Australian Prime Ministers

Welcome to a historical look at past Australian Prime Ministers

Edmund Barton: Prime Minister from 1901 to 1903
Alfred Deakin: Prime Minister from 1903 to 1904, 1905 to 1908 and 1909 to 1910
Chris Watson: Prime Minister in 1904
George Reid: Prime Minister from 1904 to 1905
Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister from 1908 to 1909, 1910 to 1913 and 1914 to 1915
Joseph Cook: Prime Minister from 1913 to 1914
William Morris Hughes: Prime Minister from 1915 to 1923
Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Prime Minister from 1923 to 1929
James Scullin: Prime Minister from 1929 to 1932
Joseph Lyons: Prime Minister from 1932 to 1939
Earle Page: Prime Minister in 1939
Robert Menzies: Prime Minister from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966
Arthur Fadden: Prime Minister in 1941
John Curtin: Prime Minister from 1941 to 1945
Frank Forde: Prime Minister in 1945
Ben Chifley: Prime Minister from 1945 to 1949
Harold Holt: Prime Minister from 1966 to 1967
John McEwen: Prime Minister from 1967 to 1968
John Gorton: Prime Minister from 1968 to 1971
William McMahon: Prime Minister from 1971 to 1972
Gough Whitlam: Prime Minister from 1972 to 1975
Malcolm Fraser: Prime Minister from 1975 to 1983
Bob Hawke: Prime Minister from 1983 to 1991
Paul Keating: Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996
John Howard: Prime Minister from 1996 to the 2 December 2007
Kevin Rudd: Prime Minister from 3 December 2007 to 24 June 2010 and 27 June 2013 for 11 weeks in 2013.
Julia Gillard: Prime Minister from 24 June 2010 to - 26 June 2013
Tony Abbott: Prime Minister from 18 September 2013 to - 14 September 2015
Malcolm Turnbull: Prime Minister from 15 September 2015 to 24 August 2018
Scott Morrison: Prime Minister from 24 August 2018 to current

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