5/08/2012: Melbourne, Part III

Today we went on a tour of Victoria’s parliament, both the assembly (top photo) and the council (second photo on left).  The assembly has 88 members and the council 40 but their chambers are equal sizes.

Our tour guide was a member of the council’s administrative staff and was much more informed and informative than your standard guide.

As the first tour group of the day, there were only 6 of us and we were allowed to stay and have coffee in the parliament restaurant.  See my partially eaten muffin on the parliament china.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also visited St Peter’s and St Paul’s cathedrals but found them not of the quality of many European cathedrals.  The following photo was taken in a garden near St Peter’s. It represents suffrage scrolls.

Prior to Chase’s school soccer game, we had time to visit one gallery (Indigenous Art) in the National Gallery.