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Tell Me a Story About Australia: Building a Capital City - Canberra
Author: Robert Gott
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| Retail Price: | $29.95 |
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ISBN: 9781740705547
Format: Hardback
Published: February 2009
Published By: Pearson Education Australia
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Published: February 2009
Published By: Pearson Education Australia
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Building a Capital City: Canberra is the true story of how a site was specially chosen to be the location of Australia's capital city. Read how this site was chosen over Australia's two biggest and wealthiest cities - Sydney and Melbourne - and why there was controversy over the city's design. This book is packed with information about the development of Canberra and the Australian Capital Territory. It tells about the people, plans, difficulties, setbakcs and successes behind the building of the city at the centre of the Australian nation.