The Labor member for Canberra, Gai Brodtmann, said Monday's announcement amounted to a broken promise.
If McGowan does upset the odds and win – she is placed at around $3.50 by Centrebet, down from more than $50 at the start of the campaign – it's unclear how well her values of inclusiveness and consensus will fare in the Canberra bear pit.
"If we get a million I'll go to Canberra and meet with whoever the prime minister is and I'll say 'prime minister, that's what Australians have said, don't ever forget it'".
11am: Brunch at Silo Bakery + Café Years before Canberra started taking its food seriously, Silo was pumping out robust sourdough loaves and exquisite chocolate tarts for residents of the well-to-do parliamentary neighbourhood of Kingston.
When you reveal that you are, in fact, describing Canberra, you may be met by looks of disbelief.
Canberra is a spread-out city, so hiring a car is advisable.
On a recent Saturday evening, diners included Canberra arts luminaries, athletes from the Australian Institute of Sport and two nervous students on a first date, all of whom lingered well into the night.
During an appearance at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, the shadow treasurer was asked whether Labor's national conference should pass a similar policy resolution on the Middle East to the one passed by the NSW state conference in 2014.
The Bureau of Meteorology anticipates warmer temperatures across the eastern half of Australia over winter, which should gladden the hearts of social media devotees complaining about the chill in Sydney, parts of inland New South Wales and Canberra.
(Australia naively insists Canberra is Griffin's city, but there is little of the vision of Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony in today's Canberra beyond their broader geometric design, and the land and water axes).
But like Canberra itself – stunted in infancy by decades of bureaucratic meddling, political indifference and the economic impact of the second world war – the George V monument faltered along, taking almost two decades to finish.
