What a capital idea

I’m sure that there are many people around the world who would be surprised to find that it’s not already, but there are now renewed calls for Sydney to become the capital city of Australia.

Former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, reckons that the country should be run from the harbour city. He’s even picked out a spot for the nation’s new parliament. He says Sydney’s Garden Island naval base site would be a suitable place for Australia’s Federal Parliament.

According to this article at NEWS.com.au, Keating was delivering a speech on the future of Sydney Harbour last night and said that our current Prime Minister, John Howard, had effectively moved his government to Sydney already. He believes that Canberra has an air of unreality.

I will admit that Canberra is a rather odd place. I’ve visited Canberra a number of times and I do like it but it seems a strange place to put a city, especially a capital city.

If moves were ever made to shift away from Canberra I’m sure that there’d be a lot of debate over where our parliament should be. Melbourne would be in there slugging it out with Sydney for sure. Maybe they could move everything to the economic powerhouse of Australia, Perth.

I can’t see the nation’s capital moving to Sydney, or any other city for that matter, but I wonder what you think. Where do you think Australia’s capital should be?

Posted by Rodney Olsen

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