Watt's Birthplace

Garry | 2008-10-17 | W.A. Watt was born at Barfold, near Kyneton, on 23 November 1871. While a former Victorian Premier, Australian Treasurer, Speaker of the House of Representatives and acting Prime Minister for a 16-month period (1918 -19) when Billy Hughes was overseas, Watt has largely been written out of the history books. | read more

Eumundi - Kevin Rudd's birthplace

Garry | 2008-02-06 | Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was born in Eumundi on 21 September 1957, the youngest of four children. | read more

Red Hill

Garry | 2008-08-21 | Red Hill is a great spot to view Canberra. Along with Mount Ainslie and Black Mountain, it rates a mention in Margaret Wade's Canberra's Secrets as a top place to get a sense of the city. One writer, Kevin Cole, is quoted as saying: "like the seven hills of Rome, we've got the three hills of Canberra". | read more

 

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4.0 Celebrating Sorry in Canberra

Photo Garry | 2008-02-13 | Celebrating a nation saying Sorry in Canberra, a group huddle and cheer as Australia's Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, called the nation together "to deal with this unfinished business of the nation, to remove a great stain from the nation’s soul and, in a true spirit of reconciliation, to open a new chapter in the history of this great land, Australia." | read more

4.0 The Geelong Bollards

Photo Garry | 2008-02-01 | Copyright PlanBookTravel | read more

3.5 Sydney Harbour as viewed from Vaucluse

Photo Garry | 2008-10-20 | | read more

3.5 View from Mount Ainslie

Photo Garry | 2007-09-24 | View of War Memorial, Lake Burley Griffin, Old Parliament and Parliament House from Mount Ainslie. | read more

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Places and Prime Ministers by ges posted on 2007-07-30 02:18 1 comment(s)
I'm interested in creating a planbooktravel theme that covers Australian Prime Ministers and their connection to various parts of Australia. I thought I would start small by noting just a few curios and adding detail and additional content as time goes on, nothing too grand to begin with.
Gough Whitlam's boyhood home by Garry posted on 2008-02-15 19:00 0 comment(s)
I was taken on a walk of the Canberra suburb of Forrest and on the corner of Melbourne Avenue and Empire Circuit stood the boyhood home of Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (1972-1975).
The Boy from Boree Creek by Garry posted on 2007-09-02 02:35 1 comment(s)
The title is taken from Peter Rees's biography of former deputy Prime Minister and leader of the National Party, Tim Fischer. Indeed, the book is sub-titled, The Tim Fischer Story. Being linked to a famous Australian political figure has certainly helped put Boree Creek on the map. Fischer was born there in May 1946.
Canberra Home for the Treasurer? by Garry posted on 2007-08-18 22:04 0 comment(s)
The Treasurer, Peter Costello, has recently gone on record backing the idea of a permanent Canberra home for the nation's treasurer.
Creswick, Prime Minister John Curtin's birthplace by Garry posted on 2007-08-05 04:01 0 comment(s)
John Curtin, Australia's great wartime Prime Minister was born on 8 January 1885 in a rented small timber cottage in the Victorian town of Creswick, near Ballarat.
John Howard's Earlwood by ges posted on 2007-08-05 03:39 0 comment(s)
I'm haphazardly exploring the connections between Australian Prime Ministers and Australian places. Wayne Errington & Peter Van Onselen's recently published biography of John Howard opens with a chapter on Earlwood, the Sydney suburb where John Howard spent most of his childhood and teenage years.
Prime Ministers Sculptures, Botanic Gardens, Ballarat by ges posted on 2007-07-30 06:40 0 comment(s)
I remember being impressed by the sculpture garden in Ballarat's Botanic Gardens containing brass, I think, busts or heads of Australia's Prime Ministers.

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Far Western Queensland Outback Trip

Outback Rivers In Flood - care of ABC 7:30 Report idlers | 2009-05-26 | Itinerary for the Idlers 2009, midyear far western Queensland outback trip. | read more

Australia: Love at first sight - Kalbarri

The Pinnacles esmeralda | 2009-04-07 | 1995 Esme & Nick's Australian Travel Diary (August) | read more

A few of my favorite (Melbourne) things – the ‘green’ bits

Catani Gardens alkira | 2009-01-18 | A few of my favorite (Melbourne) things – the ‘green’ bits | read more

Cow Bay Beach

Cow Bay Beach, where rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef cowbayhomestay | 2009-02-04 | Cow Bay Beach, north of the Daintree River in Far North Queensland is on the Daintree Coast. Here two World Heritage areas come together in a spectacular fashion: Daintree Rainforest meets The Great Barrier Reef. | read more

Finding Utopia in Hervey Bay

Michel and Me herveybay | 2009-01-23 | Retirement and travelling around Australia the two goals of many an Australian. So that’s what we did in 2006... | read more

Keswick Island, Whitsunday's

Keswick Island's Basil Bay Beach keswickisland | 2009-01-18 | Information & history about Keswick & neighbouring Islands in the Cumberland Group. | read more

Australia: Love at first sight - Perth

Perth esmeralda | 2009-04-03 | 1995 Esme & Nick's Australian Travel Diary (April to August) | read more

Thornton’s Beach at Cape Tribulation

The beach and us marief | 2009-01-19 | A beautiful isolated beach in Tropical North Queensland with historical reference to Captain Cook's discovery of the Eastern Coast of Australia | read more

Australia: Love at first sight - Exmouth

Shell Beach esmeralda | 2009-04-03 | 1995 Esme & Nick's Australian Travel Diary (August) | read more

Surfing at Shipsterns Bluff, Marion Bay, SE Tasmania

Shipsterns is close to the popular town and beach of Marion Bay Beachbreaks | 2009-02-15 | Shipsterns Bluff , 'The Stern' or "shippies" has put South East Tasmania firmly on the world surfing map. The wave is considered as one of the worlds heaviest, and with good reason. | read more

 

 

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