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Was Canberra made the capital of Autralia because it would be hard to attack? |
Travel Info from the sea?. It seems a very sensible place to put a capital city, and a much easier place to defend than other cities in Australia. Regards, PG Travel Tips The site for Canberra was chosen because it was between Sydney and Melbourne and the land was available. There were various sites that were looked at and defence would have had nothing to do with it. There have been threats to Australia over the years from France, Russia, the USA, Germany and Japan but we have only been attacked by Japan since Federation and that was various bombing raids across northern Australia and a mini-submarine attack in Sydney. Others Not much danger of attack. I think it was put there to draw population toward the west. But who on earth would want to attack Australia? Only convicts wanted to live there initially because at least they were not in jail... I don't know it they had defence in mind when it was founded. They followed the American pattern of having the capital not part of an existing state. Maybe this was the only real estate the neighbours were prepared to part with. Looking back at history, Australia did not have such an enemy who would attack or invade Australia from the sea. Greek history, might be? i think it was made the capital of Australia to keep all those wanker politicians away from the real people but as time went bye they found ways to escape(better roads/airport) & anoy us again Canberra was situated where it is, approx half way between Sydney and Melbourne, because both these cities argued that they should become the nations capital. The Australian Capital Territory was created around it. Supposedly, the placement of the new city was to please everyone. At the time I don't think anyone was worried about repelling an invasion force. |
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