Australia's Prime Ministers

Sir Edmund Barton

Jan 1, 1901

Australia's First prime minister.

Alfred Deakin

Sep 24, 1903

Chris Watson

Apr 27, 1904

First Labour prime minister.

George Reid

Aug 18, 1904

First Free-trade prime minister.

Alfred Deakin

Jul 5, 1905

Andrew Fisher

Nov 13, 1908

Alfred Deakin

Jun 2, 1909

First Commonwealth Liberal prime minister

Andrew Fisher

Apr 29, 1910

Joseph Cook

Jun 24, 1913

Andrew Fisher

Sep 17, 1914

Billy Hughes

Oct 27, 1915

Most changes of party during term of office and first National Labor and Nationalist prime minister,

Stanley Bruce

Feb 9, 1923

James Scullin

Oct 22, 1929

Joseph Lyons

Jan 6, 1932

First United Australia prime minister.

Sir Earle Page

Apr 7, 1939

First Country prime minister.

Robert Menzies

Apr 26, 1939

Arthur Fadden

Aug 28, 1941

John Curtin

Oct 7, 1941

Frank Forde

Jul 13, 1945

Ben Chifley

Jul 13, 1945

Sir Robert Menzies

Dec 19, 1949

First Liberal prime minister.

Harold Holt

Jan 26, 1966

John McEwen

Dec 19, 1967

John Gorton

Jan 10, 1968

William McMahon

Mar 10, 1971

Gough Whitlam

Dec 5, 1972

Malcolm Fraser

Nov 11, 1975

Bob Hawke

Mar 11, 1983

Paul Keating

Dec 20, 1991

John Howard

Mar 11, 1996

Kevin Rudd

Dec 3, 2007

Julia Gillard

Jun 24, 2010

First female prime minister.

Kevin Rudd

Jun 27, 2013

Tony Abbott

Sep 18, 2013

Malcolm Turnbull

Sep 15, 2015

Current prime minister.