Opening of Federal Parliament; Important Decisions Reached; Dock to be Built WING the example of the British House of Commons, the Governor-General dispensed with much of the usual ceremonial at the opening of the Federal Parliament in Canberra.
The military spectacle usually associated with the opening was eliminate ed, and the function was confined to the essentials demanded by the Constitution and by time-houred usage, states the Australian correspondent of the "Glasgow Herald" of May 24.
The Minister for External Affairs
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