Canberra

So, Canberra is Australia's capital and is well known to Australians as being a sleepy town. It certainly does emit this aura of boredom. Even the pub closed at 10pm.
Nonetheless, I blew off one morning of my conference there to walk around the city. The "polies" (politicians) were sitting this week, but I was unable to attend the question time, which apparently is quite entertaining.

Here are some photos:

Lake Burley Griffin, Parliament House in the distance.


Parliament House


One angle from Parliament House


Another angle from Parliament House (Falun Gong protest in the front, Mt. Ainslie in the back)


And, yet another angle from PH:


Who knew that the Senate President's CHAIR was donated from Canada?!


The "Tent Embassy" (indigenous people claiming rights to land) just below the grounds of Old PH.