Journalists comments about Canberra years ago when looking from Red Hill. Nothings changed they still bag us!

Stop blaming the city, blame the people you elected its their house.

Journalists opinions of early Canberra.

(Still insulting to people who live here, then and now.)

After viewing these illuminations(street lights) from Red Hill one night a visitor remarked to the Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Department that it was a wonderful sight. “Yes. Paris at night and Arabia in the morning”, answered the bureaucrat. Press Gallery journalists who didn’t like Canberra, called it ‘the only illuminated cemetery in the world!’