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sanctioned support for Griffin's revised plan.  As noted by heritage consultant Duncan Marshall:
This plan now became the basic planning document, informing all of the Griffins' later revisions, including the final version of the design prepared in 1918.  The final version served, in turn, as the model for the official gazetted plan of 1925 which was to have a long-lasting effect.[15]
In the revised scheme Griffin's original vision for the central National Triangle was re-established, as was the symmetrical composition of the Government Group to either side of the Land Axis.

Griffin's tenure as Federal Capital Director of Design was mired by tensions between government officials and departments and hampered by changes in government.  In addition, the Great War of 1914-18 was a significant distraction and drain on resources.
The tensions between Griffin and government officials were addressed in a Royal Commission on Federal Capital Administration (1916-17), which found that Griffin had been obstructed.[16]  Following the Royal Commission, responsibility for the national capital shifted from the Department of Home Affairs to a new branch within the Department of Home and Territories under Griffin's control, allowing him a freer rein in his remaining years as the Federal Capital Director of Design.[17]
The pace of development in Canberra between 1913 and the mid-1920s was slow.  In the period to 1924, a total of £3.4 million was invested in the construction of the city,[18] and in 1916 and 1917 annual expenditure on capital works was only £8,000.[19]  By 1920 development in the city included the Power House complex at Kingston (1916), the brickworks at Yarralumla (1913), Cotter Dam (1912), sewerage works and transmission lines.  As noted by Reid, by the time Griffin left Canberra at the end 1920, '[his] design was apparent only in some road forming and finishing east of [Mount] Vernon and west of Kurrajong'.[20]

2.3.2               The Federal Capital Advisory Committee (1921-24)
The Federal Capital Advisory Committee (FCAC) was established in January 1921 to advise the Government on the development of Canberra.  The Committee recommended a three-phase approach:
      * The transfer of Parliament and essential departments to Canberra;
      * The development of rail connections, engineering works and the establishment of the central administration of other government departments; and
      * The damming of the Molonglo River and construction of major architectural projects.[21]
The FCAC's role was primarily advisory.  Works were undertaken by the executive officers of the Departments of Home & Territories and Works & Railways, and subsequently by the Federal Capital Commission (FCC, Section 2.3.3).
Planning for the transfer of Parliament commenced in 1921.  From the outset, there was broad acceptance that the new Parliament House would be temporary.  Construction of a permanent structure would be both costly (a pertinent consideration