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Royal visits to Australia

Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Cast Credited cast: Kaylee Daniel Martin Berkey Victor Heather Brittain O'Scanlon Adult Kaylee Helen Laser Young Anne Randy Memoli Young Harold David Joseph Volino Young Victor Joey Rullo The new Tasman Bridge was opened by the Duke in Hobart.

This was not an official trip as the Prince was there primarily for schooling.

A press release of 10 January made this clear, stating that he should be left alone by journalists: The Queen and the Commonwealth Government have requested that the Prince's visit should be treated as a private one and that he should be allowed the same freedom from public attention as any other school boy. He returned in as the Queen's representative at the memorial service for Prime Minister Harold Holt , and again in He travelled to the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania, where he helped volunteer fire fighters to fight a local fire.

The Queen, Prince Philip, the Prince of Wales for part of the tour only and Princess Anne made an extensive tour of Australia in in connection with the bi-centenary of Captain James Cook sailing up the east coast of Australia in This was a very popular tour and large crowds turned out to see the Queen.

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In January , a retired police detective revealed an unsuccessful attempt to derail the Royal Train near Bowenfels, New South Wales on 29 April This time the Queen returned to London on 28 February for a General Election in Britain, cutting short the tour, which the Duke of Edinburgh completed. An extended royal tour of Australia was made in as part of the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty's reign.

In the s the Queen made short tours to open the new High Court of Australia building in , the new National Gallery of Australia in and the Parramatta Stadium in During the visit, at a ceremony held in Government House, Canberra , she signed a proclamation that brought into effect the Australia Act , which severed the final constitutional link between Australia and the United Kingdom. Future Princess of Wales , Lady Diana Spencer, made a short private visit to Australia with her mother and step-father to their sheep station at Yass, north of Canberra, in early February Prince Charles had proposed to her less than a week before.

The Prince of Wales visited Australia shortly after the announcement of his engagement and prior to his July wedding in October November 8, visited Victoria for th anniversary of the state.


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Also during this tour visited Canberra. The Prince and Princess of Wales also made a visit during the bicentenary celebrations in The Queen and Prince Philip also made a popular visit in as part of the bicentenary celebrations. In the Queen returned to the sesquicentenary of the incorporation of the city of Sydney.

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In the last years of the decade she did not visit the country to avoid being embroiled in the debate about future of the monarchy. Her next tour was timed to be made well after the referendum on the republic.

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The Australian government of John Howard had advised the Queen on the timing. After her divorce in , Diana, Princess of Wales made one subsequent visit prior to her death in In the Queen made an extended tour in the states of Australia which was followed by another visit in when she attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting He also had lunch with the Prime Minister, John Howard , visited a neo-natal unit in Heidelberg, visited victims of bush fires in Victoria and attended the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

As well, the royal couple opened a new section of the Sydney Opera House, attended a Commonwealth Day ceremony in Sydney, had official meetings with the Prime Minister, Governor-General and Leader of the Opposition at Government House in Canberra, lunched with former governors-general, met with firefighters in Canberra, attended and made a formal speech at an official dinner at Parliament House in Canberra to commemorate her 80th birthday and watched some of the events at the games.

A visit was made in early by Prince William to flood damaged areas of Queensland and Victoria. At a reception in her honour held at Parliament House in Canberra on 21 October , the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard , described the Queen as "a vital constitutional part of Australian democracy".

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The world witnessed the anguish of Australians as they lived through a summer of national disasters. We were all inspired by the courage and resolution shown by those affected in the face of crippling desolation. Ever since I first came here in I have watched Australia grow and develop at an extraordinary rate. This country has made dramatic progress economically in social scientific and industrial endeavours and above all in self-confidence.

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