Canberra is a planned city, and is accused by people who have never lived here of being cold and souless. Billy Connolly called it "a place the Nazis would have been proud of".
My parents visited Australia in the 1970s, and toured virtually the whole country. Unfortunately, my mother had had a minor operation on both eyes just days before they got out there, so thanks to the bandages, she was blind for the entire vacation until about two days before they left. She therefore missed nearly every visual splendor your country had to offer. They spent the last two days (when the bandages had been removed) in Canberra, and needless to say, it was the biggest let-down she says she has ever had. "Hardly a sight for sore eyes" were her exact words, allegedly. It was also the most boring city these two particular twenty-somethings had ever visited in the entire world, apparently, which is something of an achievement.
