Australia's Prime Ministers

Edmund Barton

Jan 1, 1901

Edmund Barton was in the Protectionest Party. He was Prime Minister for 2 years 8 months and 24 days. He was also one of the main people that supported Federation.

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Period: Jan 1, 1901 to May 23, 2012

Alfred Deakin

Sep 24, 1903

Alfred Deakin was in the Protectionest Party. He was Prime Minister for 7 months and 4 days he was alsothe first Prime Minister to have a University named after him.

John Christian Watson

Apr 27, 1904

John Watson was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 3 months and 21days. Chris Watson was a trustee of the Sydney Cricket Ground.

George Houston Reid

Aug 18, 1904

George Houston Reid was in the Free Trade Party. He was Prime Minister for 10 months and 18 days. George Reid was the only Prime Minister in the Free Trade Party.

Alfred Deakin

Jun 5, 1905

Alfred Deakin was in the Protectionest Party and was Prime Minister for 3 years, 9 months and 4 days. He was the only Prime Minister to reject honorary degrees at Oxfors and Cambridge Universities.

Andrew Fisher

Nov 13, 1908

Andrew Fisher was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 6 months and 21 days. He himself founded the commonwealth bank in 1912.

Alfred Deakin

Jun 2, 1909

Alfred Deakin was in the Protectionest Party. He was the Prime Minister for 10 months and 21 days. He anonymously corresponded to the London press from 1901 to 1914.

Andrew Fisher

Apr 29, 1910

Andrew Fisher was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 3 years, 1 month and 26 days. He was the first Prime Minister to hold a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Joseph Cook

Jun 24, 1913

Joseph Cook was in the Liberal Party. He was the Prime Minister for 1 year, 2 months and 25 days. He was a founding member of the New South Wales Labor Party, then a member of the other three major parties 1901 to 1921.

Andrew Fisher

Sep 17, 1914

Andrew Fisher was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was the Prime Minister for 1 year, 1 month and 11 days, his government named wattle as Australia’s national flower and put the wattle on Australia’s Coat of Arms.

William Morris Hughes

Oct 27, 1915

William Hughes was in the National Australian Liberal Party. He was the Prime Minister for 7 years, 3 months and 14 days. He helped found three political parties but was expelled from them all: The Labor Party, The Nationalist Party and the United Australia Party.

Stanley Melbourne Bruce

Feb 9, 1923

Stanley Bruce was in the National Party. He was Prime Minister for 6 yaers, 8 months and 14 days,

James Henry Scullin

Oct 22, 1929

James Scullin was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 2 years, 2 months and 16 days. He was the only Prime Minister to play the violin.

Joseph Aloysius Lyons

Jan 6, 1932

Joseph Lyons was in the United Australian Party. He was Prime Minister for 7 years, 3 months and 2 days. He was the only Tasmanian to become a Prime Minister.

Earl Christmas Grafton Page

Apr 7, 1939

Earl Page was in the Country Party. He was the Prime Minister for only 20 DAYS. He was the founder of the Country Party.

Robert Gordon Menzies

Apr 26, 1939

Robert Menzies was in the United Australia Party. He was Prime Minister for 2 years, 2 months and 4 days. He won all 12 federal elections in his parliamentary term.

Arthur William Fadden

Aug 29, 1941

Arthur Fadden was in the Country Party. He was Prime Minister for 1 month and 9 days. He established the reserve bank of Australia.

John Curtin

Oct 7, 1941

John Curtin was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 3 years, 8 months and 29 days. He was the only Prime Minister to have been in gaol.

Francis Michael Forde

Jul 6, 1945

Francis Forde was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 8 days making him the shortest serving Prime Minister in Australian History.

Joseph Benedict Chifley

Jul 13, 1945

Joseph Chifley was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 4 years, 5 months and 7 days. He was one of the only Prime Ministers to die in office.

Robert Gordon Menzies

Dec 19, 1949

Robert Menzies was in the Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 16 years, 1 month and 8 days. He was the longest serving Prime Minister in Australian history.

Harold Edward Holt

Jan 26, 1966

Harold Halt was in the Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 1 year, 10 months and 23 days until he went missing, pressumed drowned at Surfers Paradise.

John McEwen

Dec 19, 1967

John McEwen was in the Country Party. He was Prime Minister for 23 days. He was a farmer before he came into politics.

John Grey Gorton

Jan 10, 1968

John Gorton was in the Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 3 years and 2 months. for three weeks in February 1968, Gorton was Prime Minister but had no seat in parliament.

William McMahon

Mar 10, 1971

William McMahon was in the Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 1 year, 8 months and 25 days. Being 63 when he became Prime Minister, he was the second oldeset Prime Minister in Australian history.

Edward Gough Whitlam [Gough Whitlam]

Dec 5, 1972

Gough Whitlam was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 2 years, 11 months and 7 days. He was one of only two Prime Ministers whose lifetime spanned the lives of all 25 Prime Ministers in 1900's.

John Malcolm Fraser

Nov 11, 1975

Malcolm Fraser was in the Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 7 years and 4 months. Malcolm Fraser served for 28 years in Australian Federation.

Robert James Lee Hawke

Mar 11, 1983

ARobert Hawke was is the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 8 years, 9 months and 9 days. Hawke became Prime Minister after only 2 years in Parliament.

Paul John Keating

Dec 20, 1991

Paula Keating was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 4 years, 2 months and 20 days. He campaigned only twice as Labor Party leader, winning in 1993 and losing in 1996.

John Winston Howard

Mar 11, 1996

John Howard was in the Liberal Party.He was Prime Minister for 11 years, 8 months and 22 days. He was active in the Labour Party from the age of 18.

Kevin Michael Rudd

Jul 3, 2007

Kevin Rudd was in the Australian Liberal Party. He was Prime Minister for 2 years, 6 months and 21 days. He was the first Prime Minister to have a woman in his deputy.

Julia Eileen Guillard

Jun 24, 2010

Julia Gillard is in the Liberal Party. She has made a milestone for Australian politics being the first female Prime Minister and to be the first Prime Minister to be born in another country.