Quong tart biography of alberta

‘But Once in a History’: Canberra’s David Headon Foundation Stones and Naming Ceremonies, 12 March ∗ When King O’Malley, the ‘legendary’ King O’Malley, penned the introduction to a book he had commissioned, in late , he searched for just the right sequence of characteristically lofty, even visionary phrases.

After all, as the Minister of Home Affairs in the progressive Labor government of Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, he had responsibility for establishing the new Australian nation’s capital city. Vigorous promotion of the idea, he knew, was essential. So, at the beginning of a book entitled Canberra: Capital City of the Commonwealth of Australia, telling the story of the milestone ‘foundation stones’ and ‘naming’ ceremonies that took place in Canberra, on 12 March , O’Malley declared for posterity that ‘Such an opportunity as this, the Commonwealth selecting a site for its national city in almost virgin country, comes to few nations, and comes but once in