It's all water under the bridge now

By Ian Warden
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:01pm, first published November 27 2012 - 3:00am

Idyllic Canberra was chosen for the federal capital site in spite of sustained opposition from the Sydney weekly The Bulletin. For all sorts of reasons, The Bulletin was fanatically pro-Dalgety. One hundred years ago, and even though the battle was now lost (the Canberra site was chosen and debate was raging about what name the city would be given), The Bulletin, sulking, was still scathing about the Canberra site. One hundred years ago this very week, it published this delightful, Canberra-bashing cartoon.

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