Old Parliament House

The bombing is thought to have been an act of terrorism to disrupt the Commonwealth Heads of Government conference at the Hilton.

I worked in Old Parliament House then, and there were no security checks at Old Parliament House in those days.

I could walk into the building, go anywhere I pleased without even a pass, a photographic ID.

There was nothing.

Oh, hell yeah.

And Old Parliament House.

Those are very Australia.

Where's the puffer

And this was after the 87 election, which he'd lost because of Joe for Canberra and whatever.

And Tim said, well, why don't you come up to the hill for a while? And I liked the idea of doing that.

I was interested in politics, current affairs.

I was more on the right of centre.

We didn't talk about economics.

We spoke mainly about politics and things.

He asked me at the end, he said... you're married at that stage I wasn't he said well this job will do nothing for your prospects so I liked his sense of humor so I went to work for him and I stayed there until he lost his job when Andrew Peacock came back as leader in 1989 but to go back to where your question started I think that was the break, going up the hill, getting to know John Howard, because then I came back in the mid-90s to work for him after a stint in Treasury, and that was really The break that sent me on a particular career path into advising and then banking for a while and then into parliament and then into the ambassadorship.

And that ended up with me now, at least for now, as you said, living in Washington and doing a number of international business activities.

On Friday night, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, announced something pretty cool that's going to be happening in Canberra.

He announced that in April of next year, they're going to mark the 100th birthday of Old Parliament House.

Oh, I love when a building has a birthday.

Me too.

And they're going to do that by basically trudging down the hill and sitting, having a sitting day, one sitting day to celebrate the building's 100th birthday.

Oh, no way.

Yes, all of the MPs, all of the Senators, you know, their journos, the media teams, like, yeah, they will sit in Old Parliament House.

It's like going for a drive in Grandad's old car.

Acting CEO of Carers ACT, Victoria Dolphin there.

A number of local landmarks, including Old Parliament House, Malcolm Fraser Bridge, and the Royal Mint, will light up in teal on Wednesday to recognize the unpaid carers.

Doctors are warning Australia's hospital system is reaching a tipping point as more older patients turn up to emergency departments with complex health needs.

The Australian College of Emergency Medicine says the aging population will place even more strain on our hospitals unless more beds and aged care services are provided.

The investigation has reportedly focused on prominent conspiracy theorists.

It includes at least one person linked to a sovereign citizen gathering at Old Parliament House last year.

Multiple raids have been carried out in Victoria and New South Wales where police seized dozens of electronic devices.

Business groups are warning new workplace reforms from the Albanese government could further weaken productivity.

This has got nothing to do with this, but anyway.

I recently went to Canberra and we went to Old Parliament House.

And we were looking through some of the old newspaper articles and how decisions were made at the time in the First World War and the Second World War, the limited information that they would have at that time and taking that information and really having to sit with this limit of, you know, they didn't have the breadth that we had, they didn't have the fast pace that we had, but what they did have was time.

And so they would get this information and they would think about it and you would see the cultivated process of decision making.

He didn't live at the lodge.

Instead, he went to a humble hotel, which is about 700 metres away from Old Parliament House.

Ali and the team who helped manage this place have put together a great audio tour as well, and it is just one of the many awesome museums to see when you come to Bathurst.

Now...

Question number 12.

Who was the last Prime Minister to serve in Old Parliament House? Bob Hawke? Correct.

It was Bob Hawke, yeah.

Question number 13.