Australia's Prime Ministers By ltxm Jan 1, 1901 Edmund Barton Aug 10, 1903 Alfred Deakin Jul 12, 1904 Chris Watson Nov 14, 1904 George Reid Oct 14, 1905 Alfred Deakin Oct 21, 1908 Andrew Fisher Sep 20, 1909 Alfred Deakin Aug 25, 1910 Andrew Fisher Sep 25, 1913 Joseph Cook Sep 25, 1914 Andrew Fisher Sep 25, 1915 William Morris Hughes Sep 25, 1923 Stanley Melbourne Bruce Sep 25, 1929 James Scullin Sep 25, 1932 Joseph Lyons Apr 7, 1939 Earle Page Apr 26, 1939 Robert Menzies Aug 29, 1941 Arthur Fadden Oct 7, 1941 John Curtin Jul 6, 1945 Francis Forde Jul 13, 1945 Ben Chifley Sep 26, 1949 Robert Menzies Jan 26, 1966 Harold Holt Dec 19, 1967 John McEwen Jan 10, 1968 John Gorton Oct 14, 1971 William McMahon Dec 5, 1972 Gough Whitlam Nov 11, 1975 Malcolm Fraser Oct 15, 1983 Robert Hawke Dec 20, 1991 Paul Keating Mar 11, 1996 John Howard Dec 3, 2007 Kevin Rudd Jun 24, 2010 Julia Gillard Jul 18, 2013 Kevin Rudd Sep 18, 2013 Tony Abbott