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About the House: your free, colour magazine About the House is a free colour feature magazine produced up to five times a year by the Liaison & Projects Office of the House of Representatives. It covers the varied work of Members of the House, especially Committee investigations. The magazine is available through the offices of every Member of the House of Representatives, or can be ordered directly through the Liaison & Projects Office (telephone: freecall 1800 139 299, email: liaison.reps@aph.gov.au). The current About the House magazine is the June 2008 edition (Issue 33).

Current edition (June 2008)

• Full Magazine (8424kb)

Cover story:

• Pride of Place

Feature articles:

• Best of the best
• Views of the hill
• Getting used to getting old
• Wanted: More miracles

Previous editions

• Issue 32 (September 2007) – Billion Dollar Bees
• Issue 31 (June 2007) – Navigating the Ageing Minefield - Decisions we all face sonner or later
• Issue 30 (March 2007) – Every second counts - Fighting the allergy epidemic
• Issue 29 (December 2006) – Australia's most wanted - Tourism's big challenge
• Issue 28 (September 2006) – Prescription for trouble - Could Dr Death happen again?
• Issue 27 (June 2006) – Ready Set Grow - Saving your future
• Issue 26 (March 2006) – Ready, or not - Are teachers prepared to teach
• Issue 25 (November 2005) – Cities worth living in
• Issue 24 (August 2005) – 10 Fixes for our health system
• Issue 23 (May 2005) - What's eating up our time?
• Issue 22 (August 2004) - The core of our being
• Issue 21 (June 2004) - The assault on salt
• Issue 20 (March 2004) - Hannifey's Rules
• Issue 19 (December 2003) - Understanding Indonesia
• Issue 18 (September/October 2003) - Creating smart cities
• Issue 17 (July/August 2003) - Let the games begin
• Issue 16 (May/June 2003) - The next step for our children
• Issue 15 (March/April 2003) - Quenching our thirst for water

Twenty years after the opening of Parliament House and many still think it looks as good as new. There certainly isn’t anything like it anywhere else in the world. For the 10,000 men and women who transformed a Canberra hill into a national icon, it’s a place they revisit with pride. Feature: Georgie Oakeshott

To read the entire article, you can open this pdf document (405kb), or ask the Liaison & Projects Office for a copy of the magazine.

To bring the vision of architects Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp to reality, thousands of men and women contributed their skills and hard work to the Parliament House project.

To read the entire article, you can open this pdf document (379kb), or ask the Liaison & Projects Office for a copy of the magazine.

Views of the hill

Three leading Australian architects have their say on Parliament House and its enduring legacy.
Story: David Kirkpatrick
Photos: John Gollings

To read the entire article, you can open this pdf document (587 kb), or ask the Liaison & Projects Office for a copy of the magazine.

Getting used to getting old

Australia is an ageing society and the legal needs of the growing army of elderly are also expanding. Story: Geoffrey Maslen

To read the entire article, you can open this pdf document (277 kb), or ask the Liaison & Projects Office for a copy of the magazine.

Wanted: More miracles

Federal MPs have joined the push to increase Australia’s organ donation rates. Story: Nic Barnard

To read the entire article, you can open this pdf document (502 kb), or ask the Liaison & Projects Office for a copy of the magazine.

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