Strangers’ Room

About

This large versatile dining room overlooking the Domain Gardens is ideal for conferences, seminars, workshops, luncheons, gala dinners and stand-up cocktail events.

On request, the Fountain Court event space can be booked for pre dinner drinks or post conference canapes & drinks.

Venue hire

• Business hours | $400 an hour
• After hours | $700 an hour
• Business hours: Monday to Friday, 8am to 5:30pm
• Minimum spends apply for this room
• 15% surcharge on total spend for Saturday
• 20% surcharge on total spend for Sunday

Inclusions

• 1 x Lectern with a microphone
• 2 x Handheld microphones
• 1 x Stage: L:3.6m x W:1.8m x H:0.4m
• Built-in sound system

WHERE STRANGERS BECOME FRIENDS

The Strangers’ Room is a meeting place where members of Parliament meet & greet visiting dignitaries including consuls-generals, ambassadors and even members of the Royal family. Guests among the famous names include King Charles III, the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Edward, Duke of Wessex, his Holiness the Dalai Lama and Actress Audrey Hepburn.

Historically, these guests were referred to as ’strangers’, thus creating the saying ‘where strangers become friends’.

Today, we invite you and your guests to continue this tradition.

“There are no strangers here, only friends you haven’t yet met”. William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)– poet