AUSTRALIA: A list of things you may like to do

One of the largest buildings going around, Parliament House is home to the Australian Parliament. Like many parliaments across the world, it inherited the red/green colour scheme of the Palace of Westminster, but they have been tastefully muted to the colours of ochre and eucalyptus respectively, so that’s a nice touch.

Parliament House was pretty much buried under the top of the hill it’s built on, the inventively named Capital Hill… This means that it is possible to roll down the side of the building, although experience shows that it’s a really big hill, and you’ll be really dizzy when you do get to the bottom…

The building has quite a lot of fairly interesting tidbits of Australian history scattered around, and some history of Canberra displays too. The Flag flying over this building is the size of a large bus.

Back in 2005, someone tried to ban the security guards at Parliament House from calling people “mate”. This lasted for all of one day.