The very soul of Christmas: crowds gather for 73rd Carols by Candlelight in Canberra

By Megan Doherty
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:29pm, first published December 13 2017 - 8:58pm

Canberra's big traditional carols by candlelight started in 1945, outside Parliament House, the crowd celebrating the first peacetime Christmas in six years, holding aloft "candles, hurricane lamps and kerosene-burning lamps".

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