Port Vila, Vanuatu (PressExposure) June 29, 2010 -- If you happen to get kicked out of the 'top position' in a country under the Westminster system of parliament, you also have to make a quick flight from your residence.

Julia Gillard would choose to live in her Canberra flat and not shift into the Lodge, a 40 bedroom modest, but out-dated mansion style Georgian revival home, located in landscaped grounds of 4.4 acres. She says she wants to wait until she has been elected prime minister by the nation.

John Howard and his wife usually resided in Sydney at Kirribilli House, however, Michael Dever, who was a security provider for a couple of years, pointed out that such decisions in the past were silently dismissed by ASIO and the Australian Federal Police.

"Even if The Lodge is left vacant, it still has to be guarded," said Dever. "The risk is to the office and the dignity of the Prime Minister’s office,” Neil Fergus, director of security of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 said, when in disagreeing with Dever.

Due to lines of sight, lack of secure communications and the potential impact of neighbours, keeping Ms Gilliard in her own flat would prove difficult.

The Lodge was built in the 1920's as a transient home of the prime ministerial family. Betinna Arndt wrote in the The Canberra Times in 2007 that the Lodge is a disgraceful official residence for a nation's leader. Arndt described it as having tiny cramped rooms that were dark and dinghy, accompanied by the constant roar of traffic from the nearby highway.

Similar to Britain, Australia is organized under the Westminster system of government. In the latest British election, bafflement ruled over just who would be the next prime minister. When there was no apparent winner, No10 Downing Street became the focal point. Gordon Brown chose to stay in Downing Street, until the results became clear. Then it was a rapid turn around.

The outgoing prime minister had to vacate Number Ten within hours, once the decision was final. The moving truck of the new prime minister was unloaded by the following morning. On entering Number Ten, an incoming British prime minister is greeted by a very large staff of civil servants, who are ready and willing to work for the new comer, just as they did for the outgoing administration.

Unlike the deadly change over of the English system, an American incoming president has to tolerate a 'long drawn out goodbye', which can last up to several months, for the outgoing administration to vacate. The new president then walks into an 'empty' White House.

By tasking its highly trained civil service with high level policy jobs, the Westminster system builds in a high level of continuity. In fact, the new prime minister names only around 150 or so political party colleagues to the total of all ministerial jobs in the numerous departments of governments. This is in comparison to nearly 10,000 political appointments in the Washington governmental structure. A process which often takes up to a full year, before all the political appointments are finalized.

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