From Eugowra to Canberra: nine tonnes of Parliament House granite

National Rock Garden Trust director Mike Smith and Shelley Norrie from the Eugowra Events and Tourism Association with the granite slab in Canberra on Friday. Picture by Keegan Carroll

While the beautiful marbles of the Parliament House foyer always draw attention, it is the mighty Eugowra granite on which the place is really built.

National Rock Garden Trust director Mike Smith said almost 23,000 individual slabs of Eugowra granite were used to clad the curved exterior walls of Parliament House.