After having spent an hour trying to get out of the city centre in our hire car, and 3 more hours on the motorway we finally made it to Canberra on time to visit the Australian parliament and Royal Mint. We were advised not to bother going to Canberra but we wanted to see it for ourselves and make our own judgement. It is one of the only 4 planned cities in the world and we were quite amazed at how modern the parliament was and also how accessible it was. We were...