National Capital Exhibition

Hear and feel the story of Australia at National Capital Exhibition situated right at the heart of the site where the founding fathers of Canberra envisioned it. If there is a place to start exploring Canberra, I would suggest this place. The story of human civilization had always taken either of the following journeys. The path of mastery over nature by exploiting the underlying natural laws and working principles to build civilizations. All conventional civilizations throughout human history fall under this group. A less travelled path is the story of the Red Indians of America, the indigenous people of Australia and the tribal people on Earth. They have adapted and pretty much wired differently than the rest of humanity. However, there capability to survive, adapt and find meaning and contentment in deep felt communal living, their deep knowledge of the land in which they had been living for hundreds of centuries and their reverence and intense spiritual approach to the ancestral traditions and to the land that sustains them should be a case study for human posterity. It may contain the Genesis for man’s survival. Australia is blessed with both and it is home to the oldest civilization on Earth. The 50,000 year old unbroken civilization of the indigenous people of Australia, the first people to set foot on Australia. Due acknowledgement to the National Capital Exhibition Let me tell you the true story of Canberra. A story which began 72,000 years ago in Africa. The world was still in the Stone Age then and Australia was just 90 kilometers away from Guinea, divided by the Ocean and moving apart towards its current location due to tectonic movements. A huge Volcano erupted on a lake in Africa, forcing a section of the people to migrate from there. They kept themselves to the shoreline and slowly started drifting away from their original homeland. They followed the coastal line through Egypt, Afghanistan, Indian Peninsula, Burma and reached the fringes of South East Asia. And then, one fine day, almost 15,000 years after this long migration started, they reached Borneo and years later reached Guinea. It was Stone Age still and people did not know how to build a boat to cross the Ocean. But years later, a huge Tsunami struck the region where they lived, carrying some of these people to the shores of Australia 90 kilometers away. That was roughly 50,000 years ago. That’s how the first humans set foot on Australia and marked the beginning of the oldest living civilization on Earth. From then on, they slowly started thriving as the children of the land. They managed to survive with whatever the land has to offer. They lived sustainable lives in a beautiful arid region, where there was no livestock to domesticate, no horses for navigation and no indigenous grains for cultivation. Forced by their situation, they started developing a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle and started forming a huge spiritual connection with this land, which became their home, which housed their beloved ancestors for generations, a continuous culture of 50,000 thousand years. Their heritage is precious and their knowledge of the land highly valuable. They knew how to get food and water from the arid landscape. They had nations and they had ways to demarcate boundaries. They congregated at designated places and settled disputes amicably. They had various tribes and clans among themselves like the different nations in Europe and Asia and they had 700 different languages among them and they were spread throughout Australia. They lead a sustainable hunter gatherer lifestyle. Then from 1770, Europeans started arriving in fleets. When they first set sight on Australia, it looked like a beautiful well tended garden with mowed grasslands. They started the process of colonizing Australia and declared themselves as the first humans to set foot on this land. They started capturing the lands of the indigenous people, driving them into more inhospitable region inwards and decimated their population by systematically slaughtering them. There was a huge cultural divide between the Indigenous tribe and the Europeans and neither could understand each other. The colonialist systematically altered the ecosystem, drove the indigenous groups away from their homes. Inflicted them with diseases like measles and small pox to which they were not immune. They were slaughtered and subjected to forceful attempts to alter their age old traditional lifestyle. Young children were snatched away from their mothers and the men were chained and forced into slavery. Years later, Australia officially realized this inhuman mistake and the gravity of the tragedy and announced their forgiveness to the children of the land, to the lost generation who were denied their right to childhood and to the mothers, who were deprived of their motherhood and family. On behalf of the Australian people, the Government pleaded guilty and said sorry for destroying their culture and eco – system. The Government is now taking measures to restore their culture and encouraging the indigenous people to start rebuilding their traditions. The life of the indigenous people is a living monument. It is our collective duty to preserve them for posterity. Australia constructed a monumental building called Reconciliation place right in the center of the Parliamentary triangle in Canberra, as a mark of this honorable gesture In Australia we see the creative brilliance of the human species. The ability of humans to adapt and to survive, exemplified by the indigenous people and the rest of Australia in their own unique ways. Today Australia is a multi cultural, developed and prosperous nation by all means of conventional standards. The story of the progress, the amalgamation of the once upon a time confederation of six colonies that constituted Australia, into a unified nation, the creation of its constitution, and the founding ideals of democracy, which were inspired and applied from similarly constituted confederations of Canada, Switzerland and the United States and engraved into the design of the Capital City of Canberra. I encourage you to visit Canberra and the National Capital Exhibition to get a sense of what I am talking off. And finally, the vital story that the center extols: Visit National Capital Exhibition to envision the brilliant design of Canberra. It was born out of the creative imagination of the architect couple by the name Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. The story of how the ancestral meeting place of Ngunnawal, the indineous people , was converted into a lush verdant garden by Thomas Charles Weston who planted 12 million trees by the end of 1920 flanking the major arteries of the city and yet to be developed city. Visit this Centre to feel the ideals of Australian polity and how the design of Canberra engraves these principles using the natural Landscape and the water system that Canberra is endowed with. Here out the story of the three corners of a triangle, which respectively housed the Capital hill, the city center and the Russel hill housing the defense establishments. The story of a manmade like which cuts across this triangle, and the story of administrative buildings and buildings representing outstanding artistic, cultural and scientific endeavors of Australia. The story of the creative use of the Foreshores of the lake for recreation. Here out the story of the Reconciliation building. Here out the story of the Genesis of Canberra. Here it out from the masters at the Capital Exhibition Centre. Later enjoy the beautiful precinct of this building starting with a beverage and delicious savory at the adjacent Café, located conveniently to soak up the beauty of the landscape surrounding the building. Canberra is a must visit city for the discerned traveler who is looking for that extra special in refinement as well as for avid traveler looking for relaxation, culture, natural beauty and cuisine. Enjoy this splendid city which was designed perfectly to give its inhabitants and visitors, the look and feel of the lofty principles of the nation.

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