The Old Parliament House (the white building which was used between 1927 when the Parliament relocated from Melbourne and 1988), and the new Parliament house (which has been used since May 1988; in fact, I was only a few days early for its 20th birthday) are framed by autumnal foliage. Or "foilage", as Marge Simpson would have it.

I've been to the old Parliament House which now houses the National Portrait Gallery (such as it is; you'll find almost as many portraits in my pBase galleries) and a museum preserving Parliament as it then was.

Not so curiously I've never made the trip to the new parliament house, probably because having observed politics for some time I'm under no illusions about how little say the "demos" such as myself have in the "kratia" these days in our supposed "democracies".

The early morning mist imparts a certain softness to the image, amplified by the fact that it was taken from the top of Mt Ainslie quite some way away.

Now if they'd just finish whatever it is that they're doing at the High Court (on the left) and get that naffing crane out of the framing of my picture...

(Edit November 2008: I believe that the crane was being used in the construction of the new National Portrait Gallery, opening on the 4th of next month. It's considerably larger than the collection that used to be in Old Parliament House, referred to above.)