Australian Prime Ministers

Edmund Barton is elected Prime Minister

Jan 1, 1901

Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister of Australia

Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister

Sep 24, 1903

Alfred Deakin was deputy Prime Minister to Barton and took over the top job when Barton resigned to become a judge.

Chris Watson becomes Prime Minister

Apr 27, 1904

George Reid becomes Prime Minister

Aug 18, 1904

Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister again

Jul 6, 1905

Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister

Nov 13, 1908

Alfred Deaking becomes Prime Minister

Jun 2, 1909

Andrew Fischer becomes Prime Minister

Apr 29, 1910

Joseph Cook becomes Prime Minister

Jun 24, 1913

World War Two

Period: Aug 4, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

Andrew Fischer becomes Prime Minister

Sep 17, 1914

William Morris Hughes becomes Prime Minister

Oct 27, 1915

Stanley Melbourne Bruce becomes Prime Minister

Feb 9, 1923

James Scullin becomes Prime Minister

Oct 22, 1929

Joseph Lyons

Jan 6, 1932

Earle Page becomes Prime Minister

Apr 7, 1939

Page was only Prime Minister for 19 days.

Robert Menzies becomes Prime Minister

Apr 26, 1939

Second World War

Period: Sep 3, 1939 to May 8, 1945

Arthur Fadden becomes Prime Minister

Aug 29, 1941

John Curtain becomes Prime Minister

Oct 7, 1941

Francis Forde becomes Prime Minister

Jul 6, 1945

Ben Chifley becomes Prime Minister

Jul 13, 1945

Robert Menzies become Prime Minister

Dec 19, 1949

Australia's Involvement in the Korean War

Period: Jul 26, 1950 to Nov 27, 1953

Australia's Involvement in the Vietnam War

Period: Apr 28, 1965 to Dec 16, 1969

Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister

Jan 26, 1966

John McEwan becomes Prime Minister

Dec 19, 1967

McEwan is sworn in after Holt disapears while swimming in the ocean of Portsea Victoria.

John Gorton becomes Prime Minister

Jan 10, 1968

Willian McMahon

Mar 10, 1971

Gough Whitlam becomes Prime Minister

Dec 6, 1972

Whitlam is the first Labour Prime Minister in 26 years.

Malcom Fraser becomes Prime Minister

Nov 11, 1975

Robert Hawke becomes Prime Minister

Mar 11, 1983

Paul Keating becomes Prime Minister

Dec 20, 1991

John Howard becomes Prime Minister

Mar 11, 1996

Australia's Involvement in the Middle East 'War on Terror'

Period: Mar 18, 2003 to Jun 24, 2010

Australia's involvement in the Middle East continues to the present day.

Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister

Dec 3, 2007

Juila Gillard becomes Prime Minister

Jun 24, 2010

Gillard is the first Female Prime Minister of Australia.