I wish….

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….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