The good friends around the house
As war rages in the Middle East, Australian parliamentarians try to promote understanding, writes politcal columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
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Liberal frontbencher James Paterson says the risk of a Chinese spy working inside the Australian parliament is "very high" and has backed basic vetting.
To mark National Reconciliation Week, Parliament House will be illuminated from Monday until Wednesday in the shapes, colours and landscapes of Central Australia.
May 9 is the date the first Australian parliament met, and when the first parliament in Canberra and the first on Capital Hill opened. It means far more than the King’s birthday, or January 26, says ANNA HOWE.
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Birds, trees and bugs of Capital Hill shine in the night
As the Enlighten Festival lights up the facades of the national institutions until March 13, the iconic face of Parliament House has a special theme – a series of colourful animations featuring the birds, trees and bugs of Capital Hill.
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Exhibitions of a patriotic kind
Parliament House has four new exhibitions of a patriotic kind opening today, reports HELEN MUSA.
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Police warn of protests continuing into weekend
Police are warning that anti-vaccine protests in Canberra are expected to continue over the next two days and may cause disruptions to roads, paths, open spaces and public and private offices.
POLICE were forced to secure the front doors of Parliament House as hundreds of protestors swarmed towards the public entrance during a protest today
BRONWYN CARLSON and LYNDA-JUNE COE detail the contentious history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy as it reaches its 50th anniversary this year.
IN the 1920s, Ruth Lane-Poole was one of Canberra’s leading “influencers”, when the elegant housewife-turned-designer was engaged to furnish the The Lodge and Government House in time for the opening of Parliament House in 1927.
THREE people were arrested for breaching health directions in two protests at Parliament House and Government House this morning.
From celebrating Australia’s first indigenous senator, to talking about Tempo Theatre's latest murder show, it's all in arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest artsday column.
“A SOPHISTICATED state actor” has hacked the networks of the major political parties, Prime Minister…
EARLY this morning (September 10) protesters from Greenpeace Australia Pacific scaled flagpoles at the front…
A HIGH-level visual arts advocacy national event intended to ignite discussion about the future of…
craft / “Design in a Decade: the 1980s”, Parliament House, until May 13. Reviewed by MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE.
PARLIAMENT House will install three beehives on Friday evening as part of a push to…
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"The last thing we need is a Parliament House as a symbol of a siege…
