Canberra
About Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia and the largest population centre in the Australian Capital Territory. Canberra was established following the federation of the Australian colonies to serve as the seat of government for the new nation, and was a compromise between Melbourne and Sydney, Australia’s two largest cities. Today, Canberra is Australia's largest inland city, and the eighth-largest Australian city by population. The city occupies most of the northern quadrant of the Australian Capital Territory, and its urban sprawl borders the state of New South Wales to the northwest, northeast and southeast. The Brindabellas are located south and west of the city, and form the northern part of the Australian Alps, the country's highest mountain range. As of June 2025, Canberra's estimated population was 484,630.
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The guy who was behind this whole law was a guy called King O'Malley, and he, according to Wikipedia, is particularly remembered for his role in the establishment of the Commonwealth Bank, the selection of Canberra as a national capital, and taking the U out of the name of the Australian Labour Party.
from 224: No Such Thing As Mixed-Species Martial Arts, 2018-07-06 at 00:08:29 · read transcript
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As soon as we're here, yeah. Then when you couldn't find any, you went for France. There is a vegan restaurant in Canberra that was fined $16,000 because they had a cockroach infestation and they didn't want to kill them because they didn't want to kill any little insects. Oh, really? Apparently, they had a real problem with German cockroaches and a single female German cockroach can give off 100,000 offspring in a month.
No Such Thing As Fishing In The Sea Of Tranquility, 2024-11-28 · listen
Is that right? Is that one of them? They wanted to call it after some of their animals. They also suggested Cuckabara and marsupiala. Although there were so many good suggestions, actually, for the name of Canberra. I think my favourites are things like Buncom and Bung Town are there and gone broke. There was one suggestion was Climax. Could have been called Climax. The one that comes up a lot is the name Sid Melad Per Briseho, which is obviously a hyphenated combination of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Hobart.
No Such Thing As A Boy Called Blclintn, 2016-08-12 · listen
As soon as we're here, yeah. Then when you couldn't find any, you went to France. There is a vegan restaurant in Canberra that was fined $16,000 because they had a cockroach infestation, and they didn't want to kill them because they didn't want to kill any little insects. Oh, really? Apparently, they had a real problem with German cockroaches, and a single female German cockroach can give off 100,000 offspring in a month.
559: No Such Thing As Fishing In The Sea Of Tranquility, 2024-11-28 · listen
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