I love seeing Australia and hearing the accents and how people dressed and communicated in the 80s. Such a beautiful, bygone era. Gone too soon!

This production brought back many memories whilst I worked on the building.

The construction workers... No hearing protection, no safety glasses, no Hi Vis Vests! LOL

A well produced account of a place in Aussie history. The magnificent flag pole has added symbolism to me as a person who worked at the Port Kembla plant where the raw stainless steel was produced. A least five batches of around 50 tonnes went into the material for the fabrication of the pole which weighs 220 tonnes. These were produced in an Electric Arc furnace then refined in an Argon / Oxygen Degasser before being cast to ingots and rolled in a slab mill. Material was finally rolled into coils. Sadly this production was done within twelve months of the plant ceasing stainless production in 1985. After that time stainless product was imported from a few other plants around the globe. Just imagine all that product you see being imported to this day. In a way it marked another spoke lost in the wheel of Aussie manufacturing

Unexpectedly a very good production. A brilliant move to tell the story of the building through all the people associated with the building with such high standards. Hopefully a lesson for us today. Vale Mr. Giurgola.

I remember seeing this just before it was finished, in 1986 or 1987, can't remember exactly. I thought the building was beautiful with great and contrasting finishes, such as the marble entrance and wood dominated hall with the painting Blue Poles in it. I was amazed how small the Prime Ministers office was, and felt it was a weird place to put it. It was near to the entrance that in those days you could drive right up to. Years later some idiot actually drove a 4WD through the fence, fortunately noone was injured.

The lead design architect, Romaldo 'Aldo' Giurgola, died on 16 May 2016 aged 95.

I visited the house in 1988 when I was a child. I sat in the public viewing box.

Freemasonic architecture

And to think only 30 years later this building is already full and are contemplating extensions, maybe a cull of government staff is needed. The biggest criticism of this place compared to old parliament house I've heard is where the humble size of the old place enforced the public and rivals to mingle and fraternise with each other, the cavernous new facility separates and isolates various sections from each other has encouraged a sectarian vibe

19:45 thats my old man Ivan Quinton

39:21 what’s old mate scomo doin

Fantastic video thanks for posting.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this documentary! :)

My kids loved running on those grassy slopes. Freedoms stolen from people and never returned

Provisional Parliament House was opened (1921?) by Queen Elizabeth 2nd's father, before he was King George VI.

Is it possible to use some of this archived video?. Leaving all details of this channel etc for credit to copyright laws?. Thanks in advance for response.

...with a big pyramid on the roof.

12:50 and look where we are today lol…

Cool video generating parliament

Hello NFSA, just wondering if the HD transfer is still planned to be uploaded? Thanks.

good show.

That's what's up

It's a shame because of the times that general public don't have a full access now that it was originally proposed.

Oh yeeah but we already got one..lol

alot of poeple think Sydney the Capital city of Australia but they worng it's Canberra

Does anyone know why people were protesting against it being built on Capital Hill at 4:32?

Smoking joint standing committee

New Parliament is really -- if we're being honest about it -- a bit of a mess. The fact that it was designed by a bunch of foreigners just makes that worse.

well before WPHS

Love that place, not so pretty but likeable.

My dad was in year 12 when they finished building the new one. But the original building was nicer

Whats with the pyramid design ? Doesn't sing Australia.... unless ya illuminati... ⚔

The old building is much nicer.

This didnt age well did it.

This building is so boring there no since of pride

It's a bunker with an illuminati style flagpole. Pretty much what you'd expect after the last two years.

I worked on this project for over a year, plastering. What a waste of money - $2 billion for the clowns we have in there to do nothing. The flag was supposed to reflect in the water below the pyramid... hardly surprising it never worked, the light is refracted everywhere else.