- The Parliament House site covers 32 hectares of Capital Hill; one of the hills around which Walter Burley Griffin designed Canberra in 1912. The building occupies 15 percent of this site.
- The building is 300 metres long and 300 metres wide. It is one of the largest buildings in the southern hemisphere.
- Parliament House was built to last at least 200 years.
- There are 8,340 spaces in the building including about 4,700 rooms and 2,700 clocks.
- Australian materials are used throughout 90 percent of the building.
- The building cost approximately 1.1 billion dollars.
- The underground car parks hold up to 2,000 cars.
- A multi-channel television and radio station broadcasts proceedings of the Parliament from both chambers and committee rooms.
- The building has two libraries; one a reading library, the other a research library for the benefit of answering questions on most topics from members and senators.
- The Parliamentary Education Office runs a parliamentary role-play program for visiting students and teachers to learn how the Parliament works.
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