High Commission of Australia, London Wikipedia

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• EXPLORE HOUZZ
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• A Crisp Laundry Space in Canberra by Studio Black Interiors
• Youth Advocacy Centre taking legal action against Queensland government over watch house crisis

The parliamentary entitlement of a state or territory is established by the electoral commissioner dividing the number of the people of the Commonwealth by twice the number of senators.[12] This is known as the "nexus provision". The reasons for this are twofold, to maintain a constant influence for the smaller states and to maintain a constant balance of the two Houses in case of a joint sitting after a double dissolution. The population of each state and territory is then divided by this quota to determine the number of members to which each state and territory is entitled. Under the Australian Constitution all original states are guaranteed at least five members.[4] The federal Parliament itself has decided that the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory should have at least one member each.

Government must confront challenge of housing women and children fleeing violence, homelessness advocate says

More recently it was a location for Wonder Woman, a Muppets movie starring Ricky Gervais and a teenage vampire film. Get incredible stories of extraordinary wildlife, enlightening discoveries and stunning destinations, delivered to your inbox. From cuddly companions to realistic native Australian wildlife, the range also includes puppets that move and feel like real animals.

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In addition, two Waygood-Otis electric passenger lifts were installed, with a speed of 300ft per minute. This ‘panel’ system was effectively hidden from view behind the marble and plaster walls and skirting, from which heat radiated. The total cost of the building, as one might expect, was high, coming in at about £1 million (roughly £57 million in today’s money).

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Building Australia House commenced during World War 1 however completion was delayed due to the rigors of the Great War. A large crowd of mostly enthusiastic Australians gathered for the event and shouted the Australian bush call ‘Coo-ee’ at the end of the ceremony. His majesty officially opened the purpose-built dominion embassy ‘Australia House’ on 3 August 1918. Australian Prime Minister William Morris Hughes and former Prime Minister Andrew Fisher were among the official party.

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As a teenager, he briefly explored DJ gigs and released a single before making Florida his home. In March 2020, 15-year-old Angus Beaumont was killed during an altercation with two teenagers, just a stone's throw from the youth centre she operates in Redcliffe, north of Brisbane. Trudy Reading from Voice for Victims says the committee had shown a "reluctance" to listen to victims of youth crime.

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Financed in association with Screen Australia, Bluey is proudly 100% created, written, animated, and post produced in Brisbane Queensland, Australia, with funding from the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland and the Australian Government. The walking stick remained with his family until his granddaughter Anne Fairbairn donated it to the National Museum of Australia in 1992. Reid was eager to acquire a building ‘over which the flag of the Southern Cross and the Union Jack would fly proudly’.

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But chief superintendent Hanlon said the number of children being detained in watch houses had increased since the Queensland government's legislation changed. Gold Coast chief superintendent Craig Hanlon conceded police watch houses were not the most appropriate place for juvenile offenders to be held, but options were limited in the youth justice system. The state parliament overrode the human rights act in August last year to allow the indefinite detention of young people in adult watch houses.

These are by the British-born Australian sculptor Harold Parker, who, upon returning to his homeland in 1896, worked with the likes of Hamo Thornycroft and Thomas Brock. The groups, executed between 1915 and 1918, are very much in the so-called New Sculpture style of the period, and depict (left, facing the entrance) The Prosperity of Australia and (right) The Awakening of Australia. Government agencies within the High Commission include Austrade, Defence, Materiel (CONDMAT), National Library of Australia and Public Affairs/Media/Cultural. The building's grand interior was used as the setting of Gringotts Wizarding Bank in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,[5] as well as scenes in 2017's Wonder Woman. Billed as the Harbor City’s “annual festival of light, music and ideas,” Vivid has increasingly looked to tap into the cultural zeitgeist by adding high-profile celebrities to the lineup. Alongside longtime collaborator Tina Fey, Poehler rose through Chicago’s improv comedy scene in the 1990s before becoming a staple on Saturday Night Live after joining the show in 2001.

Youth Advocacy Centre taking legal action against Queensland government over watch house crisis

“The country was seized with a sense of declinism, the Empire had all gone,” Mr Downer said. “The economy is struggling, can’t afford to be East of Suez anymore, see no point in that, and we think we’ll throw our lot in with Europe and turn our backs on the Commonwealth countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and so on. It was both the image and the reality for most.” Today, the staff is closer to 300, with some recent additions in the trade department to deal with post-Brexit negotiations. This extraordinary building has been the location of the Australian High Commission for over one hundred years. It is the oldest continually-occupied diplomatic building in London and it was the first major public building of the new Commonwealth of Australia.

