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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.
