A Lodge is the official home of the Prime Minister of Australia in the national capital Canberra. These are placed in Adelaide Avenue, Deakin. It was built all over a cycle 1926-27, and meant when one of the suite of official residences for large ministers. This home was a number 1 to exist as built, & was originally meant for the Treasurer. It was reallocated to the Prime Minister whilst operate on the other residences was cancelled due to economic constraints.

A number 1 Prime Minister to sleep in a lodge was Stanley Bruce, who moved within two or three years prior to 9 May 1927, when a Old Parliament House was officially opened and a national capital changed from either Melbourne to Canberra. A Lodge occurs as big, both-storey home, located in 18,000 square metres of landscaped evidence. It underwent a select few renovation in the 1960s with the installation of the swimming pool, and material restoration in the 1980s when Bob Hawke was Prime Minister. Virtually all Prime Ministers since 1927 have used A Lodge when their primary place of home. Ben Chifley preferred the Kurrajong Hotel in which many Labor politicians of the era stayed (& where he late died).

John Howard, the todays Prime Minister as of 2005, attracted much adverse comment once he announced at a beginning of his Prime Ministership inside 1996 that he would not apply A Lodge when his chief personal. He would stay there only if he is around Canberra for even parliamentary or government business, however he would survive primarily at Kirribilli House, Sydney. This occurs as home maintained for a official apply of Prime Ministers whenever it want to perform official duties & extend official cordial reception when in Sydney, however is non 1 that was ever meant to become the Prime Minister's (or even anybody's) primary place of home.

Howard said that he experienced manufactured this guide & then that his personal may remaaround together when his triplet babies lived home and 1 boy attended university in Sydney. The considerable total of costly renovatiin was necessary to enable the personal of 5 to survive there on the lasting basis. Howard's explanation left open a possibility that another time his tikes got left page, he would so choose higher home within Canberra at A Lodge. whole the same, when his babies experienced all left residence, Howard chose to remain at Kirribilli Home. He periodically said that A Lodge was profits his independent home due to his act requiring him to become around Canberra further typically than around Sydney, however he never retreated from either his guide within essence to base himself at Kirribilli Home when he was non required in Canberra.

A Lodge is nin ordinarily open to the public, except for limited access on favorite 'open times' it used to be that or even twice a year. A Governor-General's official residence is Government House, Canberra, known as 'Yarralumla'.