Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01869:reg:4:p13
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Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 13/63)
Character Range: 384853–388117

Lyons              from 6/1/1932 to 7/4/1939 Earle Page              from 7/4/1939 to 26/4/1939 Robert Menzies              from 26/4/1939 to 29/8/1941 Arthur Fadden              from 29/8/1941 to 7/10/1941 John Curtin              from 7/10/1941 to 5/7/1945 Frank Forde              from 6/7/1945 to 13/7/1945 Ben Chifley              from 13/7/1945 to 19/12/1949 Robert Menzies              from 19/12/1949 to 26/1/1966 Harold Holt              from 26/1/1966 to 19/12/1967 John McEwen              from 19/12/1967 to 10/1/1968 John Gorton              from 10/1/1968 to 10/3/1971 William McMahon              from 10/3/1971 to 5/12/1972 Gough Whitlam              from 5/12/1972 to 11/11/1975 Malcolm Fraser              from 11/11/1975 to 11/3/1983 Bob Hawke              from 11/3/1983
and continued beyond 1988 when federal Parliament moved to the new building. Prominent individuals associated with the Senate Wing include Senator Neville Thomas Bonner AO, the first Aboriginal parliamentarian elected in 1972, and
Dame Edith Lyons and Dorothy Tangney the first women elected in 1943.
The building is the most prominent example of the work of the Commonwealth's first government architect, John Smith Murdoch.

  Extract from the Commonwealth Heritage Listing

Old Parliament House and Curtilage, King George Terrace, Parkes, ACT (from the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment website: www.environment.gov.au)

List:           Commonwealth Heritage List
Class:          Historic
Legal Status:   Listed place (20/06/2004)
Place ID:       105774
Place File No:  8/01/000/0017

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Australia's first Federal Parliament building was designed as the grandest element and central focus of a fully planned capital city. Old Parliament House is a place of outstanding heritage values related to its history, design, landscape context, interiors, furnishings, courtyards and gardens, collection of movable items, social values and associations.
As the original focus of the Commonwealth Parliament and government in Canberra, Old Parliament House is intimately associated with the political history of Australia, and the development of Canberra as the capital of Australia, from its opening in 1927 until the opening of the new Parliament House in 1988. The Old Parliament House was the second home of the Parliament, which was located in the Victorian Parliament House in Melbourne from Federation in 1901 until 1927, and was the first purpose-built home for the Australian Parliament.
Old Parliament House was the venue for and witnessed both the course and pattern of the nation's political, social and historical development through the major part of the life of the Commonwealth to date. The movable items associated with the building are also intimately associated with these events. Apart from serving as the seat of Commonwealth Parliament, the building bears witness to the physical encroachment of the executive arm of government into the legislature's proper sphere. This was the primary cause for the extensive additions and modifications that had to be made to the building. These additions and modifications are manifested in such elements as the southeast and southwest wings, the northeast and northwest