I wish….
![Moretonbayfigfrom1850](http://nevertoooldtogarden.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Moretonbayfigfrom1850-1200x845.jpg)
….that the architects of Federal Parliament House in Canberra in the 1980s had planted a mature Moreton Bay Fig tree on top.
It would have fitted perfectly with Burley Griffin’s vision…and by now be about 50 years young.
Instead, they put up a fancy stainless steel flagpole with no symbolic connection to Australia except it was made in Wollongong
February 2021