I didn't fulfil my biggest goal in Canberra, that is, to be able to casually bring this up in a conversation: 
 "Did I tell you about that one time I bumped into a kangaroo on the streets?"
Canberra was a great experience. I toured the city alone for the most part, and found it fascinating how the city was built entirely from scratch. Witnessing the city from atop the Telstra Tower, it dawned on me how beautifully-structured cities can be when urban designing is done right - how a small city has been planned so well that it houses the country's history and memory in its many monuments, museums and memorials. But the utopian-like city also beckoned me to question what lay beyond the forest that surrounded the city. Canberra was clearly developed from cleared land, most evident in the man-made lake that span across the entire centre of the city. As my bus passed the street dividing the Old and New Parliament House, a make-shift Aboriginals tent lay on the grass. Pictured below with the words "Aboriginals Embassy" on it, I initially thought it was merely a decorative monument, only to find out later its symbol as a commemorative monument for the Aboriginals who had been forced out of their own land. The tent was supposedly constructed to protest and advocate for Aboriginal land rights and sovereignty in 1972, but remained as a permanent site of protest, a permanent site of resistance, with the word "embassy" seemingly a satire at the alienated position that Aboriginals are still subjected to till this day.