The history of the construction of Australia House encapsulates many of the changes that were occurring at the turn of the century. New developments in mechanisation, construction techniques and town planning are married with the financial demands of federalism and the growth of Australian national identity. As the traumatic First World War, confronting the rising power of Germany, drew to its close, Australia House – still not quite complete – was the site of a triumphal march of returning British and Empire troops. On Tuesday 26th March the AIIA NSW hosted the Sydney launch of Dr Eileen Chanin’s new book Capital Designs, Australia House and Visions of an Imperial London. In conversation with Neal Blewett AC, Dr Chanin discussed how the construction of Australia’s oldest diplomatic mission, Australia House, transformed central London.

Completed in 1918, Australia House is a lavish building, which is steeped in history, and the home of our oldest diplomatic mission. Described in 1930 by one journalist as the “national foyer”, it’s been much more than an embassy for many of its 100 years, once housing banking facilities, a poste restante, an information counter, a cafeteria and a reading room. With heightened security concerns, much of that has gone, but a small piece of Australia still exists on a triangle of land between Aldwych and the Strand in London’s West End. Pitkin says museums with a focus on Egyptology mainly look to the International Council of Museums’ code of ethics for guidance around the display of contentious and potentially offensive material. It calls for the respectful and dignified display of mummified human remains, but lacks specifics around what that means in practice, Pitkin says. "We continually liaise with the Department of Youth Justice in an effort to have those detainees removed from our watch houses into youth detention centres and limit and reduce the number of days they're held in our watch houses."

The building and the country it represents have fallen in and out of favour over the years, as interviews with current and former Australian High Commissioners reveal. Britain’s entry into the European Union was particularly wounding to the diplomats who saw Australia and its colonial siblings cast aside for sophisticated new friends. If the majestic entrance of Australia House looks vaguely familiar, that’s because you have seen it before. The 160-foot Exhibition Hall, decorated with 1200 tons of intricately-patterned Australian marble,was the set for Gringotts Wizarding Bank in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

"Public discourse around youth crime becomes a bit harder when we have to actually acknowledge children as victims in their own right," she says. "We're talking about concrete and steel environments, fluorescent lights, plastic mats that children are expected to sleep on." In March last year, the Labor government introduced laws making breach of bail an offence for children, in response to calls for action. Angus's mother, Michelle Liddle, told the ABC she was "angry and heartbroken" to learn the Queensland government had been warned about the lethal trajectory of one of his killers. The boys, who are now over 18 but still cannot be named under the state's youth justice laws, were convicted in relation to his murder earlier this year. When it comes to the drivers of youth crime, the evidence has been clear "for a really long time", adds Commissioner Lewis, who points to disengagement from school, family violence and insecure housing.

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The choice of location signified a newly federated Australia’s ambition to carve a dignified place for itself in the trading and financial capital of the world to attract both investment and immigrants. The project was enthusiastically supported by the British monarchy and the elite, who saw in the redevelopment the opportunity to visually project Britain’s status as a culturally sophisticated global power and leader of the Commonwealth. These days most of the country’s gold is believed to be stored in the Bank of England’s vaults. Opposite the vaults (which are now used for general storage) the basement level also has a cinema, which was used to show movies about live in Australia. Australia even had to seek a special exemption to carry on building throughout the war and keep its labourers from being sent to fight.

As subsequent events have shown, what this sequence of ‘dominion houses’ signalled, in fact, was the slow, but steady decolonisation of the British Empire, the first step in what would ultimately become the British Commonwealth of Nations we know today. In this sense, Australia House is an historical monument, as well as an architectural one. Later, in 1923, would come the magnificent Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun by Mackennal, Australia’s most eminent sculptor working in London during the period, placed high on the cornice above the main entrance. Here, it faces along the Strand and Fleet Street, a prominent feature of the Imperial ceremonial route — recently improved by the realignment of the Mall — that stretched from St Paul’s Cathedral to Buckingham Palace.

Reid cabled excitedly that ‘the proceedings passed off without a single drawback, and were marked by a degree of enthusiasm on the part of the spectators, which, it was quite evident, delighted both Their Majesties’. The panelled walls are further embellished by carvings of laurel wreaths and wattle - Australia’s green and gold floral emblem. Some of the light fittings throughout the building also feature the wattle motif and rams’ heads, in tribute to the all-important wool industry. Now with Brexit looming and Britain in need of early trade deals to showcase its potential to thrive outside of the EU and the Customs Union, Australia is being sought once again by its colonial motherland. And the jewel of its overseas property portfolio is finding new relevance as the London hub for the expanding relationship.