Canberra Australia Day 2017
Canberra Day is a public holiday in the ACT Australian Capital Territory on the second Monday of March every year, commemorates the official founding of Canberra in 1913 and highlights a major festival in the territory.
Canberra Day is one of the main strengths of the festival Celebrate Canberra where people in the capital of Australia celebrate its qualities such as physical beauty and cultural diversity, various forms of entertainment that make up the festival include.
Celebrate in the biggest birthday party Canberra park.
The Canberra Citizen of the Year is named at that time those who have received this honor in previous years have been recognized for their work in areas such as.
Advocating on behalf of elderly care and or older.
Contribute to various charities or community organizations.
The festival of Canberra falls on a Monday so some people can plan a getaway long weekend trips Retreats may include campout trips, shopping trips to other cities like Sydney or car trip to the countryside.
Canberra Day is a public holiday in the Sarbanes-Oxley law offices of the territorial government, educational institutions and many businesses are closed on the day people who intend to travel by public transport on the day will check with their local transport authorities as transport schedules and ticket prices can vary, for example, Canberra bus service, SHARE offers off-peak tickets holidays.
According to the Australian Government Portal of culture and recreation, Canberra region was home to a group of indigenous Australians, called the people Ngunnawal for about 21,000 years Many Aboriginal people continued to live in the area after the Europeans settled there in the 1820s, often working on sheep properties, but their number reduced over the years.
The enlarged European regulation and the area known today as Canberra has become the center of attention when it was chosen as the new capital of Australia because of international competition, which received more than 130 entries in 1911 American architect Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony Griffin won the competition to design a new capital Canberra their plans included green belts around settlements, wide boulevards lined with large buildings, parks and official Plans of water.
The law was declared on 1 January 1911, and became an autonomous territory in 1989 is the heart of Canberra ACT and is the hub of the federal policy Canberra Day was celebrated on the third Monday in March, according to law Australia's leave Act 1958 until 2008, when it was officially changed to the second Monday in March of the change on the holiday closer to the city by day was officially founded, which was 12 in March 1913.
Canberra is the seat of government and home to important cultural sites such as.
The images of these sites, especially the Parliament, are seen in many promotions for the city, as well as books, postcards and other publications on Australia.
Note wish to thank the Australian Government Portal of culture and entertainment for most of the background information on the day in Canberra ACT.
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