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The 'inauguration' of Lake Burley Griffin

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Do most Australians think Canberra is a great city and that water makes a city 'great'? Former prime minister Sir Robert Menzies certainly thought so. When the American architect Walter Burley Griffin submitted his design for Australia's new capital city in 1911, it included damming a river to create a lake. Listen to Menzies' speech at Lake Burley Griffin's inauguration in 1964.

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