The Lodge on the Lake Design Ideas Competition

The Lodge at Adelaide Avenue in Deakin is the official residence in Canberra of the Prime Minister of Australia. Its first occupants were Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce and his wife Ethel, who moved in on 4 May 1927, five days before the first sitting of the federal parliament at Canberra. It has been the Canberra home for sixteen of Australia’s twenty-seven Prime Ministers and their families. The building and grounds have cultural and heritage significance for their associations with these families and with many official dignitaries and visiting heads of government. A new and permanent Lodge on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin will extend this heritage for future generations of Australians and Canberrans.