Parliamentarians visit national capital sites

As the 'Battle of the Sites' raged, the federal parliamentarians visited many potential national capital locations. Minister for Home Affairs, William Lyne, hosted a number of these early excursions—dubbed by (former) Prime Minister George Reid as 'Lyne's picnics'. Here, Lyne sits on an Albury fence (perhaps symbolically, for Lyne was a strong opponent of Federation and then abruptly switched), watched by three future prime ministers: Alfred Deakin (far left), Chris Watson and William Morris (Billy) Hughes (far right).