PM hails monarch as ‘absolute inspiration’ as leaders lay wreaths at Parliament House – as it happened
by Ben Doherty and Graham Readfearn (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#63F6C)
Prime minister, opposition leader and governor general take part in ceremony. This blog is now closed
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Prime minister Anthony Albanese and the governor general, David Hurley, are now walking towards the statue of the Queen, together with speaker of the house Milton Dick.
A crowd of parliamentarians and dignitaries are gathering at the Queen's Terrace area of Canberra's Parliament House, where a wreath-laying ceremony will take place at a statue of Queen Elizabeth.
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