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（3） When the Federal government of Australia was formed in 1901, no one knew where Australia’s capital would be. The two cities of Melbourne and Sydney both wanted the honor. Instead, the founding fathers chose for the new capital a site(地点) halfway between the two. The government would build a new city called Canberra as the country’s capital. In 1911, the government invited the world’s leading architects(建筑师) to enter designs for Canberra in a contest(比赛). An American architect from Chicago named Walter Griffin won. The government decided to build Canberra according to his plan. Men started