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Canberra's history is a treasure for all Australians. So where's the common vision?

Jack Waterford
Updated July 2 2021 - 12:16am, first published March 12 2021 - 12:00pm
The view from Mount Ainslie is familiar to almost every Australian. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
The view from Mount Ainslie is familiar to almost every Australian. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

One gets used to people suggesting that the whole idea of Canberra was a terrible mistake. A waste of good grazing country. A folly, an expensive indulgence, which ultimately and inevitably produced self-reproducing bureaucrats and a governing class out of touch with the lot of ordinary Australians.

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Jack Waterford

Jack Waterford is a former editor of The Canberra Times.

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