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Our French language and cultural center proposes all year long French language tuitions for adults, teenagers and children and cultural activities : concerts, conferences, exhibitions.
Childers Street has undergone a lot of development of late, and it is now a rather colourful looking ...
Not so long ago this blue thingie suddenly popped up on the corner of Moore and Rudd Sts in Civic. My...
Veterans Park on the corner of Bunda and Mort Sts, Civic. This park has been recently refurbished and...
Bunda Street Civic, on Christmas Day 2011.Normally a very busy street during the day, but today it lo...
Garema Place in Civic, photo taken on Christmas Day 2011. Normally during the daytime like this the a...
Garema Place in Civic, photo taken on Christmas Day 2011. Normally during the daytime like this the a...
This area, enclosed by Knowles Place and London Circuit, houses the ACT Law Courts, RBA (Reserve Bank...
Skate park behind the Canberra Centre, on Cooyong Street, Civic. It features a rather impressive spra...
Evening view from a little mound just behind the flower garden at Vernon Circle. To the north is the ...
A sheep (happily?) offers itself up for some hot horizontal lamb'aaada to the other sheep, in broad d...
There are no kangaroos in Austria.
We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in!
Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party.
This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality.
The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself!Text by Steve Smith.
