6/15 - Canberra

Today we toured Canberra, which is the capital city of Australia. The most striking building in Canberra is the Parliament building, which cost AU$1.1 billion and 6 years to build. It’s built essentially inside a hill, save for a gleaming superstructure which supports a giant Australia flag.

Parliament: where the Aussie politicians get their funk on




Inside Parliament, we got to see “question time,” in which the representatives in Parliament get to ask the Prime Minister whatever questions they want, and he has to answer them on the spot. Anybody can watch, which is fantastic. So basically, the opposition party made PM John Howard answer all these questions that they knew he didn’t want to answer, and Howard tried to weasel his way out of them, while the rest of Parliament grumbled VERY audibly with “ARRR, ARRRR…. He’s an idiot! ARRRRRRRRRRRR… Who does THAT?!?!” All the Americans agreed that question time is definitely something that America should import, just so we can see George W. Bush make an utter fool of himself.