How the planting of parks and gardens turned Canberra into a city

By Sally Pryor
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:10pm, first published April 5 2014 - 3:00am

As Canberra settles into another spectacular autumn, it's hard to imagine that the city was once a dusty and inhospitable plain with barely a tree growing in the overgrazed, rabbit-infested soil.

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