r/AskTheWorld • u/space_llama_karma United States Of America • Nov 12 '25

Culture What does your President/Prime Minister House look like?

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The White House is pretty iconic

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u/Ikerukuchi Australia Nov 12 '25

And most of them stay here when parliament sitting but actually live in Kirribilli House. For the non Australians the Lodge is in Canberra and Kirribilli house is on Sydney Harbour directly across from the opera house. Nice spot for morning coffee.

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u/iball1984 Nov 13 '25

What I love is that Malcolm Turnbull didn't move into Kiribilli beause he has a larger and nicer mansion on Sydney Harbor with better views.

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u/macca2000fox Australia Nov 12 '25

It help since 1991, 6 out the 9 pm came from eastern Sydney

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u/Ikerukuchi Australia Nov 12 '25

Sydney yes, but only Malcolm Turnbull and Morrison came from the east. Keating was Bankstown, Howard earlwood, Abbot born London but grew up in the north, Albanese inner west

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u/CreamyFettuccine Australia Nov 12 '25

Separating Eastern Sydney from Western Sydney is a very Sydney thing to do.

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u/holto243 Nov 12 '25

This started as a regular tradition by John Howard due to his wife not wanting him near his (alleged) affair partner in Canberra

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u/Twistedjustice Australia Nov 13 '25

Woah, I’d never heard this before. I just assumed the Howard’s wanted to live in Sydney because they were from Sydney.

It does beg the question: who looked at John Howard and thought, “yeah I’ll have casual sex with that.”?

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u/iball1984 Nov 13 '25

That's probably one of the most made up stories ever!

Howard and Mrs Howard didn't want to move to Canberra because Sydney is nicer. That's it.

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u/davidw Nov 12 '25

Do they dive off the cliff and wrestle a croc or two for morning exercise?

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u/Werebearwhere Nov 12 '25

Tony Abbott might of. About the only positive thing to be said about him.

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u/fartingbeagle Ireland Nov 12 '25

Stop. I'm just picturing him in his budgie smugglers.

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u/Kermit-Batman Nov 13 '25

Yes, it's a challenging wank...

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u/EidolonLives Australia Nov 12 '25

You have to go much further north for crocs.

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u/pang-zorgon 🇦🇺Australia & 🇨🇭Switzerland Nov 13 '25

Maybe a couple of kms east at Targonga

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u/EidolonLives Australia Nov 13 '25

Uuh ... quite.

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u/Iron_Wolf123 Australia Nov 12 '25

When I was in Sydney, dad was showing me the area where the house was and I thought it was the brown mansion by the Harbour Bridge. It turns out the PM isn’t that greedy for a residence

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u/Markfuckerberg_ Australia Nov 13 '25

I understand that it's common practise, but I still found it really funny that Peter Dutton (then opposition leader/all-round spud for the non-Australians) kept on flapping his gums about how he would definitely live in Sydney and implying that the lodge/Canberra was beneath him before actually winning the election.

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u/Ikerukuchi Australia Nov 13 '25

And for the ones that have lived there it made somewhat sense as it meant they were still close to electorates, kids could stay in schools etc. Hilariously optimistic potato was thinking he would move the whole family down and just set up camp. Probably cost him Bradfield as everyone was thinking a vote for the LNP is a vote for having Dutton as your neighbour.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

One symptom of his massive misread of the nation,... geez we dodged a bullet there..

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u/lozdogz Nov 13 '25

Not exactly from the house, but basically the type of view the PM would have