ROCKY POINT — Betty Ann Cook Griffin, 79, of Rocky Point passed from her earthly life on Sunday, August 21, 2022, at Lower Cape Fear LifeCare in Wilmington.
Jackson finds that Freeland’s history holds up in the hindsight of more rigorous research, although she claims it mentions too few architects, which Jackson sets to ‘writes’ by name checking every architect with a significant building in Australia in the last 230 years.
The Provisional Parliament House, as it was originally known, became the ‘old’ one when the ‘permanent one’ on Capitol Hill was opened in 1988. Designed and built in three years (1924-27), Murdoch was dismissive of some of its charms, mostly because of the haste he felt, and yet has all the traits of his best architecture.
Canberra was born on March 12th, 1913.
Until the 1890s Australia consisted of six separate colonies. They had their own parliaments and their own administrations, with different policies and different tax rates. They ran their own separate armed forces. They issued different postage stamps, built their railway lines on different gauges and set their clocks to different times. At the borders between them officials collected import duties and a family that moved from one state to another risked having to pay duty on some of its belongings. Not surprisingly a strong federalist movement had developed, fostered by a growing sense of national identity, and after 1898 a federal constitution was worked out by delegates from most of the colonies. It was profoundly democratic and it has stood the test of time.