Open house

摘要

ON A COLD, grey and windy winter morning, fitter Matt Brown looks up from the roof of Parliament House at the Australian flag flapping wildly against a steely sky "Hear that cracking?" he asks. "When we can hear that noise, there's no way we're goingup there." "Up there" is 8im to the tip of the magnificent stainless steel flagpole, accessible only by a tiny lift. From the roof, the flag cracking in the stiff sou'wester looks pretty big. It is huge - 12.8 x 6.4m, or roughly the length and height ofa double-decker bus. And, although due for its monthly rotation, it won't come down this blustery morning.